#4 If you don't do it, you don't know if you will like it
This week's newsletter is a real motivational one and hopefully just the nudge you need, to take your faith into your own hands and kickstart your career change today.
Coucou fellow transitioners - another week and another inspiring change story is waiting for you 💜🧡
You are lacking motivation to kick-start your career transition? This week’s interview is about to give you the right boost. So, let’s shake off off the spring fatigue and dive right in.
We have the absolute pleasure of sharing a very motivational interview with Lucas, who will tell you all about the importance of introspection to facilitate your career transition. He also shares amazing tipps and learnings.
C’est parti! 🚣🏽♀️
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3 Questions & Answers about Change with Lucas
Hello Lucas, can you tell us more about your career transition?
I was Head of Partnerships for 5 years at different start-ups. I started at a start-up in the real-estate sector called Papernest in Barcelona and I was kind of an intrapreneur inside the company, launching the Spanish market in Barcelona and then being in charge of the Strategic Partnerships team. My mission was A closing partnerships with real estate companies and B finding new business opportunities for growth in Spain. So, at 22 years old I had a lot of trust from my management. It was a challenging experience to have so much responsibility with my own team and my own projects but I am so thankful for the experience at such a young age.
After 3,5 years I returned to Paris and joined Legalplace to become the Head of Partnerships and discovered the Parisian entrepreneurship world. Together with my team, we launched a new business division in the accounting sector and we reached 20k Euros Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) in 3 months. It was amazing to reach such a result after only 3 months, but I felt the urge to create something that I really personally care about.
So, I started doing a list of what I loved in my previous company, why I changed my job and I did it for all the jobs that I had done.
Coming back from summer holiday, I created Net & Connect with two friends from Papernest, the first padel community in the tech industry. Our idea: Make networking easier thanks to sports, the best Icebreaker to connect and meet new people. After only 4 months, we gathered 250 players and organised over 15 events and tournaments.
After 1 year, I decided to leave LegalPlace to find my own true thing and traveled in Columbia for 1,5 months by myself. This was really the best trip of my life. I met Alex Vizeo, the first travel influencer in France, who travelled for 10 years non-stop. He created a special introspection method in order to help you find your ideal job and when I came back to France, I decided to follow the 1-month-training, which ultimately led me to understand that I want to be an entrepreneur in the sports industry.
I have a double challenge to overcome right now: Creating my own business and participating in my first Iron Man in June in Nice 2024 - so I call myself an Ironpreneur 😅🏃🏽♂️.
What were your biggest challenges in this transition?
The first challenge was a financially driven one - I needed some money due to my student loan, high fix costs like my rent and generally living in an expensive city like Paris. Thankfully, I was able to get some financial stability with unemployment benefits from the French Government. But it took some effort.
My second challenge: I found it really difficult to make sure that I am going in the right direction. Here, doing the introspection I talked about before helped me a lot. One thing that was really powerful for me, was to ask my close friends, family and even my first girlfriend to ask them two things.
1️⃣ What are my genius areas?
2️⃣ What are my danger areas?
This process was so interesting for me and I learned a lot about myself.
Learning about yourself when you are in a transition is something that helped me to overcome many challenges. I just went out there and tested things, I took part in the accelerator programme Hook, a guided programme that helps people to kick-start their start-ups and find a co-founder, and I organised events such as padel networking tournaments. All of this just helped me to see what I like and how I work with people.
So, what would you advise people who are thinking about or doing a transition?
👉🏼 Do your transition step by step and do not rush things.
👉🏼 Talk to people that inspire you or who can give you some advice.
👉🏼 Do an introspection and ask the people around you, for example your 10 closest friends, ex-colleagues and/or family in order to know your best character traits and areas and your worst ones.
👉🏼 Try things - be a doer, be a maker. If you like to organise events, organise events if you like doing videos, do videos. Just try things because if you don’t do it, you won’t know if you like it our not.
If you want to follow his story, Lucas’ frequently talks about his story and transition on LinkedIn.
Quote of the week:
“Many people think they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity.” - James Clear in Atomic Habits
Podcast episode of the week:
As Lucas motivated us to become makers and doers this week, we highly recommend this 30-min discussion around the insights of the bestselling book Atomic Habits. Either it’s a great teaser for you to go and read the book or just the perfect short summary you were craving for.
Listen to the Episode here.
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Quiz answer: 13% 🤯. The State of Global Workplace 2023 Report revealed that only a shocking 13 percent of employees in Europe are engaged at work, while 72% are not engaged aka. quiet quitting and 15% are actively disengaged aka. loud quitting. With these number Europe has the lowest regional percentage of employees worldwide.