S01 Ep42: What do you want to be when you grow up? Maggie Huffman shares why you don't need to choose!

Have you ever said to a friend, “I need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up”? But you’re already are a “grown-up” with a successful 20+ year career behind you. Well…you’re not alone! And, you really don’t need to choose. This is just one of the topics that Maggie Huffman and I discuss in this Ever Better Podcast.

 

Maggie is a self-described poly-serial-multi-enthusiast, meaning she’s very involved with multiple professional and personal interests.

 

After working in the wine industry for over 20 years, she finally figured out how to blend her many interests into a fulfilling and joyful life. Unfortunately, the sudden death of her mother was the catalyst for getting her life in balance.

 

Maggie and I hope that through listening to this podcast and reading her book, Oh Snap, My Career is in Crisis, you can move your life in the right direction before you’re faced with a crisis. (Send Maggie an email with “Ever Better” in the subject line, and she’ll send you a free copy of “Oh Snap!”)

 

Maggie left her corporate career in the wine industry to help her coaching clients reach their true potential. She’s also a speaker, an Aura-Soma practitioner, a vocalist a pet lover, and author of three best-selling books: Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis, Whoops! I Forgot to Achieve My Potential and WTF?!? I Still Believe this Sh*t?.

 

Listen to the podcast to hear us discuss:

Living in Sonoma Valley

Her non-fiction books that offer a serious, but light-hearted view of personal development, your life potential and managing your career

Discovering your potential at any age by getting to know who you are now

Sampling projects, tapas-style, to determine where your interests lie

The period of Maggie’s life when she was out of balance. Her career dominated her life, she wasn’t signing, and had no time for friends or outside interests

Her dramatic career change when she left the corporate world to concentrate on her other interests

Shifting to an aligned work and personal life

Combining career and purpose: your career only partially defines you. Above all, know your purpose.

Lessons of Aura-Soma, a system of color and light, based on the universal language of color. You are the colors you choose! My favorite colors are green and yellow…what does this mean?!

Quotes from Maggie:

“Put in a little bit of time to really try things. Build a personal tapas menu of little bites, little things that you want to try until you really discover what you want to be, what you want to do.”

“Okay…this is it. I am not spending my entire life not singing, not doing what I was meant to be doing or things that fulfill me.”

“I love synchronicity! When you decide to do something, a lot of times synchronous events happen – yet they don’t just happen along. You can see them because you’ve made a decision to focus on something.”

“I think more of us are like you and like me where there’s a thread, there’s a theme, or different patches that come together to make a pattern. I call myself a ‘poly-serial-multi-enthusiast.’”

“I know a lot of people are really interested in a lot of things. You do them and then you move on, instead of it being THE THING that defines you for your entire life or even for a significant portion.”

“We’re never going to be what we wanted to be when we grow up, right? Because we’re explorers. Adventurers.”

“If someone is feeling like they’re in a crisis and they think that it’s a work-life balance crisis, stop and think. It isn’t a work-life balance crisis. It’s a life balance crisis. Work is a meaningful facet of life. You’re not going to solve your feelings by changing work, unless it fits in with your life as a whole.”

Contact Maggie:
Website: www.talktomaggie.com

Email: [email protected] For a free copy of Maggie’s book, Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis, send her an email with “Ever Better” in the subject line.

Thanks for listening! Send me a note at [email protected] if you’d like to share your thoughts about the podcast or to work with me.

Ever Better!