Episode Notes

Portfolio careerist Carmen Chamorro on the benefits of working in different fields, managing multiple interests, and how recognizing a potential Renaissance-like profile might positively influence your career.

Carmen loves change and disagrees that we must define ourselves in only one single and exclusive way.

She is a natural learner and can draw on a wide range of commercial, educational and voluntary experiences that allow her to connect with different clients in personalized ways.

Carmen is a certified life, business and career coach that draws on two years of university study in psychology, as well as various courses in mindfulness. Currently, she also collaborates with Global Experiences, a global network providing international internships, as the Global Engagement Coordinator.

She understands the challenges of career change, having studied a degree in Architecture at the University of Granada in Spain followed by 8 years at Fosters and Partners. She has also worked in many other areas: event organizer, blogger, graphic designer, teacher, waitress, PR, strawberry picker, media runner, writer, sales…

She loves supporting entrepreneurship, having started up her own events company in 2014 that she has been running since.

Carmen's biggest passion is to help people connect with themselves and to guide them while they create, develop and implement new ideas and career paths.

A Spanish native, who has lived in 4 different countries, holds 2 passports and has extensively travelled the world, she loves learning about new places and cultures and strongly believes that traveling is an extraordinary tool for self-connection.

Connect with Carmen on LinkedIn.

‌Trust your nature. Be you. Don't be scared. We are all needed and we are all here. There is a balance in the world. We just need to go to the right place of the puzzle. You are here with a profile, and you are here to use it and to be authentic. Trust yourself, accept yourself, and have fun.

TED talks

Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett
Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling by Emilie Wapnick
Are You A Giver or A Taker by Adam Grant

Books

Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
A Job to Love by The School of Life
The Emotionally Intelligent Office by The School of Life
How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

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00:00 · Intro
01:59 · Carmen
09:58 · A new starting point
12:24 · Fear of not changing
13:55 · The Renaissance profile
14:57 · When should we just do one thing?
15:42 · Multipotentialites
19:17 · Techniques to manage multiple activities
20:09 · Pomodoro technique
20:49 · Deep work and productive meditation
23:29 · Placing problems in your mind
26:44 · What distracts you?
27:37 · From the office to remote work
28:22 · When are you most productive?
29:01 · When do you get your best ideas?
29:22 · Work life balance
31:54 · Life coaching
33:47 · The Myers & Briggs test: 16-personalities
35:19 · Success
36:58 · Role models
39:27 · Be you
40:45 · Deliberate practice
41:34 · Distractions
41:55 · Mindful technology
44:35 · Portfolio career profiles in COVID
45:24 · Routines
46:45 · Meditation
47:13 · Is your life simple?
48:22 · Your mission
49:00 · Habits
49:19 · Hobbies
50:01 · Side projects
50:43 · Books, talks, and podcasts
52:38 · Connect with Carmen
53:27 · 'You have a portfolio career.'
54:39 · Outro

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