How Much Should You Save For Your Emergency Fund?

The experts used to say you needed a 3 month cash cushion, just in case you find yourself not working. Then they said you needed a 6 month emergency fund, because that’s the average time it takes to find a new job. Today, as I was researching this article, I saw that the advice has [...]

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4 Critical “Must Dos” While Unemployed

There’s a rich opportunity that comes with not having full time work. It can be a time for growth. It can be a time for exploring career paths that you were too focused and busy to pursue while fully employed. It can even be a time for having fun. Growth-exploration-fun? That’s sounds like a vacation, [...]

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2 Common Mistakes You Should Avoid While Unemployed

Being in between jobs sucks. One day you’re in a job interview and feeling hopeful about your career. The next day you feel like a talentless loser, who has no business working in the entertainment industry. Go through those mood swings, it’s normal. But while you’re pushing through your ups and downs, don’t make these [...]

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How To Find Time For Your Career Goals

Get off Facebook. That’s how you find time to work on your career goals. Stop playing with apps, stop chatting, and stop posting status updates about how bad your day was. Instead, do the work that will get you closer to your dreams. Stop checking Facebook on your phone. Stop going to sleep with Facebook. [...]

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The #1 Reason No One Has Hired You (Yet)

Make sure to scroll down and download your copy of an interview I did on this topic! Are you searching for work right now in music, television, or film and coming up empty? It’s frustrating, right? You know that even the most qualified and connected in our industry face stretches of unemployment. It’s just the [...]

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8 Words That Will Attract Your Dream Job In Entertainment

I forgot how to ride a bike. The people who say you “never forget” have never met me. I haven’t peddled a bike since I was a pre-teen. So, by age 31 I forgot how to balance myself on two wheels. But my wife loves to ride her bike. And last summer she was feeling [...]

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