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What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts. . Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents' advice to focus on one career path? It doesn't work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy, climate disasters, and a global pandemic (to name a few) . We need a dramatically different relationship with work, one that allows us to define ourselves beyond our paid labor. The answer? A Portfolio Life. An anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to work-life balance, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets: You are more than any one role or opportunity.
About the Author
Christina Wallace is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School and the co-host of the podcast The Limit Does Not Exist. She was formerly the VP of Growth at Bionic. A serial entrepreneur, Wallace previously founded BridgeUp: STEM, a computer science education startup at the American Museum of Natural History, was the founding director of Startup Institute New York, and was the co-founder and CEO of Quincy Apparel. She holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and theater studies from Emory University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Chas Carey and their daughter.
