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Build Your Dreams: How To Make a Living Doing What You Love Paperback – July 9, 2013

by Chip Hiden (Author), Alexis Irvin (Author)

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The Dream Share Project, a documentary and career workshop created by Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin, has inspired thousands of college students across the U.S. In Build Your Dreams, Chip and Alexis transform their program into the ultimate career guide for a generation of rebels” seeking passionate work. Through essays, anecdotes, exercises, tasks, and illustrations, Build Your Dreams offers a unique 5-stage framework (using the acronym DREAM) for 20-somethings to make a living doing what they love:
Discovery: This stage helps the reader unearth their passions and explores eight ways to test-drive a dream.
Research: Teaches how to break a big vision down into actionable and measurable mini-goals.
Embark: Offers guidance on financing a dream by providing Millennial-friendly expense-slashing techniques, easy-to-use budgeting templates, and fund-raising strategies..
Adapt: Utilizing anecdotes and exercises, this stage helps the reader surmount potential pitfalls on the path to their dream.
Maintain: Focuses on teaching the reader how to make their dream profitable.

Interactive, achievable, and enlightening, Build Your Dreams is the ultimate career guide for 80 million young people born between 1982 and 2001 who are poised to transform their passions into a fulfilling career and lifestyle.

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Designed as a companion piece to Irvin and Hiden's inspirational documentary film, The Dream Share Project, this refreshingly brief, exercise-focused guide is geared toward helping dreamers turn their creative aptitudes and fantasies into meaningful, sustainable work. The book is divided into chapters outlining how to identify core values, how to pursue them, and financial and practical concerns along the way. The visualization strategies, idea maps, and meditation exercises will be familiar to frequent readers of creativity-focused self-help titles, and some of the case studies are merely shopworn business book retreads. However, the book's unflinching practicality is a rarity in the genre: the duo readily and duly acknowledges the necessity of powering through the less-exciting, early stages of achieving one's goals, and they provide quite a bit of advice on how to deal with poor employment prospects, seemingly endless internships, and repeat rejection. The book is decidedly millennial in its outlook on the working world—every moment of giddy optimism is matched by a reminder of the inevitability of stumbling blocks and failure. But for dreamers hoping to keep their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground, this is a great starting point. Agent: Steve Harris and Michele Martin, CSG Literary Partners. (July)

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The book's unflinching practicality is a rarity in the genre: the duo readily and duly acknowledges the necessity of powering through the less-exciting, early stages of achieving one's goals, and they provide quite a bit of advice on how to deal with poor employment prospects, seemingly endless internships, and repeat rejection. The book is decidedly millennial in its outlook on the working worldevery moment of giddy optimism is matched by a reminder of the inevitability of stumbling blocks and failure. But for dreamers hoping to keep their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground, this is a great starting point.”
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If the pursuit of dreams interests your graduate, then mark your calendar and buy this book. It's an enlightening combination of encouragement and practical advice, with chapters on discovering dreams, setting goals, building budgets and handling failure. Not a bad selection for someone just setting out these days.”
St. Paul Pioneer Press

"In their book Build Your Dreams, recent grad team Irvin and Hiden have provided a useful action plan for finding meaningful work. I loved all of the exercises designed to put structure around abstract concepts. I know my work - and my life - will be vastly improved by implementing some of these practical suggestions!"
Alexandra Levit, author of New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career.

Build Your Dreams is the essential guide to help you identify your passions and turn your dreams into a reality. This book is packed with practical techniques, engaging exercises and inspiring stories to help you overcome the mental, emotional, and financial roadblocks that stand in the way of your dreams. Alexis and Chip's book is a must for anyone who wants to turn their passion into their profession.
Christine Hassler, Author of 20 Something, 20 Everything and The 20 Something Manifesto, Life Coach, Speaker

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Running Press (July 9, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 076245038X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762450381
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,439,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Alexis Irvin is a 25 year old filmmaker, speaker and writer from Maryland. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009 with a degree in print journalism.
In 2010 Irvin and boyfriend Chip Hiden left their office jobs for a three month coast-to-coast road trip. Along the way the pair filmed and interviewed over thirty artists, activists, entrepreneurs, athletes, business start-ups and non-profit founders to get their advice on finding and pursuing your passion.
After their trip Irvin and Hiden turned their footage into an hour long documentary film, The Dream Share Project.
The Dream Share Project follows Chip and Alexis, two recent college graduates, on a cross country road trip across the U.S., as they explore how successful people have chased their dreams. Along the way, the pair learns about topics like: discovering one's passion, committing to a dream, dealing with setbacks, and redefining success for the Millennial generation.The Dream Share Project features eye-opening advice and anecdotal wisdom from an Olympic skier, one of the original Latin Kings of Comedy, a slam poet, a Project Runway fashion designer, the CEO of a sustainable flip flop company, and many more.The Dream Share Project is a film that encourages people to live up to their fullest potential and reject societal pressure to play it safe.
The pair began screening The Dream Share Project film and leading a workshop at colleges campuses across the country in the fall of 2011. Since then, Irvin and Hiden have visited over 105 college and university campuses and inspired thousands of young people to discover and build their dreams.
Irvin and Hiden have been dating for six years and split their time between Maryland, Delaware and their trusty red sedan.
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Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin are the 25-year-old authors of Build Your Dreams as well as the filmmakers behind The Dream Share Project, an inspirational documentary film that explores how successful people have pursued their dreams to find careers they love. The couple has been dating for six years – sticking together through 25,000 miles of road trip adventures, hundreds of college speaking engagements, and countless disagreements over what radio station to listen to. If that’s not love, what is?
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Anne S. Headley

A fresh approach to career planning

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013

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First, I want to acknowledge my connection to the authors and their project. As one of the talking heads in their documentary, The Dream Share Project, I was aware that they were culling stories of unique people doing fascinating things. And I loved these stories and how they are presented in the doc. But I had no idea they were also developing a methodology for how to turn others into the fascinating people they were meant to be.
This book opened my eyes. Irvin and Hiden have moved past their youthful zeal for cross-country travel, diet of ramen noodles when necessary, and a flipcam. In this book, you will find step-by-step exercises in goal setting, time management, getting rid of pests who distract you, and staying in touch with what you love or used to love.
For example, there's a wonderful 25-day plan for fundraising via those crowdsourcing websites. Each day offers a new opportunity for getting your story out there, and the authors have generously shared the strategies that they used to raise money to complete their documentary. (At least, I'm guessing that's where they got the strategies.)
It is clear to me as a career counselor that young people just go about things differently. They don't want to job hunt as their parents, grandparents and professors did. Irvin and Hiden, being card-carrying college graduates in their 20s, have done a lively job of converting their own angst to joy. This is a lesson you are going to want to share with the young people in your life or in your classroom.

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Katy

Persue Your Passion

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2013

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I first borrowed this book from the library and loved it so much, I had to buy it. This is the ONLY "business" book I have found that truly helped me discover my passion. It is filled with exercises to help you find and build your dream - another reason I bought the book - so I could write my ideas right in the book as I went along. For those pusuing a creative dream, a great companion book to this is "Steal Like an Artist" by Ausin Kleon.

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Book in terrible condition

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2023

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Item arrived in terrible condition. Cover dented and stained with writing all over the pages on the inside

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Practical Inspiration

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2013

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I really enjoyed this book and couldn't recommend it more highly for anyone looking to pursue their dreams, especially recent grads starting their careers. I bought two copies and gave one to a coworker looking for a career change. He finished it in one night and passed it on to another team member; both now making plans to pursue making a living from their passions.

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Build Your Dreams

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2013

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A good book, that manages to lead a person into thinking for themselves about the things that they can do with their lives to help them Make a Living doing something that they like to do.
Well worthwhile for the college students who are still searching for their goals and this book gives them a starting point and goals to work towards.

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Laura Beth Harrison

Awesome book!

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2013

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I would definitely recommend this book for anyone trying to realize their dreams or make a positive change in their life. The exercises are incredibly helpful and it gave me a lot to think about as well as tons of practical knowledge to use in the "real world." All in all its a great read!

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Build Your Dreams While Remaining Practical

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014

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This is a very creative book which not only helps the reader design their career and their possible life path, but unlike many career books, also considers the "practical" nature of the dream: how to finance it. I found it very helpful and interesting.

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2013

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very invigorating to see so many people chasing their passions. rekindles your own passion. well put together and full of ideas to get you started, it worked for me.

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