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Why You Should Separate Your Work and Your Job - Ep. 59 Aug 24, 2022

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Your work and your job are not the same things! Here's why tying your work and purpose to your job is risky for you.

In this episode, we talk about:

- How you can protect yourself and be more future-proof by separating your work from your job.
- How employers and employees are in a constant dance for power.
- Why giving an employer a chokehold over the way you value yourself, your happiness, or your life’s purpose is a great way to expose yourself to having those things threatened or taken from you.

Ryan and Hannah also talk about why it's important to remind yourself that you can still do work you love without doing it at the job you have now.

Hope you all enjoy the episode!

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How Learning To Sell Can Change Your Life - Ep. 58 Aug 17, 2022

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Learning how to sell completely changed the trajectory of our lives! Here's why everyone should learn how to sell!

In this episode, we talk about:

- How Ryan and Hannah learned how to sell and how they used their sales skills to create a successful business, grow their career and change their life.
- Why learning sales gives you invaluable soft skills and why it can be useful pretty much anywhere in your life.
- What are books and resources that you can use to learn how to sell.

Ryan and Hannah also shared their own sales stories!

Hope you all enjoy the episode!

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How To Address A Work Gap On Your Resume - Ep.57 Aug 10, 2022

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Due to Covid and the last couple of years, a lot of people are being left with work history gaps in their resumes. Today, we’re going to talk about some things you can do to address them!

In this episode, we talk about:

- Why a work gap is a big deal and what are the different ways you can do to address them?
- The different strategies you can do to focus on the value you can provide when you're asked about your work gap, whatever the reason is!
- What should you do if you're currently in an employment gap?

Ryan and Hannah also share some books that you can read if you wanna do some soul searching!

Hope you all enjoy the episode!

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Career Hacking: Supercharging Your Job Search with Joel Bein - Ep. 56 Aug 03, 2022

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Joel Bein is a Writer and Head of Growth at The Daily Job Hunt(Careerhackers.com), an email to over 200,000 subscribers with daily tips on how to supercharge your job search!

His experience in pitching companies directly allows him to land interviews 80% of the time. Joel has written 500+ blog posts and as a classically trained musician and conductor, is also the Founder of New Orleans Chamber Players.

He's also the author of Do It Now: a finished book.

We talked about a variety of topics: his experience in conducting an orchestra and how it helped in his day-to-day life, how you can stand out in your job search by using video pitches, and more!

Please enjoy this fun conversation with Joel Bein!

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6 US Cities That Will Pay You Over $10,000 To Work Remotely In 2022 - Ep. 55 Jul 27, 2022

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Costs are going up everywhere, and we’re paying more to live. But what if you could get paid to live somewhere?

In this episode, we talk about:

- What are the 6 US cities that'll pay you $10,000 to work from home there!
- Why these cities are paying people to move to their cities and work remotely.
- Why it can be a good idea to move to these cities to leverage your remote work salary and the low cost of living.

Ryan and Hannah also talk about a city that will also give you a mountain bike along with the cash incentive just to move there!

Hope you all enjoy the episode!

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Making Some Noise: Audio Engineering, Podcast Production, and College with Jay Yow - Ep. 54 Jul 20, 2022

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Audio engineer Jay Yow is behind The James Altucher's Show for 8 years. He watched it grow from a living room experiment to a podcast featuring the likes of Mark Cuban, Peter Thiel, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, William Shatner, boasting millions of downloads.

Jay is a very passionate person when it comes to music and all kinds of media, especially sound.

We talked about a variety of topics: His audio engineering journey and how you can become one without a degree, all about podcast production, cryptocurrency investments, and also gaming!

Please enjoy this fun conversation with Jay Yow!

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Biggest Job Lies #2: “Salary Depends on Experience” - Ep. 53 Jul 13, 2022

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You’ve seen this a million times on job descriptions. You’re led to believe that if you have more experience, you’ll get paid more. If you have less experience, then you’ll get paid less. This is a lie. Let’s talk about it!

In this episode, we talk about:

- How companies use "salary depends on experience" as a tactic to get you the lowest price possible and make it harder to negotiate.
- How to prepare for a negotiation and how to overcome this tactic.
- How to properly research salary so that you can get paid what you deserve.

Ryan and Hannah also talk about the importance of knowing how much you get paid now and how much they’re about to pay you are not related.

Hope you all enjoy the episode!

To keep up with everything Degree Free check out our website: https://degreefree.co

Get the guide on how to: Teach Yourself. Get Work. Make Money. No Degree Needed.: https://degreefree.co/workbook

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Like, subscribe, write us a review, and if you have a question or want some advice email us at contact@degreefree.co

Standing Out Amongst The Crowd: How To Win In Life and Work with James Quandahl - Ep. 52 Jul 06, 2022

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James Quandahl is an entrepreneur, author, performance coach, and host of The James Quandahl Show: helping you live your life to the fullest, be present and connect deeply with others, and build the life of your dreams.

Quandahl has led teams for nearly two decades including two at Fortune 1000 companies and has coached hundreds of driven individuals to success.

James’s agencies help natural product brands sell more on Amazon and support authors in producing and launching best-selling books.

We talked about a variety of topics: interview tips, how James knew within 45 seconds if he's gonna hire somebody, podcasting, selling on Amazon, you name it, we talk about it!

Please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with James Quandahl!

To keep up with everything Degree Free check out our website: https://degreefree.co

Get the guide on how to: Teach Yourself. Get Work. Make Money. No Degree Needed.: https://degreefree.co/workbook

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3 Reasons You Need to Be Willing to Relocate for a Job - Ep. 51 Jun 29, 2022

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Today, we're going to talk about why you should be willing to relocate for a job even before you hit that apply button!

In this episode, we talk about:

- The importance of going to where the work is and how it can open your world up!
- Why being willing to relocate can get you considered more seriously for a role and how it can make you stand out.
- The things you'll learn from moving to a different place that'll help you further your personal growth and career.

Hope you all enjoy the episode!

To keep up with everything Degree Free check out our website: https://degreefree.co

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Top 3 Lessons We’ve Learned From You - Ep. 50 Jun 22, 2022

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Today's episode is a special one because it's our 50th episode!

It's been a year since we started the Degree Free podcast! We were doing other things and working multiple jobs and running another business so we started this as an experiment and it still is one in many respects.

We didn't know what to expect and your overflowing support is a huge surprise and it's something that we sincerely appreciate! We're constantly grateful and humbled that we have people listening, interacting, and getting value out of what we do.

We hope to be doing this for a long time more to help as many people reach their goals and potential as possible!

Hope you all enjoy the episode!

To keep up with everything Degree Free check out our website: https://degreefree.co

Get the guide on how to: Teach Yourself. Get Work. Make Money. No Degree Needed.: https://degreefree.co/workbook

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter and get exclusive tips and tricks to make great money without a college degree! https://degreefree.co/signup

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