
This last and final part of this US midterm episode series is about a topic that impacts all of us as portfolio careerists: healthcare. My guest today is Brad White. Brad is a former teacher and school founder who now...


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For a long time, our corporate jobs offered us more than just a paycheck. They offered us a promise: work hard, and in exchange, you would be given an entry ticket to a certain place called the middle class. But that social contract is now fraying. And as the safety net bundled with the 9-to-5 erodes, millions of knowledge workers are now being pushed into an unfamiliar, unrecognizable job market with no map and very little floor. The Portfolio Career Lab is a podcast that explores this phenomenon: the reasons so many professionals are polyworking and the myriad of inventive ways they are closing the gap between how they actually want to work and live and how our social safety net was actually designed. In this 4th season of the show, we will explore a new set of economies that has bloomed as people try to make ends meet: from sports betting and sex work, to a sprawling world of cash advance apps and o
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Recent episodes include "Navigating Healthcare Costs As a Self-Employed Freelance or Fractional Worker" (27 October 2026, 38 minutes), "Hope Is a Discipline: When Politics Become Part of Your Portfolio Career" (27 October 2026, 42 minutes), and "How Rural Pennsylvanians Are Uniting to Fight Back Against Data Center Development" (27 October 2026, 34 minutes).
The Portfolio Career Lab publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 37 episodes.
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This last and final part of this US midterm episode series is about a topic that impacts all of us as portfolio careerists: healthcare. My guest today is Brad White. Brad is a former teacher and school founder who now...

I personally HATE the phrase "keep politics out of work". Work is inherently political, and yet we're constantly being told to keep our political beliefs separate from our professional lives. Which raises a really...

In this episode, I sit down with Heidi Hackemer, a brand strategist living in rural Pennsylvania. We discuss how opposition to a proposed data center in Wayne County is bringing neighbors together across political...

In this episode, I sit down with Heidi Hackemer, a brand strategist living in rural Pennsylvania. We discuss how opposition to a proposed data center in Wayne County is bringing neighbors together across political...

Episode #2
What if building a successful business online has less to do with cracking the algorithm and more to do with trusting your own taste? In this episode, I sit down with Heather Barnett, a commercially savvy and hilarious...

When I first started building a portfolio career, it was kind of a fringe thing to do. That’s no longer the case. There’s a whole economy now of online businesses and courses glorifying leaving your 9-to-5 job. In the...

This episode is a pre-recorded webinar hosted by my friends from Hello Generalist. I share a bit about the thesis of the book as well as get into some of the big ideas from the book that now power my coaching business...

Episode #6
This is a revisit of a very conversation I had with the lovely Anna Mackenzie this time last year wherein we explorde how portfolio careers have moved from niche to mainstream, accelerated by AI and changing attitudes...

<p>In this week's episode of the pod I have brand strategist Mark Rukman on to talk about this concept of technofeudalism which I poke fun at in my book (albeit indirectly). </p> <p >The laptop class is having a moment...

<p>In this week's episode of the pod I have MJ Halberstadt back on again to talk about a comparison I make in the book between portfolio careers and polyamory. We also dig into this idea of automatic thinking and a key...

<p>In this episode of the pod I chat with Ceres Chua, founder of The Money Mindset Lab about the feast-or-famine cycles that are a hallmark of running a small business, and how to build a financial system and money...

Episode #2
<p >What's the difference between a polyworker and a portfolio careerist? And why does it matter?</p> <p>In this episode, I break down why I titled the book Polyworker and what it takes to build a career around your...

<p >This is episode one of a little mini season of the show. (A whole mini season! I know. Bear with me.) It's going to be chock full of behind-the-scenes stuff re: my debut book Polyworker!</p> <p >This particular...

<p>In this episode, I chat with Bhavna Devani about the generational reckoning happening in the culture of work and why so many of us feel like we’re navigating economic precarity and career chaos alone, when it’s...

Episode #11
<p>In this episode, I chat with Meg Scheding of Strategic Pivotery, a Slack-based community for women (not so quietly!) stepping away from confines of tech hustle culture and the idea that work defines our worth.<br>...

<p>In this episode, I chat with Julie Fedele about the state of the corporate world and my upcoming book Polyworker. We explore the identity work that comes with starting over, and then wade into a harder question: if...

Episode #9
<p>In this episode, I run back through my big portfolio-career predictions for 2025 and then I cast a little spell for 2026. You know, set the vibes, summon the universe, see what sticks. It’s reflective, kinda witchy…...

<p>In this episode of the pod, I sit down with executive coach Ashley Rudolph to explore the quiet crisis playing out inside modern careers: mid-career high achievers waking up in lives they never consciously chose. We...

<p>In this episode, I sit down with my former clients Sarah and Brendon Hamlin, the husband-and-wife team behind Hamlin Creative, to talk about what it really takes to evolve an established business in the digital age...

<p>In this episode, I sit down with Geoffrey Colon to talk about how professionals can move through the stages of grief after job loss and channel that uncertainty into creativity and new beginnings. We dig into how the...
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