Emilie Wapnick

Writer and community builder

TED Speaker

puttylike.com

@emiliewapnick

How to Be Everything

Emilie Wapnick celebrates the "multipotentialite" — those of us with many interests, many jobs over a lifetime, and many interlocking potentials.

Why you should listen

Emilie Wapnick is an award-winning author and community builder. They are the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com and ThePuttyverse.com, where they help multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on one path themself, Wapnick studied music, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University.

Wapnick's book, How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up, was published by HarperCollins in 2017. It has been translated into 13 languages and won a Nautilus Book Award.

Emilie Wapnick’s TED talk

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Emilie Wapnick

Why some of us don't have one true calling

Posted Oct 2015

More news and ideas from Emilie Wapnick

We humans

What it means when you can’t answer the question, What do you want to be when you grow up?

May 2, 2017

Not all of us are born with one main interest -- and we should see that as our biggest strength, not our weakness, says Emilie Wapnick, a writer, coach, artist (and then some).