How to thrive in business as a multipotentialite with Emilie Wapnick
"For the independent, self-starter multipotentialite, creating your own business is often the best option."
“Running a business is a natural fit for those of us who like to wear many hats.“
Emilie Wapnick continues, “And, while there are many multipods who find happiness in more conventional careers, we sometimes have dreams and ideas that don’t fit into pre-existing containers.
“For the independent, self-starter multipotentialite, creating your own business is often the best option.”
Those comments (and the image) are from post “How to Create a Business that Fits with Your Multipotentiality.”
Profile from their site:
“Emilie Wapnick (they/them) is an award-winning author and community builder. They are the CEO and Founder of Puttylike, The Puttyverse and Wingtip Astrology, where they help multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives.
“Unable to settle on one path, Emilie studied music, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University.”
Here is an excerpt from one of their videos:
Business coach Michelle Ward on why running your own business can work so well for multi-passionate people:
“No matter what you’re doing, there is variety, there is learning, there is being in control and not having to follow anyone else’s timelines, deadlines, instructions…I think it’s always going to be engaging.”
(This video is an excerpt from a longer one on Emilie Wapnick’s Puttylike channel.)
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Emilie provides resources including these two business-related programs
How Multipotentialites Make Money
From the info page on the Puttylike site:
In this course, you’ll learn how to…
Piece together part- or full-time work that provides you with the right amount of money, meaning, and variety
Adopt the four work models that are most commonly used by multipotentialites
Find a field or industry that intersects with several of your disparate interests
Design a career that leaves room for you to shape-shift, and explore your curiosity
Use both traditional employment and self-employment strategies to build a life around your many passions
How it works
How Multipotentialites Make Money is a self-paced, nine-module course.
There is no set start date or timetable, so you can go through the material at your own pace and jump around as much as you like.
Each module includes a lesson, exercises, and audio prompts.
Some modules have a bonus case study video that highlights a real life multipotentialite who’s using the techniques discussed in the course.
To get the most out of the course, you’ll want to complete the super helpful, step-by-step, worksheets.
There are ten worksheets–49 pages in total–which build upon each other and ultimately leave you with a concise (not too concise–don’t worry!) list of personalized career ideas and small, manageable action steps.
Each worksheet is a fillable PDF, which you can download and complete or print and fill out by hand.
The exercises also come with gentle kick-you-in-the-butt audio prompts for when you’re feeling stuck and having trouble getting yourself to actually do the worksheet.
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Renaissance Business: Turn All of Your Passions into One Business
From the info page on the Puttylike site:
Turn ALL of your passions into one business
Imagine having a business that allows you to focus on many of your interests and use all of your skills on a regular basis.
In Renaissance Business, you’ll learn to use your multipotentiality so that instead of it being an obstacle to income, it becomes fuel for income.
But first, maybe you can relate to this…
I can’t choose a niche!
My resume reads like it belongs to ten different people.
Music, film, web design, law, business, mental health, writing, dance, education—all of these are or have been interests of mine.
They come and go (and sometimes return again).
I remember being a little kid, not knowing what I would be when I grew up.
I wondered the same thing in my teen years, and again in college. Sure, all of my interests would make for wonderful careers—just not on their own.
Would I have to settle on a “practical job” and pursue my various passions on the side or choose among my interests and just commit to one thing?
Both options made me my heart ache… I knew I could be doing more—that I had more to offer the world.
Renaissance Business is the story of how I brought all of my interests together, and how you can do the same.
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📖 How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up, by Emilie Wapnick
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