How Joe Hansen walked away from Big Law to travel the world with his family.
Ep. 29
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Joe Hansen

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    For most of us risk-averse, type-A personalities, walking away from a multiple 6-figure career to pursue an entirely different career is a HUGE, scary step. Most can’t muster up the courage to even take that jump. But to leave such a “successful” career to just travel around the world with your family would make most of our heads explode. What if I can’t get a job when I get back? But what will we do for money? WHAT IF WE BECOME HOMELESS? You get the point. We’re crazy.
    Luckily, Joe Hansen is a little less neurotic than the rest of us because he did just that. He walked away from his Big Law job, making a great salary and living in San Francisco, to travel the world for a year with his wife and 2 young children.
    While traveling, he is pursuing his original passion of writing by working on his first novel, an apocalyptic thriller set in San Francisco. I love Joe’s story because he intentionally took this step without having everything buttoned up and planned out. As you’ll hear, he and his wife are taking one step at a time. He has back-up plans in case he needs to go back to being a lawyer but, otherwise, he’s realizing that everything is figureoutable…no matter what happens.

Here is what we chat about in this episode:

    What led him to law school and what his experience was like at a big law firm
    Why the big law firm life is not a realistic one
    Why he decided to travel the world for a year with two small children and how he prepared for it.
    How his coworkers were more supportive about his decision than Joe initially thought they would be
    How he’s moving through his journey without knowing exactly what he is going to do in the future
    Whether people can take a gap year or two and return to the law
    How they’re tackling world travel with 2 small children
    And so much more!

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