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Jun 2022
8m 43s

Emily’s Taking a Break from Nine-to-Five

Harvard Business Review
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Our free-spirited, entrepreneurial co-host is applying advice from all our episodes on side gigs, freelancing, starting a small business — and quitting — to her own life. Emily reflects on her decision to leave her design job at HBR to fully focus on a long-time creative passion, as well as how she’s thinking about her career going forward.

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