Maria xenidou

Being An Expert Enables Creative Work

 
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Episode Notes (by minute):

-3:00: How and when Maria decided to leave her 20-year corporate career to embark on a new, independent journey

-4:30: How “experience is the best content” and how Maria thinks about becoming an expert.

-7:00: Maria provides detail onto her daily structure how she aims to create separation and order between different projects and efforts.

-10:00: Maria provides details on her daily habits. “if things are simple, it can easily be integrated into our life.”

-13:00: “I think probably 60-70% of my day is habits.”

-14:00: How Maria thought about starting her podcast and where it has taken her and your work.

-17:00: Maria asked me about why I created Portfolio Career Podcast and we discussed The Podcasting Fellowship.

-19:30: How Maria thinks about creating a body of work

-23:30: How Maria gets clients and thinks about the benefits of great clients.

-26:00: “If I were to start today to do something new I would find.. a freelancer who does what I want to do in three years… and I would go and offer to this person to do some work for free.”

-28:30: Maria’s philosophy of “hold the service before you build the church.”

(Note: these are quick notes and takeaways by David Nebinski. Please see the episode for more accurate information)