Episodes 17
Avg. Duration 34m
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Since Mar 2024
Latest Episode May 2025

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Have a Nice Life is a podcast hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and design strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist.


Season One is HANL: A Career Change Survival Guide and has a companion workbook by the same name. Most career advice ignores realities of trauma, systemic oppression, and assumes you’re clear on your dream job. Not this time! Welcome to your anticapitalist survival guide to finding work that works for you, having enough money, and balancing your values and goals with the world we're in. Learn to redesign your work and financial life without having to know the future, despair, hate your life, or love wage labor. Check out the workbook if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance. You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's websites.


Season Two is HANL: Good Work and draws on Pippi and Damien's expertise as organizational consultants. Good Work is focused on crisis leadership, making reality-focused adaptations to organizations and projects, and what people can do to be strategic, good leaders in a bad time.


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Recent Episodes

S1E17 Bonus Episode: How to do Experiments to Figure Out a Career Change

May 19, 2025 47m

In earlier episodes of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about running experiments on your ideas and testing prototypes to get more information to help you make decisions. There’s so much…

S1E16 Bonus Episode: Tools for Generating and Expanding Your Career Ideas

May 16, 2025 25m Bonus

In Season 1 of Have a Nice Life, Pippi and Hadassah talked about how to come up with criteria for yourself when it comes to understanding what you might do for work; but coming up with job ideas can…

S1E15 Becoming more Satisfied with a Return and Review + the Big Reveal

May 29, 2024 47m

You’re done! Kind of. What if you have made a Big Life Decision, but later you want things in your life to be different? That would make you NORMAL. As you grow and your life changes, your criteria…

S1E14 For now decisions, and how to know when you know

May 22, 2024 1h

When we’re about to make a decision, it can feel high stakes. How do you REALLY know what direction to take - and what if you want to change later? What if your “knowing” or “deciding” buttons are…

S1E13 How Pilots and Prototypes Will Help You

May 15, 2024 40m

Even when you have a sense of what you want, it’s reasonable that gathering other kinds of information can be wise, before committing to a specific direction. Pilots and prototypes are kinds of…

S1E12 Networking and Creating Productive Chaos

May 08, 2024 37m

If networking sounds horrifying, do! not! fear! In this episode of Have a Nice Life you’ll learn how and why to talk to people and try stuff without any name tag or blazer, the superpower that is…

S1E11 How to change and learn safely, no net required.

May 01, 2024 39m

This episode is for anyone who wants to be better at changing and will not spout privileged nonsense about jumping and the net will find you, since that is simply not available to a lot of people.…

S1E10 Pulling good-for-you ideas out of a brainstorm

Apr 25, 2024 22m

So you have a brainstormed and you have seven rough ideas of what your life could be - WELL NOW WHAT? Fear not: in this episode you’ll learn three ways to pull ideas that are good for *you* out of a…

S1E9 Brainstorming career ideas

Apr 17, 2024 1h 1m

What to do with all your context, criteria, and research when you also know in your heart you want to be a sandcastle artist, poet, or person who wishes to preserve their creativity for after…

S1E8 Research to expand your ideas part 3: Considering Self Employment

Apr 13, 2024 25m

BONUS episode! What if all your ideas and percolation lead you to wonder about self-employment? In this case, here’s a short series of questions to ask yourself and drive some research into if…

S1E7 Episode 7: Research to expand your ideas part 2: Types of Jobs

Apr 12, 2024 35m

Jobs, roles and titles - besides “postal worker” and “firefighter” and “teacher” what other kinds of jobs are out there  – and how in the world do you find out what they are, what the people who have…

S1E6 Episode 6: Expanding your ideas part 1: Financial Imagination

Apr 10, 2024 25m

This episode walks you through data on the income people need to cover costs, holds your hand as you jump into a pool of numbers, and leads an exercise on how to expand your ideas of what kinds of…

S1E5 Episode 5: Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Going Deeper

Apr 06, 2024 35m

Creating a vision starts with the details and you’ll come up with more details about your life from these exercises! In this episode, Pippi and Hadassah introduce three more ways to come up with…

S1E4 Episode 4: Setting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Starting with Anti-ableist Self-Acceptance and a Values/Talents Map

Apr 03, 2024 35m

You probably don’t know exactly what your ideal work + life shape looks like, and if so you are normal! You might not be sure how to start to imagine such things, or you suspect you’ve buried or cast…

S1E3 Episode 3: Eight Step Framework to Figure Out Your Nice Life

Mar 27, 2024 31m

In this episode we explore the eight steps we’ll take you through in the rest of the series. Both Pippi and Hadassah work with a methodology called Design Thinking, and we’ll be leaning on it in this…

S1E2 Episode 2: Why It’s Hard to Figure Out Work That You Want: Systemic Problems

Mar 20, 2024 34m

This series is about finding jobs we’ll like that provide money to be sustained by; about how not to be ground down and instead more aligned with our values, regardless of how you feel about work.…

S1E1 Welcome to Have a Nice Life: Meet your Hosts

Mar 20, 2024 36m

Welcome to Have a Nice Life! A miniseries on career changing, from career coach and organizational psychologist Pippi Kessler, and money coach and business strategist Hadassah Damien, two lefty…

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