Have a Nice Life

Bonus Episode: How to do Experiments to Figure Out a Career Change

In earlier episodes of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about running experiments on your ideas and testing prototypes to get more information to help you make

Bonus Episode: Tools for Generating and Expanding Your Career Ideas

In Season 1 of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about how to come up with criteria for yourself when it comes to understanding what you might do for work; but

Becoming more Satisfied with a Return and Review + the Big Reveal

You’re done! Kind of. What if you have made a Big Life Decision, but later you want things in your life to be different? That would make you NORMAL. As you grow and your

For now decisions, and how to know when you know

When we’re about to make a decision, it can feel high stakes. How do you REALLY know what direction to take - and what if you want to change later? What if your “knowing”

How Pilots and Prototypes Will Help You

Even when you have a sense of what you want, it’s reasonable that gathering other kinds of information can be wise, before committing to a specific direction. Pilots and

Networking and Creating Productive Chaos

If networking sounds horrifying, do! not! fear! In this episode of Have a Nice Life you’ll learn how and why to talk to people and try stuff without any name tag or blaze

How to change and learn safely, no net required.

This episode is for anyone who wants to be better at changing and will not spout privileged nonsense about jumping and the net will find you, since that is simply not ava

Pulling good-for-you ideas out of a brainstorm

So you have a brainstormed and you have seven rough ideas of what your life could be - WELL NOW WHAT? Fear not: in this episode you’ll learn three ways to pull ideas that

Brainstorming career ideas

What to do with all your context, criteria, and research when you also know in your heart you want to be a sandcastle artist, poet, or person who wishes to preserve their

Research to expand your ideas part 3: Considering Self Employment

BONUS episode! What if all your ideas and percolation lead you to wonder about self-employment? In this case, here’s a short series of questions to ask yourself and drive

Episode 7: Research to expand your ideas part 2: Types of Jobs

Jobs, roles and titles - besides “postal worker” and “firefighter” and “teacher” what other kinds of jobs are out there  – and how in the world do you find out what they

Episode 6: Expanding your ideas part 1: Financial Imagination

This episode walks you through data on the income people need to cover costs, holds your hand as you jump into a pool of numbers, and leads an exercise on how to expand y

Episode 5: Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Going Deeper

Creating a vision starts with the details and you’ll come up with more details about your life from these exercises! In this episode, Pippi and Hadassah introduce three m

Episode 4: Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Starting with Anti-ableist Self-Acceptance and a Values/Talents Map

You probably don’t know exactly what your ideal work + life shape looks like, and if so you are normal! You might not be sure how to start to imagine such things, or you

Episode 3: Eight Step Framework to Figure Out Your Nice Life

In this episode we explore the eight steps we’ll take you through in the rest of the series. Both Pippi and Hadassah work with a methodology called Design Thinking, and w

Episode 2: Why It’s Hard to Figure Out Work That You Want: Systemic Problems

This series is about finding jobs we’ll like that provide money to be sustained by; about how not to be ground down and instead more aligned with our values, regardless o

Welcome to Have a Nice Life: Meet your Hosts

Welcome to Have a Nice Life! A miniseries on career changing, from career coach and organizational psychologist Pippi Kessler, and money coach and business strategist Had