Janet Tanguay: Spitballs, Sweater Vests, & 4 Days in Banking

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Episode Overview:

Janet Tanguay got spitballed by her own colleagues in a corporate training for going off script. She lasted four days in her next job. Now she helps people build the life they actually want, and she has the most practical approach to it I've come across.

Janet Tanguay is a serial entrepreneur who has run a record label and an art business, and now runs Hammock Way of Life, helping people and companies get clear on what they actually want through vision boarding. She's the author of Hammock Way of Life: Leaping Toward Joy, part memoir and part business book, available in print and audio.

GUEST LINKS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jazzyjan/

https://hammockwayoflife.com/

In this episode:

The spitball training, and the ten years she stayed anywayFour days in banking and the sweater vest that ended itThe boss who told her at a book signing that she almost made him quitWhy the questions stop after enough years insideFinding the work by accident at a chamber of commerceThe five whys, and why the fifth one is the real answerThree values as the filter for everything you say no toHow to actually build a board, and the words to keep off itWhat she does with people who have four ideas at onceVision boarding inside companies, and what it turns up

THE METHOD, ASSEMBLED

Janet laid this out across the whole conversation. Here it is in one place.

1. Run the five whys. Start with one question. "Why do I want to leave?" Answer it, then ask why again, five times. The fifth answer is usually the real one.