About Dalan Vanterpool
Writes, speaks and podcasts about: Career development, personal finance, secondary income streams.
Dalan is an executive career coach and private banker from the British Virgin Islands. He helps young professionals build meaningful careers that lead to more time, money and freedom. A few years ago, he moved to Panamá where he now works and speaks decent Spanish on most days.
Over the past 15 years Dalan’s career path, educational and musical pursuits, allowed him to work, play and study across 5 countries, 4 multi-national firms and 2 languages. During this time, he noticed how many people are just surviving rather than thriving in their careers. He set out to solve this problem for himself and others through research, experimentation, and interviewing thriving professionals. His focus is largely on building careers and additional income streams.
When he’s not helping high net worth clients manage their money, Dalan produces digital content about careers and hosts Focus The Fire podcast weekly. He’s always happy to chat about cookies or jazz.
Dalan’s WHY: To help young professionals build meaningful careers that lead to time, money and freedom so they can live well and influence communities positively.
You can connect with Dalan via twitter (@dalanv) twitter.com/dalanv, LinkedIn or his Website.
Let’s be brutally honest here. Besides the fluffy talk about fulfilling dreams and helping humanity, you’re working because you want to get paid. That may not be the only reason, but it’s a crucial component otherwise you would be running around hunting for a full-time volunteer position. People will keep showing up at a job for years even though their personal or professional aspirations aren’t being fed, but let the money stop and see how quickly things escalate.
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