E. 160: Terri Trespicio Challenges and Drops Truth Bombs About Following Your Passion

How many times have we heard that we need to find and follow our passion?

What if that wasn’t true?

Today, I’m talking with Terri Trespicio about why you shouldn’t chase after having a passion, the question you need to ask yourself instead, and making intentional choices so you can live your life and career on your own terms.

Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, and the author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You, which the Washington Post called one of the best feel-good reads of the year. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has been viewed nearly 8 million times. Terri helps leaders, professionals, business owners, thought leaders and more stop searching for their passion and start making things happen. Her courses, workshops and retreats help you unlock your creative genius to fuel your stand out ideas.

Find this episode for free on your favorite podcast player.

Tune into this episode to hear:

  • How insecurity gets in the way of doing the real work of helping people

  • Why you need to ask yourself what problems you want to solve

  • How following what you’re good at can lead to career fulfillment

  • How passion gets too much credit in success stories

  • How to ask yourself why you want to pursue a goal to get to the bottom of the desire

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Pia Silva