Follow Your Passion; Don’t Get Tied Into Just One Thing With Linda Sue Shirkey

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Did you graduate from something you love? Maybe you can find something that has enough common threads to it and see if you enjoy that more. Life is too short to just be focused on one thing. Try to do different things. It's never too late to pursue something you're passionate about. If you are working a day job, find time to work on your passions. The money can come later, all you need to think about is you. Learn how to multitask with your host, Stephen Jaye and his guest Linda Sue Shirkey. Linda is no stranger to dipping her toes into different fields. Right now she is the President of Production and Design, Inc. Learn how she went from photography to skating to interior design and more. Find something you love today and make the most out of it! --- Listen to the podcast here Follow Your Passion; Don’t Get Tied Into Just One Thing With Linda Sue Shirkey One piece of advice we commonly hear is to focus on one thing, do only one thing, and get good at it. That does work for a lot of people. I want to make sure I iterate to anyone in my audience reading that if anyone is focused on one thing and having a successful and life, I am truly happy for you. Unfortunately, this advice, like a lot of other common pieces of advice, doesn't necessarily serve everyone well. There are a lot of people out there that are multifaceted and they will prefer to dip their toes or try out many different things and be in many different places throughout their lives. Our guest, Linda Sue Shirkey, has been doing this for several years. She has been trying out a lot of different things and, oftentimes, has been taking part in 2, 3, or even more endeavors at once. Linda Sue, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Thank you very much for your time. Let's start from the beginning. What were the first endeavors that you took part in? In high school, I was on a fashion board that was an advisory board that a department store did for fashion for high school. During that time, a local man decided to start a magazine all published, edited, and written by high school students. They came into the fashion board one day and said, “Would anybody be interested in being the fashion editor?” I said, “I will.” I have no idea why but I did. I went to an interview and they selected me. I was the fashion editor of this magazine all put out by teenagers. I was fourteen at the time and I set up fashion shoots, hired the models, picked out the clothes, help find the locations, and wrote the pieces on the fashion. The magazine was called Tempo. It didn't last long. We did it for less than a year. When pursuing your dreams, relationships suffer more than anything else.Click To Tweet That reminds me of something that we're starting to see commonly in the younger generation, teenagers that aren't necessarily going about, going to school, living out their social lives. They are getting involved and trying to build things. I know a lot of teenagers are interested in building followers on many social media channels or starting their own businesses. They got interested in that. It seems like you were quite a bit ahead of your time. Was fashion something that you were specifically interested in from a young age or is it the writing and the editing that drew you in there? I was always interested in fashion, interiors, and animals. I always wanted to either be a fashion designer, an interior designer, or a marine zoologist. Where did you go from there? Eventually, you started pursuing multiple avenues and weren't necessarily tied down to pick one job and do that one thing. Throughout this whole time, I was also a competitive figure skater. I continued figure skating and then I got a scholarship then to college. My scholarship was University of Colorado. I wanted to pursue fashion design, interior design, or marine zoology and they didn't have any of those. I thought, “I'll do arts.” That was the closest. I got my Bachelor of Finance degree.