Co-founder Marisa Meddin’s story: behind the scenes journey from marketer at PepsiCo to career coach & digital nomad - | Ep 83

In this week’s episode Jeff interviewed Marisa to lowdown on her wild ride from rising through the ranks of corporate life at Pepsi, to owning a dessert shop, leaving an engagement, and becoming a top career coach and digital nomad having traveled to 75+ countries.

Throughout this episode you’ll learn:

• Marisa getting her start as an exemplary marketing student, and following her education into a career in the same field.
• Becoming a high-power marketer with Pepsi, working with Lil’ Wayne, Sofia Vergara, and Snoop Dogg.
• Marisa realizing there is no “soda emergency”, and she didn’t buy into the “grindset” work mentality.
• How Marisa negotiated a two month sabbatical in order to reset her perspective on life and work which resulted in…
• A quarter life crisis when Marisa realized that she wasn’t working on the things she wanted to work on, and wasn’t traveling nearly as much as she wanted.
• She decided to resign at Pepsi in order to pursue an insane shift into becoming a doctor (which never happened!).
• Marisa then blew up everything: She ran her own business selling desserts, left her engagement, and moved in with her parents...what?!
• In another groundbreaking shift, she started creating courses for college admissions and officially became a digital nomad with a one-way trip to Bali.
• Then she became a career coach and co-founder of Beach Commute!

Listen in for Marisa's wild route to becoming a career coach and co-founder of Beach Commute where she works full-time helping people become digital nomads.

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