She Won Olympic Gold. Then She Had to Figure out Who She Was without It.
Episode: A Life Worth Working | Guest: Shawn Johnson East | Olympic Champion, Entrepreneur & Mother
Shawn Johnson won the gold medal on the balance beam at the 2008 Olympics. She was 16. She had already been told, implicitly and explicitly, that this was the point — the summit of what she had been …
He’s a Pastor. He Went on a Reality Show Called “The Snake.” It Was More Complicated than It Sounds.
Episode: A Life Worth Working | Guest: Jacob Buchholz | Pastor, Deaf Culture & Reality TV
Jacob Buchholz is a progressive pastor, a fluent signer in American, Romanian, and Russian sign language, the co-founder of a trans-denominational deaf church — and a cast member on The Snake, now streaming o…
She Quit Finance, Climbed Everest, and Picked Up Her Viola.
Episode: A Life Worth Working | Guest: Rebecca Long | Everest Summiteer, Violist & Career Reinventor
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
The moment Rebecca realized eight years in banking wasn’t a career — it was a slow depression
What she gave up when she quit: a salary, a relationship, a plan. What…
From Orphan to Berkeley Engineer
Episode: A Life Worth Working | Guest: Chris Atageka | Engineer, Entrepreneur, Author of Return to Human
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What You’ll Learn in This Episode
* Why Chris slept with his US passport and then buried it in his backyard — and what that tells us about the kind of fear that doesn’t lea…
Michelle Weise: Be a Skills Translator, AI-proof Your Future
Here's a chilling thought: experts are saying that we may soon be sustaining 100-year work lives. If that's true, then how many careers might we have? How will we know where to upskill? And how will we keep bagged lunches interesting for so many years?
Michelle R. Weise, researcher and author of L…
Recalibration Is Persistence
What if joy is the most radical tool for change we have?
Yana Buhrer Tavanier grew up in communist Bulgaria, where speaking the wrong truth could get you declared mentally ill. After nearly a decade as an award-winning investigative journalist — and after managing to close exactly one of the fifty-…
The Ambitious Little S#*!:
What happens when the institutions you trusted turn out to be the problem?
Matt Stoller spent his twenties credentialing himself — Harvard, Congressional staffing, policy circles — and trusting that the credentialed people knew what they were doing. The Iraq War changed that. The 2008 financial cri…
"This Must Be So Hard for You"
What You’ll Learn:
* The devastating story of Brian Mendell — eight treatment programs, thirteen months of sobriety, and a healthcare system that failed him at every turn, including the day before he died.
* How Gary discovered that only 4% of people with substance use disorder receive evidence-bas…
“You Don’t Have to Know What’s Next. You Just Have to Know where You Are Isn’t Right.”
Episode: A Life Worth Working | Guest: Sarah Klock | Manager of The Andover Bookstore, Former Columbia PhD Candidate, Three-Time Mom
Sarah Klock’s story is about a woman who finally stopped pretending the wrong thing was the right thing and walked through the next door she could find. Sarah spent m…
An Invitation to My Soul
What does it mean to live a life of character — not just teach it?
“When we think about people in our own lives we look at and admire, it’s not those who achieve great awards usually. It’s those who actually were kind to us and demonstrated courage in a time of moral conflict, who made sacrifices f…
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