Have a Nice Life
Hadassah Damien and Pippi Kessler
Hadassah Damien and Pippi Kessler
Have a Nice Life is a podcast hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and design strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. Season One is HANL: A Career Change Survival Guide and has a companion workbook by the same name. Most career advice ignores realities of trauma, systemic oppression, and assumes you’re clear on your dream job. Not this time! Welcome to your anticapitalist survival guide to finding work that works for you, having enough money, and balancing your values and goals with the world we're in. Learn to redesign your work and financial life without having to know the future, despair, hate your life, or love wage labor. Check out the workbook if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Season Two is HANL: Good Work and draws on Pippi and Damien's expertise as organizational consultants. Good Work is focused on crisis leadership, making reality-focused adaptations to organizations and projects, and what people can do to be strategic, good leaders in a bad time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 19
In earlier episodes of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about running experiments on your ideas and testing prototypes to get more information to help you make decisions. There’s so much to say about this, and in this bonus episode, we go into more detail on exactly what we mean by a career change experiment, its specific question and prototype components, and how to define and run an experiment to get more information about what you might do in your next career move. There’s lots of examples given, which apply to specific ideas you might be testing, or exploration you may need to do. Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 16
In Season 1 of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about how to come up with criteria for yourself when it comes to understanding what you might do for work; but coming up with job ideas can still be very hard! So in this bonus episode, we go into ways people can use three tools - AI, skills assessments, and experience mapping - to identify fields, jobs, and types of work that we might want to explore more. This is for people who have more specific ideas as well as those of you wrestling with existential sized uncertainty and questions! Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out on one of our websites if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. If you want more of this, check out the workbook or video course. And stay tuned for Season Two of Have a Nice Life, coming later this year! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 29, 2024
You’re done! Kind of. What if you have made a Big Life Decision, but later you want things in your life to be different? That would make you NORMAL. As you grow and your life changes, your criteria will probably change. We want you to plan to evolve along with your life and be ready to continue to tell yourself the truth about what you want and need. Reflecting and learning - and letting it be ok that you get to change - will help! In this episode we tell stories about our own many changes in work, attitudes, and lives, and share ways of thinking to help you be ready for change yourself. Get your “it’s not over until I say it is - I can change if I need to!” attitude on. Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out on one of our websites if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 22, 2024
When we’re about to make a decision, it can feel high stakes. How do you REALLY know what direction to take - and what if you want to change later? What if your “knowing” or “deciding” buttons are frayed from trauma or operating in survival mode? In our last few episodes we’ve talked about how to reduce the risk of getting it wrong with criteria and prototyping, so today we talk about how to use that information, how to know you know, and what it means to give yourself permission to try a new thing. It’s your nice life to go after, after all. And, of course, almost no decision in life is your final one. Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out on one of our websites if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 15, 2024
Even when you have a sense of what you want, it’s reasonable that gathering other kinds of information can be wise, before committing to a specific direction. Pilots and prototypes are kinds of experiments that help you try on or try out a way of living before you fully commit, and are excellent ways to learn things in your body that you can’t learn from imagination or research. We love them! In this episode of Have a Nice Live, Pippi and Hadassah tell stories of our own and some clients’ prototyping that gave us such important information. You’ll learn how to think about these experiments, and how to make sure you learn from them. Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out on one of our websites if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 8, 2024
If networking sounds horrifying, do! not! fear! In this episode of Have a Nice Life you’ll learn how and why to talk to people and try stuff without any name tag or blazer, the superpower that is productive chaos, the secret stash of people who can help you, and why you don’t need to fake anything to get a lot out of chaos networking. Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 1, 2024
This episode is for anyone who wants to be better at changing and will not spout privileged nonsense about jumping and the net will find you, since that is simply not available to a lot of people. Instead, we’re going to teach you how to make trying things and building towards change safer to try. Change can feel - and be! - risky, but what can you do to reduce that risk and change safely for you? This episode tells stories that examine ways to do this: assessing two-way doors, taking little bites, learning within your window of tolerance, and finding a net first. Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 25, 2024
So you have a brainstormed and you have seven rough ideas of what your life could be - WELL NOW WHAT? Fear not: in this episode you’ll learn three ways to pull ideas that are good for *you* out of a brainstorm. Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
