13 August, 2026
Episode 334: The Truth About Additional Income Streams That No One Tells High Achievers
In this episode
🎙️ Episode Overview
Have you ever caught yourself rolling your eyes at another “I made five figures in a week” ad and wondered why everyone has seemed to have figured out how to shortcut their way to creating additional streams of income.
Your resistance is understandable – you’re a high achiever, and high achievers don’t move on hype, they move on what actually makes sense.
In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what it really takes to build a portfolio career when you’re a seasoned professional, not a beginner with nothing to lose.
I share a story from a recent kayaking trip that taught me something important about what we see versus what’s actually happening beneath the surface when someone builds multiple income streams. Then I walk through the real starting point for uncovering your commercial value, plus five reflection questions to help you identify what’s already sitting inside your experience, waiting to be leveraged.
Summary
✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The Expertise Blind Spot – The longer you’ve been good at something, the harder it becomes to recognize it as expertise. I unpack why the skills that feel easiest to you are often the ones with the most value to someone else, and how to start noticing what you’ve stopped seeing in yourself.
- Stop Asking “What Should I Build” – I explain why chasing a business model (coach? consultant? course?) keeps you stuck in confusion, and why shifting the question to “what valuable problem am I already equipped to solve?” changes everything about how you approach building something of your own.
- Finding the Shortest Bridge – I break down why you don’t need a new qualification, a brand, or a completely different skillset to get started. I show you how to find the shortest bridge between the expertise you’ve already built and a problem someone else genuinely values, so you can create momentum without starting from zero.
I also share the five questions I want you to sit with this week to start uncovering where your career capital already lives.
If this episode has you thinking there’s more inside your experience than you’ve been giving yourself credit for, I’d love to help you go deeper.
Multiple Streams of Income Intensive
I’m running a completely free, two-day live event on 2nd and 3rd September called the Multiple Streams of Income Intensive, where we’ll unpack your expertise, translate it into market value, and map your fastest route to your first additional income stream. You do not need to know what you want to build to join us. Save your seat at careerchangemakers.com/intensive.
Invest in Yourself and Your Career:
- Community — Join our Network for mid-career women redesigning what’s next in their careers
- Coaching — Apply for The Portfolio Career Academy. Turn Your Expertise Into Multiple Streams of Income & Impact Through Building A Portfolio Career.
Episode notes
As an award-winning certified executive and career coach, TEDx speaker, podcast host and former lawyer, I have seen way too many female professionals under selling themselves and settling for less in their careers. I am committed to equipping high achieving women with the tools and support to create careers that are both meaningful and impactful.
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Multiple Streams of Income Intensive
- Save your seat for this 2 day intensive that will help you leverage your existing expertise to build an additional stream of income.