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Starting Up or Starting Over: Why It Helps to Be a Misfit

Jeannie Edmunds is an expert at starting up businesses and starting over in life. In an excerpt from her new book, she offers 9 lessons for renewal and fulfillment.

Adapted from the new book Start Me Up: Tips, Tales, and Truths about Starting Up and Starting Over by Jeannie Edmunds

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As humans, no matter where we live or what language we speak, we yearn for a healthy mix of adventure and safety. We want to feed our families and take vacations. Sometimes we don't want to have to make choices but recognize that we must. Most important, we don't want to reach the end of our lives regretting the chances we didn't take, the opportunities we shouldn't have left behind.

Join Jeannie Edmunds tonight (June 21st) for a book launch event that will feature women who have successfully started over, plus a gospel choir! 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. Click here for all the info.

No employer I ever met was looking for someone with my resume. I wasn't a "this" or a "that" as a profession. I fell into most jobs by accident or through personal referrals from friends or colleagues. With a wide range of interests and a willingness to pay my dues in every decade of my work life, I've picked up a variety of useful skills and have been employable and employed most of the time. David Epstein's book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World validates my experience. Being a generalist is my specialty, and I'm grateful to draw on it as a start up skill set.

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