Once a month, I curate the best links on how to find work that you love, be excellent at what you do, and unlock any door that stands in your way. Mostly, I gather articles and podcasts that capture my attention because they make me think or laugh. Here is the link round-up for April 2016!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
• Want to combine a new job with a sabbatical? Try jobbatical!
• I’m honored to be on this list of the best career blogs for women!
• Night at the museum? Try a week. These fourth graders did and it changed their world.
• Do you love books + travel? Here’s the best combo ever. This Airbnb rental comes complete with its own bookstore!
• I always wondered how a bride went to the bathroom surrounded by all that tulle and lace. This has to be my favorite invention ever! Pure genius!
• Being a teenage girl these days has got to be complicated. This book tries to make sense of all the mixed messages about sext and the single girl.
• Telling your story is the most important part of building your business. This is such a great read about how to do it and why.
• Do you need that extra push to go after what you want in life? My new course, Go Get It! is maybe what you need. The premise is simple: after enrolling, you select one career, business, or income-related goal and you pursue that goal with total commitment for 6 weeks in a row. We are still taking last minute sign ups. Or get your name on the list for next time.
• Here’s what fruits and vegetables looked like before we spent hundreds of years domesticating them!
• A model who caught the coding bug, Karlie Kloss is taking it up a notch by launching her own Kode with Klossy coding camps for young women aged 13-18 in Los Angeles, New York, and her hometown of St. Louis. Here’s a behind the scenes look.
• As work changes at warp speed, here are 2025’s hottest job sectors (and the skills you’ll need to work in them).
• Can a company upend capitalism and never turn a profit? The fascinating story of Etsy.
• Photographer Helena Price’s touching project features designers, engineers and product managers who break the white-bro stereotypes: 100 Portraits That Tell The Stories of People Under-represented in Tech.
• Will you sprint, stroll or stumble into a career? The many ways that young adults find their way into the work world.
• If, on the other hand, you are at the stage of life where it is time to reinvent yourself, here are some great stories about people who have changed their lives because they were no longer happy in their chosen careers, simply needed a change or were driven by a new-found passion. From a 70-year old yoga instructor to the lawyer who became a chaplain, the possibilities are endless.
Image: Willie Franklin.