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From Corporate to Financially Independent Reluctant Entrepreneur Featuring Caroline Ceniza-Levine

From Corporate to Financially Independent Reluctant Entrepreneur Featuring Caroline Ceniza-Levine

Caroline Ceniza-Levine specializes in career change and has reinvented herself multiple times from traditional employee to co-founder of SixFigureStart, a career coaching firm in 2008; and CostaRicaFIRE.com, a real estate and FIRE site in 2017. Caroline is a Forbes Leadership columnist and the author of “Jump Ship: 10 Steps to Starting A New Career”.

We discuss:

  • Reinventing oneself from traditional employee to cofounder [2:02]
  • The benefits of having a business based on your personal goals [4:23]
  • Changes in the way people are being hired [6:36]
  • The omnipresent preference for young employees [7:59]
  • Why voluntarily walking away might make a big difference [10:11]
  • If you want to start a business, go all in [12:44]
  • Why you should focus on the sell first, not the marketing [15:28]
  • The emotional reactions that hit us after a sudden job loss [18:09]
  • Tips to help you overcome the drama of being unemployed [20:27]
  • Trends for late-career highly talented professionals [22:20]

Learn more about Caroline at https://www.sixfigurestart.com/LinkedInTwitter and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

Downloadable PDF on Four Strategies to Make FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) Possible

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https://costaricafire.com/making-fire-possible-signup/ 

About the author, David Shriner-Cahn

David is the podcast host and community builder behind Smashing the Plateau, an online platform offering resources, accountability, and camaraderie to high-performing professionals who are making the leap from the corporate career track to entrepreneurial business ownership.

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