Bachelorette alum and author lays out eight steps to restarting a career – Yahoo Finance
Jason Tartick, former star of "The Bachelorette" and author of "The Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your Career" discusses his new book on how to restart a career.
- You're perhaps-- you're considering a career reset. Our next guest wrote, The Restart Roadmap, with the goal of helping people reassess their priorities and map their next steps. Joining us now we've got, Jason Tartick, former Bachelorette fame and author of The Restart Roadmap. And also joining the chat is Yahoo Finance's own, Ale Canal. Now Jason, it's good to have you back on the Wi-Fi airwaves for the conversation. First and foremost, when we think about a roadmap to help people rewire and reset their career, how are the roadmaps that you've been able to put together applicable to everyone here? JASON TARTICK: For sure. So I was in corporate banking for 10 years and had the opportunity to sit-in some of Wall Street's, Forbes most powerful bankers. And then I've also been able to see behind the scenes of Hollywood and unscripted television. And there's been so many things behind the scenes I've seen about positioning, branding, networking, making sure your natural skill sets and learning abilities are aligned with your daily responsibilities, that some of the best and brightest in the world have done. And so with this eight step roadmap, all these bizarre experiences I've had, I've been able to lay out a roadmap. Whether you're making the smallest or minor adjustments to your career, or the most major and material moves this will be a good book for you. ALE CANAL: And Jason, you know restarting your career that can be a very intimidating process. Where should people start if they're thinking about taking that leap? And for you, what was the moment where the light bulb went off that you needed to switch things up? JASON TARTICK: Yeah, well interestingly enough I was 10 years corporate banking. You tell me where to go, how to go, I will be there. And the interesting fact about that is I started to lose my authenticity and myself. I became the speaking title of the title I was given, rather than Jason Tartick. And I think the first thing you have to do to restart, is you have to rewire. Understand what put you in the position you are today and then really address what are the things you have to fix. Usually, it's one of five things. It's mobility, it's compensation, it's fear of complacency, fear of change. It's that your skill sets that are either naturally learned or that are differentiated, don't align with what you do day to day, or it's the passion. So I think you first rewire how you got there, and then you identify which of those five are the main pain points. And with those there's going to be different customized solutions. And in the restart roadmap I address all the different solutions for each of those items. - How can people set adequate and pragmatic-- look the ability to earn at the end of the day that is also what this still comes back down to. So how can you set pragmatic financial goals along the way to these resets? JASON TARTICK: Yeah, and that's just so important. I think people are doing it. Right? We saw in 2021, 48.7 million people voluntarily left their job. Voluntarily. And if you look at the Bureau of Labor statistics, since they started actually doing the research on this analysis, this is by far the biggest number we've seen. So people are doing it. And I think too you have to have some type of financial independence. For sure. So making sure that you're managing your debt, you have the rainy day fund, and you're budgeting. Especially, in an inflationary environment is massive. But the big thing is, we talk about saving and reducing spending, we need to talk more about negotiating. If you're not negotiating for how much you're making or how much you're spending every single day you need to rethink what you're doing, and how you're doing it. In the book I talk about two examples in which I got a 50% raise and 20% raise. Which of course, are greater than the standard annual or quarterly or biannual raises. And I did them in very, very short tactics in less than 10 minute conversations. ALE CANAL: Yeah, Jason that's amazing. I feel like negotiation is number one on my mind, and on a lot of employees and workers out there. But I want to ask you this, because you pivoted your career following your appearance on The Bachelorette, huge exposure often leads to an influx of social media followers. How do you respond to critics who say, look, great for you, but I don't have a big platform to fall back on if I decide to quit, and follow a new career journey. So how do you get people to really trust your advice? As your experience with the Bachelor franchise was incredibly unique. JASON TARTICK: For sure. I think the critics that would say that have a great point, my retort would be the following. Right after the show, I went right back to work. And for a year I was putting myself in a really good financial position. Where I was double dipping in the opportunity that came from The Bachelor, while still working. But before the Bachelor I had a two year plan when I went to Seattle. And my two year plan was built on a budget, was built on the deal that I accepted, and what exactly I knew I would get out of my career from potential bonus structure, that I would have financial freedom when I put two years in. That was before the show ever came to fruition. So if you don't have a financial plan of when you will have the ability to leave and pursue your own story, and write your own roadmap, that is definitely where you got to start. And the other thing I'll say is that just never know one introduction, one curve ball, one detour, one change could be an unbelievable launch pad. While I had this plan in place and a financial solution to get me there, here came a scenario where everyone-- my bosses, my family, my friends told me, do not go on a reality television show. You have a rocket on your back in corporate America, what are you doing? But I wanted to do it. I broke the blueprint. I did something that everyone told me not to do. And while I had a plan, that change completely put it in a whole direction. And changed where I live, what I do, and even who I'm engaged to. - It's amazing because I think one thing that a lot of people can take away from your answer, just there a moment ago, is the ability to set up even streams of income. Say you're not looking for a full on reset, but you're looking for an additive to what you are already doing. And so in how you were able to map out your own journey, what were you able to extrapolate from that? Either for better or for worse, to say, OK, here's how I would have done things differently to set up those different streams of income. JASON TARTICK: I love that question. I think you got to start with there's 168 hours in a week. We have so much time that we could do things outside of the companies that we work full time at. And if you are with a company that is handcuffing you and not allowing you to do that, that is a huge red flag to get out. But there are so many things you could start today. Yes, I got to jump start off of a reality show, but I can't tell you how many people I've had on my podcast trading secrets where all we talk about is money. That it took one video, one opinion, one big swing on TikTok or YouTube, one small strategy to monetize a following of only 500 or 1,000 people. And these people have changed their lives. I've had people that have just in the last year, from nothing, but putting their opinions and thoughts on the internet and social media, and blogging that are making millions and millions of dollars. I love the total Points Guy story. He loved credit card points. And in two years, his blog, from just creating it and being an HR worker at JP Morgan, his blog was bought for eight figures in two years. No TV, nothing to get him jump started, but his own creativity. So today, now more than ever, you have accessibility to do that. ALE CANAL: And finally, Jason, you mentioned your engagement. You're engaged to former Bachelorette, Kaitlyn Bristowe, such a boss lady. We love her over here. How are you approaching wedding planning though? Because there's a lot of hurdles right now with inflation, and backlogs from the pandemic. And what advice would you give other engaged couples when it comes to not only that, but streamlining the merging of the finances, and those financial conversations? JASON TARTICK: I mean it's crazy. The whole wedding thing is new to me. I might have to write a book just on wedding budgeting, because when you put the word wedding in front or behind anything, that price point goes up 5x. And I talk about negotiating for your annual salaries and your raises, but you have to negotiate every single angle of the wedding process, because the margins on this stuff is absolutely nauseating. And so there are so many different tactics that we have used. One, we have a system and how we're taking portions of our income. And almost like dollar cost averaging into a joint account how often we're both putting a certain dollar amount in that account. That's one thing we're doing. But we're also really thinking through like do we really have to have the peak day? Does it have to be Saturday? Do we have to pay a premium, because it's 11:11 '22 on the save the date? We don't. And there are places that you can say you really got to pick and choose. So we're being really thoughtful with that. And I'll say now more than ever, there's so much technology that could be implemented into the wedding planning process that can drive efficiency and decrease costs in some of the really expensive papers, and things for invitations. So we've been utilizing that. Especially, with all the supply chain issues. Even just getting some of these invites out there have been difficult. - Jason, it's a pleasure to have the insights here on the show today. And I appreciate the time joining us. Jason Tartick, former Bachelorette star, and the author of Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your Career. As well as Yahoo Finance's own entertainment reporter, Ale Canal. Thank you so much.
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Bachelorette alum and author lays out eight steps to restarting a career - Yahoo Finance