Churchill’s Cabinet

005 Sam Feeney: How do I know I’m in the right job? Career factors, motivation, and satisfaction.

Sam Feeney is a career coach and business consultant. We talk thriving in life generally and career specifically. This includes learning about career motivation and satisfaction. I was thankful for some of his surprising insights in this area.
0:00 - Intro and Sam’s own career journey
9:34 - We’ve been thinking about career choice all wrong
22:14 - Sam’s first book project, Why Aren’t You Thriving?
29:57 - A day in Sam’s life, and getting closer to the zone of genius
34:06 - How a young person should think about their career choice
41:19 - How to increase career satisfaction in your current job
47:52 - How employers can use this information to increase engagement and retention

004 Gatlin Johnson: CX, Sales, and Figuring Things Out in Your 20s

Gatlin Johnson is an account manager at Workstep. He shares his career journey and insights he's learned in the first ten years in the workforce. Plus, we're friends so we have a ton of fun.
 
0:00 - Gatlin’s career story so far 
 
10:04 - How much planning goes into starting a new business?
 
18:09 - Gatlin’s job and difference between it and entrepreneurship
 
24:35 - A day in the life in account management
 
27:36 - Solving problems and tips for new entrepreneurs
 
38:02 - Problems facing workstep and the supply chain industry, and generational and personality differences with work
 
43:28 - Rapid fire questions and ending

003 Eric Carriere: Writing Business, Scaling Up, and ChatGPT

Eric Carriere runs a successful marketing company serving B2B SaaS companies with content and copy. We talk about moving from solopreneur to running a team, content and copywriting, and what’s going on with the industry.
 
0:00 - Eric’s business TheWriteOn
 
2:46 - How to maintain longevity in online business, niches, networking, and referrals
 
14:28 - How to scale up from solopreneur to agency in content and copy
 
20:58 - What we would do if we could have a do-over
 
24:06 - The different pricing models and how to choose
 
28:52 - What makes a good freelance writer? What makes a good agency operator?
 
37:48 - ChatGPT and opportunities for new writers
 
43:39 - Job board websites and beginning freelancing

002 Paul Edwards: Publishing, Ghostwriting, and Entrepreneurship

Paul Edwards is a ghostwriter and publisher. I sit down with him to talk about his career journey, the future of publishing, and a few topical questions like artificial intelligence and getting started as a writer and entrepreneur.

001 Nick Pavlidis: Ghostwriting, Entrepreneurship, and Artificial Intelligence

Nick Pavlidis runs two successful ghostwriting businesses. I sit down to talk with him about how he got his start, why he chose ghostwriting as a lifestyle business, and a couple of hot-button topics like artificial intelligence.