Emilie Wapnick is a speaker, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on a single path, Emilie studied music, art, film production, and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University in 2011. Emilie is a TED speaker and has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post, and Lifehacker. Her TED talk, “Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling,” has been viewed over 3.5 million times, and has been translated into 36 languages. She has been hired as a guest speaker and workshop facilitator at universities, high schools, and organizations across the United States and internationally.
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skills sets work for us. — Todd Rose, Harvard University scientist,
co-founder and president of the Center for Individual Opportunity,
and author of The End of Average
“Emilie brings hope, tools, inspiration and affirmation to the most
misunderstood and undervalued segment of our society:
multipotentialites. I raise my fist in solidarity, and celebrate
this groundbreaking book!” — Pamela Slim, author of Body of Work
and Escape from Cubicle Nation
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York Times bestselling author of The Happiness of Pursuit and The
$100 Startup
How to be Everything helps you understand and process your diverse
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Buzzfeed
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“How to Be Everything is an empowering guide...This book is for the
kind of people who can’t choose just one path because they aspire
to be Art Directors + Restaurant Owners + Teachers + Best-Selling
Authors + more all in this lifetime” — Darla Magazine
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