Kyle Hunter is the CEO of Rhythm Couture and is also a hip hop musician and lyricist, performing under the name K Sparks. In this episode he discusses the soft skills needed to create proper career progress. Because, despite the rise of AI and machine learning, it is still people we do business with.

How do you build meaningful connections that are fundamentally authentic, but still help you work toward your career/business goals? In this episode, Bryan Wish, founder and CEO of BW Missions, shares his career journey and his approach to aligning passion and purpose to build an authentic network. And that path started with this feeling that he didn’t fit the common mold, no matter how hard he worked.

Fluidity is a major theme in Connie’s book, Building the Business of You. In the face of the pandemic, we have to be more fluid now than ever to get through it. But the concept of fluidity isn’t a new idea; it's a trend that Connie has observed over the last few years, especially with interviews on this very show. In this episode, Connie revisits some of these interviews, dating back as far as 2018, to uncover some of the stories that supported the development of the fluidity concept in Building the Business of You.

Eva Sadej CEO of FlossBar and MedBar, as well as a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient shares her journey towards building her career mashup. While she started out following the traditional linear path, she chose to take a detour. She parallel pathed her way toward entrepreneurship and subsequently defined a career that could leverage all of her talents and interests, all while hedging against risk, being fluid, and still taking a systematic approach.

Dr. Annette Grotheer shares how a career mashup can be so fulfilling, how she combines her passion for advocacy with her desire to make a direct impact, and what it takes to create a business that taps into your diverse interests, experiences, and goals (even if you already have a full-time job).