Close

February 21, 2018

Episode 020: Have A Business And Still Have A Life

  • The key piece of the puzzle I totally forgot to share.
  • How to get perspective on your work, so you can lead a balanced life.
  • Why I still count that time I fell asleep at the opera as a totally worthwhile evening.
  • The day that left me completely out of gas and what I learned from it.

Quotables

“It can be easy to slip into working all the time and losing focus.”

“Making time for the things that matter.”

“I always want to make sure that in the context of helping other people to improve their lives, that I am paying attention to my life.”

“The things that work in a sales conversation are often the exact flip of what works in a coaching conversation.”

Subscribe on iTunes:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About Your Host

Alison Cardy is motivated by three main drivers: to be helpful to others, to personally grow and to have fun along the way. She’s a quiet rebel who pushes limits. She dreams big and executes regularly. And she has the dual capacities of creativity and systematic thinking.


On To a Billion with Joy Alison shares the ups and downs of her entrepreneurial endeavors, including how she built, grew and even tried to break one business that ran like a machine. Spoiler: it didn’t break.


Alison is a frequent speaker at universities and alumni groups, including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown and her alma mater, The University of Maryland. She is the author of the bestseller, Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her work has been featured on Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, and The Washington Post.


Her other business ventures can be found at cardycareercoaching.com and bethebeacon.com.