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January 22, 2020

Episode 120: The Best, Beautiful, Brilliant Work

  • Re-centering… or procrastinating?
  • The best, beautiful, brilliant work I get the privilege of doing
  • Some observations on generational fears and inheritances
  • The thing we’re all really driving towards
  • What has me feeling sore

Quotables

“I do feel very close to asking for what I want, for being dogged, for getting things booked.”

“After the call I was walking around slightly dazed.”

“She was just realizing that much more was possible for her than she had ever thought before.”

“Wow, we as a people have a whole lot of work to do.”

“I really appreciate people who take the time to write things down.”

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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.