If you’re the type of person who feels life is not as animated as you want it to be, embracing your passions and obsessions head-on despite societal expectations is key. Not only will it help make your day-to-day life more exciting, it will also ultimately push you towards personal growth, allowing you to unlock the multi-dimensional version of yourself. Today with my guest, professional screenwriter & award-winning publicist Melissa Cassera, we’ll touch on the mindset and character truths that can － and will －“caffeinate” your inner creativity for a more enjoyable personal and professional life. And I’ll tell you right now, it’s quite the story. Our conversation explores how Melissa challenges the one-dimensional notion of separating the personal from the professional and proves that conforming to what others define us to be is one of the biggest mistakes we can ever make. Join us as we sip the classic JAMESON COLD BREW WHISKEY NEAT and dig into the insights you need to know to guide yourself towards a life filled with passion and satisfaction.

Wise Words from this episode:

• Stop separating the parts of who you are into “the personal” and “the professional.” Keeping your passions completely out of the workspace and only showing up to do what you are “supposed” to is wasting your full potential.

• Think of yourself like a movie or television character when it comes to your business. Are you showing up as a flat, one-dimensional version of yourself; are you playing a supporting role in your own life? If so, this is likely the source of your boredom!

• Melissa diagnoses burnout as the absence of fun, passion, and obsession with your work. Reflect on your own experience － do you see evidence of this in your own professional life, and if so, what are some ways you can reverse course?

• For greater relationships and interpersonal dynamics, listen deeper to others’ opinions; approach them as if they’re a story. Dig into their character and find out where they’re actually coming from, because that’s what we are all to one another － characters with our own unique storylines.

• Get to the truth of what you enjoy ending the one-dimensional version of yourself. Don’t wish your life away by wishing for something to come stimulate you; actively choose something that does so and get obsessed with it regardless of outside approval.

• Watch out for the “devil’s advocate-type” people you might find yourself around. They’ll more often derail you than help you.

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Website – https://melissacassera.com/

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If you have an idea or potential guest for the show, please contact me at: wylie@wyliemcgraw.com.