108 – Finding Your Purpose & Living Your Passion – with Jules Schroeder of Unconventional Life

What is your purpose? What were you meant to accomplish in your lifetime? Are you living life to your fullest? In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I interview Jules Schroeder of Unconventional Life. She shares how she came to understand her purpose in this world, how she encourages others to live a life of passion, what we can do to find a platform for our message, and much more. Download the PDF Cheat Sheet Podcast Highlights: 00:14 – Introductions 00:25 – How would you describe what you do? 02:08 – Multipotentialites and the traditional model of success 04:10 – Creating a connection through passion 06:16 – Near death experience 10:24 – Spiritual experiences and living life to the fullest 15:05 – What does music entrepreneurship mean to you? 20:04 – Being unreasonable 21:46 – The unconventional life is becoming the conventional life 26:37 – What is your number one tip for building a podcast audience? 30:28 – How do you find a platform for your message? 35:43 – Are there any books you recommend? 37:11 – Closing thoughts Transcription: The following transcript was generated using Descript. David Andrew: Today I'm chatting with the founder of Unconventional Life, Jules Schroeder. How are you today, Jules? Jules: I'm doing wonderful. Good to be here. How are you doing? David Andrew: I'm doing great. Thank you for asking. So you're an entrepreneur, musician, speaker, and podcaster. I'm sure there are other things you do and other titles you have, but just so we can create a bit of a context for my listeners, how would you describe what you do? Jules: Yeah. Um, well at times, uh, people have come to my website and said, it's a little ADD. It's kind of sporadic. Like, who are you? Cause you'll see stuff like, On my Instagram, you'll see travel photos. You'll see me leading workshops. You'll see me in the recording studio performances. You'll see me snowboarding. I was a sponsored snowboarder for a while. And I think at the essence of [00:01:00] it, I'm a very multi passionate. And for so long, I used to think that was a problem that, you know, like I like doing all these different things and that I didn't have much focus. And what I actually realized is that as I've learned to own all of the different areas of self expression, Literally created my company unconventional life almost as a, a home to embody the non traditional it's allowed me to, uh, not only create more impact in the world, but also just have a lot of more fun in the process. And so, you know, for me, I'm someone that really believes that this conventional frame we've been inherited, you know, that I inherited, which was, you know, go to school. Get good grades, get into a good college, get a good job and then get a better job and then eventually die, um, is outdated and there's a million and one ways to make money in this world and to create a life that you love in this world and I love storytelling and I love giving people permission using my own self as an example so that more of us can do what we want, um, with our lives and ultimately take these gifts that we have inside of us and really create structures and, uh, ways to, to play, um, so that we have more fulfillment and more fun. David Andrew: Mm-Hmm. And by way of a couple of comments. You know, I think that movement is beginning to grow. The whole thing about Multipotentialite, I think Emily Watnick at uh, putty like.com, that was one of the first times I'd heard it's okay to be, you know, involved in whole variety of different things and. And pursue what it is that you want to do and enjoy every aspect of that, which is really cool. And then the other thing that you touched on was that traditional model of success that so many people still subscribe to. It's actually incredible to me, but my first exposure to something outside of that was network marketing. And I've talked to others who share that experience and some people have had...