A short YouTube talk by Vishen Lakhiani where the speaker shares a personal anecdote about struggling to label their career and ultimately calling themselves a "multi passionate entrepreneur." They list multiple passions (dance, fitness, digital marketing, writing, spirituality) and argue that embracing and showing all facets of themselves accelerated their career and increased confidence.
Chapters
Whenever people ask me, like at my bartending job, what do you do for a living? I had trouble answering that question because just calling myself a life coach or a coach always felt really narrow and like I was somehow cutting off a limb. It was a very strange experience. I had passions about dance and fitness. I had passions about digital marketing, about writing, about spirituality. And one time someone asked me and this phrase popped out of my brain. I don't know where the hell it came from, but I said, I'm a multi passionate entrepreneur. And I was like, who said that? Like, it sounded so good and it actually felt so good. And again, I totally made it up. But here's the point. I started to bring all of me to the table. And when I started to do that vision, I will tell you, that is when so much of my career not only began to fast track, but I also just brought a new level of confidence to the table because I stopped hiding who I really was. You ain't nothing but a dog Play ag.