127: Why Non-Linear Career Paths Are The Future with Podcast Host & Media Entrepreneur Carly Reilly

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Attitudes about work have changed over the last decade and even more significantly since the pandemic, making the non-linear career path, the best path.
In this episode, co-hosts Lori Vajda and Nola Boea talk with the founder and CEO of Overpriced Media; Carly Reilly is the host of Overpriced JPEGs, a podcast and newsletter about NFTs and the metaverse. She shares her transition from hedge fund analyst to media entrepreneur, and how following a non-linear career track freed her to pursue her passions, interests and start her own company.
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In This Episode You’ll Learn

• How a non-linear career path is different from job hopping.
• Take the right steps for nonlinear career path success.
• The business side of NFT/Web3 space.
• How the key tenets to follow your curiosity can lead to a new career or side business.

Key points Lori and Nola are sharing in this episode:
(05:02:66) How following your curiosity can lead you to discover not only a non-linear career path, but work you are excited and passionate about.
(07:13:38) The journey into the NFT space and Crypto currency began years earlier. However, it wasn’t until 2021 and all the misinformation for Carly to make a career change into the industry with the podcast, Overpriced JPEGs
(10:39:78) The inspiration for Overpriced JPEGs was the lack of understanding. There's a core ideology or kind of ethos to crypto and NFTs, which is around a certain amount of empowerment for creators, as well as empowerment for people.
(12:44:55) If I'm being totally honest, I went and had dinner at Paris Hilton's house. I'm telling you, I think if I was a man, I wouldn't have been invited to that dinner.
(17:26:52) How Carly made the move from NFT podcaster to founder of her own media company and began to diversify its revenue streams.
(30:17:67) Tips for exploring the marketplace on Web3/NFT
Resources
Overpriced JPEGs podcast - https://jpegs.banklesshq.com/
Bankless - http://podcast.banklesshq.com/
Zen Academy - https://zenacademy.com/
Twitter - @CarlyPReilly
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