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A Life Worth Working — Finding Purpose & Overcoming Setbacks is a podcast hosted by Dr. Michelle Weise and the Rev. Dana Allen Walsh, personal development & resilience specialists. Our guests illuminate the scraps, screw-ups, and detours of our work lives as living proof that nothing is ever wasted in these spaghetti pathways of our careers. The hardest moments we endure, from epic failures to employment gaps and crushing disappointments, all become fertile ground for new growth and endless possibilities. As we navigate the winding, messy pathways of life, perhaps the truest calling is simply this: to stay open to wonder, courageous in release, faithful in response—and to trust that, step by step, we are shaping a life worth working.
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Average audio length:
19 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
52 episodes
since April 5, 2025
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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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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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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. …
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 streami…
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 b…
Episode of A Life Worth Working | Guest: Marc Freedman | Co-Generation, Mentorship & the Multigenerational Future
We talk about loneliness as if it’s a personal failing. We talk about polarization as if it’s simply political. But Marc’s life work points to a structural cause hiding in plain sig…
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