Month: July 2011
Podcast 24 – Podcasting Passion with Myke Hurley
On this episode of the Work Awesome podcast, outgoing Podcast Prodigy Mike Vardy chats with a man of many podcasts, Myke Hurley. Mike is the man behind The Podcasting Project, which is the hub for the podcasts he is involved with (including Enough: The Minimal Mac Podcast, which he co-hostsRead More
5 Money Saving Tips for Freelancers
So, at last you have decided to dive deep into the freelance world and have already started to feel the freedom of working under yourself and further on your own schedules. Sounds thrilling! Doesn’t it? Your dream of working while seated in the local café or bookshop and drinking coffee comes true. However,Read More
Healthy Eating Habits for an Awesome Work Day
When you think about it, it makes absolutely no sense that we tend to pay less attention to healthy eating when we’re super busy and rocking it out at the office for more hours in a day than we quite possibly should be. In fact, beyond even eating healthy foods,Read More
Stress from Business Travel: How to Avoid it
If your job has you on the road, you have to be on the ball about taking care of yourself, otherwise a few months into a heavy business travel circuit will leave you baggy eyed, flabby, and exhausted, with a messy apartment on top of it. You can beat theRead More
Boss, Can I Go Telecommuting?
Telecommuting is not really new to the business community. A CNN Money article reveals that multinational companies like Cisco Technologies, S.C. Johnson, and Accenture have at least 20% of their employees telecommute. In 2008, data shows that close to 20 million US workers telecommute. If your company hasn’t embraced yetRead More
How to Quit Your Job – 5 Steps to Transition Into a New Career
While travelling in Dallas for work, I picked up a book titled One Person/Multiple Careers by Marci Alboher. It spoke about how wearing many hats and not being tied down to a full-time job can work for you. In the first few chapters,I made an instant connection: There were aRead More
7 Reasons You Should Sign Up On Facebook
I worked in a bakery where the owner was a self-professed technophobe. He didn’t have a cell phone, rarely used email and if someone brought up Facebook, he shuddered at the thought of using something he considered to “contribute to the downfall of society”. He just didn’t see what aRead More