251: Help! I Have Two Years Left to Live. | Feedback Friday

Living with Illness

Jason DeFillippo shares a listener's story about receiving a terminal brain cancer diagnosis shortly after landing their dream job. Jordan Harbinger advises planning proactively rather than reacting to the diagnosis. He suggests creating a prioritized list of life goals and leveraging the situation to make meaningful connections and experiences 1.

Plan this out instead of being reactive. You're already reacting to something horrible. So, what you need to do is get a reasonable treatment timeline from your doctor and then make a huge list of things you'd like to do.

--- Jordan Harbinger

Jordan emphasizes the importance of involving friends and family in these experiences to create lasting memories 2.

   

Career Transitions

Transitioning careers can be daunting, especially when starting a new business in an unfamiliar niche. Jordan and Brian Clark discuss the challenges of pivoting and establishing credibility in a new field. They highlight the importance of leveraging existing skills and taking a gradual approach to ensure success 3.

Reinventing yourself or pivoting is very tough and I know the conventional wisdom is screwing it, go all-in on with your pivot, and that way you can test it and see if it works. My pivot was slow and over the course of a decade.

--- Jordan Harbinger

They also stress the need for consistent networking and maintaining relationships to support career transitions 4.