In this episode, Jasmin confesses that she hasn’t made anything in 6 months after graduating from Fab Academy and Sean shares his feelings of “imposter syndrome” about his photography. It turns out that our fear of not being good enough can prevent us from practicing our craft.
In this episode, Jasmin and Sean talk about how they keep track of all their projects. As freelancers, they have to juggle a variety of different projects from photography to digital strategy. They discover there’s a thin line between staying on top of it all, and coping for survival.
So tell us, how do you manage all the things?
“In this episode, Jasmin tries to call Sean out on his avoidance behaviours. She tries to demonstrate how avoidance is actually a psychological symptom, while Sean tries to rationalise his way out of it. In the end, it’s one of Sean’s own anecdotes that shows us what is at the heart of avoidance. Listen to the end to catch our first hilarious outtake from the recording session.”
In this episode, Sean and Jasmin discuss the nature of work and how the word “work” is not the same as the word “job”. We discover that reciprocity and structure are what separates the two concepts, and that we need to reframe the way we think about work and how it fits in with our lives.
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In this episode, Sean and Jasmin ask Mark Manson’s Most Important Question of Your Life: what do you suffer for? Sean discusses his ongoing belief that he never worked “hard enough.” Jasmin brings things back to practicing mindfulness. In the end, they agree that creating a life of purpose and meaning is hard work, which is why we have to choose to suffer wisely.
In this episode, Sean and Jasmin share their 2016 resolution: to say no. But how do you decide what to say no to?
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In this episode, Jasmin calls Sean out. Why? Because in Episode 03, The Thing About Money, Sean claims he’s solved all his financial woes by turning his house into an asset. But then Jasmin discovers the truth, and it’s not pretty.
So tell us, is there important work in your life that you’ve been avoiding?
In this episode, we explore the difference between levelling up in an hierarchical organization vs a non-hierarchical network. If we don’t have a job title, how do we know we’re progressing? Jasmin shares her experience of switching from digital strategy to digital fabrication, and Sean talks about the isolation of the lone artist.
At around 01:40, Sean references Scott Pilgrim, the movie “with the vegans that have the superpowers, and he has the sword, and it’s a comic book that was made into a movie, and it was shot in Toronto”
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So tell us, how do you progress at your craft, practice or business?
In this episode, Jasmin and Sean put on their citizen economist hats to debate the job crisis: are we creating an economy that replaces humans with machines? Or does the ingenuity of humanity always prevail over technology? And perhaps, more importantly for us, how does this change the way we think about work in our everyday lives?
You can read the 2013 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Economic Possibilities for our Children here and get a copy of Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan on Amazon or at your local library.
So tell us, do you believe we’re experiencing a job crisis?