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How do I launch more meaning in a new career in middlescence?

How do I launch more meaning in a new career in middlescence?

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Do you want to be part of someone else's mission—or is it time to launch your own? What’s the mission only you can launch?

Our first guest in this new series: Paul Propster recently retired from his position of strategist at NASA and having worked for many years for someone else’s purpose and mission, now seeks a purpose and mission that resonates more closely with his own values.

Paul examines the options before him in this seventh episode of The More the Brainier, he is joined by:

🔹 Jennie Glazer, CEO at Coqual, Centre for Talent Innovation

🔹 Fady Atallah, Creative Director of Cities at Moment Factory

Covered in this episode
  • Childhood stories that have impacted our adult lives
  • What makes a good story?
  • The power of shared stories
  • The burning question: How do I launch a new career with more meaning in middlescence?
  • Purpose after prestige
  • Prototyping vs job seeking
  • What's needed when one mission ends—but you're ready to invent your own
  • The people we work with
  • Taking time
  • Uncomfortable travel
  • Middlescence and mile-stones
  • Communities

Today’s guests:

Paul Propster (Main guest); Jennie Glazer; Fady Atallah

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

Referenced: Orbiting the Giant Hairball (11:35)

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.

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