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#8: Creating Income Without Burnout

Maximizing Momentum and Minimizing Friction Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack. Collect this Episode on PODS. Last week in Entry #7, I touched on quite a few topics related to Building a Sustainable Creation System for creating income without burnout. I explained how we

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#7: Building a Sustainable Creation System

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack. Collect this episode on PODS. Welcome to Recalibrating! My name is Callum (@_wanderloots) and this newsletter is an experiment to track my journey into self-employment while pursuing a path of self-actualization. In this Entry, we are going to

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#6: Financial Security and Mental Safety

Welcome to Recalibrating! My name is Callum (@_wanderloots) and this newsletter is an experiment to track my journey into self-employment while pursuing the path of self-actualization. In this Entry, we are going to move on to the second layer of Maslow’s Hierarchy. Now that we’ve

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#3 Building Habits From the Ground Up

Satisfying the Basic Needs of Maslow’s Hierarchy though habit building. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack. Collect this episode on PODS. Welcome back to Recalibrating! In the last entry, I discussed the framework of Maslow’s hierarchy as a structure to help guide people towards

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#2 The Path of Self-Actualization

Burnout recovery from the ground up Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Substack. Collect this Episode on PODS. One month ago I gave my resignation. Yesterday was my last day 😌 I resigned from the intellectual property law firm I have worked at since 2016.

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#1 What Recalibrating Means To Me

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Substack. Collect this Episode on PODS. I have done what I “should” do for most of my life. I worked hard to get into a good university for mechanical engineering, finishing second in my class, got into law school,

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What is a Digital Collectible?

Why Should I Care? Instagram, Reddit, (insert social media platform here), are introducing or will be introducing digital collectibles in the near future. But haven’t digital collectibles been around forever? Why are people making such a big deal? The importance of the answer to this

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How I Made My First NFT Sale (Part III)

Marketplace Selection Once I had the story put together, I had to think on which marketplace I wanted to sell them on, how I should value my work, and how I should market the launch. I did not want to use Opensea. It is the

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How I Made My First NFT Collection (Part II)

To start, I wanted to sell 1/1s to help build my brand and get noticed. In my opinion and in my situation, editions are something that I will consider down the road once setting the floor price for my work (the cheapest someone is able

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How I got into NFTs (Part I)

Why I Think NFTs Are The Future of the Creator Economy This is a journey of self-reflection, mindfulness, 1000 true friends, and the camaraderie of people interested in the self-commoditization of creation. I think that it is about time I shared more about how I

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