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Wednesday, December 18th. You're out

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of social setting. You're meeting

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people for the very first

1:07

time. What's a common question

1:09

you ask as an icebreaker? Where

1:12

do you live? How do you know

1:14

the hosts? What do you do? That

1:17

last one, that's a

1:20

really challenging question. We

1:22

need to deal with this. You

1:24

see, for the last hundred years, what

1:27

you do for a living. is

1:29

equal to who you are. Your social

1:31

standing is reflected by your job, your

1:33

income certainly is, your level of education or

1:35

expertise, you tell somebody what you do

1:37

for a living, you're pretty much telling them

1:39

how much education you've got. And

1:41

you're also telling them, by answering what you

1:43

do for a living, you're also telling them

1:45

whether it's really worth their time to even

1:47

just talk to you. Well,

1:50

that is a challenge for

1:52

a lot of people. I mean... For some folks

1:54

this is nothing new State home moms have

1:57

dealt with this forever. but

1:59

now So many

2:01

others are dealing with this too

2:03

because we now have 10 ,000 people

2:05

retiring every day. And if you're

2:07

one of those folks whose adult

2:09

lives have all been centered on

2:12

what you do, you've now got

2:14

to figure out how do you

2:16

answer that question when somebody says,

2:18

what do you do? Stay

2:21

at home dads, career changers

2:23

who are in between jobs, gig

2:25

workers who frankly don't do

2:27

any one thing. They do a

2:29

lot of different things. Baby

2:31

boomers who are forced into retirement

2:33

because of ageism. People who

2:35

got laid off from work. All

2:37

of these folks struggle to

2:39

answer the question when asked by

2:41

a stranger at a cocktail

2:43

party. So what do you do?

2:47

So on the one hand, you need to be

2:49

ready. If you're ever asked

2:52

the question, what do you do? And

2:55

you got to think about this.

2:57

So ask yourself this. What makes you

2:59

happy? You happy

3:01

being a spouse or a parent?

3:03

A hobbyist? You love being a

3:05

volunteer? you love sitting on boards?

3:09

Reframe your answer. Instead of referring to

3:11

a job that you no longer have

3:14

or a career you've left, you want

3:16

to reframe your skills. Don't relate it

3:18

to work, but to some other aspect

3:20

of your life. What do I do?

3:22

I play the guitar all day. What

3:24

do you do? I work out all

3:26

day. What do you do? I play

3:28

golf. What do you do? I volunteer. Reframe

3:32

your skill set. What do you do?

3:34

I love doing puzzles. And then

3:36

take some small steps. Go get

3:38

some new hobbies. Go do new

3:40

things. Go meet new people. And

3:43

you could use that as your

3:45

answer. What do you do? Oh,

3:47

I rediscover. I reinvent myself every

3:49

day. And that will allow you

3:51

to change how you introduce yourself

3:53

to new people. And the next

3:56

time you meet somebody, instead of

3:58

asking yourself, asking them,

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what do you do, you can ask a new

4:02

question. What are you up to

4:04

these days? Or how your day today? Or

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What are you like doing? I'll

4:10

tell you what one friend of mine does.

4:12

He left his job he now spends most

4:14

of his time helping other executives get used

4:16

to not having a job. So when he's

4:18

asked, what do you do? He

4:21

says, I don't do. I used

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three decades, more than 500 podcasts in

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the last three years alone, and my

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podcasts are winding down. My last one,

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