27: When to Quit Your Job and Pursue Your Passion with Aaron Watson
Description
Get with the people who are a couple steps ahead of where you want to be, and learn from them.
In this episode, I’m joined by Aaron Watson. Aaron and I were introduced via Zak Slayback, who came on for episode 25. Like Zak, Aaron is also passionate about the education, self-education, and self-improvement scene. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and went straight into an insurance sales job. Pretty soon into it, he realized that it wasn’t for him and left to start a podcast called “Going Deep with Aaron,” where he’s done over 250 episodes.
If you’ve ever thought that your job just wasn’t for you and that you wanted to go do something else that’s more exciting and rewarding, Aaron is a perfect model of how you can do that.
We cover a wide range of topics, including:
- Starting struggles with entrepreneurial endeavors
- Aaron’s lessons from over 250 podcast guests
- Finding the drive to work harder than your peers
- Advice for growing your content and growing a podcast
- Self-educating yourself outside of college
- Aaron’s pivotal book recommendations
And much more. Please enjoy, and reach out to Aaron on Twitter!
If you enjoyed our discussion on straying from the traditional path to pursue your passions and self-educating yourself, you’ll enjoy my episode with Zak Slayback, my episode with Connor Grooms, and my episode with Taylor Pearson.
Find Aaron Online:
Mentioned in the show:
- Aaron’s podcast, Going Deep [1:22 ]
- Aaron’s Going Deep conference event in Pittsburgh on January 27th [1:27 ] (event code “Nat Chat” for discount, automatically applied in the above link)
- Aaron’s podcast episodes on cryptocurrency and the blockchain [2:29 ]
- University of Pittsburgh’s ultimate frisbee team [5:34 ]
- Pittsburgh Thunderbirds [5:44 ]
- NPR [17:00 ]
- Econ Talk [20:42 ]
- George Mason [20:48 ]
- Libsyn [21:19 ]
- AUDL [22:25 ]
- TopScore [27:33 ]
- Weebly [28:38 ]
- Squarespace [28:38 ]
- Wix [28:38 ]
- Conversations with Tyler Cohen podcast [39:18 ]
- Invest Like the Best [39:20 ]
- Nathan Latka’s The Top Entrepreneurs [39:28 ]
- Aaron’s Newsletter [44:30 ]
- The Waiter’s Pad [44:43 ]
- Made You Think podcast [45:58 ]
- 412 Food Rescue [48:05 ]
Books mentioned:
- Aaron’s book recommendation page (new books every month)
- The Fish That Ate the Whale [39:49 ]
- The Power of Myth [40:54 ] (Nat’s Notes) (Made You Think episode)
- The Gospel According to Larry [42:25 ]
- Antifragile [42:45 ] (Antifragile Nat Chat episode)
- Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live [43:34 ] <li style="font-weig
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