Work From The Inside Out 18: Make Uncommon Choices with Mark Dyck
Mark Dyck started his career in information technology working for a telecommunications corporation. After many years, he left that job and opened a bread bakery which he and his wife ran for 5 years. Today, he still bakes 150 loaves of bread on the weekends in the brick oven he built in his backyard. Additionally, he runs an online community for business owners and is working with ProsperCity, a company focused on closing gender wage gaps and salary discrimination. He is also the host of Rise Up!, a podcast for bakers and bakery owners.
Mark Dyck has made several uncommon choices in his life. After a successful corporate career in IT, sales, marketing, and service development, Mark opened Orange Boot Bakery, a neighborhood artisan bread bakery in his hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. He closed the bakery in 2016 and is now pursuing several projects, including nurturing an online community of business owners called The Right Company, closing the gender wage gap and ending salary discrimination at ProsperCity, baking for a private bread club of friends and neighbors and hosting Rise Up!, a podcast for bakers and bakery owners and everyone who makes The Good Stuff and brings it to The People.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Mark was raised to believe he should get a government job, keep his head down, work for 30 years to get his pension, and then retire.
- Mark’s first leap of faith in business when he decided to go part-time at his “secure” job to spend more time at home with his wife and kids.
- How his passion for bread baking led to him building his own brick oven and then eventually starting a bakery.
- Mark’s discovery that he is a people-centric person and how he uses that knowledge to determine what projects he will try.
- His work with The Right Company and with ProsperCity.
- Mark’s belief in taking leaps, making transitions, and doing all of it for the connections with people.
Links:
- Mark Dyck on LinkedIn and Twitter
- https://markdyck.co
Books mentioned in this episode:
Other Resources:
- Learn more: about the MBA program with Seth Godin
- Learn more about The Right Company and Bernadette Jiwa
- Learn more about ProsperCity and Rebecca Channer
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