How Her Book Created So Many New Opportunities with Kat Vellos
Kat Vellos is the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships which was released in January 2020. Based on the overwhelming support of the book and her related expertise as a Connection Coach, she left her prior job to go full-time on speaking, coaching, consulting, and advising. She is also the Founder of both Bay Area Black Designers and Better than Small Talk. Previously, she was User Experience and Product Designer at Slack, Pandora, and multiple Silicon Valley startups. If interested in her book’s origin story, how she wrote it, and her journey afterwards, this episode is for you!
Portfolio Career Podcast · Kat Vellos, David Nebinski
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Show Notes
Kat Vellos is the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships which was released in January 2020. Based on the overwhelming support of the book and her related expertise as a Connection Coach, she left her prior job to go full-time on speaking, coaching, consulting, and advising. She is also the Founder of both Bay Area Black Designers and Better than Small Talk. Previously, she was User Experience and Product Designer at Slack, Pandora, and multiple Silicon Valley startups. If interested in her book’s origin story, how she wrote it, and her journey afterwards, this episode is for you!
You will learn:
- how to better develop and improve relationships as an adult
- how Kat was able to write her book while working
- the benefits of having a creative outlet while also working full-time
- why it is important to publish your work, and you never know the unexpected benefits until you do so
- how profound acts of kindness and generosity can be