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Turning a side project into a new career path

Turning a side project into a new career path

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Turning a side project into a new career path

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- [Narrator] Dr. Sarah Hart-Unger began a side passion project through blogging, which opened the door to new opportunities. Eventually, she stepped away from a leadership role at work to fully pursue this new path. - [Dr. Sarah] I started a blog in 2004, think original mommy blog, except I didn't have kids back then, so I don't know what you would call it, there really weren't that many people doing that at the time. And I was kind of bored on an outpatient rotation in the middle of the country in North Carolina. And I was like, "I think I'll start a blog." My friend had one, I was like, "Oh, I really like this writing thing. This is actually a lot of fun." And this was like the kind of early blogger boom. Women were doing it. A lot of women were earning like significant amounts of money. I never ever was super commercially successful on the blog side alone, but I built a lot of relationships, I learned a lot of things. And over the course of writing thousands and thousands of posts,…

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