007 | Starting a Purpose-Driven Business & Why it's All Figure-out-able w/ Amy Giddon
How do you know you're on the right career path? After working as an executive and management consultant, Amy Giddon was inspired by a wall filled with post-its in a subway in New York to start her own business and create the daily self-reflection app Daily Haloha. On this episode we talked about: the progression of Amy's career (1:20) how the idea for Daily Haloha came about (3:18) how you know that you're on the right career path and the factors to consider (8:52) what characteristics of art projects like Humans of New York Amy embedded into the app (12:38) the skills that helped Amy start Daily Haloha and what areas she sought help in (21:37) how long it took her to get from idea to launch (25:52) why the idea of overnight successes is misleading (28:31) how Amy found a co-founder to work with on the app (29:58) where beginners can start learning about business (36:13) why Daily Haloha's features are purposely limited & the layers of human connection (40:00) the problem of loneliness (49:29) how to design your own social wellness "recipe" (53:57) Amy's 5-4-3-2-1 mindfulness exercise (1:00:12) Amy's book recommendation (1:02:28) favorite quote (1:03:42) To find links to everything we mentioned, and to sign up for weekly podcast shownotes in your inbox, click here. If you’d like to contribute a comment, question, or suggestion, send me an email or audio file/voice note over at [email protected]. ⭑ SUPPORT THE SHOW ⭑ If you’ve found value in the podcast, please consider leaving a tip! It helps me to continue producing episodes and sharing conversations with cool people, and I really appreciate it. You can also help out by leaving a review on iTunes! It means the world to me :) ⭑ CONNECT WITH ME ⭑ Website | www.theblissbean.com YouTube | The Bliss Bean Instagram | @theblissbean ⭑ OTHER ⭑ Music from Epidemic Sound. Try a 30-day free trial of music for your content: http://share.epidemicsound.com/theblissbean