Building the Blocks of Your Career with Dez Fleming (Start-Up Strategist and Entrepreneur)

How do you think about your career? How do you approach work and
the value you want to get out of it? Dez Flemming played basketball
at Cornell, and started with following the consulting and finance
path with roles at Morgan Stanley and Deloitte. Today as a
Strategist at Cadre and Entrepreneur, he encourages people to do
one thing: reframe the concept of work, by thinking about your
career as being paid to learn. We’re walking through Dez’s journey
to discuss the factors you need to think about the factors you need
to think about in evaluating your career path, growth , and what
you want out of your first roles.  Additionally we discuss why
being an athlete built you to thrive in start up culture,  and
how his years on Cornell Basketball provided the foundation for
executing his own entrepreneurial ventures with Odyssey
Experiences. Contents: 6:38 How he learned about entrepreneurship
 as path creative side of business and a path that he wanted
to  pursue 12:00 The factors you need to think about in
evaluating your career path, growth , and what you want out of your
first roles 15:00 Why he wanted to gain transferable skills out of
his first job 19:23 How to work your teams alumni network. 23:34
His entrepreneurial  venture with Odyssey Experiences and the
exact steps he took to launch his business 45:33 Court to Corporate
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