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  • Published: 20 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529907308
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

The Portfolio Life

Future-Proof Your Career and Craft a Life Worthy of You





A manifesto for a new way of working and living. Stepping away from a one-path career trajectory, The Portfolio Life teaches us to re-evaluate what we have to offer the world and embrace a mix of opportunities that reflect who we are.

Having one full-time job is the riskiest career move you can make today; we need a new path to design sustainable, future-proof, fulfilling lives that don't tie our identities and livelihoods to one single job.

In The Portfolio Life, millennial, Harvard Business School professor and serial entrepreneur Christina Wallace delivers a model for thriving amidst the constant disruptions of the 21st century. Adapting tried-and-true practices from the business sector, Christina makes Portfolio Living accessible and actionable for all readers through practical tools like her Balanced Scorecard, 100 Wishes Assessment, time optimisation benchmarks, and more.

This book encourages you to embrace the Venn diagram of your life and interests, and make it work for you. Portfolio Living grants you permission to step back from the cult of ambition and define your life beyond just your paid work.

Being multidimensional is a career superpower, and Wallace empowers her readers to shape their lives to align with their core values, aptitudes, and interests to future-proof their careers and their home lives. It teaches readers core skills in strategising how to utilise the skills and opportunities available to them, in a way that keeps both their bank balance and minds healthy.

  • Published: 20 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529907308
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

About the author

Christina Wallace

Christina Wallace is a self-described "human Venn diagram" who has crafted a career at the intersection of business, the arts, and technology. She is currently a Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School and an active startup mentor and angel investor.

Praise for The Portfolio Life

The Portfolio Life, a work by the insightful Christina Wallace, offers a refreshing perspective on balancing one's personal and professional pursuits. Through her masterful blend of analysis, storytelling and humor, Wallace challenges the traditional notion that work and life must be kept separate and provides a new model for leading a fulfilling life. This book serves as a valuable guide for those seeking to take control of their careers and lives. The Portfolio Life is a powerful tool for navigating the complexities of modern life.

Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of Effortless and Essentialism

The Portfolio Life is a manual for pursuing a prismatic, polyvalent life. Christina Wallace masterfully illustrates that you don't have to abandon your creative pursuits to advance professionally, and planning for one's financial future shouldn't be reduced to just drinking fewer lattes. The Portfolio Life is an urgent, insurgent guide that empowers readers to live their lives - and manifest their careers - on their own extraordinary terms.

Sydney Skybetter, Dean at Brown University

The Portfolio Life is the rare book that gives you both theory and practice. I hope you have the courage to read and apply Christina's timely advice!

Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup and The Money Tree

A pitch perfect blend of analysis, story, and humor, The Portfolio Life offers a new model for work and life that upends the notion they should have ever been at odds.

Morra Aarons Mele, Host and author of The Anxious Achiever

A refreshing perspective on how to lead a fulfilling life that embraces professional ambitions and personal passions. This is the rare career guide that balances professional considerations against personal ones, encouraging readers to make time for activities even if they don't directly relate to one's vocation.

Publisher's Weekly

In a turbulent world, this is a guide to leading a balanced life. Drawing on her background as a serial entrepreneur, Christina Wallace offers actionable advice to help you anticipate - and navigate - disruption.

Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

Life isn't linear and neither are our careers. The Portfolio Life will help you to figure out how to work in a way that works for ALL of you.

Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, co-authors of The Squiggly Career, podcast co-hosts Squiggly Careers and co-founders Amazing If

This book is the antidote to hustle culture, and a compelling case that durable success comes not from working harder and faster, but better and smarter. If you are ready to get in the driver's seat of your career-and life-but not sure how to start, this book is your roadmap!

Abby Falik, Founder of Global Citizen Year

Your life is your enterprise. In The Portfolio Life, Christina Wallace masterfully shows you how to treat it as such, pursuing your personal and professional dreams to find happiness and success.

Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School and New York Times bestselling author
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