Ep.22 The excuses we make - with Jocelyn Clarkson
Show notes
Jocelyn is a self-taught fashion designer, dream chaser, Chicagoan, wife, dog mom, get sh*t done kind of gal. She founded her clothing brand, Swap & Strut, after realizing she was in an unfulfilling finance career. After years of feeling stuck in her 9-5 job, she became fed up with playing small and decided to quit her career and commit to pursuing her dream of becoming a fashion designer.
Now, she is building her fashion brand and coaching other women to start their fashion businesses. Most recently, she started the “Quit your Job and get Creative” podcast to empower women to pursue their dreams of starting a business.
In this episode we discuss the following:
- How Joecely ended up working in finance and the lies she was telling herself along the way
- Why does being successful not ultimately mean being happy
- How to quit your 9 to 5
- Is a side hustle enough to pursue happiness and how to make the jump from employee to entrepreneur
Quotes:
" In Guatemala, they had limited opportunities and here I am in the US with all the opportunities. And so I thought, okay, well I need to be the best version of myself, and that meant being the most, the richest version of myself. I associated success with money, money and happiness with money growing up."
"What I learned from his death was that life can change in the snap of a finger, and that really made me stop and think and say, what am I doing? Why am I keeping this thing that makes me miserable? Sure, it makes great money, but I'm not happy and I don't even have the time to go and enjoy this money."
"And again, I think for some people, unfortunately, we have to hit rock bottom. We have to hit rock bottom to understand how valuable our dreams are, our passions are, and how life is. Because again, I was miserable for two years, but I did nothing about it."
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