Lou Blaser

Second Breaks

Health EN ↓ 253 episodes

Coffee chats with people I want to learn from — about life, work, becoming, and figuring things out (often in midlife, but not always). Hosted by Lou Blaser. About The Host: Lou Blaser is a corporate escapee turned writer, podcast host, and resident philosopher-next-door. She writes We’re All Getting Older — a newsletter about joy, purpose, and figuring out what matters now. She’s also the author of Break Free: The Courage to Reinvent Yourself and Your Career. loublaser.substack.com

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Lou Blaser

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[03] Going Back to School to Start a New Career 01.06.2017 26:00

Starting a new career sometimes mean going back to school. But this can be challenging especially when you’ve been out of it a while and making a living. Brooke Erickson is a functional nutritionist based in Washington, doing the kind of work in an area that has always meant something personal to her. Highlights of Episode 3: My lesson learned about using fear as an indicator for growth Where Bro...

[02] Aligning Your Work With Your Core Desired Feelings 01.06.2017 32:21

Gail Jessen, a veteran in the Higher Education space, uses an illness diagnosis to align work with her core desired feelings and reinvent her career. Highlights of Episode 2 What core desired feelings are How we can use those core desired feelings to set our goals How our bodies give us signals that our work may be misaligned with our core desired feelings How Gail manages to quit her job and trav...

[01] Start a Side-Gig and Turn it Into a New Career 01.06.2017 35:19

This being the inaugural episode of this new podcast, Second Breaks, I set the scene for the show so you know what to expect going forward. My guest is Shannon Davis, who shares her career change story from Executive Assistant to Business Owner and Entrepreneur, in under two years. Highlights of Episode 1 I give a brief description, format, and focus of the SB Podcast My own career reinvention st...