How do you think about your career? How do you approach work and the value you want to get out of it?
Dez Flemming played basketball at Cornell, and started with following the consulting and finance path with roles at Morgan Stanley and Deloitte. Today as a Strategist at Cadre and Entrepreneur, he encourages people to do one thing: reframe the concept of work, by thinking about your career as being paid to learn.
We’re walking through Dez’s journey to discuss the factors you need to think about the factors you need to think about in evaluating your career path, growth , and what you want out of your first roles. Additionally we discuss why being an athlete built you to thrive in start up culture, and how his years on Cornell Basketball provided the foundation for executing his own entrepreneurial ventures with Odyssey Experiences.
Contents:
6:38 How he learned about entrepreneurship as path creative side of business and a path that he wanted to pursue
12:00 The factors you need to think about in evaluating your career path, growth , and what you want out of your first roles
15:00 Why he wanted to gain transferable skills out of his first job
19:23 How to work your teams alumni network.
23:34 His entrepreneurial venture with Odyssey Experiences and the exact steps he took to launch his business
45:33 Court to Corporate Check Down (New Segment!)
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Building the Blocks of Your Career with Dez Fleming (Start-Up Strategist and Entrepreneur) | Court to Corporate | The Athlete’s Playbook in the Business World podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
