🌲 How to Build a Sustainable Career in Seasonal Work with Sasha Clonts of Guide Theory

Seasonal workers know the feeling: You love the community, the adventure, the purpose, and then every fall you get laid off, change your address, and try to figure out health insurance, again.

Sasha Clonts is the founder of Guide Theory, a platform helping seasonal workers build more sustainable, empowered lives through coaching, community, and practical tools.

Sasha and Angie talk about:

• The COVID-era burnout that pushed her to change her life and work

• Selling her car, buying a van, and ending up at a Taos rafting company

• Falling in love with the seasonal lifestyle before she even knew how to raft

• Why empathy is one of the most powerful tools adventure leaders can hold

• Why she was the wrong fit for full-time raft guiding (and what that taught her)

• How she built her business, Guide Theory, to help seasonal workers find sustainability in finance and lifestyle

• Curiosity as the antidote to imposter syndrome

• What corporate employees can learn from seasonal workers

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Check out these resources:

🛶 Guide Theory programs: guidetheory.com

📱 Guide Theory on Instagram: @guidetheory

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