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🎧Audio Version: A Glimpse of Ikigai and a New Venture
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🎧Audio Version: A Glimpse of Ikigai and a New Venture

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What I am good at

  • Public Speaking

  • Coaching and mentoring

  • Financial modeling

  • Synthesizing disparate information

  • Explaining complex ideas simply

  • Teaching

  • Cooking (this may be a stretch) / following recipe directions

  • Empathy

  • Maintaining relationships

  • Absorbing information

  • Writing

Things I like to do

  • Talking to friends

  • Public speaking

  • Coaching and Mentoring

  • Reading

  • Eating good food

  • Travel

  • Skiing

  • Dissecting people’s business problems

  • Learning business models

  • Dog walking

  • Working out

  • Self improvement

  • Comedy (note - sadly not something I am good at!)

Things I can make money doing

  • Consulting with startups on financial stuff

  • Dog walking

  • Financial services

  • MBA essay coaching

  • Teaching

  • Alumni relations for Wharton or Navy

  • Real estate development

  • Become a realtor

  • VC

  • Work for MAPS

  • Syndicate deals

  • Host a conference

  • Bartending

  • Tech company ops/strategy role

  • MBA admissions

  • Prostitute myself (sorry mom, but I do think I could make good money)

  • Entrepreneur in residence

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