Perspective, Resilience, Fulfillment, and Entrepreneurship with Omar Zenhom
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
Release Date: 10/28/2022
The Next Version of Yourself
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
Show note: If you've ever felt like life has thrown you a curveball, this one's for you. I sat down with my good friend Raj to talk about the challenge and magic of transitions, embracing change, and betting on yourself. I love this conversation. It's deep. And I laughed a lot. It's like peanut butter and chocolate: the best combo. Here are a few things we cover: Embracing Identity Shifts: How evolving your identity is a natural part of growth. Betting on Yourself: The importance of investing in your dreams. PLUS practical steps to make your dreams a reality. Strategy for Change:...
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Why Do We Do Hard Things? 🫣
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
Show notes: https://themeaningmovement.com/hard-things Raj's newsletter: https://rajlulla.com Pre-order the Caring House: https://amzn.to/3SGbr0k
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Launching a Dream Project
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
Show notes: themeaningmovement.com/launching-a-dream-project Raj's newsletter: rajlulla.com Pre-order the Caring House: https://amzn.to/3SGbr0k
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Crafting a Creative Career with Raj Lulla
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
Show notes: https://themeaningmovement.com/raj-book-launch Raj's newsletter: https://rajlulla.com Pre-order the Caring House: https://amzn.to/3SGbr0k
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Embracing Limits, Endings, and the Unknown — the Season Finale
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
In this build-in-public style episode, Dan and Raj explore the upcoming changes to the show, Dan's struggles to embrace his limits, and what might be next for the Meaning Movement.
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Becoming a Writer with Patrick McNerthney
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
My friend Patrick has had a nonlinear career path. I wanted to have him on the how and hear a little bit more about the pivot he took in his career to get to where he is today. Today he's a copywriter and a writer. In this conversation, we get to dig into all the twists and turns that his career has taken him, as well as geek out a little bit on creative work. We talk about the discipline of getting in the chair and putting the time in to make creative work and how you have to be in the right place in order for the inspiration to strike, not the other way around. And so much more. It's just a...
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Money Stories, Setting Better Goals, and Navigating Family Business with Joe Stephan
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
It's always about money OR is it that it's never about money? My guest today is Joe Stephan. He is a financial advisor with a podcast by the name, it's Never about Money, which I love. As a financial advisor I love that he leads with this question. He acknowledges that the work that he does is not just about money, but about helping his client understand what is meaningful and how to go about living a meaningful life. I had the chance to connect with Joe on his podcast. It was such a fun experience and wanted to continue the conversation and have him over here on the show. He is a financial...
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Leadership Refined by Fire with John Cuomo
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
John Cuomo is a former firefighter and now author of the book Leadership Refined by Fire. It's a great book that illustrates leadership principles through the lens of a long tenure as a firefighter. I had a great time digging into some of these ideas, looking at how they apply to the lives of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, self-funded entrepreneurs, and driven entrepreneurs — people like you and me. I think you're going to enjoy this one. Let's get to it. Show Notes: themeaningmovement.com/johncoumo
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Choosing Your Risk Portfolio and Finding Your Definition of Success with Daniel Hatke
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
Daniel Hatke is an entrepreneur, deep thinker, and friend. I loved this conversation with him because I got to ask him all the questions that I don't usually have an excuse to ask him. He has a very unique perspective on entrepreneurship because he's seen it from multiple sides. He's lived multiple lives, I guess you could say, even though he's still relatively young. He has played the finance CTO Wall Street game as well as the mostly self funded entrepreneur game. We got to, with that in mind, dig deep into the choices that he's made to pursue entrepreneurship, how he finds meaning and...
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Embracing Seasons, Balancing Work, and Helping the Planet with Paige NeJame
The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.
There are two areas of life where we experience fulfillment and meaning. One is in our work and careers. If you listen to the Meaning Movement, if you listen to the show, I know you have wrestled with some of those ideas. But then there's the rest of life outside of your work and your career. Most of us realize that it's a both/and situation: there's meaning and purpose to be found in our day-to-day work life and there's fulfillment to be found outside of that. In my conversation with Paige NeJame, we get to dig into these ideas directly. Paige is a volunteer with the Carbon...
info_outlineOmar Zenhom is a teacher at heart. I never really understood that until we had this interview. Omar has a daily business podcast. It's one of the top business podcasts. It's called the $100 MBA.
It 's great. I've listened to it several times. I was always just so amazed at just the lift of having a daily podcast and doing it for years and years. He's been podcasting longer than I have.
I've been podcasting for seven or eight years, and I just can't imagine podcasting every single day. But once we dug into some of Omar's story, we got into his background as a teacher, the work of preparing lessons every day for teaching, and how that trained him. It got him into the space where he could, without as much of a heavy lift, make podcasts every day. His experience put all of his work into context for me.
I had a great conversation with Omar. We talked about everything from his childhood, growing up as a child of immigrants to the many entrepreneur pursuits that he has had along the way. It's just a really fun conversation. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did. Let's get into it.
In this episode you’ll learn:
-How Omar ended up becoming a teacher
-The reason why Omar left his successful career
-How Omar got started in entrepreneurship
-How accepting that things in life are going to be hard sometimes
-How your perspective can influence your career path.
-Building resilience through hard work and hardships
-Omar's approach to being an entrepreneur
-Omar's sense of fulfillment in his chosen pursuits
-Burning out, fulfillment, and the importance of rest and breaks
-How going through hardships is beneficial for improvement
-Omar’s advice to people who are currently looking for their niche
-How Failure is part of the process
-Understanding where you add value
-Synergizing interests and expertise
-Gaining momentum through success
-Omar’s advice for people stepping into entrepreneurship
-How Omar took the leap to be a full-time entrepreneur
-The value of reading
-How your environment affects you a& Omar's chose to move to New York
-Omar's early experience as a full-time entrepreneur
-Omar's realizations when he took up MBA
-How the $100 MBA started
-How Omar’s multiple enterprises are interconnected (podcast, software, online courses, webinars, keynote speaking )
-How Omar started WebinarNinja
-Omar’s thoughts about software
-Omar’s ideas that are contrary to popular belief