D’ana Joi is a Multi-Passionate Creative entrepreneur who carved her own path to her intentional career through blogging and building communities for multi-passionates. We discuss how discovering her Human Design was instrumental in her career, and how multi-passionates can learn to fall in love with focus.

I’m your host, Karen Styles, Career + Life Coach and owner of Flow + Fire Coaching. Ready to create your Intentional Career? Schedule a call with me.

My guest is D'Ana Joi. She goes by her middle name “Joi,”  and is a multi-passionate, educator, community builder, and content creator. She believes having many passions is a gift, not a burden and she’s on a mission to rewrite the narrative around “choosing one thing” being the only path to success. Through her content, live workshops, and online community, Joi teaches creatives how to make friends with focus, overcome overwhelm, and step into their Multi-Passionate Mastery. 

Interview Highlights:

[01:48 ] Joi begins entrepreneurship journey with her blog, Joi Knows How, to explore and allow herself the freedom to explore.

[03:15 ] Joi writes a blog that changes her world, “It’s Time to Start Celebrating Multi-Passionate Creatives.” This leads to a new mission to create someone else’s lightbulb moment. She also begins coaching.

[05:05 ] Joi decides, nope, 1:1 coaching is not for her. She prefers teaching groups because it is a more aligned use of her energy.

[11:17 ] How important is the desire of simply wanting to do something in your work?

[16:30 ] Learning her Human Design type (Manifestor) was instrumental for Joi. She shares her definition of Human Design and how it works, and why it’s different from other personality tests.

[23:50 ] Joi discusses why her 90-minute à la carte session may be as powerful as a coach’s three-month one-on-one package.

[27:53 ] The advice that Joi ignored - about coaching and quitting her day job.

[29:30 ] Why Joi called her day job, her “support job” and how it actually helped her be dedicated to her business.

[33:33 ] A favourite topic of Joi’s: focus for multi-passionate people, and her three-part focus framework.

[41:30 ]  Different types of focus can empower, help with burnout and shiny object syndrome and imposter syndrome; how Joi’s Falling in Love with Focus workshop helped Karen see focus as a tool and use it in different ways.

[43:07 ] - The multi-passionate experience and burnout.

[43:43 ] Joi’s definition of a multi-passionate creative, how it’s different than a hobbyist.

[49:45 ] The strengths of multi-passionates in traditional careers.

[51:17 ] Why Joi’s future self is her career crush, along with a few other folks.

[58:38 ] Where to find Joi (Psst - her multi-passionate community opens this summer!)

[59:43 ] Karen loves Joi’s newsletter, Joi shares the secret to newsletter success.

Resources:

• Joi Knows How -  website | Instagram
• Joi’s Article - “It’s time to start celebrating multi-passionate creatives”
• Joi’s e-book - Finally Focused (coming soon!)
• Joi’s workshop - Falling in Love with Focus
• Sarah Morgan - Website | Instagram

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Transcription - Celebrating Multi-Passionate Creative Entrepreneurs with D'ana Joi

[00:00:00 ] Karen: I'm Karen Styles and this is the Intentional Career Podcast. I talk to all kinds of people who take all kinds of paths to work they love. I'm a career and life coach and owner of Flow and Fire coaching. If you're ready to create your intentional career with the support of a coach, schedule a call with me.

There's a link in the show notes, or you can go to intentionalcareer.co and click the blue "Schedule a Call button".

Karen: Today on the show, my guest is D’Ana Joi. She goes by her middle name, Joi, and is a multi-passionate educator, community builder and content creator. She believes having many passions is a gift, not a burden. And she's on a mission to rewrite the narrative around choosing one thing, being the only path to success through her content, live workshops and online community, Joi teaches creatives, how to make friends with focus, overcome overwhelm and step into their multi-passionate mastery.

A quick heads up that in this episode is our very first pet appearance. You can listen for that little Easter egg when Joi's dog, Chai, comes in with a growl in support of a very important statement that Joi makes. It happens after the 20-minute mark.  And now. On with the show.  

Karen:[1:24 ]Welcome, Joi. Thank you so much for joining me today.

Joi: Thank you so much, Karen, I'm very excited to be here.

Karen: [00:54 ] All right. I'm excited to talk to you about multi-passionates and career paths, and, well, your career path obviously. And I know for myself as a multi-passionate, a lot of us tend to have a lot of different jobs, so, I'm curious, what that was like for you?

D’Ana Joi: [01:17 ] Yes. As a multi-passionate, what I realized pretty early on was that there probably was not going to be a career that I could just fall into that felt super aligned and that I would need to carve out my own path and create my own way of doing things and allow that to be correct for me.

So, I started figuring myself out [01:48 ] in the form of a blog. I started writing blog posts and I started my blog and I named it, Joi Knows How because I wanted to keep it very [02:00 ] open-ended. Joi Knows How actually came out of my desire to say, I know how to do plant care, I know how to do recipes, I know how to do home decor. And so, the name Joi Knows How was this open-ended sentence that then I could complete in any way that I wanted through any content that I wanted to create and put on my blog.

Where most people say, you know, choose one thing and choose one niche [02:22 ], I chose to choose one platform to focus on. And then, I allowed myself a lot of creative freedom on that platform. Then, naturally, what happened was I talked about a lot of different subjects and as I started to write about more kinds of self-development, I noticed that those blog posts were getting the most traction.

And then when I specifically wrote a blog post called, "It's Time to Start Celebrating M...