Work From The Inside Out 14: Connect the Dots Forward with Margo Aaron
Margo Aaron says “Try things that don’t work.” She has a lot of experience with this and can testify to it as a successful strategy for making career transitions. In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, Margo Aaron shares her journey from studying literature to psychology research and becoming an “accidental marketer”. Believe it or not, she connects the dots forward amongst all of these seemingly disparate pathways to demonstrate how they have been part of her philosophy of “living a deliberate life”.
Margo Aaron is a recovering academic and accidental marketer. Today she’s the founder of The Arena, a virtual coworking community for solopreneurs, a cohost of the internet talk show #HAMYAW with Hillary Weiss, a regular contributor to Inc, and prolific writer with fans like Seth Godin, Derek Sivers, and Paul Jarvis.
In this episode we discuss:
- Margo’s educational and career journey that taught her how our culture views making career shifts as being all over the place when really, “we are actually always just connecting the dots forward.”
- How her dad taught her the value of grit and an understanding that the traditional way didn’t work for her, but there are other ways to achieve what you want.
- Her skills for getting into jobs and educational systems she was not actually qualified for.
- How Margo had to “unlearn her worthiness” and her mindset surrounding fear and self-doubt which includes “going after the things that scare you until those fears become less personal and less likely to derail you.”
- Why she considers herself a recovering academic and how she has unlearned the scripts that shaped her view of the world.
- Margo’s concept of “product found fit” and what it means in her life.
Links:
- Margo Aaron on LinkedIn and Twitter
- www.thatseemsimportant.com
- Margo Aaron on Medium
Books mentioned in this episode:
- “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” by Angela Duckworth
- “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” by Elizabeth Gilbert
Other Resources:
- Learn more about Steve Jobs
- Theodore Roosevelt Speech “The Man in the Arena.”
- Learn more about the altMBA program run by Seth Godin
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