Are you ready to shake up your career and do what you truly love?
—without risking it all?
Challenge your status quo, break the concrete around you and shape the trajectory of your life.
Let me ask you something…
What if everything you thought about career success was wrong?
Hi, I'm Gus Balbontin.
I was born and bred in wild Patagonia, a place where the horizons are endless, but opportunities can feel limited.
Yet, I never let my small town or humble beginnings get in the way of my big dreams.
At 17, driven by a healthy disrespect for authority and a severe case of FOMO, I packed my bags and landed in Australia.
By 22, I'd dropped out of uni, hitchhiked across South America, started my first business, and landed my dream job at Lonely Planet.
Fast forward a few years, and I was leading the company globally, working with innovators like Google X, Nokia, and Amazon on the latest technologies, creative cultures, and high-performing teams.
But here's the thing—despite all that success, I realized something shocking.
I realized that I was spending ALL my time, the most precious thing I got in one single job. I was giving everything I had, over 60/70 hours a week to a single thing.
And I thought: “This can’t be right, I’m sure there’s another way of doing it”
I realized that I was being comfortable and allowing that comfort to define my future and cap my potential.
I noticed a dangerous pattern—not just in myself but in countless professionals around me.
They were coasting, letting their careers happen to them, outsourcing their futures to bosses, markets, even luck.
I knew I had to make a change.
So, I left corporate life. I hung up my boots as Executive Director and CTO of Lonely Planet and returned to my entrepreneurial roots.
I began investing, founding companies, and mentoring across the startup ecosystem, also enjoying time with my family, and travelling 3 or 4 months per year, exploring the world, surfing, whatever I wanted.
All of a sudden I realised this was way more powerful than having a single job.
I developed a new model for approaching careers—a model that doesn't rely on a single path but instead spreads your time across multiple activities to create new futures and let go of old pasts.
I call it the Portfolio Career™ Model.
Now, I've poured all of my experience—the successes, the failures, the downright crazy adventures—into something designed to jolt you out of complacency.
This is "Shake Up!"—a no-nonsense, self-paced course that'll help you take ownership of your career and life, and diversify your opportunities with the Portfolio Career Model.
This self-paced course includes:
Online learning platform with over 25+ lessons and over 20+ videos with me explaining the exercises
Learn how to use the Portfolio Career™ Model to change your life
You can also download the 35+ page step-by-step guide to do it offline
PLUS a 2-hour live group session with me!
My agent did say “you are practically giving this away for free, just the 2hr sesh with you is literally worth 10x that” and I said “la la la la la I can’t hear you”
Oh, and as a guarantee, if you do the course and think it’s shit, I’ll give you your money back, no questions asked.
If you’re ready to take charge of your career, drive it, explore it and shake things up, it’s your lucky day!
$500
PRICE IN USD
ONE-TIME PAY
LIFETIME IMPACT
WHAT
The “Career Shake Up!” course focuses on how you can use the Portfolio Career™ Model to diversify your opportunities.
It’s a model that helps you spread your time across a number of activities (rather than just one) to create new futures and let go of old pasts.
Since leaving corporate life I have managed to turn my “work” into a cluster of parallel activities rather than a sequence of jobs.
This allows you to multiply your opportunities and significantly downgrade your risk.
WHY
Because dedicating all your time to one job (all your eggs in one basket) is too dangerous and lacks the diversity required to meet unknown futures.
Because separating work and life is dangerous. Work always wins.
Your work/life balance should be simply “life balance”…a portfolio of activities pointing towards your desires and purpose.
Because career shouldn’t happen to you, you should happen to career.
You are in charge, drive it and explore.
WHO
Whether you’re a CEO, Business Owner, Manager or a student, there’s nothing worse than feeling regret. Regret for what your could have become or regret for what you could actually become still!
That’s why my team and I designed this program, to help humans snap out of the trap, diversify your opportunities and own your career. if you are:
Comfortable and happy (specially this!)
Rethinking your next move
Tired of the same thing every day
Just been made redundant or resigned
About to start a business
BENEFITS
Better financial returns from what you love at less risk.
Unlock your true potential… have you really explored it?
Don’t be reactive and wait until the future happens, be proactive and make it happen
Build your dream team to help you succeed
Make all your activities more meaningful, more connected to your purpose
Oh and also… the cost of this Workshop qualifies as a tax-deductible self-education expense. So you can invest in yourself and save on your taxes too (yay!)
Shake Up! Legends
This is what they said after the course:
COURSE
CONTENT
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0 - Disclaimer
1 - You Need a Portfolio Career
2 - What is the Portfolio Career
3 - Your Baseline
4 - Career Retro
5 - Create Your Model
6 - Reflect Deeply
7 - The First-Last-Best-Worst-Weirdest Exercise
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1 - Vague Goals
2 - Guidelines
3 - Guiding Questions
4 - Setting Your Vague Goals
5 - Your BAU (Business As Usual) - Activities
6 - Your Portfolio Career™ First Draft
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1 - Stimulate Curiosity
2 - Trends
3 - Your Interests
4 - Unlikely Connections
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1 - Your Team
2 - Proximity Nodes
3 - The 1-2-3-4 Model
4 - Give
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1 - Pull The Future Towards You
2 - Hedge Your Bets and Build Scenarios
3 - Let Go
4 - Your Future - Small - Simple - NOW
5 - The Big Bets
6 - Portfolio Career™ Full Model
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Are you ready to stop letting your career happen to you and start happening to your career?
The rebels who trust us
FAQs
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The funny thing with careers is that from a very early age, we outsource it and become passengers instead of conductors.
We sporadically jump in the driver's seat when we are forced to, but otherwise, we kinda let it happen to us rather than us happen to it.
If it’s not our parents who tell us what to study, it is a career advisor, a teacher, a lecturer, a coach or HR.
Think about it, there isn’t a subject at school or uni called “career” where someone helps you think about the whole thing and the number of things you could and should be doing instead of focusing on a specific “job” or “degree”.
Are you doing what you love? Are you having fun? Are you working with awesome people? Are you pulling the future towards you or waiting for it to hit you in the face?
Have you ever fully owned your career or have you outsourced it even partially to someone else?Career Shake Up! is taking control of your career and pointing it in the direction of your goals.
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The course is virtual.
With over 25+ lessons and 15+ videos, it can be done fully self-paced.It also includes a 35+ pages pdf that you can download and follow offline.
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The course is self-paced and accessible online. You can dive in whenever it suits you. Investing in yourself is the best investment you can make.
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Identify and create multiple streams of income.
Avoid the danger of putting all your eggs in one basket (all your time in one job lacks the diversity required to meet unknown futures).
Allocate more time to what you truly want to do.
Unlock your full potential… have you really explored it?
Separating work and life is dangerous. Work always wins.
Achieve a true “life balance,” a portfolio of activities aligning your desires, goals and vision with your career.De-risk uncertainty and combat inaction (remember: from inaction to in-action!)
Take charge of your career instead of letting it happen to you.
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The Portfolio Career™ is a model I created to share my unorthodox approach to setting your goals and designing your career.
It’s a unique model that helps you spread your time across a number of activities (rather than just one) to create new futures and let go of old pasts”
Since leaving corporate life I have managed to turn my career into a portfolio of activity rather than a sequence of jobs.
In the spirit of challenging and provoking you, I want to share and explain in detail how I approach it in the hope that it helps you discover your own version.
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If you're feeling stuck, unfulfilled, or simply know there's more you can achieve, then yes—this course is for you.
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✓ Create your Career Portfolio and take control of your future
✓ Find how your passions intersect with the market trends
✓ Learn how to build, grow and nurture a professional network
✓ Plan how to follow your passions without betting your house
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If you do it and think it’s shit I’ll give you your money back, no questions asked.
