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On Today's Episode: Today's guest is our friend Heidi Lim of Opus 12. While I hope that we can do more on Opus 12, we actually don't talk a ton about Opus 12. Today we talk about her process of finding what she calls a “career on purpose and meaning”. Opus 12 happens to be now the vessel through which she pours that energy.I'm excited to bring that conversation to you, so I encourage you not just to listen in to this conversation, but also to go take the time to read the tome that she created, which was the genesis of this episode and this interview.I found Heidi by reading on my own around what is it like to get a job in the clean energy space and trying to really understand the journey that you all are on, and nobody that I've read in the last year has put it more succinctly and more action-oriented than Heidi. If you want to connect with today's guest, you’ll find links to his contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/.SunCast is presented by Sungrow, the world’s most bankable inverter brand.You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.mysuncast.com/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today’s guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 620 other founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com.You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

On Today's Episode: Today's guest is our friend Heidi Lim of Opus 12. While I hope that we can do more on Opus 12, we actually don't talk a ton about Opus 12. Today we talk about her process of finding what she calls a “career on purpose and meaning”. Opus 12 happens to be now the vessel through which she pours that energy.I'm excited to bring that conversation to you, so I encourage you not just to listen in to this conversation, but also to go take the time to read the tome that she created, which was the genesis of this episode and this interview.I found Heidi by reading on my own around what is it like to get a job in the clean energy space and trying to really understand the journey that you all are on, and nobody that I've read in the last year has put it more succinctly and more action-oriented than Heidi. If you want to connect with today's guest, you’ll find links to his contact info in the<a href="https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> show notes</a> on the blog at<a href="https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/</a>.SunCast is presented by<a href="https://www.mysuncast.com/sungrow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> Sungrow</a>, the world’s most bankable inverter brand.You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at<a href="http://www.mysuncast.com/sponsors" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> www.mysuncast.com/sponsors</a>.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today’s guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 620 other founder stories and startup advice at<a href="http://www.mysuncast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> www.mysuncast.com</a>.You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:<a href="https://www.twitter.com/nicomeo" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeo</a><a href="https://my.captivate.fm/LinkedIn%20-%20https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus</a>

350 - Career pivot, Heidi Lim's journey to Climatetech startup Opus12

What do you do when you start feeling like you’re just going through the motions? How do you optimize around your strengths to make the biggest impact? Who are you without your day job? Heidi Lim has been there, and in this episode, she’s sharing with us what she’s learned. Heidi is a queer Chinese American who grew up in Las Vegas (yes, that Vegas), and was a first gen college student at Harvard, where she studied environmental engineering and policy. It was there that she decided she wanted to pursue work at the nexus of sustainability and business. However, realizing that dream took a whole lot of intentionality. Between Harvard and her career today as a full time environmental technologist, Heidi worked in enterprise software as a product manager. In 2018, she left this cozy job to dedicate time to building the bridge towards working on what she sees as the world's most pressing issue, climate change. After 10 months of self-discovery, which included time living alongside monks in Thailand, she made it happen and became Chief of Staff at Opus 12, a California start-up that has developed a technology to recycle CO2 into valuable chemicals, materials, and fuels. There, she is focused on commercializing the technology, working with companies across many sectors to defossilize their supply chains and spark the move from a fossil-based economy to a CO2-based circular one. In this episode, we get real about what people don’t tell you about the emotional journey to finding purpose in your work, how to make an outsized impact in your community, and what farming can teach us about playing the career long-game. More Heidi: Chasing a Job with Purpose Article Carbon Removal 101 Article Twitter  Instagram  More Hot &amp; Sour Soup for the Soul: ✋Ring Collection ✋ 👀 Instagram 👀

What do you do when you start feeling like you’re just going through the motions? How do you optimize around your strengths to make the biggest impact? Who are you without your day job? Heidi Lim has been there, and in this episode, she’s sharing with us what she’s learned. Heidi is a queer Chinese American who grew up in Las Vegas (yes, that Vegas), and was a first gen college student at Harvard, where she studied environmental engineering and policy. It was there that she decided she wanted to pursue work at the nexus of sustainability and business. However, realizing that dream took a whole lot of intentionality. Between Harvard and her career today as a full time environmental technologist, Heidi worked in enterprise software as a product manager. In 2018, she left this cozy job to dedicate time to building the bridge towards working on what she sees as the world's most pressing issue, climate change. After 10 months of self-discovery, which included time living alongside monks in Thailand, she made it happen and became Chief of Staff at Opus 12, a California start-up that has developed a technology to recycle CO2 into valuable chemicals, materials, and fuels. There, she is focused on commercializing the technology, working with companies across many sectors to defossilize their supply chains and spark the move from a fossil-based economy to a CO2-based circular one. In this episode, we get real about what people don’t tell you about the emotional journey to finding purpose in your work, how to make an outsized impact in your community, and what farming can teach us about playing the career long-game. More Heidi: <a href="https://medium.com/@hhlim/chasing-a-job-with-purpose-85357ee4adca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chasing a Job with Purpose Article</a> <a href="https://medium.com/@hhlim/we-need-to-talk-about-carbon-removal-40685871429c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carbon Removal 101 Article</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiHeidiLim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter </a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heidiheidilim/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram </a> More Hot &amp; Sour Soup for the Soul: ✋<a href="https://thebabebrigade.com/collections/hot-sour-soup-for-the-soul" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ring Collection</a> ✋ 👀<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebabebrigade_/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebabebrigade.nyc/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> 👀

Harvard, Green Tech, & Chasing Purpose feat. Heidi Lim, Chief of Staff at Opus 12

How are you spending your time? Is it aligned with what you genuinely care about? In 2018, Heidi Lim quit her role in enterprise software to solve climate change full-time. What steps did she take to identify a new, purpose-driven path and then land a role in carbon removal? Heidi is the Chief of Staff at Opus 12, a company working to recycle CO2 into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels, and the author of two popular Medium articles, ‘We Need to Talk About Carbon Removal’ and ‘Chasing a Job with Purpose’. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Heidi joins Ross to walk us through her process for finding meaningful work, explaining what inspired her to pursue a role in the carbon removal space. Heidi shares her strategies for figuring out what kind of purposeful work you want to pursue, challenging us to reach out to people on paths we’re interested in and embed ourselves in communities with likeminded individuals. Listen in for Heidi’s insight on turning content creation into career opportunities and learn how to plant the seeds that will lead to your dream role. Resources: ‘Chasing a Job with Purpose’ by Heidi Lim ‘We Need to Talk About Carbon Removal’ by Heidi Lim Heidi on Instagram Veg T-Rex on Instagram Heidi on Twitter AirMiners Apply to Join AirMiners Slack Opus 12 My Climate Journey APIENC After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration by Holly Jean Buck Carbon180 Holly Jean Buck on Reversing Climate Change EP103 Holly Jean Buck on Reversing Climate Change S2 Bonus Episode We Are Climate Designers: The Podcast Climatebase--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support

How are you spending your time? Is it aligned with what you genuinely care about? In 2018, Heidi Lim quit her role in enterprise software to solve climate change full-time. What steps did she take to identify a new, purpose-driven path and then land a role in carbon removal? Heidi is the Chief of Staff at <a href="https://www.opus-12.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Opus 12</a>, a company working to recycle CO2 into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels, and the author of two popular Medium articles, <a href="https://medium.com/@hhlim/we-need-to-talk-about-carbon-removal-40685871429c#:~:text=Carbon%2520dioxide%2520removal%2520%25E2%2580%2594%2520removing%2520carbon,to%2520thousands%2520of%2520years%2520%255B1%255D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘We Need to Talk About Carbon Removal’</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@hhlim/chasing-a-job-with-purpose-85357ee4adca?source=friends_link&amp;sk=850f8f10365558c7fac6051fc5e6c8f1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘Chasing a Job with Purpose’</a>. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Heidi joins Ross to walk us through her process for finding meaningful work, explaining what inspired her to pursue a role in the carbon removal space. Heidi shares her strategies for figuring out what kind of purposeful work you want to pursue, challenging us to reach out to people on paths we’re interested in and embed ourselves in communities with likeminded individuals. Listen in for Heidi’s insight on turning content creation into career opportunities and learn how to plant the seeds that will lead to your dream role. Resources: <a href="https://medium.com/@hhlim/chasing-a-job-with-purpose-85357ee4adca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘Chasing a Job with Purpose’ by Heidi Lim</a> <a href="https://medium.com/@hhlim/chasing-a-job-with-purpose-85357ee4adca?source=friends_link&amp;sk=850f8f10365558c7fac6051fc5e6c8f1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘We Need to Talk About Carbon Removal’ by Heidi Lim</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heidiheidilim/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heidi on Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/veg_t_rex/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Veg T-Rex on Instagram</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/heidiheidilim?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heidi on Twitter</a> <a href="http://www.airminers.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AirMiners</a> <a href="https://airtable.com/shrUM1zQfhpblbGa3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apply to Join AirMiners Slack</a> <a href="https://www.opus-12.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Opus 12</a> <a href="https://www.myclimatejourney.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Climate Journey</a> <a href="https://apienc.org/what-we-do/environmental-justice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">APIENC</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Geoengineering-Climate-Tragedy-Restoration/dp/1788730364" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration by Holly Jean Buck</a> <a href="https://carbon180.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carbon180</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41aCjFX4fE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Holly Jean Buck on Reversing Climate Change EP103</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKzQPAaua0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Holly Jean Buck on Reversing Climate Change S2 Bonus Episode</a> <a href="https://www.climatedesigners.org/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We Are Climate Designers: The Podcast</a> <a href="https://climatebase.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Climatebase</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/message</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support</a>

S2E32: Chasing a Job with Purpose (in carbon removal)—w/ Heidi Lim, Chief of Staff at Opus 12