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In this third installment with Gen X executive coach Jennifer Selby Long, we zoom in on one of the messiest, most misunderstood realities of modern work: office politics.
Jennifer breaks down why politics often stem less from individual egos and more from structural dysfunction, emotional disconnection, and leadership blind spots—especially in hybrid teams. She explains how outdated views of leadership, chronic misalignment, and even cost-cutting decisions like slashed T&E budgets can quietly poison team trust. But this isn’t just a takedown—Jennifer arms listeners with a real-world playbook to navigate power struggles without becoming part of the problem.
For seasoned professionals tired of performative team building and empty culture talk, this episode reframes politics not as inevitable—but as solvable.
>>Politics ≠ Power-Hungry People
“The majority of leaders are not political animals.”
Jennifer challenges the stereotype that all office politics are about ego—revealing how misaligned strategy and trust gaps often create dysfunction.
>>Remote Work’s Invisible Cost
“You might not feel like getting on that plane… but complex decisions require in-person time.”
She explains how budget cuts, virtual distance, and hybrid habits are quietly damaging team cohesion.
>>Toxic by Design
“I’ve worked with clients who were pretty mercenary at first… but some became the most dedicated leaders.”
What happens when cold-blooded management isn’t an accident—but a strategy?
>>Five Moves to Navigate a Political Culture
“Stop venting. Start observing.”
Jennifer offers a practical five-step approach to surviving—and even reshaping—a political workplace, starting with curiosity, not complaints.
>>Why Some People Don’t Struggle with Politics at All
“There’s a portion of the population just wired to be unbothered by it.”
From temperament to neural wiring, she explains why some Gen Xers are naturally equipped to handle the drama without burnout.
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Jennifer Selby Long is no stranger to messy transformations. With three decades of experience in executive coaching, digital change, and tech leadership, she helps seasoned professionals navigate the personal minefield that comes with professional change.
In this second installment, Jennifer dives deep into neuroscience-backed insights on why we sabotage ourselves—and how to stop. She breaks down how our brains are wired for fear, how to spot the voice of the “judge,” and how misplaced loyalty to bad bosses or toxic companies keeps people stuck. But she doesn’t stop at analysis—she arms Gen Xers with tactical empathy, reframing techniques, and political savvy to make their next move smarter.
Because in a world where everyone’s changing, the winners aren’t the loudest—they’re the most self-aware.
>>The Science of Self-Sabotage
“Those negative voices? They’re not you. They’re old neural pathways—and you don’t have to obey them.”
Jennifer explains how childhood-formed saboteurs derail adult decision-making—and what to do about it.
>>How Judgment Blocks Reinvention
“If you’re judging yourself or others, the judge neural network is in charge—and it’s contagious.”
Learn how to spot the “inner judge” sabotaging your growth and weaken its grip before it wrecks your next chapter.
>>Escape the Bad Boss Loop
“Most people don’t leave bad bosses—they recreate them.”
Jennifer outlines five traps professionals fall into when trying to escape toxic leadership—and how to break the cycle for good.
>>Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul
“You’re not imagining it—some power games are real. But empathy is your best defense.”
From defensive email habits to managing power dynamics with grace, Jennifer offers non-sleazy tactics for Gen X leaders navigating messy org charts.
>>Redefining What ‘Winning’ Looks Like
“Change that sticks often doesn’t look like the win you planned—but it’s the win you needed.”
A fresh lens on how to reframe wins, even if they come in smaller, slower, or stranger packages than you expected.
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Jennifer Selby Long has spent 30 years helping leaders navigate change—long before “change management” became a buzzword.
In this episode, the Gen X executive coach reflects on how she stumbled into her calling during the early days of IT transformation, and why emotional intelligence—not just operational efficiency—is what drives successful digital change. Drawing from her own career pivots and coaching experiences, Jennifer explains how change must be mastered on a personal level before it can be led across an organization.
For Gen Xers who’ve seen multiple waves of tech disruption and economic downturns, her story reminds us: experience isn’t old news—it’s the operating system for modern leadership.
>>The Accidental Change Manager
“I became an accidental change manager in the early 90s.”
Jennifer shares how a basic IT training request exposed a deeper problem—one that launched her decades-long journey into change leadership.
>>Coaching Tech Leaders Through the Chaos
“We help leaders win at change.”
From digital transformation to cybersecurity to user experience, Jennifer explains why leadership—not just management—is the biggest missing link in most change initiatives.
>>A Gen X Career Rooted in Both People and Process
“I kept trying to do stable things, but the change kept coming at me.”
She describes how she went from resisting change to becoming its strategic champion—shaped by trial, error, and real-world messiness.
>>The Power of Performance Psychology
“Coaches aren’t therapists. They’re here to help you win.”
Her earliest coaching experience came from a sports psychologist—and that mindset still guides how she supports high performers today.
>>Understanding the Natural Process of Personal Change
“There are three stages: endings, transition, and new beginnings.”
Jennifer walks us through Bill Bridges’ model of change—and how leaders often forget their teams are still at the beginning when they’ve already moved on.
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In Part 3, Waverly Deutsch steps into her latest role: founder of Wyseheart, a coaching firm designed to help the most overlooked founders build ventures that last. Focused on meaningful business, not unicorn exits, she brings her full career of coaching, teaching, and hard-won insight to early-stage leaders across age, gender, race, and identity.
For Gen Xers who aren’t ready to “retire,” this is a playbook for doing your best work—on your terms, with your values, and no need for external approval.
>>What Retirement Really Means to Her
“Retirement means you no longer have to work to cover basic necessities… but you work because you want to.”
Waverly explains why Wiseheart was never about building a high-growth company, but creating space for meaningful work in the next chapter of life.
>>Who Wiseheart Is Really For
“I might have a session with you and turn you down as a client.”
She describes her ideal clients: early-stage founders with strong ideas and potential—but she’s selective, because she coaches from belief, not obligation.
>>Opening Access Where Systems Don’t
“I want to make myself available to people who don’t always have access to someone like me.”
Waverly shares how Wiseheart is designed to serve women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, rural, and underestimated founders who often face systemic barriers.
>>LGBTQ+ Advocacy Through Data and Action
“You can ask: do you choose to publicly identify as an LGBTQ+ founder?”
She calls out the data gap and cultural risks still facing LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs—and how her work with StartOut aims to help change that.
>>Advising Older Entrepreneurs With Realism
“You may have to go back to the work that got you there.”
She offers grounded advice to Gen X and Baby Boomer entrepreneurs who face ageism and cost-cutting—and encourages them to translate wisdom into flexible, consulting-based careers.
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In Part 2, Waverly Deutsch opens up about her decades at Chicago Booth, where she helped founders refine not just their business models but their ability to lead. She discusses how emotional connection strengthens logic, why confident delivery isn’t enough, and how AI is changing but not replacing human insight.
For Gen Xers mentoring across generations or rethinking their own leadership, this episode is a reminder: great guidance begins with deep listening.
>>Coaching Across the Confidence Spectrum
“Some people came in over-confident. Some barely made eye contact.”
She explains how coaching required tailoring—not templating—entrepreneurs’ thinking.
>>Why Love Belongs in Leadership
“If you can’t connect with your idea, why should anyone else?”
Waverly talks about the human element most founders overlook when presenting.
>>Building Trust Across Generations
“EMBAs bring wisdom. Undergrads bring fire.”
She shares the challenge—and joy—of coaching both seasoned execs and young dreamers.
>>Relearning Her Own Leadership
“Coaching taught me how much I still had to unlearn.”
She reflects on what working with thousands of students revealed about her own blind spots.
>>AI Is Here—Now What?
“AI can write your pitch. But can it build your conviction?”
She discusses how tech is changing communication—and why human trust still drives every great pitch.
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We meet Waverly Deutsch not as a Chicago Booth professor or coach for entrepreneurs, but as a real human navigating career decisions in a world that often asks us to pick between passion and practicality.
From falling in love with theater to entering computer science as one of only three women in a class of 30, Waverly’s story is one of blending head and heart across every career twist. She shares the real story behind leaving academia for Forrester Research, breaking down in a meeting and still making her case, and learning how to navigate gut instinct and logic without losing either.
For Gen Xers raised on rules, she shows what it means to rewrite your own—with emotional truth and strategic clarity.
>>Two Majors, One Mindset
“I ended up with two majors—one in theater and one in computer science.”
Waverly explains how her early passions—performance and programming—formed a lifelong blend of emotion and logic.
>>Early Outsider, Early Awareness
“There were three or four women in a class of 30.”
She shares what it was like being one of the only women in computer science, and how that shaped her views on identity and acceptance.
>>Teaching as a Lifelong Thread
“I knew that what I wanted to do was teach. That was truly my calling.”
From undergrad to her PhD in theater history, teaching remained her throughline—even as industries changed.
>>Forrester and the First Real Pivot
“I was employee number 27.”
She tells the story of joining Forrester Research during its startup phase, helping it scale through the internet boom, and falling in love with entrepreneurship.
>>The Crying Meeting
“George, I can cry and think at the same time.”
Waverly recounts the pivotal moment when she stopped hiding her emotions at work—and started integrating her whole self into how she leads.
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Dominic Carter, CEO of the Carter Group, shares how a personal frustration with his aging parents’ care became a long-term mission: building real, user-driven aging tech in one of the world’s oldest—and most demanding—markets. From human-centric research to venture studio development, Dominic shows how Gen Xers can lead the future of aging by solving the problems we’re all going to face. This isn’t just eldercare innovation—it’s preemptive, practical system design.
For those over 50 building what comes next, this episode is a field guide to action rooted in empathy, not hype.
>>From Personal Wake-Up Call to Business Blueprint
“I wanted better options for my parents—and for myself one day.”
Dominic shares how watching his parents’ struggle with aging became the catalyst for a venture into real, human-first aging innovation.
>>Aging Tech Isn’t Just for the Elderly
“Aging begins at 50—and the opportunity starts there.”
He reframes aged tech not as a niche, but as a massive, underserved market hiding in plain sight.
>>Start with the User—or Don’t Start at All
“If you don’t listen, you’ll waste time, money, and trust.”
Dominic explains why most aging tech fails: founders fall in love with ideas, not problems—and skip the hard part: listening.
>>Culture Is More Than Geography
“The cultural gap between 55 and 75 is as wide as the one between Japan and the West.”
He unpacks why aging solutions must be co-designed with users—and adapted not just to national cultures, but age-based subcultures.
>>Building Credibility One Win at a Time
“Get the use case. Prove the value. Then scale.”
Dominic outlines his venture studio strategy—prioritizing two user-validated products (a friction-reducing linen set and a wearable tremor device) to establish proof before expansion.
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Dominic Carter, the CEO of the Carter Group, didn’t become an aging tech founder by chasing trends—he got there by building slowly, listening deeply, and surviving the kind of early burnout that forces reinvention.
In Part 1, he shares how moving to Japan, launching businesses, and failing hard shaped the systems-thinking approach that now powers his work on aging innovation. This isn’t a startup story—it’s a Gen X blueprint: steady, lived, built from purpose long before it had a name.
>>Leaving, Burning Out, Coming Back
“I opened a Tokyo office at 24—and broke myself in the process.”
Dominic talks about how early success nearly ruined him, and why walking away was the start of everything good that followed.
>>A Life Rebuilt Through Listening
“Research made me better—not just at business, but at understanding people.”
He shares how market research and consulting sharpened his ability to listen deeply and solve real problems over time.
>>No Pivot. Just Evolution.
“Every business I built grew from the one before it.”
Dominic explains how his work in research, media, and software wasn’t a series of pivots—it was a slow, deliberate build toward relevance.
>>Staying in Japan by Choice
“I could’ve gone home—but Japan became the place I wanted to change from.”
He reflects on the emotional pull of Japan and how the country’s demographic trajectory mirrored something deeper he was starting to feel.
>>When Profit Isn’t the Point
“I’ve never been obsessed with money. I’ve been obsessed with meaning.”
Dominic explains why mission-aligned work—not exits—has always been his driver, even if it meant a longer, less glamorous path.
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This episode offers you $79 worth of value—completely free. Read till the end for the gift.
In Part 2, Kevin introduces the core ideas behind his latest book, Flexible Leadership. He explains why leading isn’t about finding the perfect style—it’s about flexing based on the situation without abandoning your principles. We break down how intention, context, and flexors all work together, why rigid leadership labels backfire, and why the best leaders never stop adjusting how they show up.
Key Highlights of Our Interview:
Why Human Nature Hasn’t Changed
“The tools have changed. People haven’t.”
Start with Intention
“Flexibility doesn’t mean random. It means choosing your leadership moves on purpose.”
Context Is Everything
“If you don’t read the situation right, no style will save you.”
Flexors, Not Labels
“You’re not just a ‘visionary’ or a ‘coach.’ Labels can help, but they can also trap.”
Compliance vs. Commitment
“Sometimes you need quick compliance. Sometimes you need lasting commitment. Know what you’re asking for.”
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Kevin Eikenberry didn’t start in a leadership lab—he started on a farm where animals had to be fed no matter what else was happening. In Part 1, he shares how early lessons in discipline and systems thinking carried into his leadership work decades later. From his unexpected pivot from fertilizer sales to corporate training, to founding the Kevin Eikenberry Group, Kevin talks about the mistakes, pivots, and realities that shaped his approach to helping others lead better.
Key Highlights of Our Interview:
Feeding Hogs, Learning Discipline
“No matter what else was happening, you had to feed the animals. Non-negotiable.”
From Agriculture to Human Systems
“I studied mechanical and biological systems. Now I work with human ones.”
An Accidental Pivot into Training
“I volunteered once at Chevron—and ended up reshaping my whole career.”
The Easy Exit, the Harder Lesson
“Leaving with projects lined up made it easier—but delayed learning how to market myself.”
Keeping the Business Alive
“You can’t just be good at the work. You have to keep finding the next work.”
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In Part 2 of his conversation, Tokyo-based American Gary Bremermann moves beyond his own story to share the frameworks and realities that shape career reinvention today. From his Seven Steps to Career Clarity to his candid views on Japan’s ageist hiring market, Gary offers a Gen X blueprint for change: slow, thoughtful, grounded in values, and fiercely human. For anyone tired of chasing titles and ready to build a career worth living on their own terms, this episode delivers both the hard truths and the hope.
>>Coaching the Opportunity Seekers
“Mid-career professionals weren’t asking what they wanted—they were asking what was available.”
Gary explains why so many talented people get trapped following default paths—and how coaching helps them reconnect with what they actually want.
>>Your Story Is the Starting Point
“Your past holds the clues to your future—you just have to read it differently.”
He breaks down why career clarity begins with mining your real life for patterns, strengths, and missed signals.
>>Values Before Vision
“Forget the mission statement—start with your values.”
Gary shares why starting with personal values, not corporate buzzwords, is the foundation for sustainable career growth.
>>Practical Dreaming
“One dream job without limits. One dream job grounded in reality.”
He explains how a two-track dream job exercise helps people balance ambition with achievable moves.
>>Japan’s Aging Workforce and Recruiting Reality
“The labor pool is shrinking, but the hiring practices haven’t caught up.”
Gary shares firsthand insights on ageism, cultural resistance to change, and why Japan remains one of the hardest recruiting markets in the world.
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Tokyo-based American Gary Bremermann didn’t stumble into career clarity—he fought for it across countries, careers, and crises. From hitchhiking North America to building and burning out of his first company, Gary’s story is a blueprint for real Gen X reinvention: practical, nonlinear, and painfully honest.
In this first of a two-part series, he shares how early travel, entrepreneurial scars, and the brutal experience of misaligned success shaped the recruiter and career coach he is today. For Gen Xers still figuring out their next chapter—or building a life while surviving their own rough drafts—this episode offers both grit and grounded hope.
>>The National Geographic Kid
“I grew up with every issue ever printed—and a mind wired to explore.”
Gary shares how childhood dreams of travel sparked a lifelong hunger for exploration, curiosity, and career experimentation.
>>Hitchhiking Lessons You Don’t Learn in Business School
“I learned how to talk to anyone, anywhere, about anything.”
Gary reflects on how crossing the U.S. and Canada on foot and rail taught him real-world communication skills he still uses as a recruiter and coach.
>>Dropping Out—Twice
“School couldn’t hold me—but neither could drifting forever.”
He talks about his struggles with traditional education, dropping out, traveling the world, and ultimately rebuilding himself on his own terms.
>>Entrepreneurial Burnout: The Hidden Cost of Chasing Money
“I was expanding globally—and being crushed by my own business.”
Gary shares how chasing financial success without personal alignment almost destroyed him—and why selling his first company saved his life.
>>Finding Freedom on Different Terms
“Money isn’t the goal. Alignment is.”
After exiting his business and hiring a life-changing coach, Gary explains how he reframed financial success as a byproduct of purpose, not the point.
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In the second half of his conversation, Collin Plume moves beyond financial products into financial legacy—sharing how Gen Xers can teach resilience, ownership, and critical thinking to the next generation. From diversifying income streams to protecting family futures with real assets, Collin reveals why wealth isn’t about a flashy portfolio—it’s about building something that lasts, even when systems shift.
For Gen Xers tired of flashy advice and ready to raise wiser, stronger humans, this episode delivers the quiet tools for lifelong financial independence.
>>Inflation, Instability, and the Fight for Financial Control
“Gold has kept up with the cost of living for over 150 years.”
Collin explains why owning tangible assets isn’t just smart investing—it’s a fight for personal freedom and future-proofing your life against system shocks.
>>Diversification Isn’t Optional Anymore
“The mistake isn’t just losing—it’s being stuck in one idea forever.”
He shares why today’s market demands diversified thinking, constant learning, and rejecting loyalty to any one asset class—including real estate.
>>Retirement Will Never Look the Same
“People aren’t retiring—they’re reworking life.”
Collin talks about the shifting realities of work, aging, and how side gigs, flexible income, and purpose-driven work are rewriting retirement for Gen X and beyond.
>>The Rise—and Risk—of Finfluencers
“Algorithms reward appeal, not expertise.”
He calls out the dangers of taking financial advice from unverified influencers, and why critical thinking is the real currency in today’s information economy.
>>Teaching Kids the Real Value of Money
“Experience and education over stuff.”
Collin shares how he’s raising his three kids to value assets over toys, experiences over things, and knowledge over hype—with gold and silver as real-world teaching tools.
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Collin Plume didn’t build Noble Gold to chase hype—he built it to restore trust in a system Gen X knows can break.
In this first of a two-part series, Collin shares how early lessons from insurance sales, real estate, and recession-era survival shaped his people-first approach to wealth building. He explains why real assets like gold and silver aren’t just investments—they’re anchors of ownership in a world increasingly built on debt and paper.
For Gen Xers who value resilience over rhetoric, and control over hype, this episode delivers the human side of financial security.
>>Learning the Hard Way
“Customer service wasn’t a department—it was survival.”
Collin reflects on early lessons selling insurance and real estate, where trust and loyalty mattered more than shiny marketing.
>>Why People Stay—and Why They Leave
“Employees don’t stay because of ping-pong tables. They stay because they’re seen.”
He shares how mentorship and genuine relationship-building shaped his leadership style at Noble Gold.
>>Selling Without the Sleaze
“I don’t care what you’re selling—if you don’t care about people, you lose.”
Collin talks about why prioritizing people over products isn’t soft—it’s the only strategy that survives downturns.
>>Precious Metals: The Ownership Play
“When everything else feels intangible, gold and silver are still yours.”
He explains why real assets like precious metals offer Gen Xers a hedge—not just against inflation, but against an unstable system.
>>Family, Fear, and Financial Freedom
“You’re not just buying an asset—you’re buying options.”
Collin connects gold ownership to a deeper human need: protecting family, future, and dignity through real, controllable wealth.
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In Part 2 of her conversation, Nina Sossamon-Pogue moves from storytelling to strategy—offering real-world tools for navigating change, resilience, and reinvention. From building a reverse resume to mapping your own success timeline, she shares frameworks that help Gen Xers (and anyone feeling stuck) turn lived experience into a launchpad.
Instead of chasing corporate validation or viral moments, Nina reminds us that real success is slow-built, self-defined, and deeply human. For those designing their next chapter, this episode offers not just hope—but a real blueprint for building forward.
>>Your Reverse Resume: What You’ve Survived Matters
“It’s not just what you’ve achieved—it’s what you’ve overcome.”
Nina introduces the concept of the reverse resume, helping people recognize the hidden strengths built through life’s hardest chapters.
>>You Are Not Your LinkedIn Headline
“We are so much more than our last job title.”
She challenges the conventional resume model, urging listeners to view their lives as full stories—not highlight reels.
>>Resilience = Adaptation, Not Just Persistence
“Grit keeps you going. Resilience changes you.”
Nina explains why true resilience requires positive adaptation, not just stubborn endurance.
>>The Successful Timeline: Redefining What Really Counts
“A career milestone isn’t the same as a life well-lived.”
She shares how mapping your life as a timeline of both triumphs and setbacks can reframe your sense of success.
>>The Lego Mindset
“We each have a unique set of building blocks. The masterpiece is yours to create.”
Using a brilliant Lego analogy, Nina shows how your skills, experiences, and choices can assemble into something no one else can replicate.
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Nina Sossamon-Pogue didn’t build a personal brand around change—she built a life out of it.
In this first of a two-part series, she shares how elite gymnastics hardwired her resilience, how journalism sharpened her communication instincts, and how a strategic leap into tech proved that reinvention is less about following trends—and more about knowing who you are at the core.
For Gen Xers who’ve quietly navigated identity loss, layoffs, industry shifts, and market crashes, Nina’s story is a masterclass in evolving without losing yourself.
>>From Falling Down to Rising Up
“Gymnastics taught me resilience before I even knew the word.”
Nina explains how falling and failing hundreds of times a week built the muscle memory for lifelong adaptability.
>>Losing an Identity, Finding a New One
“I had to figure out who I was without gymnastics.”
She shares the emotional collapse and slow rebuilding that came after losing her first major identity—and how it shaped every future chapter.
>>From Laundromats to Live TV
“One walk through a TV station—and I knew this was it.”
Nina recounts the random campus job that led her from washing football uniforms to anchoring live television for 17 years.
>>Laid Off at the Top
“Voted favorite news anchor—and still shown the door.”
She talks about navigating a devastating layoff that blindsided her mid-career—and the recalibration it forced.
>>Jumping to Tech Before Tech Was Cool
“I didn’t know what SaaS was—but I knew where the world was going.”
Nina shares how she mapped her next career move by combining self-awareness, external advice, and market trends—long before career pivots were branded movements.
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In Part 2 of her conversation, Erica Sosna bridges personal resilience and professional wisdom—sharing how The Career Equation helps both individuals and organizations build careers that actually fit. Instead of offering empty advice, Erica gives a practical, human-centered model that empowers people to align their skills, passions, impact, and environment into a sustainable career path.
For Gen Xers tired of ad-hoc career advice and vague empowerment slogans, this episode offers a grounded, actionable framework to take back control—whether you’re rebuilding, pivoting, or designing your next decade.
>>Turning Recovery Into Renewal
“I used the same frameworks I teach—because they work when life gets real.”
Erica reflects on how personal recovery deepened her belief that career design must be rooted in human needs, not corporate scripts.
>>The Power of Acceptance
“Accept it as if you chose it.”
She shares the life philosophy that fueled her healing—and how it applies to navigating career setbacks, redundancies, and reinventions.
>>Start With the End in Mind
“What do you want to experience—not just achieve?”
Erica explains how vivid future visioning, tied to emotion not status, creates a powerful magnet for sustainable action and career progress.
>>The Career Equation, Demystified
“Skills + Passion + Impact ÷ Environment = Career Sweet Spot.”
She walks through the four critical elements employers and individuals need to align for lasting engagement, growth, and loyalty.
>>Career Conversations That Actually Work
“You wouldn’t run 10 accounting systems. Why have 10 ways to talk about careers?”
Erica shares why companies like Amazon and Nomura are adopting The Career Equation to bring structure, simplicity, and human connection back into career development.
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Erica Sosna was already a respected career strategist, author of The Career Equation, and founder of a successful consultancy. But when a near-fatal accident left her paralyzed in 2022, everything changed.
In this first of a two-part series, Erica shares how she rebuilt her life—and her career—on new terms. From learning to walk again to rethinking the purpose of work itself, she offers a blueprint for reinvention that doesn’t rely on hype or hashtags.
For Gen Xers who know real change isn’t a pivot—it’s a practice—this episode delivers both grit and guidance.
>>The Moment Everything Changed
“One minute I was driving. The next, I was under a car, paralyzed from the waist down.”
Erica recounts the life-altering accident that fractured 15 bones—and forced her into a physical and emotional rebuild.
>>The Career Equation: Born from Personal Experiment
“I had to use my own frameworks to get unstuck.”
She shares how the same career model she teaches—the Career Equation—became her personal blueprint for choosing how to work, live, and heal after trauma.
>>Reinvention Isn’t Always Glamorous
“Returning to work was like returning to solid ground.”
Erica explains why work—done right—became a pillar of stability, not just a paycheck, during the chaos of recovery.
>>Three Days, Full Impact
“I rebuilt my business on a three-day workweek.”
Balancing parenting, rehabilitation, and entrepreneurship, Erica redesigned her career around what mattered most—without apology.
>>Podcasting as Healing, Not Hustle
“The podcast wasn’t a brand move. It was a way to reconnect with my purpose.”
Launching her show was less about expansion—and more about returning to her original mission: helping others design lives worth living.
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Unsung Visionaries & Bold Hearts.EdTech Leadership Awards 2025 Finalist.
15 Million+ All-Time Downloads.
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In Part 2, Adaira shares how she and Resa shaped Micro Skills into a fast-impact, high-utility guide for early career professionals—and why it intentionally skips fluff in favor of action. She opens up about saying yes too often, burning out from “non-potable work,” and how she finally embraced what she calls JOMO—the joy of missing out. We also hear how they trimmed the book’s original title (“Chisel”) and why ambition without discernment leads to a flat career, not a rising one.
Key Highlights of Our Interview:How the Title Came to Be
“We almost called the book Chisel—but MicroSkills came from a medical lecture I never forgot.”
The Real Goal
“We wanted people to finish the book Friday and be better at work Monday. No degrees, no fluff.”
The Myth of Saying Yes
“I believed the mantra: say yes to everything. I ended up burned out, doing too much that didn’t scale.”
From FOMO to JOMO
“The joy of missing out means you choose what matters. You don’t chase everything.”
Horizontal vs. Vertical Growth
“I wasn’t climbing—I was just adding. A real career needs strategy, not just more.”
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Host: Vince Chan | Guest: Adaira Landry MD--Chief Change Officer--
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Dr. Adaira Landry grew up in an under-resourced city, entered Berkeley at 16, and faced early career confusion without access to mentors or professional networks.
In Part 1, she shares the formative life moments that led her into emergency medicine—from stepping in to help save a man’s life on campus to surviving a painful burn injury alone. She also reflects on how mentorship found her late, how her master’s in education shaped her communication style, and why she chose to build a practical, inclusive language around career growth in MicroSkills.
Key Highlights of Our Interview:The First Time It Got Real
“He collapsed outside my classroom. I had no medical training, but I stepped in—and that changed everything.”
Burned and Alone
“I lay on the floor in pain for hours. No phone. No help. That moment never left me.”
Why Mentorship Felt Foreign
“My parents never used the word mentor. It wasn’t part of our world. I had to figure it out late.”
Building Her Own Playbook
“I didn’t know how to navigate the system. Once I learned, I wanted to help others do it faster.”
Education by Design
“I didn’t want to be the kind of teacher who talks to themselves at the front of the room.”
How Micro Skills Got Its Name
“We wanted to go deep on the small things—those overlooked moments that make the biggest difference.”
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Change Ambitiously. Outgrow Yourself.Open a World of Expansive Human Intelligence
for Transformation Gurus, Black Sheep,
Unsung Visionaries & Bold Hearts.EdTech Leadership Awards 2025 Finalist.
15 Million+ All-Time Downloads.
80+ Countries Reached Daily.
Global Top 3% Podcast.
Top 10 US Business.
Top 1 US Careers.>>>150,000+ are outgrowing. Act Today.<<<
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