Episodes on Career

Finding the purpose in your work, or finding work with purpose in it.

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If You Lost Your Job, Would You Lose Yourself? | Dr Kat Page

If you have built a story about why you're still here, you know exactly how it feels when that story stops holding.

You Don't Have To Hate Your Job To Pivot At 50 | Tillack & Sheats

You can be good at the work and well paid for it and still notice that the stimulation has quietly gone out of you.

Imposter Syndrome Gets Worse the Better You Get | Erin Buttermore

The better you get at your job, the more certain you become that you have fooled everyone.

You're Not Burnt Out, You're Out of Capacity | Andrew May

If you have told yourself you are just tired, or watched a room of grown men compete over who is most fried, this one is about you.

How a Burnt-Out Psychologist Rebuilt Her Energy | Amantha Imber

Meditation Filled The Void Addiction Couldn't | Tom Cronin

If you've ever pushed through something you should have stopped for, or held a strong face while everything underneath felt unmanageable, this one's for you.

What You Call Decline Is Second Adulthood | Aneace Haddad

If you have been telling yourself you are doing both, still in the job while quietly building the next thing, you know the feeling.

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"It's not, what the heck am I going to do with my life? It's what the heck have I done with my life, and did it matter?"

—Dan Foster
"I've got another career in me. I'm not that keen on retirement anyway. It's never been part of my plan."

—Professor Scott Fulton
"One of my big realisations during this kind of crisis period for me was quite how much of my identity I was taking from what I did"

—Ben Larke
"That goes away. It vanishes. And now suddenly, you're just this average person who's having to make a case for your value."

—Scott Fulton
On losing the title
"I would love people to start treating energy as the precious resource that it really is. Stop obsessing about time and how you're using time."

—Amantha Imber

Episodes on Career

The podcast made for midlife.

"It's not, what the heck am I going to do with my life? It's what the heck have I done with my life, and did it matter?"

"I've got another career in me. I'm not that keen on retirement anyway. It's never been part of my plan."

"One of my big realisations during this kind of crisis period for me was quite how much of my identity I was taking from what I did"

"That goes away. It vanishes. And now suddenly, you're just this average person who's having to make a case for your value."

"I would love people to start treating energy as the precious resource that it really is. Stop obsessing about time and how you're using time."

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