Episode 11: Are you following the American Dream instead of your own? with Jessica Butts

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What’s your version of “The American Dream”?

Jessica Butts, Founder of Front Seat Life, joins Martha to tell us how she became CEO of her life at 37. 

At 37, Jessica found herself exhausted and uninspired. Her soul was on fire. She NEEDED to do something different. So, she told her husband that she wanted to go to grad school. Funnily enough, he had the audacity (the bad kind) to say “no”.  What the actual f*c#?! This was the moment that Jessica knew everything must change. 

Her time with her husband and time in her job promptly came to an overdue stop and today, 10 years later, she is living her best life. 

Being the Harry Potter fans that they are, Martha and Jessica use the analogy of muggles and wizards to tell their stories and show you how you, too, might be a wizard like they are. 

“I’m not participating in this capitalist bullshit and treating people like garbage to make more money. I am not doing that” - Jessica Butts

In this episode:

  • [01:02] Who is Jessica Butts? 

  • [02:04] How Jessica went from former psychotherapist to kickass entrepreneur? 

  • [04:40] She wanted to be an entrepreneur but realized she just created a job. 

  • [07:40] Being an entrepreneur is giving the middle finger to all THIS. 

  • [09:16] There are people made for jobs and people made for entrepreneurship. 

  • [11:41] Are you hearing this for the first time? 

  • [13:18] How Martha changed her college major after doing a personality test. 

  • [16:14] Martha’s emancipation story (you have to hear this, it’s as audacious as it gets)

  • [19:18] How come Martha’s personality type shifted? (analysis)

  • [22:20] How your background influences how much you have to hustle. 

  • [25:20] Myers Briggs types EXPLAINED.

  • [29:06] What is making your bucket leak? (what you need to do to stop being STUCK)

  • [33:42] Martha’s CEO Method framework and Jessica’s Front Seat Life framework. (succeed from a place of strength)

  • [41:18] What does it mean for Jessica Butts to be the CEO of her life? 

  • [42:30] What’s the most audacious thing Jessica Butts has done?

Listen to the full episode here:

Key Takeaways:

  • Some people are happy in their jobs and that is fine. But, others are not happy working a job but societal norms suppress that urge out of us. Feeling that you are not made for working in a job is not a deficiency in you. 

  • Your background influences how much you have to hustle, for example women of color will have to hustle significantly more than white men (it’s just how society unfortunately is currently). 

  • We all have something that makes our bucket leak. So, sometimes we may overcompensate for the leak in our bucket. What most people don’t want to do is fix the hole in the bucket. External things will never satisfy you. You have to fix the hole and fill the bucket the right way for who you are. This is how you stay stuck!

  • There’s no need to be well-rounded. We are not meant to be good at everything. Show up and own the things you are good at and leave behind what you suck at. Work on things that God put you on this planet to do.

Connect with Jessica Butts: 

Website: https://jessicabutts.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrontSeatLife/  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontseatlife/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicaButtsMA 

Jessica’s books (Don’t Do Stuff You Suck At and Live Your Life From the Front Seat): https://jessicabutts.com/buy-the-book/

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