Publisher Description
The Dream Share Project, a documentary and career workshop created by Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin, has inspired thousands of college students across the U.S. In Build Your Dreams, Chip and Alexis transform their program into the ultimate career guide for a generation seeking passionate work. Through essays, anecdotes, exercises, and tasks, Build Your Dreams offers a unique 5-stage framework (using the anagram DREAM) for 20-somethings to make a living doing what they love: Discovery: This stage helps the listener unearth their passions and explores eight ways to test-drive a dream. Research: Teaches how to break a big vision down into actionable and measurable mini-goals. Embark: Offers guidance on financing a dream by providing Millennial-friendly expense-slashing techniques. Adapt: Utilizing anecdotes and exercises, this stage helps the listener surmount pitfalls on the path to their dream. Maintain: Focuses on teaching the listener how to make their dream profitable. Interactive, achievable, and enlightening, Build Your Dreams is the ultimate career guide for 80 million young people born between 1982 and 2001 who are poised to transform their passions into a fulfilling career and lifestyle.
Download and start listening now!
About the Authors
Chip Hiden graduated from Washington College with a degree in history. In college, he started Chipapalooza (a non-profit that raises money for diabetes research), founded a campus radio station, and planned all-campus concerts and events. The Dream Share Project and Build Your Dreams are perfect vehicles for Chip’s passion for social entrepreneurship.
Alexis Irvin graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in print journalism. She spent her college years exploring politics—interning for a Congresswoman, editing a political research journal, and registering young voters for the non-profit, Rock the Vote. Since then, she has found her true passion for storytelling and empowering young people with The Dream Share Project and Build Your Dreams.
About Rose Itzcovitz
Rose Itzcovitz is an audiobook narrator whose readings include Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams, Just Little Things by Nancy Vu, and Conversations That Sell by Nancy Bleeke.