For a Living

Episode Overview: Money mindset coach, Zoey Berghoff works as an AirBnB Coach, helping advise young adults looking to invest in Air BnBs as passive income. Highlights: -Picking an AirBnB location -How AirBnB management opens you up to travel -Having a marketing mindset around AirBnB hosting -How to factor seasonality into your listing -Owning an AirBnB for passive income but also factoring in equity -What the heck is AirBnB arbitrage?? -How much initial capital is required to start this? -Let's get your finances in order... track your expenses!

Episode Overview: Professional sugar baby, Christina Kim, drops out of college to pursue sugar dating and start Agency, her own sugar dating company. Highlights: -Avoiding college debt by becoming a sugar baby -What is sugar dating? -Is sugar dating sex work? -Lauren's abysmal dating life -Sugar dating: the intersection of financial literacy, female empowerment and sexual empowerment -Sugar dating your way to becoming a CEO -The stigma around sugar dating -Safety in sugar dating -”Dating is just collecting datapoints” -Could sugaring be problematic or disempowering? -How to tell if you'd make a good sugar baby -The case against monogamy

Episode Overview: Alisha Welch leaves behind her job as an engineer to work at a ski resort and travel to Japan to teach English. Highlights: -Working as a plastics engineer…while being an environmentalist -What it's like to do seasonal work at a mountain -“I've never seen someone so excited about a minimum wage job” -Loving outdoor activities / mountain biking will fuck you up -10 points for Canada, and other musings on universal healthcare -Living for the stoke levels of a powder day on the mountain -Leaving your friends and family to move across the world

Episode Overview: Contiki Travel Trip Manager Rob Knott leaves behind the riveting world of geology to get paid to travel for a living. Highlights: -The boom and bust of working in minerals and mining -Becoming a Contiki guide…the most intense job training I have maybe ever heard of -Just because a country isn't interesting for more than a day, doesn't make it a bad country to visit (and other travel insights) -Straddling the line between the edge of your comfort zone… and danger -Travel= a metaphor for life / it's all about setting expectations - “Let's talk shit about America for a second” (and other really eloquently phrased things) -Why you should consider living abroad -Rob talks about his love for rocks *everyone falls asleep* -One rock pun slips through the cracks -Rob discusses (and compliments???) Lauren's big personality -Loving the shit out of your job…best job in the world?

Episode Overview: Stand-up and sketch comedian, Steph Tolev, finds joy in making people laugh for a living. Highlights: -What it feels like to “bomb” as a comedian -LIVE, ON-AIR Covid test results!! -”Next up… a lady?” / Why are we afraid of vagina-possessing people being funny? -Dating as a comedian -Getting ghosted….F you Thomas! -How to go from thinking you're funny… to making money as a comedian -Doing service to the world through humor -Being a goof for a living

Episode Overview: Spiritual manifestation coach and Ayurvedic Practitioner, Latha Jay, finds her purpose after quitting medical school. Highlights: -”One day I just woke up, and I left”...leaving medical school to become a farmer -The fear of disappointing your parents -Going from pre-med, to farmer, to fashion designer, to yoga teacher, to health coaching to photographer to journalist *exhales*…paths are not linear! -Being in your early 20s is like throwing spaghetti against a wall -The health benefits of meditation -Where western and eastern medicine converge -Manifesting your way to the ideal-mate -Spiritual growth is not a linear process -Finding your Dharma -How suffering brings clarity -Shedding limiting beliefs that are holding you back

Episode Overview: Performer and teacher, Jillian Paige, pursues her love of musical theater. Highlights: -How to become a personal trainer -A critique of the fitness industry -Loving your body through a pandemic -Pursue your dream before financial stability, “fuck it” -A Meisner-technique exercise in real-time / the power of discomfort -Why Lauren will never be Hannah Montana -Performing arts and feeling like a failure -Starting a small business / the risks of not working a 9-5

Episode Overview: Wrangler, Reilly Harrison, quits her job in politics to pursue her dream of working in the outdoors. Highlights: -From metropolitan DC to Wapiti Wyoming -What would you do if no one was watching? -Romance at the Rodeo -What does it mean to be a Wrangler? -Golden Handcuffs… not as fun as it sounds ;) -Being chill is not cool -TikTok romance / hot guys live in Wyoming…? -The correlation between horse-girls and leash children explored

Episode Overview: For a Living Host, Lauren Perry-Carrera, introduces the premise of the podcast through the story of her own personal journey with Corporate America. Highlights: -A cheeky visualization exercise -Lauren's entire life story, which no one asked for, or wanted -The time Lauren lived in a van, which yes, makes her cooler than you -***TW: mention of suicide (25:22)*** -The tea around being an Investment Banker. Spoiler alert, it sucks -A brief historical analysis on the Prostetant work-ethic *yawn* -Introducing: your inner child -For a Living and what to expect from the pod -Bonus section: life-update