📧 PivotList: From the "peacock feathers of possessions" to joy-based spending

Manisha Thakor on leaving The Cult of Never Enough

Hi Friends,

“To live a rich, joyful, and connected life . . . achieve less.” That’s the counterintuitive path to MoneyZen that this week’s Pivot podcast guest

Manisha Thakor

shares.

For the first half of her life, money represented a scorecard of self-worth and safety. Even with abundant salaries from financial services roles, Manisha fell into The Cult of Never Enough, often displayed in “the peacock feathers of possessions.” Listen to learn more about the powerful shifts she made toward joy-based spending instead »

📣 What’s on your mind?

My very first career coach and recurring guest

Adrian Klaphaak

and I are getting ready to record our tenth episode in the Career Pathfinder x Pivot series —and we’re looking for listener submissions!

Do you have a Pivot-related challenge or question that you’d love some guidance around? If so, please let us know in the comments:

Now onto this week's round-up, with bonus goodies for paying subscribers over the paywall rainbow at the end . . . :)

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🥂Business Bestie Brunch + 3 Months of Coaching (Now with Virtual Option)

Join me and Sarah Young, founder of Zing Collaborative and author of Expansive Impact, on Sunday, October 22 (in-person) or on Sunday, October 29 (virtual) for a three-hour brainstorming extravaganza, plus a three-month program that will surprise and delight you. Together with a small, curated group of Heart-Based Business owners, you’ll get a mix of 1:1 coaching and group calls to close 2023 strong.

📆 The final deadline to apply is midnight tomorrow, Sept. 15. If you’re interested:

📚 READING

Big congratulations to

Charlie Gilkey

who just launched his latest book, Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results to help us navigate the complex world of teamwork and collaboration. Check out his Substack

Better Team Habits

, and here’s my ringing endorsement for the book:

“You can calm chaos at work, but it starts with a reality check from Charlie Gilkey, delivered with his signature wit and generosity: You might not have a team problem, you have a you problem.

Stop catering to air sandwiches, Crisco watermelons, broken printers, ghost plans, and other corrosive practices, and start implementing Charlie’s finely-tuned, road-tested systems instead. TEAM HABITS offers a robust blueprint to transform your team workways step-by practical-step. You will never work the same way again, and that’s a good thing."

🍿 WATCHING

Dorian Electra’s wild Career Boy music video.

Pair this with the hilarious classic, Circle Back from Quarter Life Poetry for the FX television series Cake (Hulu):

🎧 LISTENING

Julia Cameron and

Elizabeth Gilbert

(re-air) in conversation about The Path to Higher Creativity on the How To Academy Podcast.

🎉 FEATURED

Big thanks to

Gabriela Riccardi

who featured a wonderful write-up of Pivot earlier this year! Check out Quartz: Treat Your Next Career Change Like a Verb:

When I called career strategist Jenny Blake to talk about job shifts, my motivations were admittedly selfish. I had just made a career switch myself: After working in a business role at Quartz, I’d pitched myself for a new one in its newsroom (and landed the gig). I wanted to know how Quartz readers could approach career changes—or, in other words, pull off the proverbial pivot. But I also wanted to hear how I could make the most of my own.

Blake has spent years thinking about shifts, switches, and restarts at work. She’s the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, the host of a podcast about career shifting, and someone who’s made plenty of turns in her own career. And when I asked Blake about making a pivot, she was attentive to how I phrased the question.

⚙️ TINKERING 

I am enjoying restacking other writers’ essays in Notes, even if I don’t always feel like adding something brilliant (or even coherent). Sometimes I restack with just a simple emoji: 💯🔥 — or nothing at all.

Even if you’re not publishing on Substack, you can set up a profile (your @ handle) and join the conversation. Here’s mine as an example:

❤️ Jenny Blake

(scroll down and click on the second tab Notes to see a list of my recent recommended reads).

🎙 PODCASTING

Pivot: 

• 339: Moneyzen: The Cult of More with Manisha Thakor

• 338: Is Midlife Messing with Your Enoughness? with Mandy Lehto

• 337: Cut Your Losses—Even While Pivoting in Public—with Khe Hy

• 336: Letting Go Of Productivity Guilt With Madeleine Dore (Free Time Crossover)

• 333: Soul Shifts For The Weary With Rachel Macy Stafford

• Subscribe wherever you listen here »

Free Time:

• 223: The Confidence Trap: Why You Don’t Need It to Do Big Things

• 222: Why I migrated my three email lists to Substack (BFF Bonus Replay)

• 221: Publishing and Personal Writing Pointers with Jennie Nash

• Subscribe wherever you listen here »

That's it for now . . . thank you for reading and listening!

❤️  With Love,