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Speaker 2: I want to introduce you to On the Job and
Speaker 2: host Avery Thompson. Avery shares stories of people making changes
Speaker 2: in their professional and personal lives. Whether it's a successful
Speaker 2: athlete transitioning into a new career off the field, a
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Speaker 2: stadium beer and hot dog hawker who doubles as a
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Speaker 2: drives them and what lies ahead. These are heartfelt stories
Speaker 2: of people finding their lives. Work on the Job is
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Speaker 2: talks to an author who learned the transformational power of
Speaker 2: making a professional pivot.
Speaker 3: Welcome to On the Job. Since we're focusing on pivots
Speaker 3: this season, we hear at OTJ figured why not check
Speaker 3: in with someone who knows all about pivots, So on
Speaker 3: today's episode, we're going to speak with Adam Markel, who,
Speaker 3: after a pivot of his own to write a book
Speaker 3: called Well What Else? Pivot? Before Adam Markel ever thought
Speaker 3: of becoming an author and keynote speaker. He was a
Speaker 3: lawyer in New York City, and a successful one at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I liked winning, and there's a part
Speaker 1: of you when you beat somebody in court that is
Speaker 1: just an exhilarating experience.
Speaker 3: And there were even parts of the job to fulfill
Speaker 3: them on a psychological level.
Speaker 1: I was bullied as a kid, and at a certain
Speaker 1: point when I decided that wasn't going to be my
Speaker 1: life experience anymore, I became the carnivors part of why
Speaker 1: I became a lawyer.
Speaker 3: And as you can imagine, being a lawyer in Manhattan
Speaker 3: was quite lucrative.
Speaker 1: You can make a lot of money, a lot of money,
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of money in a very controlled environment.
Speaker 3: And yet despite all the success, Adam could feel that
Speaker 3: something was off, or more accurately, he could hear it.
Speaker 1: I would I could describe it almost like it was
Speaker 1: a hum. And I would say, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: saying to somebody, do you hear that? They go, they go,
Speaker 1: what are you talking to about? I'll go, it's that hum.
Speaker 1: It's that there's like this dull thing out that says
Speaker 1: this sucks, this is not right. But nobody heard it
Speaker 1: except me.
Speaker 3: Adam just tried to pretend this hum wasn't there, to
Speaker 3: focus more on his work, or, as he explained it,
Speaker 3: to become even more of an agro aggressive attorney. Until
Speaker 3: one day.
Speaker 1: You know, I ended up with a serious anxiety attack
Speaker 1: at one point, ended up in the hospital, and you know,
Speaker 1: the whole I'm thinking I'm dying of a art attack experience.
Speaker 3: Fortunately for Adam, the doctors checked him out and said
Speaker 3: it was okay. But he knew if he didn't make
Speaker 3: a change soon, it was only a matter of time.
Speaker 3: But to understand the change that Adam made, we need
Speaker 3: to go back a few years, back to Adam's teenage
Speaker 3: years when he was a lifeguard on Long Island.
Speaker 1: I worked at a place called Jones Beach, was really
Speaker 1: active beach on the Atlantic Go and we made and
Speaker 1: I kid you not, we made one hundred plus saves
Speaker 1: every Saturday or Sunday in the summer because we had
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people in that beach.
Speaker 3: And the more Adam thought back on those times, the
Speaker 3: more he realized that not only did he miss the beach,
Speaker 3: but that he drifted so far from that version of
Speaker 3: himself that he loved, and with the support of his
Speaker 3: wife Randy, Adam said goodbye to the rat race of
Speaker 3: New York City and then he and the family packed
Speaker 3: up all their belongings and moved way out to San Diego, California.
Speaker 1: I mean we were uprooting our entire family. I figured
Speaker 1: I was going to have some therapy bills down the road.
Speaker 3: And that massive mid career pivot that Adam made was
Speaker 3: a big influence on his decision to write a book
Speaker 3: all about pivoting.
Speaker 1: We have to override that with design, and that's what
Speaker 1: the book Pivot is about, designing your changes in life.
Speaker 1: We are constantly growing and ourselves are replicating in our bodies.
Speaker 1: Old cells die and new cells are created. This is
Speaker 1: the cycle of life. This is not didn't make it up.
Speaker 1: This is what it is.
Speaker 3: And then when you do feel it's time to make
Speaker 3: a change in your life, Adam wants to remind you
Speaker 3: that it's all about that first step, however small it
Speaker 3: might seem.
Speaker 1: And then you'll be inspired to do the one small thing.
Speaker 1: Like getting pivot, I talk about the process, and that
Speaker 1: process always starts with the tiniest little step, what we
Speaker 1: like to refer to as the small domino.
Speaker 3: But I should clarify that neither Adam nor I are
Speaker 3: saying that you have to drop everything and move across
Speaker 3: the country or change careers.
Speaker 1: There's something really amazing when you find yourself in a role,
Speaker 1: in an organization, in a profession that you could you
Speaker 1: could be there for decades.
Speaker 3: So whether your next pivot is going to be as
Speaker 3: big as Adams or as subtle as a change in
Speaker 3: your perspective, make sure that you listen to that voice
Speaker 3: in your head, to that gut instinct that we're all
Speaker 3: so lucky to have, because come on, folks, haven't you
Speaker 3: been listening? Pivots are so hot right now. For on
Speaker 3: the job, I'm Avery Thompson.
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