Ep.52 Redefining the Dream Job: Aligning Passions, Skills, and Values for Fulfillment and Stability

Have you ever wondered what truly defines a dream job? Join me, Smilie, as I untangle this complex concept and explore how your dream job can evolve with your life stages, interests, and personal circumstances. This episode guides you to understanding the key characteristics that can make a job your dream job—whether it aligns with your passions, skills, lifestyle, or values. It's not just about the paycheck; it's about what fulfills you and keeps you engaged.

Get ready to hear some fascinating insights from Stacey Gordon and Natasha Flipoff. Stacey shares her perspective on finding joy and motivation in work, even if fulfillment comes from outside your job. Meanwhile, Natasha throws a curveball at the old saying that loving your job means you'll never work a day, reminding us that passion and financial stability are both critical. As we navigate through 2022 research from Zippa, revealing that only 20% of Americans feel passionate about their work, we'll discuss how personal values and life stages deeply influence career choices.

I'll also share my journey from nonprofit work to entrepreneurship, shedding light on how career aspirations can shift over time. With a heartfelt nod to our global listeners from India, Argentina, Africa, Europe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States, I express my profound gratitude for your support. This episode is about reassessing your expectations and discovering what motivates and fulfills you. So settle in, plug in those earbuds, and let's embark on this empowering journey together. You got this!

Chapters

• 0:03 Defining Your Dream Job
• 8:35 Evolving Views on Dream Jobs
• 24:39 Exploring the Concept of Dream Jobs
• 37:55 Global Support and Entrepreneurial Gratitude

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Hola, boss Chica. Welcome to the Smiley Empowerment Podcast. This is where we celebrate the strength, resilience and determination of Latina women and all women who are constantly on the go, pushing through challenges and achieving their goals. I like to call these women Boss Chica, like me. If you're a busy woman ready to be uplifted, inspired, empowered to take charge of your healing journey and be a Boss Chica, you've come to the right place. We can all agree, life can be hectic and overwhelming, but anything is possible with the right mindset, attitude, tools and support. Let me introduce myself.

Speaker 1: 0:45

My name is Smiley Filomeno Rodriguez and I am a Latina life empowerment coach and a social worker. I started this podcast because I know what feeling alone and overwhelmed with past wounds and challenges feel like. I want to help you with self-discovery, self-love and self-empowerment so you can grow and thrive. Do you sometimes feel alone? Well, you're not alone. You have me, your coach, smiley. In each episode, I'll share personal stories of resilient healing tips, practical advice, strategies for managing your time and priorities for improving your relationship with yourself and others, and insights on cultivating a positive and fulfilling joyful life. So grab your earbuds and tea or coffee, take a deep breath and get ready to be inspired and encouraged. Let's begin this journey together and empower each other to become the best versions of our lives. Let's get started. You got this.

Speaker 2: 2:16

What an amazing week. I hope that you are feeling good. I hope that you, wherever you're at, you're having an amazing, an amazing week. It's all about us really working together. It's all about us really working together.

Speaker 2: 2:23

And today's episode 52, I want to talk about what is a dream, right? What is a dream job? Actually, I want to talk about what is a dream job and I want to help you to reassess what a dream job is to you, in whatever life stage you find yourself in. It's so important for us to look at and examine what do we really want, what do we believe in, what dreams are aligned with us and, especially, what is your dream job, if you have a dream job? Because I'm of the thinking that you don't necessarily have to have a dream job at whatever life stage you're in. What I mean is you don't have to Keyword, have to. It's not about should or have to. So I want to jump in into this by starting out sharing what is the definition of a dream job and actually not really a definition, because there's not a concrete definition, but really what is this concept and what does this mean? And see what it means to you, if it has any meaning. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about what is a dream job. So, yes, what is a dream job? So? This could be, for you, different, depending on your life stage, where you're at, and I want to share that again. It's not a definition per se, but a concept, and there's certain characteristics and common themes that really come forth when we think about a dream job.

Speaker 2: 4:02

A dream job is considered to be a paid position that aligns with your interests right. It aligns with your skills. It aligns with your desired lifestyle. It aligns with your passions right, and it really does involve in you getting to do the work that truly means something to you, that truly you love and that you find that engaging. In it you feel alive. It's engaging. It could be challenging, yet that dream job is rewarding to you and it really allows you to show up with pride, show up with a lot of enthusiasm right, and it allows you to create more of what you love to do.

Speaker 2: 4:54

So some of the attributes in a dream job includes you tapping into your unique talents right, and your abilities. I want you to think about this, right. It also has certain attributes where it involves you doing the work with a lot of passion and sometimes it doesn't pay what you want, right. So a dream job can be a job that it's done without pay. Maybe you're not getting paid to do this dream job and other times, a dream job, you can feel that it is your dream job. However, it doesn't pay what you would want, but you still love it and you stay with it right.

Speaker 2: 5:37

Another key attribute in what a dream job includes it's an opportunity to be in an atmosphere that offers you support, that it offers you a positive environment with colleagues that you share the interest and that you really have a good time in that environment. A dream job also includes it being aligned, like I talked about before aligned with your values. Right really can embody this dream job of yours right. It can motivate you, it can be engaging, you can find in a dream job meaning and purpose and it can be very compatible to what some of your needs and goals could be.

Speaker 2: 6:42

It really varies from individual to individual and it can really depend on your own desires, your areas of interest, your skill sets, right and the circumstances in your life. So this is very subjective to your personal beliefs and your personal desires and you as an individual may have a very different interest, right and abilities and your life circumstances could be very different. So that's why it's so important to understand that a dream job can be significantly different than another individual in another life stage that they're in. It could be different to their priorities. Your dream job could be very different to your interests and it's different. And I want to know what you think about this, because in society, many times people may feel that their societal pressures to knowing what your dream job is and right off the bat, in your early 20s or later 20s or in the 30s, in your 40s or in your 50s, mid-life, that you already know what a dream job is and that you have a dream job.

Speaker 2: 7:59

So that's why I wanted to talk about this, because I did read a few articles, and one of the articles that I read it's from the Forbes. I was very interested in what they had to say about what a dream job is and this Forbes article, stacey Gordon of Rework Work. She shared a bit about the article and there is a part here of the Forbes article that says, and I quote a dream job isn't always the one that pays you. And Stacey Gordon goes on on saying that this needs to be talked more about, and that's when I was like you know what. It's true, we got to talk more about this and let me quote Stacey Gordon in what she further on goes to say. She says, and I quote we want to love the work we do and it isn't always realistic to expect our jobs to harness the passion within us. Since work is such a large part of our lives, it only makes sense that we want to make it more enjoyable. What motivates you and brings you joy may not be the thing that pays the bills. Sometimes looking outside of work will fill your soul while your job fills your wallet. End of quote from Stacey Gordon from Rework Work.

Speaker 2: 9:34

I really enjoyed reading this quote in the specific because we want to look at what do we like to do, what do we love to do and when it comes to work right, it's a big part of our normal routine. To go to work right, it's part of our lives, as she says, and a dream job, by its attributes, should have, like we were. It should really have this component of you enjoying what you do in it being aligned with what you want to do in your life. Right, that it motivates you, that it brings you joy, but many times there is some type of toxicity around jobs. And I saw another article written by Natasha Flipoff, and there she says and I quote her, she quotes and she says it's one of the classic career cliches, right? About dream jobs. And she and I quote Natasha she says if you love what you do, this is a cliche. If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. There's a lot wrong with this idea. She says and she's insinuating, right that if this cliche says, if you feel like you love what you do, you won't feel like you're working. And there's so many people that don't love their careers, or they do love their careers, but it's not really their dream job, right? So a lot of people don't like their jobs, but most certainly, right, they do love what they do. They do love the job, but it doesn't mean that it pays them what they want, right? So there's another quote here.

Speaker 2: 11:29

According to 2022 research summary conducted by Zippa, data analysis found that, in the wake of the great resignation migration depending who you ask, right, you ask right, they said in parentheses and a shaken economy, only 20% of Americans describe being truly passionate about their work. Wow, so are you part of those 20%? And does that mean that most of the population should feel pressure or shame that they aren't fulfilling their idea of a dream job? I say no. What do you think? But I say no because a dream job is distinctively your desire, your passion. It has to be something that you are passionate about, that it aligns with your feeling of joy, feeling motivated. Right, and when we're younger, especially if we're in college, right, we believe that we have to figure out right with a major. When you declare your major, right, you don't. You may think, hey, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life, but it's not necessarily.

Speaker 2: 12:46

You can select something that really you say you know what, I have an interest in it, it pays my bills, but it's really not my dream job. And take time to discover that. You can be one person that you say you know what, I don't have a dream job, and that's quite okay. You can be part of society that says you know what, I don't have a dream job, and that's okay. And I think it's important for you to be responsible, to really assess yourself in what do you really want to do with the life that you have right. And if you do want to explore, to figure out if you do have a dream job, and what does that require of you? Right, because what is your lifestyle? Right? So for some people they value earning a lot of money and they value that over passion.

Speaker 2: 13:37

So you may be in a job that you earn a lot of money, or the money that you feel fit, that it's necessary for you, but you're like, it's not really my dream job, but yet it's aligned with me earning a certain amount of money to support the lifestyle that I desire, right? So in that case, it may not be your dream job. So it's so important for you to understand that through your life stages, right In your early, for you to understand that through your life stages, right In your early twenties, then you go into your thirties, your forties, your midlife, right, and then you go up into your sixties right, we're seeing more and more folks working up to their sixties and seventies re-entering the workplace and you can feel that you know what, now that I'm in a different stage of my life, now I am prepared and willing to go after that dream job that I desired for myself and that could even be your own business, which it becomes your own work. Right, because a dream job is defined by you. It shouldn't be defined by society, by other people's thinking of what a dream job is. Defined by you, it shouldn't be defined by society, by other people's thinking of what a dream job is. It's very distinctive to you, to what you as an individual value as a job.

Speaker 2: 14:55

And sometimes, when you're early on starting your career, I remember in my early years of my early 20s, starting in my career, I would be in different jobs that I felt very passionate about, but yet they paid less. But what I gained was a lot of experience. I love the environment that I was working in. I love what I was doing helping people. I remember early on in my career in the mental health field, I was working with individuals that were very much in need. I love to work in team settings right. I was part, sometimes, of a case management team working together for a common goal of serving the client and their families, helping them through crises right, but it didn't pay as much. However, for me at the time, it was my dream job. So that was earlier in my career.

Speaker 2: 15:55

As I got older, I started noticing, you know what. I still have that same passion for helping people, but I want to earn a bit more and I want to climb that ladder of success. And then again I had a former boss who gave me such an amazing opportunity to become a program director. Granted, I didn't have the program director experience. However, I had great potential. She saw that in me. I had so much experience that I gained, even through those other jobs that didn't pay as much, but they exposed me to so much experience, skill sets that I needed, especially that I specialize in crisis intervention, working with clients that really had severe crisis that they dealt with and I helped them navigate. And I learned the skillset and how to do that. That positioned me that when I went to that interview, later in my life, in my 30s, early 30s, I was offered a program director position that I held for 18 years and a half, developing programs, leadership, expanding so much of the services that we offered in the community in Brooklyn, and that was amazing and that itself became a dream job of mine. And I have to say that little by little through the years, because I recently resigned that nine to five of 18 years and a half.

Speaker 2: 17:21

Because now for me, in this stage of my life, midway in my life, in my life, I want more freedom. I want more time to do as I want to do. I want it to be my own boss, and I explored what this looked like in Smiley Empowerment, the community, my coaching business, this podcast that I love and that I want to continue to sustain, to put out, and I welcome any support that you guys can offer me. I'm going to be looking at that too, because I do want this platform to continue. But I was so taken back at the years that I spent that I didn't pursue the freedom right, so I could have done it earlier on. I was almost there, almost 20 years right, but I realized that I had an awakening moment where I was like I need to see what my priorities are and the priorities changed. So for me, it changed. I wanted more freedom. I wanted the freedom to create programming that I wanted to do, wanted to be my own boss. I wanted the freedom to travel, to start my day when I needed to start what I needed to do, and that was for me, and I made a shift from a career to entrepreneurship.

Speaker 2: 18:32

For you, that may be different. You may have a different interest in what a dream job is for you, or you may not have a dream job in mind, and that is quite okay. Not everyone thinks of a job as a dream job, right? Not everybody has to think that way, and if that's you, it's okay. And I see here in the article that they were talking about that.

Speaker 2: 18:57

The author was saying that she asked a close friend what was her dream job and her friend looked at her dead in the face and admitted that she didn't have one. I don't want to work, she said. Let's normalize that. She clarified that she aspires to be a stay-home mom, which is most certainly work, and it's unfair that society expects that all women want to have children. It also is unfair to assume that all individuals want to have a lifelong career. For some, a job that allows them the means to afford what they need or want is plenty. And she goes on to say and to me that's just as admirable as the executive chasing the shorefront beach house. So is there a trade off?

Speaker 2: 19:47

It goes along in saying in this article I love this brand and I'm building it. I love that I am now running it as a business. I love what I do, but I do not always love all that comes along with it. If it's a lot of work, time and sacrifice, sometimes I ask myself why I care so much when the growth is slow, when haters say negative things, when I am instructing interns, paying subscriptions, coordinating schedules, all of behind the scenes that no one notices. And then I remember this is what the author says in this article. And then I remember that what I love is not the work but the mission. How I get to live that out through the work I do. That is amazing. I can resonate with Stacey. I can resonate with what she's saying.

Speaker 2: 20:39

Friend who admitted that she didn't want to have a dream job, that she actually didn't want to work, she actually wanted to stay home and be a mom. And regardless, right, whether you want to stay home or whether you want to pursue a dream job, or you just want to pursue a job or you want to pursue a different dream, it's important to understand that society puts a lot of pressure. Right, it's never a win-win right. There's always pressure. If you want to stay at home, they criticize you for maybe wanting to stay at home and not go out there and work. If you find yourself that you are working a nine to five or working in your business and still raising the kids, they may also society may also criticize you as not being a good mom, what they call a good mom, a fit mom, where you're there and you're available.

Speaker 2: 21:31

So it's so important for us to really step away from what society says and for us to do the inner work and really explore and reassess where we are at in our life journey right, and understand that for some people there might be a trade-off, right? There might be a trade-off for you where you say you know what? I do want to stay home with the kids, but maybe there are times that I do miss the workplace, but instead you are spending time with the kids. So you have to spending time with the kids and being. You have to spending time with the kids and being more flexible. Maybe your kids are small and you wanna be in the beginning stages of their life. So what happens is that you love the kids and what you wanna provide with them, and then maybe you do miss the workplace. But at this moment, you make a decision of what you want to prioritize more. What is it that you want to spend more time in?

Speaker 2: 22:27

And for some of you it may be that you don't have a dream job. So it's so important for you to understand and I hope that you do that, regardless of your choice, the choice that you make in your lifetime, of following a dream, a dream job, of making a decision to staying home or making a decision to quit that job, to start your passion, your dream it's important to understand that it all takes time and effort and that no one can say what you must or must not do, because there are aspects of your job that could be pleasant and there's aspects of your job that could be pleasant and there's aspects of your job that could be unpleasant. So this whole concept of a dream job, while it can be fulfilled for you, it may not be for someone else, right. So it's so important for you to understand that, when you're trying to make those decisions, understand that in any decision you make, there might be things that are pleasant, there might be aspects of it that it's not pleasant, right? And that every action that you take, there is an opposite reaction, as you know that right. So there could be great benefits of having that dream job and at the same time, there might be to that dream job. There might be some things that are unpleasant. Right, it might be restricted with time, right, the time that you play. So it's important to understand that with your work life. It can be challenging to find the harmony within your work life, making it a little bit more difficult sometimes to hone in on what makes you happy and what is that reward for you. Right, what is the reward for you? It could be that if you stay home, the reward you could have a list of rewards that are pleasant and that are meaningful to you, that it's aligned with you. At the same time, if we can have another person where the rewards for them is to be in that dream job. And what does that dream job mean? So what are you reflecting on? Do you agree with what we're talking about here?

Speaker 2: 24:39

What the article Stacey Gordon, what she mentioned, what she was saying. That was her takeaway from the article about what a dream job is. Does it resonate with you? Because if you are in the stage of your life that you're thinking, you know something. I want to be more involved in a different type of career. I want to explore having a dream job. It's understandable and you can do that. However, it takes time. It really takes time, and it all depends on what does a dream job mean to you? And it doesn't mean that what it means for me, it can mean for you. So it's so important for you to really look at just look at what is a dream job for you. Do you have one, right? And if you don't, don't feel that you have to have a dream job. That's one of the things. The biggest takeaways that I have for you today in this podcast is that you don't have to have a dream job in order to feel successful, in order to feel motivated and passionate.

Speaker 2: 25:47

I have to say, like I shared in my earlier years, my dream job was always working in nonprofits, working with people. Then, throughout the years, in my late 20s to early 30s, I started thinking about wanting. Actually, after my son was born, I was thinking about, about wanting after. Actually, after my son was born, I was thinking about okay, what else do I want besides the nine to five? And I started thinking of entrepreneurship, very lightly, very so slightly, and then I remember that I got involved in a multi-level business opportunity for like about four years, and what I have to thank them for was that they helped me and my husband to begin to dream outside the box, outside of that American dream which is the picket fence and retiring from a nine to five. They got us to think about us beyond that, about us taking control over what we wanted for ourselves, and that took a lot of years for me to hone in. To come to this space now, where I'm now thinking about not just thinking I've taken the decision to have left my nine to five job, which I adored and loved with what I did, and now do my own business right, my coaching business. It's quite a leap, a leap of faith, but I believe that now this business is my dream job. I am my own boss, I make right. It gives me freedom. However, it is my dream job Having the Smiley Empowerment, coaching business, having this podcast it's another aspect of my work that I love and that, to me, is considered a dream job.

Speaker 2: 27:27

Now, that doesn't mean that I don't do work and that I don't see it as work. I know that many people say well, if you love what you do, then it doesn't seem like work. I personally don't necessarily believe in that. I believe that there is work and it feels like work. It does feel like work, but I do understand that it doesn't drag me right. I think for me that's how I interpret it that a dream job or something that you love, that's aligned with you. It doesn't necessarily have that feeling that you're dreading to get to work or you're dreading to do the work.

Speaker 2: 28:05

Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, I love to do the work right. I wake up and I am so eager to research for my podcast, this podcast. I'm so eager. I teach twice a week for free masterclasses one in Spanish right, and on on Tuesdays, marte de Empoderamiento, and on Thursdays my masterclass is Smiley Empowerment on IG Live right, and then I put it up. We post it for the replay. I love to do that.

Speaker 2: 28:36

I love creating programming. I have the Boss Chicas Club that I put together and that's a year membership, working with amazing women that I am coaching in the group coaching, and that we're also doing some group work as well as individual work as well, as there's a socialization aspect to it. So we're socializing virtually and with opportunities for traveling together, and that's a beautiful thing and I love to do that and that, to me, is a dream job. To create all of these different programs is a dream job, but for you, what is that Right? What is what is it for you? And this article Stacey Gordon offered so much insight right On emphasizing that a dream job isn't always what it means to one person than the other, and it doesn't always pay right as well.

Speaker 2: 29:29

So you may have a dream job that doesn't pay as much, but it's really what motivates you. As she says, it's really what fulfills you. I'm a perfect example of that. Early in my career, most of my jobs did not pay well. However, I gained the experience, I met the individuals and it met my mission of being of service and help. Now, in my later stage in life, I want more freedom and I do want to earn more, and there's nothing wrong with that. To be able to be of what? Of more? Service, to be able to live the lifestyle that I want and my family, to have options right In any area, health, travel right, making donations, helping others, helping myself that's what I want you to take away today is to look at your own life and understand that if you don't have a dream job, that's quite okay, but I do challenge you to think about in your lifetime, right, while you're in this planet earth, what do you really want to do?

Speaker 2: 30:35

Right, whether it falls in the bucket of a dream job or whether it falls in the bucket of a passion, right, whether it falls in the bucket of your own business, doing a business. I want you to re-examine. What are some of your expectations for yourself? What do you want to do with your life and outside of your work, even if it's not a dream job, but outside of your work, what do you enjoy? What moves your needle, what makes you jump out of bed enthusiastic and some people say, oh, to never work again, okay, but then what you always have to think about what gets you motivated, what drives you, what makes you feel alive? So that could be considering reassessing your career goals. It could be you thinking about a dream job. What does that mean to you if you do have a dream job? But it's important for you to look at what are your passions, what are your skills, and have a better understanding, I would even say a deeper understanding, of your desires, a deeper understanding of what your skills are.

Speaker 2: 31:45

At the time, I remember in my earlier years of what your skills are at the time. I remember in my earlier years my skill sets were not completely developed or even developed as I was in these different jobs that didn't pay as much, but what they offered me was exposure to many levels of crisis in individuals and families and I was able to learn the skill sets to navigate those challenges with my clients. And that gave me this expertise on crisis intervention, crisis management, which later on, that was one of the things that my former boss was so fascinated by me having those skill sets and offered me the position of a program director when I didn't have the experience of a program director. And guess what? I did a great job in those 18 years and a half. When I walked away and now started my own business. I can say that those 18 years and a half and also the years before, because I have over 30 years of experience in the mental health field and working in the nonprofit sector and I've also worked in private sector All of that experience I gained experience, I was able to gain skillset.

Speaker 2: 32:56

But you know what I was able to know and discover, what were my interests? What were the things I didn't like? What were the aspects of these different jobs that I didn't like? I know number one was the pay was not as good, but there were other things that I was like. You know what. I would do things differently or I would want it to be different, and that helps you to start shaping what are your own interests and likes. I loved there were maybe some flexibility, more than others. The people that I met throughout the different jobs, especially in this last one. I've made lifetime friendships. I've also partnered up with great individuals, gained mentors from previous jobs.

Speaker 2: 33:38

So I want you to examine what do you want? Do you agree that there's such a thing as a dream job for you? Agree that there's such a thing as a dream job for you? And if not, I want you to think about are you dissatisfied with any part aspect of your life right now and what are you longing for? What is it that you want to do?

Speaker 2: 33:59

I hope this episode really brought for you some clarity, some motivation, and understand that outside pressures are always going to be out there, and understand that outside pressures are always going to be out there. But it's important for you to be realistic with what you desire, what you want for your life, because the pressures that are out there the haters, the naysayers, the people that doubt because you're going for things that they're like. I would never do that, because many times we identify with ourselves right, we're like. But if I wouldn't do that and you are someone that's close to me you shouldn't be doing that either. Sometimes people go with that mindset as we're growing up together with the different individuals in our circles. But it's important for you to understand that you're an individual and that there will be pressures and that there will be some social norms that you may break and that it's okay.

Speaker 2: 34:49

You are completely under your own authority to make the decision that's best for you, and understand that in every aspect of your life if you're in your early twenties, entering your twenties, or in your late twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, 60 plus, at whatever time and life stage you're in, there's always going to be a period of that decade in your life where you are confused, where you are reassessing yourself, where you're rediscovering yourself, where you're shifting. There's going to be losses along the way, but there's also going to be gains, and these moments are moments in your lifetime that you can take control to rediscover yourself, to say, okay, what is my passions? What are some of my skills? Do I got to go back to school? Do I have to take a certification? Do I have to read more? Do I have to explore more? What is it that I need to do to elevate myself to that that I want to achieve and that's defined by you?

Speaker 2: 35:49

If you want to stay home, if you want to have children early on, you might be making decisions about starting a family. That decision is, for you and your partner, right. Or if you're alone and you are deciding to adopt or have a family on your own, all of these decisions are part of what is the fabric of being a human being with a life experience, and at the center we talk about dream jobs. As I mentioned at the top of this podcast, what is a dream job, and I gave it? What are some of the characteristics and the themes that come about it? But you can give your own definition and by your own choice, you may opt not to have a dream job and working with what you're working with, and that's quite okay.

Speaker 2: 36:33

But what's important is for you to make the decisions that satisfy your desires, your needs, right, what makes sense for you and your family, because sometimes we also got to look at what do we want right For ourselves and desire, and then what's the impact that that makes for ourselves and for others that are in our circles or in our communities. Right, the choices that you make, the decisions that you make, how does it impact others? And that is something that's in the equation. But I don't want you to negate yourself of what you also really desire. Okay, I hope this episode helped you. I hope that you can take inventory of what is it that you really want to do in whatever life stage you're in.

Speaker 2: 37:23

I challenge you to take notice to what makes sense to you, what brings you joy, what makes you feel alive, what are the things that you enjoy. And that may not be your dream job, that may just be something outside of your job, of your work, but it's equally important because it is important to you. It doesn't have to be to me, to society or to anyone. So I hope that you enjoy this. Share it with others, leave a text for me, for us too, so we could review. You can ask questions. You could say hi, as my fan.

Speaker 2: 37:55

I love you guys. I love that you're from different places around the world India, argentina, shout out to Africa. In Europe, in Canada, in Puerto Rico mi bella isla, my island in Puerto Rico. In the United States, all over the States. I love that you guys are listening to me. Please continue to download, because the downloads is what is going to help me to really magnify myself here and to be having more listeners.

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So download my episodes as well, as I'm thinking of having an opportunity for you guys to support me, because if you want to listen to more podcasts like this and you want to also support me, I welcome it, because being an entrepreneur and doing my own business requires so much. There's so many expenses to keep up a podcast up and running, as well as everything I do. So if there's any opportunity that you see that I put up for you to show me support, I hope that you can do that and definitely go to my website, the smileyempowermentcom website. Follow me on Instagram. I'm in LinkedIn. Everywhere that I'm at, you can say hello, because I know you're a big fan of mine, as well as offering me the support to continue to bring programming like this to you. So, thank you so much. I will catch you in the next one, besitos, thank you.