Your work is not your worth

Amplify Your Awesome™ with Yong Pratt

0:01 Have you ever taken the time to think about your work versus your self worth? It's definitely a conversation worth having and our guest today, Jen Ables, and I are going to dive into this topic because it's so easy to really tie ourselves to our work and not be able to see our self worth outside of that.

1:13 Jen’s backstory from insurance underwriter to professional dancer to the founder of a charity and having a flag being flown in her honor in Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan.

2:08 Jen’s path to becoming an entrepreneur

6:45 How Jen turned a dance teaching gig for Mary Murphy, judge on So You Think You Can Dance into a charity to help soldiers

13:32 Separating our work from our self-worth again once we've decided to pivot and do something else in our lives.

14:32 Piecing out the roles in your life

15:30 Shifting the focus on who you are when you’re at your best from the roles you take on lin life.

17:00 [Action Step] Write down who you are without any of your titles or roles

18:35 Finding the igniters in your life so you can light your own fire and glow

21:36 What’s YOUR glitter?

22:24 On giving and receiving glitter

24:30 How Jen ensures that her unique style of glitter is infused through the content she creates.

26:33 Jen’s favorite way to create content.

30:02 The intersection of improvisation and life

30:51 Discovering what’s true for you to find great solutions.

33:30 Choosing your responses and channeling your energy.

34:22 [ACTION STEP] How will you choose happiness?

35:03 Discover where to connect with Jen at www.yongpratt.com/343

36:06 Come share your biggest takeaways and action steps inside the Arena of Awesome

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