The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
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What is the hyphenate conundrum?
And, you know, oftentimes, Scott, when you and I talk, I'm coming in with definitive ideas and perspectives that I want to share, maybe a path or a process that works. But today I feel like it's going to be a little different in that this is something that I'm actively figuring out, wrestling through, brainstorming through. And I'm actually really curious about your ideas on some of this, because I don't know that I have a clear picture, but sort of some of the beginnings of some ideas on the matter.
How do people manage multiple careers today?
No, a hundred percent. And, you know, we talk so much like back in the day when, people had these careers and they might stay with their career for 30, 40 years. And today the world is very different. It's very different both because men, the different gender roles have evolved so much where, you know, men switch jobs, do different things throughout their careers. They're no longer staying at one place for 30, 40 years. And then women compared to when I started in the workplace, when I started in the workplace 40 years ago, women were just fully being integrated fully into the workforce in a very different way than my parents' generation. And so many women have been able to manage these careers in their lives so beautifully while performing in different ways. And it's been instructive to men as well as the different ways of sort of creating a life that is very different than the traditional role models maybe 50 years ago. And it's left all of us doing multiple different things in multiple different ways.
And I talk about this with our kids. There's these constant pivots throughout your career in trying to figure out what you're doing for the next several years, but that might not be what you're doing for the next 10 years. Liz, tell us how you're thinking about some of these things.
How do gender roles influence career paths?
Yeah, it's so beautifully put, those ideas of pivots. So I was introduced to this term hyphenate by a friend of mine, Maura Brinkman, just a couple weeks back. And I said, what is that? What does that even mean, hyphenate? And she said, you know, she described it as somebody who performs or excels at more than one craft or an occupation. So we know a lot of people that are like that, maybe somebody that started in one area like you described in some certain area of a career, and then all of a sudden they flipped to do something different or they're doing something at the same time. And so that might be someone who started off as like my husband, for example, is an engineer. He worked in that space.
He even joined me in my consulting firm and runs the operations for a business. And then he wrote a book on Chicago architecture. I mean, those are three really completely different areas. And I think sometimes We look at that and go, wow, that's really fascinating. Going from one space to a seemingly totally different area and excelling in those different things.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the hyphenate conundrum?
1:17–1:42
2
How do people manage multiple careers today?
1:42–3:01
3
What does it mean to be a hyphenate?
3:01
4
How do gender roles influence career paths?
2:06–5:49
5
What are the challenges of multitasking?
5:49
6
How can one excel in multiple professions?
5:18–6:07
7
What strategies can help balance various roles?
6:07–12:36
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