How does a corporate attorney become a creative entrepreneur?
Karen Walrond is a writer, photographer, author, and speaker — and that’s just during working hours. She’s also a licensed attorney + an engineer.
How did Karen go from being the Chief Counsel of one of the largest software companies in the oil & gas industry and the former Chief of Staff of a Fortune 200 company to author a best-selling book The Beauty of Different: Observations of a Confident Misfit, and the creative mind behind Chookooloonks, aTEDxHouston speaker and a press page that includes appearances on PBS, Huffington Post, CNN.com and The Oprah Winfrey Show?
Karen is here to share with you her personal transformation. I invite you to consider if this is possible for Karen, what is possible for you?
“Sometimes leaps really aren’t leaps.”
~ Karen Walrond, on How She Really Does It
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In this interview we discuss:
- Practical – lawyer/engineer/fortune 200 company | Not practical creative entrepreneur – how did you ignore the rules society tells us?
- Trusting your intuition + knowing when it’s time…
- Laying the foundation for career change + realities of adult responsibilities.
- How Karen will combine her knowledge of law with her passion from being a creative entrepreneur.
- What feminism really means for Karen –> “the right to determine your life”
- The importance of practice.
- There are possibilities + decisions, not blueprints
- The plan versus what really happened.
“Everything is figureoutable!”
~ Karen Walrond, on How She Really Does It
Mentioned in this Podcast
- chookooloonks website
- Karen’s book The Beauty of Different
- Leaps don’t have to be leaps: how to change your life by simple steps
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