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RESET with Joel Comm

RESET with Joel Comm

By: Joel Comm
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RESET with Joel Comm is a conversation for anyone who’s ever had life fall apart and wondered what comes next.

Every episode begins the same way: with one honest, disarming question that cuts straight to the truth. No bios. No hype. No small talk. Just two humans talking about the moments that broke them, the choices that reshaped them, and the wisdom they wish they’d had sooner.

Joel Comm—author, creator, and lifelong reinventor—invites guests to share the resets that changed everything: divorce, collapse, reinvention, identity shifts, career pivots, spiritual awakenings, creative rebirths, and the “I didn’t see this coming” chapters we all face eventually.

If you’re navigating your own reset—or feel one coming—this show is your companion in the dark and your spark in the light. Real stories. Hard-earned truth. Zero pretense.

This is RESET. And it starts with a single question.

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Episodes
  • 75 Years, 7 Careers, and One Rule for a Life Well Lived – Ken McArthur
    Dec 8 2025

    What does a life well lived actually look like?

    At 75, Ken McArthur has already lived more careers than most people have jobs:
    computer programmer calculating orbits for NASA, pet store owner, police officer, rock musician, studio owner, film producer, community builder, and now the founder of a new AI-powered platform for human connection.

    In this episode of RESET, we don’t talk tactics or funnels. We talk about life:

    • Volunteering for the Army in the Vietnam era

    • Writing code on punch cards and 16K machines

    • Buying a pet store because one fish had 100 babies

    • Working nights as a cop in Lakeland, FL

    • Building a recording studio and playing music through the best decade of rock

    • Creating live events that changed thousands of lives

    • Bootstrapping everything (movies, software, platforms) with no VC money

    • Why he sold it all, moved to 80 acres in Missouri… and what went wrong

    • The simple question he asks people: “What do you want to do when you get up in the morning?”

    • His new project, ConnectLab, and how he’s thinking about AI, connection, and the future

    • Why he’s on a five-year plan at 75 – and what he wants those years to mean

    Ken’s core philosophy is disarmingly simple:

    Find something. Make it better. Then do it faster for more people.

    If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s “too late” to start over, or whether you’ve already missed your shot… this conversation will mess with that belief in the best possible way.

    👉 Watch now and see what a lifetime of pivots really looks like.

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    55 mins
  • When Life Breaks You: Reinventing Yourself at 50 with Brian G. Johnson
    Nov 22 2025

    When you hit rock bottom in midlife, you face a choice: crumble or rebuild.

    In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Brian G. Johnson opens up about the moment his life collapsed — the divorce, the identity crisis, the loneliness, and the painful process of starting over at 50. No intros. No bio. No fluff. We jump straight into the truth.

    We talk about:

    • What happens when the life you built disappears overnight

    • The emotional fallout of divorce after decades together

    • Finding yourself again when everything feels unfamiliar

    • Creativity as a survival mechanism

    • Why reinvention is the real lifelong skill

    • What he wishes he could tell his 30-year-old self

    • Aging, meaning, curiosity, and building a life you actually want

    • The brutal reality of YouTube — and why it’s “simple but hard”

    Brian’s story isn’t about business tactics or internet success.
    It’s about rebuilding identity, rediscovering purpose, and learning who you are when the old life dies.

    If you’re in the middle of your own reset — or feel one coming — this conversation is a compass.

    This is RESET with Joel Comm.
    It starts with one honest question.

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    49 mins
  • Is This the World's Oldest Website?
    Nov 9 2025

    In July 1995, I launched my first website — WorldVillage.com — one of the earliest family-friendly destinations for software reviews, games, and educational content.

    Built on curiosity and a love for the web, WorldVillage became one of the first 20,000 sites ever created. Within a year, we had nearly a million visitors. But as the years passed and the Internet evolved, the site faded into the background.

    Here’s the crazy part: 30 years later, I still own it.

    And when I asked ChatGPT how many of those original websites are still online today, the estimate was jaw-dropping — maybe 250 total, and only a few dozen still in the hands of their original owners.

    In this episode, I revisit the story of WorldVillage — how it began, what it became, and why I’m now considering bringing it back.

    💬 Here’s what I’d love from you:
    What should I do with this piece of Internet history?
    Should I revive it as a “Cool Site of the Day”-style project — celebrating what’s still great about the open web?

    Drop your ideas and feedback in the comments.

    — Joel Comm

    #JoelComm #WorldVillage #InternetHistory #RetroWeb #VintageInternet #1990sWebsites #TechHistory #WebRevival #DigitalArchaeology #OldInternet #CoolSiteOfTheDay #Rediscover #EarlyWeb

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    8 mins
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