"I think I'm in a perpetual career transition"
Restaurant Manager turned Career Coach turned Entrepreneur, Chris Hegg, from @ChrisatPeak joins Cassie on Happenstance to talk about making big career moves, the chaos and challenges behind career transitions and how he has developed a deep dense of confidence when it comes to follow his passions and taking advantage of opportunities.
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Episode Topics:
- Daily POP (00:02:40)
- Guest Introduction (00:07:18)
- Making a Mid-Career Change (0025:49)
- 10 Years in the Restaurant Industry (00:32:08)
- The Start of a 4 Year Career Change (00:37:55)
- Making Your Own Career Transition (00:42:46)
- The Transition to Entrepreneurship and Reselling (00:44:37)
-A Story on Looking Out for Yourself (00:56:46)
Guest Bio:
Chris Hegg is a solopreneur, career coach, content creator, reseller, and curriculum developer who is dedicated to being a catalyst for thoughtful career change.
Chris began his career managing restaurants before launching his first big career transition at the age of 30. The “what everyone sees” version of this story is that Chris went back to grad school and became a Career Coach. This sounds like he took one giant step, and voila, transition complete. No! The “real” story of this transition involved dozens of small steps (and mis-steps), all during the Great Recession of 2008. This includes quitting a perfectly fine job, arranging countless coffee meetings, volunteering in the community, working a half dozen part-time jobs, paying off a mountain of debt, selling a car to fund tuition, and moving 900 miles south to attend graduate school. For Chris, the real magic in that change was taking small steps, lots of them.
After earning a Master of Arts in College Student Development, Chris worked as a Career Coach at universities and career schools. He soon established his first business, Peak Opportunity Coaching. During his 10+ years of experience in career education, Chris has taken part in tens of thousands of conversations about work, life, passion, money and change. He has drawn inspiration from the brave career changes of his clients, and how the modern world presents so many new avenues to explore and carry out career change. Cue big career transition number 2.
While working full-time as a Career Coach and growing his career coaching practice, Chris built a successful side-hustle selling used clothing on ebay (insert a bunch of small steps that nobody sees here). This side hustle grew quickly and he stepped aside from career coaching to focus on his growing used clothing business, Peak Opportunity Outfitters. Chris then started a new side-hustle too. Under the name @ChrisAtPeak, Chris shares candid videos of his entrepreneurship journey, especially the small steps. He shares this content to inspire and encourage others to pursue their own side-hustles, and to roll those side-hustles into big, brave career moves. You can find Chris’s storefronts and follow his journey at chrisatpeak.com.
Guest Links:
Instagram & Tiktok: @Chrisatpeak
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