EP.04 - Celebrating Multi-Passionate Creative Entrepreneurs with D'Ana Joi
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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 her 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
D’Ana Joi’s Article - “It’s time to start celebrating multi-passionate creatives”
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