Most career advice ignores realities of trauma, systemic oppression, and assumes you’re clear on your dream job. Not this time! Welcome to your anticapitalist survival guide to finding work that works for you, having enough money, and balancing your values and goals with the world we're in. Learn to redesign your work and financial life without having to know the future, despair, hate your life, or love wage labor. Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi K ...
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Becoming more Satisfied with a Return and Review + the Big Reveal
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You’re done! Kind of. What if you have made a Big Life Decision, but later you want things in your life to be different? That would make you NORMAL. As you grow and your life changes, your criteria will probably change. We want you to plan to evolve along with your life and be ready to continue to tell yourself the truth about what you want and nee…
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For now decisions, and how to know when you know
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When we’re about to make a decision, it can feel high stakes. How do you REALLY know what direction to take - and what if you want to change later? What if your “knowing” or “deciding” buttons are frayed from trauma or operating in survival mode? In our last few episodes we’ve talked about how to reduce the risk of getting it wrong with criteria an…
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How Pilots and Prototypes Will Help You
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Even when you have a sense of what you want, it’s reasonable that gathering other kinds of information can be wise, before committing to a specific direction. Pilots and prototypes are kinds of experiments that help you try on or try out a way of living before you fully commit, and are excellent ways to learn things in your body that you can’t lear…
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Networking and Creating Productive Chaos
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If networking sounds horrifying, do! not! fear! In this episode of Have a Nice Life you’ll learn how and why to talk to people and try stuff without any name tag or blazer, the superpower that is productive chaos, the secret stash of people who can help you, and why you don’t need to fake anything to get a lot out of chaos networking. Have a Nice L…
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How to change and learn safely, no net required.
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This episode is for anyone who wants to be better at changing and will not spout privileged nonsense about jumping and the net will find you, since that is simply not available to a lot of people. Instead, we’re going to teach you how to make trying things and building towards change safer to try. Change can feel - and be! - risky, but what can you…
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Pulling good-for-you ideas out of a brainstorm
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So you have a brainstormed and you have seven rough ideas of what your life could be - WELL NOW WHAT? Fear not: in this episode you’ll learn three ways to pull ideas that are good for *you* out of a brainstorm. Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational …
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What to do with all your context, criteria, and research when you also know in your heart you want to be a sandcastle artist, poet, or person who wishes to preserve their creativity for after work? This episode dives into brainstorming your career ideas - and helps you get around the ways you might halt your brainstorm before it gets good. Have a N…
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Research to expand your ideas part 3: Considering Self Employment
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BONUS episode! What if all your ideas and percolation lead you to wonder about self-employment? In this case, here’s a short series of questions to ask yourself and drive some research into if self-employment is a route you might want to consider. Pippi and Hadassah can both confirm it is both awesome and a ton of extra work. Is it the right thing …
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Research to expand your ideas part 2: Types of Jobs
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Jobs, roles and titles - besides “postal worker” and “firefighter” and “teacher” what other kinds of jobs are out there – and how in the world do you find out what they are, what the people who have them do, and what they’re paid?? This episode details places you can drill into a job type search, to give you ideas for what your next job might be. H…
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Expanding your ideas part 1: Financial Imagination
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This episode walks you through data on the income people need to cover costs, holds your hand as you jump into a pool of numbers, and leads an exercise on how to expand your ideas of what kinds of income are real in the first place. Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizationa…
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Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Going Deeper
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Creating a vision starts with the details and you’ll come up with more details about your life from these exercises! In this episode, Pippi and Hadassah introduce three more ways to come up with elements of your life - time, money, and imagination - which you’ll use later in the series to inform your ideas. The Have a Nice Life workbook has more de…
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Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Starting with Anti-ableist Self-Acceptance and a Values/Talents Map
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You probably don’t know exactly what your ideal work + life shape looks like, and if so you are normal! You might not be sure how to start to imagine such things, or you suspect you’ve buried or cast aside some pieces that might be clues to what you need. In this episode you’ll learn two practices to set criteria about what you want: one about anti…
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Eight Step Framework to Figure Out Your Nice Life
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In this episode we explore the eight steps we’ll take you through in the rest of the series. Both Pippi and Hadassah work with a methodology called Design Thinking, and we’ll be leaning on it in this work, so we learn about how it’s going to be used to help you figure out how to Have a Nice Life [and without any unnecessary corporate lingo, fear no…
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Why It’s Hard to Figure Out Work That You Want: Systemic Problems
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This series is about finding jobs we’ll like that provide money to be sustained by; about how not to be ground down and instead more aligned with our values, regardless of how you feel about work. But why is this so hard? In this episode we examine the current moment and historical events that have lead to systemic barriers making finding work that…
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Welcome to Have a Nice Life: Meet your Hosts
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Welcome to Have a Nice Life! A miniseries on career changing, from career coach and organizational psychologist Pippi Kessler, and money coach and business strategist Hadassah Damien, two lefty queers who’ve both taken a winding path to good work and stability. In this intro episode we share our backstories and why we’re making this series. This po…
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