Hi, and welcome back to And You Have Did You
Make It, the last English content of 2025. So
in this episode, you will find all the pieces
of advice who the brilliant guests have shared
with us throughout the year, either as a reminder
or to invite you to listen to the episode. Enjoy!
Let's start with Emina. You never know if you
don't try. Do you have any last advice you want
to share with us? Maybe I would just leave you
with a learning. A career coach once told me
something I tried still to incorporate in myself,
which is, don't you ever think that you are going
to reach that one job eventually. There is no
one job that is, we're not that generation anymore.
You're not going to be at that one job forever.
Just expect and prepare yourself mentally that
your interests will keep changing. And something
that was your dream job might not be anymore
after a couple of years. Yeah, just be prepared
that you will go out there in search for something
new. And you will do that until you retire. And
maybe you don't want to retire. Next, with Mayara.
Seek clarity and ask for help. Do you have any
final advice for our listeners? I do have one.
I think you should have to pick only one advice.
That's the mindset I try to think about your
question. And for me, it is to find the right
balance between staying humble and curious and
as well believing in yourself and knowing your
worth. And there is a reason why I say it's a
balance. Because if you stay humble and curious,
but only that, then you can end up diminishing
yourself and having, therefore, imposter syndrome
or not necessarily going for opportunities because
you're going to feel so humble that you're going
to feel that you're not ready or not worth. And
at the same time, if you believe in yourself
and know your worth too much, but this is not
in equilibrium with staying humble and curious,
then this is where you might indeed reach out
to opportunities that you're not ready for. And
you can come across as being very full for yourself
and being even understood as someone, well, not
humble is the right word. So the... sweet spot
there is where you can have the strength to grow
limitless you can if you can balance those two
characteristics of being humble being curious
asking questions always pursuing to learn and
putting yourself in the shoes of eternal learning
lifelong learning but at the same time believing
in yourself and in your potential and knowing
your worth then you're gonna be unstoppable Next,
with Emma, use rejection as motivation. Do you
have any final advice for the next generation
of creatives? Actually, recently, funny enough,
I did a little workshop for Apple back at home.
And it was about creating and generating content
on your iPhone. You don't need to have the most
bombastic equipment to be the best content creator.
I had this workshop and basically I had around
20 influencers quite big in my hometown, Malta.
And I told them that with simple adjustments
to photo settings and simple adjustments to lighting,
you can create the best version of yourself.
So for this Gen Z, don't think you need to have
the best cameras and the best, most expensive
lenses and whatnot. Because in reality, a lot
of the content is also created with iPhone, which
anyone can do. So it's about learning how to
take those photos, those specific angles and
what to capture and then putting it together.
Then we have Lorenz. confidence come from doing
it I think I mean I've said this many times my
one advice is do hard things like try hard things
and say yes to stuff like especially it's something
that that's given me the most results that doesn't
mean you have to succeed but like coming to London
as well it was hard but I was just saying yes
to everything my first job was saying yes to
everything and it does it does give a lot back
so I would say try to do hard things It is usually
rewarding. It will give you a sense of satisfaction
and will help you out in the long term. And secondly,
look after yourself today as well. Don't just
think about tomorrow. Next, we have Faz, who
invites you to find something that is bothering
you and go fix it. I'll go back to what I said
initially when I talked about success. So I said
at the beginning, don't ask what you want. ask
why you want it so to kind of expand upon that
a bit more you know ask yourself you know what
generates the most impact what generates the
the most amount of fulfillment contentment because
that's what all this matters that's where this
matters it's fine to have all these accolades
it's fine to you know do crazy things and and
have fun and yeah and you should you should have
fun you should enjoy your things are doing it
but you should be asking yourself you know you
should be doing this because you want to live
an interesting and fulfilling life and that's
where all this comes down to um there's so much
knowledge in the world there's so many things
to see and do and you are only barely scratching
the surface and you'll never have enough time
to see everything so you might as well just try
your best and see as much as you can talk to
people learn from people try things try as many
things as possible because something will stick
something will stick and when it does you'll
find a a true so something you're good at and
when you're good at something you you'll you'll
actually enjoy doing it and you'll become better
at it and then yeah you can make money from it
you can create a business from it or whatever
but um i think just constantly ask yourself is
this useful is this impactful and is this helping
my community it is helping you know my my soul
and and do i feel more fulfilled from doing this
work and this is not just monetary this is in
every aspect of of life so um don't just ask
what you want ask why you want it in this episode
orla reminds you what's the worst thing that
can happen what is your last advice look i think
it's it's kind of what we touched on to raise
the talk where you know Get clear on yourself.
Invest the time in understanding yourself. Go
easy on yourself. I think nobody has anything
right or wrong all of the time. You're trying
to be curious and figure it out. Look to experiment.
Decisions you make now will not be life -ending.
You can always course -correct something as your
careers will always evolve. You will always evolve
as an individual. So I think it's more just experiment
and see, you know, this is the time now to try.
I also think you can experiment throughout your
career. And I talk to individuals about that
a lot. You don't need to change a company. You
don't need to change your role to experiment.
You can experiment where you are. But I think
if you start with that mindset, it makes things
a lot easier, right? It opens a lot more doors
than close them. Next, in the episode, Ousmane
consistently reminds you how important it is
to identify your model and keep going. Do you
have any last advice for our listeners? No, yeah,
no, great conversation as well. Thank you so
much. I think, like you mentioned, I've been
throwing out advice in the whole session, the
whole podcast, but I think one last advice that
I want to give to the listeners is do trust yourself
have have the belief in yourself um if if unfortunately
no one has the conf no one else has the confidence
in you you should trust yourself um i i genuinely
believe every one of us has that sort of capacity
or that sort of um talent or attitude and i'm
not saying everyone has to have the same exact
sort of route in their career or mindset but
whatever it is that you're interested in i'm
just saying that you need to be able to have
that self -belief um but self -belief also does
not mean that you have um you build an ego you
know self -belief is more of a case where you
try and push yourself as much as you can in certain
areas that you're interested in and learning
new things but at the same time you are able
to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses and
and know what's good for you, what's bad for
you. And so I think anyone who's listening right
now, you are good enough. You have the capabilities.
You can have the drive within you. Just learn
to understand what's good for you, bad for you,
what your strengths and weaknesses are. And if
no one's believing in you, believe in yourself.
So that's my last advice. And lastly, the last
episode was with Layla. We invite you simply
to practice with what you have. My advice is
what I would give myself right now. I don't think
it's for just a specific moment of your life,
but I think it could be applied anytime, is to
do what you're deeply passionate about, so it
won't feel like working at all. I couldn't become
a human rights lawyer, but... I try to do something
connected to that every once in a while. Helping
people and trying to be useful in that sense.
And that fools me. I can't go back in time. But
if you're deciding what to do in your career,
I would suggest to sit with yourself. Sometimes
think about... everything you're good at and
your passions and i don't know write them all
down and then look at those and start deciding
what to study or what to do in your career based
on those and that could change that could shift
i was into fashion and then it completely changed
a couple of years later so and That can also
change for yourself. Like when you decide what
to study, that doesn't mean that you have to
do that as a job too. So it could be connected,
but it could also be something that changed throughout
your career. So the different positions that
you have are not connected to a specific degree
that you have. It could be just also based on
something that is interesting for you in that
specific moment of your life. well well well
great things always come to an end and this was
the last one again for 2025 and i cannot wait
to share what i have in store for you for 2026
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