she built 🔥 portfolio career & shares what's working right now | Taylor Elyse Morrison

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Taylor Elyse Morrison is a coach, facilitator, and entrepreneur with a unique portfolio career spanning multiple industries. Previously, she spent years in startup environments before building her own business, Inner Workout, focused on self-care and well-being. Her experience ranges from brand strategy and coaching to working with organizations like Google and Franklin Covey as a facilitator. Taylor was also a founder of Inner Workout, which operated for half a decade, and is currently co-founding Women Facilitating, a community for female facilitators.

What you'll learn:

1. Why having a portfolio career attracts more opportunities than trying to niche down to one thing

2. How the "whirl vs. way" framework helps you build momentum through experimentation rather than rigid planning

3. How to start a portfolio career without quitting your day job (and why you shouldn't)

4. Why embracing multiple interests can be your competitive advantage, not a weakness

5. How to manage multiple income streams using the "lever system" for sustainable work-life integration

6. Why facilitation skills will become more valuable as AI handles routine tasks

7. How to build awareness through small experiments instead of requiring all the answers upfront

Some takeaways:

1. Portfolio careers often start with shame about not fitting into one category, but this "non-fitting" becomes the actual strength that attracts the right opportunities and people.

2. The most successful portfolio workers start experiments while employed, using their job as financial security to test ideas without pressure—contrary to the "quit and go all-in" advice.

3. The "whirl" approach focuses on awareness and curiosity first, then action and experimentation, leading to attainment that informs the next cycle—much more effective than traditional goal-setting.

4. Creating clear value propositions for different parts of your portfolio helps with the "what do you do?" question, while embracing that most people attracted to you value your range, not your specialization.

5. Managing multiple streams requires thinking of each as a "lever" you can adjust—building flexibility into arrangements so you can say yes or no based on capacity and priorities.

6. Self-awareness and energy management are critical skills learned through practice—tracking what energizes versus drains you across different portfolio elements.

7. Facilitation skills (asking better questions, managing group dynamics, being present) are becoming more valuable as AI handles analysis, making human connection skills premium assets.

8. Simple questions like "How do you know that?" or "What evidence do you have?" can expose assumptions and create breakthroughs in any professional context.

9. Communities that normalize portfolio careers (like Generalist World) provide crucial belonging and reduce the isolation that comes from not fitting traditional career categories.

Links:

Where to find Taylor

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorelysemorrison/

• Website: https://www.taylorelyse.com/

Where to find Milly

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milly-tamati/

• Website: http://www.millytamati.com/

Generalist World free resources:

• Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qbGzMUMDCK5v3XbvRANmD?si=b1d7af51c24e43ee

• The Generalist Quiz: https://www.generalistquiz.com/

• Essays: https://www.generalistcareer.com/

• Upcoming events: https://lu.ma/generalist.events

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