Episode 32: Finding Your Passion and Being an Everyday Leader with Zach Hose

Mar 15

Overview

Zach Hose runs the ZAP! Podcast where he has conversations with people from diverse backgrounds and dive deep into what they’re passionate about. He is also an author, a singer/songwriter, and completing a Masters in HR Administration and Leadership. In this episode, we explore various perspectives on the topic of passion, as well as everyday leadership, communication differences in people with different genders, how to connect with people during job searching, and much more!

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Highlights & Takeaways

“Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 20” - don’t be discouraged when you see other people who are living the dream of your life, because we’re all on our own path and it’s going to be a unique journey for us all.
If people approach Zach and say they don’t what their passion is, he reverse engineers it and tells them that sometimes you have to find out what you’re not passionate about to find out what you are passionate about
He’s an advocate of the multi-passionate approach where it’s totally okay to have passions in lots of different spheres because we’re not one-dimensional people
Zach’s favourite quote is from Roberto Clemente: “Anytime you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you’re wasting your time on Earth.”
Anyone can be a leader - it doesn’t have to be a grandiose gesture or a big speech, but just recognizing how our everyday actions impact others.
Correctly calling someone’s preferred name is important, not just using whatever name is easiest or most convenient.