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01 – How I Stumbled into Entrepreneurship

What’s my story? Why this blog?

For some people, entrepreneurship is a calling – a strong inner impulse that pushes them to pursue exciting and often risky career opportunities. But for many of us, it just happens.

Let me tell you how I stumbled into entrepreneurship and my multi-path career.

02 – Why One Hat Doesn’t Fit All

I was a permanent, full-time employee for industry icon KPMG for more than twenty years. For many of those years, I never contemplated any other option. Corporate life was stable, comfortable, and rewarding. Why introduce risk?

To put all your eggs in one basket is to risk everything.

03 – What I Learned as a Farmer’s Daughter

My Dad was a farmer. He had an eighth grade education. And he was one of the smartest people I’ll ever know. He also managed a portfolio career, but never called it that.

Know that you want to have a multi-path career but can’t quite wrap your head around it?

Think like a farmer.

04 – News Flash: You Don’t Need to Love Everything

I’m not passionate about everything that I’m working on.

There, I’ve said it.

One of the most difficult things about becoming super passionate about something is that it can have the opposite effect on other things, including work you used to love.

05 – The Departures Lounge

I’m writing this blog from the departures lounge of Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto en route to New York City for my first girl’s only weekend with my daughter Kiera. It’s a fitting location. As I write this I have departed KPMG after twenty-five years. The beauty and magic of a multi-path career is that it can be wonderfully fluid.