Ep #161: Opportunities in Different Economies

Welcome to the Get a Six-Figure Job You Love podcast. This is episode 161, Opportunities in Different Economies. Welcome to the Get a Six-Figure Job You Love and Thrive podcast, where I, Natalie Fisher, am teaching you weekly how to land your premium role that you love and thrive in it. Let's go. All right. So I'm pretty fired up today to talk about Actually 2 different topics, but I'm going to record them separately. So we're going to start out by talking about the opportunities in different economies. I recently ran a poll on LinkedIn and the results were really interesting. So I asked people, what do you think the reason is you haven't landed the role that you want yet? And I'm only allowed to give certain amount of options. So I was limited on options, but I gave the options of You don't believe in yourself to be able to do the role. You don't believe in your ability to sell yourself into the role. You don't believe the role you want exists, or you don't believe that there are the opportunities available. So I'm going to cover the 2 most popular votes. So most people actually voted for low belief in ability to sell themselves. And Then there was a few other outlying reasons, which I'll cover too, but that was the main one. And then the second one was don't believe there are enough opportunities available. So today we're going to talk about the enough opportunities available one. And then next week I'm going to talk about the low ability to sell yourself. So I was really surprised by the response actually, because mostly I find that a lot of people come to me and we dig down and really it's something they doubt about themselves. And I guess in a low ability to sell yourself, you are doubting your ability to sell yourself. So it is kind of underlyingly about your ability to do it, right? But anyway, today we're gonna be talking about the opportunities and how people, especially right now, I think because things have shifted and things have been shifting a lot since 2020 when the pandemic and everything in the world has changed and shifted quickly in many different areas. And my experience with that was quite unique. I think I was able to turn my brain around really fast and have some of the best successes I'd had during the pandemic. And I think a lot of stuff came together at that time, which had something to do with it, but it was mostly mindset, right? It was mostly mindset. And it was really me observing people and how some people were really succeeding and some people were not, even though they had the exact same circumstances. So, First, I want to address the problem, which is just the problem is just the belief, the choice to believe. And a lot of people don't know it's consciously a choice. They think it's fact, but the choice to believe that there's less opportunity now, or that it's limited, or that we need to be extra careful, or we need to shrink down. Like the belief that there is just less. It's like scarcity is ramped up. The feelings of scarcity are ramped up, right? And so I found that super interesting because that was even more so in the pandemic, right? It was like, oh, there was literally hiring freezes happening because nobody knew what was going on. So like so many companies had just said, we're not hiring right now. Everything's on hold, right? And like that was a fact. And why this happens is because we listen to the news. We listen to the news. We listen to people who listen to the news and they talk to us about these things. And then we kind of get into like this groupthink, and we just kind of accept it as fact, right? And we accept, oh yeah, that's just true. Like, there aren't that many opportunities these days. They're very competitive. It's very hard. And then we kind of move forward with that belief, and we're not really that happy. Like, it's not possible really to be in like an excited, expectant place when you're feeling like, oh, it's really a bleak time and the world is not very abundant right now. And There isn't a lot available and I have to be really careful and I might not get anything and shrink down into that scarcity mentality. So we slow down, we shrink down, we get small, we get overly cautious. And the funny thing is, is there are so many opportunities. And why this mentality doesn't work or why I would never choose it is because you will miss out on things for thinking like that. And what ultimately creates is you spread that mentality, you become part of the group that's starting to think like that, and then that's what actually creates your reality there, right? Because it's not everybody's reality. We'll look around and we'll see people are always thriving. There's always somebody thriving somewhere, right? And maybe they've changed what they're doing, or maybe they have just figured out a smarter way to do it, right? But there's always somebody. who is thriving. And there's always a lot more people who are in that mentality of scarcity. So the alternative solution is you decide to think very intentionally about what's going on around you. And you can look at the facts because we often will tell ourselves a story. There are always a million opportunities, at least around you at any given time. There always are. And we often say to ourselves stories that block us from these. Like, we'll say, well, I just don't know how to find them. I don't know who to talk to. I don't know where to go. Only some people get these opportunities, not me. Or my experience isn't enough right now. Or it's just a lot harder right now, so I don't have what it takes. Or like, there's a million lists of reasons why people will tell me that they can't do what they want to do, right? And it goes to like, oh, I'm in the wrong city. I live in the wrong province. I didn't go to the right school. My resume doesn't have what it needs on it. I don't have enough of something. I don't have enough experience. Those stories exist. Whatever the economy's doing, people are thinking that way that is stopping them, right? And those are the things that we need to untangle more than ever, especially if we might be heading into a recession, which we're not, by the way, yet. Well, we might be, but we aren't at this very moment. The statistics are that it keeps getting postponed. It keeps getting delayed. So, And if we look at the facts, because some people might think, oh yeah, we are in a recession. It's like, well, we're not actually yet. They're still predicting it, but it's actually not gone to that statistical fact yet at the time of me recording this, because I looked into it. So those are the things that we need to untangle more than ever. And especially when times are like, say the pandemic as an example. Like if you're looking at yourself like, oh, now there's just never going to be an opportunity for me because If I wasn't able to do it before, now I'll never be able to do it, right? It's like these stories need to be untangled. No matter what you're thinking about yourself, your ability to find the opportunities or whatever you believe, they are still there, right? The opportunities are still there. So, just on LinkedIn alone, there are 9 million people. And the incredible thing is that at any point, we can point to more opportunities open up somewhere, even when some go away. So the world recalibrates and it rearranges and it transcends and everything is changing. And we can make a point to go where the fish are. Like we always have that choice, right? So that's why I'm like never scared of like running out of things because I know how abundant the world is, right? And I know that there's always opportunity. So in the pandemic, for example, the first thing that I did was I had my clients Google what companies are thriving during the pandemic and what an eye-opening experience that was. Immediately all these opportunities become very obvious, right? And then there's like an overwhelming amount of opportunities that you didn't see because you didn't know to look, right? Or you didn't think to look, right? But they're always there. And so because of the pandemic, a whole bunch of other stuff opened up. So like there's always opportunity. in a crisis. There's always things shifting and moving, right? And all the hiring that, like, people needed was just in a different place. They were hiring like crazy, but it was just in different industries, in different places for different roles. The opportunities did not go away. Some of them moved, some more opened up in other places, some more companies grew. Some of them did go away and some they might resurface later as something different. They're just moving around, but they're not completely drying up, which is the mentality that really freaks people out and keeps them in scarcity and fear and worry. It's because we think that that's what's happening. So that's why we can always see, like, there'll always be evidence of smart, successful people pivoting quickly. There are thousands of stories of people who created incredibly inspirational businesses Due to the pandemic, and then there was a lot of small businesses. I noticed this where I live, like some restaurants they doubled down on like what they were doing for takeout, and they even opened a second location. One of the places, like they were not a takeout location at all, but they doubled down on their takeout, made it easy. Like I don't know, but like I ordered from them. I thought it was genius, and then I wanted to go back, and then they opened up a second location with like a Mexican theme, using the principles that they learned from the changes they made with their first restaurant, and they were. Killing it. And they were not a takeout restaurant whatsoever before that, right? So it was the mindset of the founder that created this pivot and just reorganized and pivoted quickly to create an even bigger success than he had before. And then there were so many other restaurants who just gave up. They didn't even try. They just closed their doors and said, oh, too bad, we don't have any like customers. It's just closed down. It sucks, right? So it was all just the mindset of the founder. Now, I'm not saying that's always the case. Like restaurants is one example. Sometimes you can't, right? Like you, sometimes you, you would need to switch industries or go do something different, but you totally can. You always have that option, right? It's never gonna be, oh, I have nothing, it's done, right? It's like that's when you just kind of sit down and give up. And that's, there's always that option. And a lot of people do that, right? But what I'm saying is, and just to illustrate these examples, cuz I have a thousand other examples cuz I was so fascinated with this during the pandemic, is that The needs of hiring managers, the needs of organizations, startups that are starting right now and growing during, like, when times are slow, they want to get going now because things are cheaper. Some things are going to be cheaper. Some things are going to be like more readily available. The opportunities are just switched around. That's really what I want to get across to you because it sucks to be in like this scarcity mindset, especially because it's an illusion. It's not even real. So that's why you can see always successful people who are pivoting quickly, who are thinking differently, and who are becoming more successful in opportunities or times when everybody thinks everything is drying up. And it is solely because of the mindset of that founder. And so the opportunities you see and the roles that you can get offered where you can go for interviews and actually get in front of people are a direct reflection of the mindset of each job seeker. Of each person who creates those opportunities and who presents relevant value in those opportunities. They're not a reflection of the actual opportunities in the mix at any given time. Okay? I want to say that again. The opportunities that you get in front of, the opportunities that you attract, are a direct reflection of your mindset. They are not a reflection of the actual available opportunities at any given time. Right? And we have lots of statistics on that. We can prove that as fact as to say, hey, there are just as many job openings. There might be more startups starting up now. There might be more of this, more of that, less of this, less of that, but the opportunities themselves are always there. Okay? So, the thing that we need to do is we need to be open to thinking that way. We need to be open as to say, like questioning what people say to us on a day-to-day basis and questioning what we see on the news, because what we see on the news, might be true, but then there's also this other half of what's true that we don't see, that we don't pay attention to. And that is our problem, right? Because when we don't, we don't spend time paying attention to that, then we can't, like, we literally cannot see it. We don't look for it. We don't even try to look for it. It's not gonna be like someone's gonna come up to our door, knock on the door and say, hey, I'm hiring for a 6-figure role. Would you like to interview? No, no, no. You have to go do your part of the action, right? And it's not, difficult to do, but you need to be in the right mindset so that your mindset can cascade down and you can actually be in flow with the actions you need to take. So you need to be willing to be open to that, right? And of course you can just be like, yeah, no, you're full of BS. The world is bleak and opportunities are low and blah, blah, blah. And you can totally think that and that's fine. And I have no problem with that, but just know that is a choice. Okay? Because there's evidence, evidence, and evidence on the other side that will point To that's wrong. Like, it's right and it's wrong, but it's like, which one do you want to choose? Right? But at any given time, I've kind of talked about this before, but like in the pandemic when everything was kind of crashing, my sister and I were like, oh, the stocks are on sale. Let's buy Disney. Let's buy Microsoft. Let's buy Amazon. Like, they're all going to go up again. And they did. So it's like, if that's your mindset, you could get excited by it instead of getting really depressed by it, which is where most people go, unfortunately, because that's how we are wired. This negativity bias is wired to do that in our brains. And the news doesn't help. Like, the news is just repeat, repeat, repeat all the crisis, right? And it's like, okay, yeah, but unless I'm actually going to go do something about that, unless I can actually take an action, it doesn't help me. It does not serve me to know, to really get into the weeds of that, right? So why this alternative way of thinking works better? Well, because you feel better. You feel like the world is a better place in general. You have a better outlook. And when you have a better outlook, everything is better for you. So you attract better opportunities, you show up better, you are able to be in that excited, expectant energy instead of that doomy, gloomy, worry, anxiety energy most of the time, right? And what you need to make this happen is a willingness. You need a willingness to rewire. You need a willingness to wanna shift constantly. You need a willingness to want to be in that space where the other half, and I would say not even half the people are there, but like I'm in like high-level masterminds with people who are very successful and I can see how those people think differently. They think they see opportunity, they're looking for opportunity. They're not looking to like shrink down with everybody else. And I think that most of the world is geared and wired to the scarcity mentality. Already. There's always a lot of, I don't have the money, instead of how can I get the money? There's always like, oh, I better be careful. I shouldn't do that. Instead of what if I could do that? What would that look like? How would that actually change my life? Wouldn't that be amazing? It's more of like the shrink down instead of the open up and see what's possible. And you'll see that the people who do that, the people who do take the more risks, the people who do look at it that way, look for the outlook, look for the opportunities. Those are the people who do find them. And they, those are the people who do become successful. And those are the people who maintain a level of success. And become those people. Like they become thought leaders or they become just people who, you know, like you wouldn't question it. You'd be like, yeah, I know that obviously that person has a plan or they know what they're doing, or because that's how they're used to thinking. And so I wanna help you with that if you're interested. And the first step is to sign up for my series of masterclasses coming up. So it's called Creating Certainty in Your Career. It's happening the 23rd, 24th, 25th of August with a Q&A on the Monday. So that'll be the 28th. And we are going to be running this series that is a completely free series where this is one of the things I'll be talking about. Okay? I'll be talking about the opportunities that are available and how you can wire yourself to see them and how you can become one of those people who is looking for the opportunity, who is looking for the success, who is going to find it because you know it's there, right? And it all starts with Knowing it's there, right? Like if we don't know it's there, we're not going to look for it. We're not going to bother, right? And that's the biggest problem that I see. So if you're interested in that, you can get the link in the show notes. As soon as you sign up, there will be a workbook that you can kind of get a sneak peek of what we're going to be covering. Mark your calendar. There'll be a button there that you can press to add to your calendar so you can show up live. I highly recommend you show up live. It is an amazing experience. You can ask questions. We will be very interactive in the chat. It's kind of like a party, and we love to have you there. I love to have you there. I love to interact with you and find out what it is that is stopping you. And I've done a lot of these trainings before, so this is one that's— that I'm especially excited about in this time because I know so many people need it, right? I've been hearing from a lot of people who are feeling very disheartened, and this is why I want to step up and help. In every way that I can. So this is a three-day, actually going to be four-day, but three-day, and then I do a Q&A on on why people think they're not getting the job, and we go deeper on that. And I want to invite you to that. And so all you have to do is sign up, click the link below. It's www.nataliefisher.ca/creating. It's called Creating Certainty in Your Career. This is a training that will benefit you for your entire career, not just your next job. And this is what I'm seeing so much more of now, like. I've been doing this for a long time. Okay, so in the pandemic, like I said, I had lots of clients who were freaking out because of the hiring freezes, and I explained on this podcast how we turned that around and how clients— and it was funny because they were still all actively interviewing. They were actively interviewing, and every single client that I coached during the pandemic got an offer. I can think of them one by one, and in that time they each got an offer, and it was because we managed to turn their mindset around, right? If they hadn't have, I don't— like, their mindset was just Really like down in the dumps and it's because of the news. 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