Quit Your Crappy Job

01/09/2022

Ex-KGB agent, retired CIO, author, and speaker Jack Barsky joins us this week to share his extraordinary high-stakes resignation from the KGB.

https://www.quityourcrappyjob.com/episode-012

Danielle leaves the corporate world and the Big Apple to connect with her Jamaican heart and finds joy and prosperity, bringing that connectedness to others.

18/08/2022

The doctor is in! In this week's episode, psychologist Dr. Bryce Willson shares his entrepreneurial journey and advice for changing and overcoming our internal negative narratives.



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Danielle leaves the corporate world and the Big Apple to connect with her Jamaican heart and finds joy and prosperity, bringing that connectedness to others.

04/08/2022

The latest episode is out. In this episode, Danielle leaves the corporate world and the Big Apple to connect with her Jamaican heart and finds joy and prosperity, bringing that connectedness to others through her restaurant that she built in a cave.

https://www.quityourcrappyjob.com/episode-010

Danielle leaves the corporate world and the Big Apple to connect with her Jamaican heart and finds joy and prosperity, bringing that connectedness to others.

21/07/2022

Episode 9 is out! When One Door Closes, A Garage Door Opens

Listen to business owner Ryan Lucia dispel invaluable business and leadership advice as he describes his journey from being a high school dropout to top performing software sales executive to a successful entrepreneur.

https://www.quityourcrappyjob.com/episode-009

Business owner Ryan Lucia joins our podcast to discuss his transition from the corporate white-collar world to the blue-collar entrepreneurial realm.  After building a highly successful software sales organization, the company Ryan works for is acquired.  The acquiring company decides to let him g...

08/07/2022

Happy Friday! The latest episode is out, Sailing the Dream.

Married couple Tim and Christine made a huge lifestyle change in 2018. After being dissatisfied with the corporate world, they leave their jobs, downsize their life into a 37-foot sailboat, and start a new nautical chapter in their life. While voyaging across the Caribbean and Atlantic seaboard, their new life is filled with adventures, misadventures, and clarity of what matters and is truly important in life.

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Tim Mueting is a technology and marketing professional, and his wife, Christine Pettit, is a strategic event manager.  In 2018, Tim and Christine made a huge lifestyle change - they downsize their life into a 37-foot sailboat and embark on a nautical life that embraces Ralph Waldo Emerson's maxim, ...

30/06/2022

Be sure to listen to last week's episode, The Great Tiny Home Resignation, where sales professional Tony Johnson discusses his corporate resignation and his new Airbnb business using Tiny Homes.

https://www.quityourcrappyjob.com/episode-007

Next week Tim Mueting and his wife, Christine Pettit, share their journey of downsizing and minimizing into a sailboat and embark on their new life of sailing the Caribbean and easter seaboard.

Tony Johnson is a seasoned sales professional who is reorganized out of a job, but before he leaves is asked to train the younger and cheaper talent newly hired to replace him.  What Tony experienced is all too common in the corporate world, where management thinks they can replace experience with ...

23/06/2022

New Episode is out!
007. The Great Tiny Home Resignation

Tony Johnson is a seasoned sales professional who is offered a new role in his company - one he does not want. Tony decides to join millions of others in the Great Resignation and starts an Airbnb business with Tiny Homes.
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16/06/2022

Be sure to catch last week's episode of the Quit Your Crappy Job podcast if you missed it. Cathy Weldon, a marketing professional, shares her bounce-back story after experiencing one of the worse bad days. On this day, she is laid off two hours before going into labor, where there are traumatic complications - Cathy suffers a high block, and her newborn is rushed into the NICU.

Next week, Tony Johnson, a sales professional, discusses his decision to leave the corporate world and join millions of others in the Great Resignation. Tony explains his new life and business that makes use of Tiny Homes.



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09/06/2022

Episode 006 is out!
Cathy Weldon, a marketing professional, is pregnant and working for a large tech company when her company is acquired. At the time of the acquisition, the acquiring company lays off 40% of the company, including Cathy. Cathy also learns that the acquiring company will not honor the maternity benefit that was promised to her. Within two hours of hearing this news, Cathy's water breaks, and she goes into labor. Labor was not easy, and Cathy subsequently found herself fighting for her life while her newborn did the same in the NICU. Cathy shares her bounce-back story and how she and her family are better off now than ever.


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03/06/2022

Be sure to catch last week's episode of the Quit Your Crappy Job podcast if you missed it - Dying Is Easy; Comedy Is Hard.

Comedian John Ziegler begins his professional career as an employee of several tech companies but finds he isn't happy. Figuring that being an entrepreneur is the answer, he creates a successful fitness business but again finds himself unfulfilled despite his success. John makes the radical cold-turkey decision to quit his business and become a full-time comedian. As a rare survivor of pancreatic cancer, Johns shares some profound insight into life.

Next week we will be joined by Cathy Weldon, a marketing professional laid off just hours before giving birth and subsequently fighting for her life while your newborn did the same in the NICU. Cathy shares her story and how she and her family bounced back better and stronger than before.

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26/05/2022

Episode 5 is out! Dying Is Easy; Comedy Is Hard.

Jeff and Scott talk with stand-up comedian John Ziegler. John's career begins as an employee of several tech companies but finds he isn't happy. Figuring that being an entrepreneur is the answer, he creates a successful fitness business but again finds himself unfulfilled despite his success. John makes the radical cold-turkey decision to quit his business and become a full-time comedian. Johns provides some behind-the-scenes insight into being a stand-up comedian and shares some profound life advice as a pancreatic cancer survivor.



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19/05/2022

Be sure to catch last week's episode of the Quit Your Crappy Job podcast if you missed it. Last week Jose Portilla, former Offensive Tackle, professional artist, and championship-winning high school head football coach, shared his story of overcoming dream-killing setbacks, perseverance, and career transition. Next week we will be joined by comedian John Zieglar. John shares his career and life transformation from tech company employee, to entrepreneur to stand-up comedian.

12/05/2022

Episode 4 is out. Betting On Yourself

This week we talk with Jose Portilla, former Offensive Tackle, professional artist, and championship-winning high school head football coach. Jose shares his story of overcoming setbacks, perseverance, and career transition. Jose was a first-round draft prospect when a teammate tripped and rolled up on Jose's knee during pregame warmups for the Ho***rs Hula Bowl. In the NFL draft, the knee injury left Jose undrafted, a substantial financial and emotional loss. Jose rehabs and rebounds to make the Atlanta Falcons and becomes the first Mexican-born player to play in a Super Bowl. After leaving the NFL, Jose becomes a professional artist, another challenging and hard to crack profession. Along the way, Jose becomes an art teacher and head football coach for a charter school and transforms a bunch of academic overachievers into multiple state championship-winning athletes.

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05/05/2022

If you missed last week's episode, we were joined by Elise Oras, the co-founder and Head of Strategy for Wheels Up Collective. Elise shared her journey from a career marketing professional and part-time YouTuber to a wanderlust entrepreneur who started her company from a 160-square-foot trailer.

Next week, Jose Portilla, former NFL Offensive Tackle, will join us. Jose shares his story of having his draft dreams dashed during warm-ups of the Hula Bowl to playing in Super Bowl ###III, to finding his way to a post-NFL career as an artist and championship-winning high school football coach.

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28/04/2022

Episode 3 is out!
Wheels Up, Sunday Scaries.
Jeff and Scott talk with Elise Oras, the co-founder, and Head of Strategy for Wheels Up Collective. Elise shares her journey as a career marketing professional and part-time YouTuber to entrepreneur. After getting laid off during COVID, Elise and her husband embark on a three-month cross-country road trip that lasts almost a year. Experiencing a locked-down America from a 160-square-foot trailer gave Elise perspective and inspired her to start Wheels Up Collective with her friend. While many companies have started in garages, Elise began her company from her trailer. She had to schedule meetings that allowed her to juggle intermittent cell service, retail wifi, and "moving days."

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22/04/2022

If you missed last week’s podcast, we had Scott Wood, a former CEO (and former lawyer), who spoke about his career path from the courtroom to the boardroom. Scott Wood shares why he made the career-defining decisions he did, even though many of those decisions were stressful. He talks about having the courage to follow through when it is time for a change. Scott shares how his job changes affected his family and provide advice to others on valuing yourself and knowing what you will and will not accept.

In next week’s episode, we are joined by Elise Oras, co-founder and Head of Strategy for Wheels Up Collective. Elise shares her journey from being laid off as a marketing professional to starting her own business. A journey that literally has many twists and turns as she begins this business while on a year-long road trip across the U.S. Learn how she balanced life and work from a 160 square foot living space (20-foot long trailer), poor cell service, and wifi hotspot detours.

20/04/2022

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19/04/2022

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