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Podcast: Influential U
Episode: Joanna Burgraf β Worst Advice Ever: Follow Your Passion
Description: Joanna Burgraf is a Chicago-based Senior Lead for an award-winning Creative Services team managing ten brands at Enova International, a company using technology to develop innovative financial products. Having endured an expensive journey to consider a career change, she found that to follow your passion was the worst piece of advice she'd ever gotten. You'll hear how this fashionable, but naive empowerment slogan had shifted her focus away from working on being a valued cooperative member of a larger team - to the self-focused, navel-gazing, isolating habit of finding oneβs true "Self."
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