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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that if you want something new in your

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Speaker 1: present life, look to your past for ideas. So I

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Speaker 1: have noticed that a lot of people in their forties

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Speaker 1: and fifties crave a professional reset. Some people have been

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Speaker 1: out of the workforce while parenting and they are ready

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Speaker 1: to re enter. Some people have made enough money to

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Speaker 1: retire comfortably when the time comes, and they're looking for

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Speaker 1: more meaning or more fun in the next season of work.

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Speaker 1: Other people love their careers for years or decades, but

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Speaker 1: the spark is gone and they want to find new

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Speaker 1: work that they will be excited about. Then there are

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Speaker 1: people who still love their careers but want to add

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Speaker 1: a new twist, or want to add a serious hobby

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Speaker 1: or volunteer outlet on the side. I have been reflecting

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Speaker 1: on mid career resets since I interviewed doctor Gillian Goddard

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Speaker 1: for this podcast a few months ago. Jillian is a

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Speaker 1: practicing endocrinologist, and she recently launched Hot Flash, a newsletter

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Speaker 1: about menopause that has quickly scored a lot of readers

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Speaker 1: looking for accurate information about this hot topic. In our conversation,

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Speaker 1: Gillian mentioned that she did journalism when she was much younger.

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Speaker 1: That seems totally unrelated to her career in indo chronology,

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Speaker 1: but she has returned to journalism in a way and

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Speaker 1: combined it with her medical work by writing her newsletter.

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Speaker 1: Her college pursuit connects with a midlife twist on a

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Speaker 1: career she loves. She is a physician and a writer. Now.

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Speaker 1: It makes sense that what we did as kids, or

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Speaker 1: teenagers or young adults would still speak to us. We

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Speaker 1: loved these things in the past, and while we might

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Speaker 1: be different people now, we are not so different that

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Speaker 1: former interests might not still spark something. So if you

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Speaker 1: are trying to figure out what is next vocationally, one

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Speaker 1: option is to consider the classes, extracurriculars, hobbies, jobs, and

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Speaker 1: volunteer roles you loved when you were younger. Is there

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Speaker 1: anything your past self thought was cool that your present

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Speaker 1: self might still want to do. There are lots of

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Speaker 1: ways you could twist things together. Did you want to

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Speaker 1: be a singer when you were a kid, but you

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Speaker 1: ended up as an accountant? Could you serve as the

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Speaker 1: CFO for your city's opera company? Perhaps growing up you

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Speaker 1: spend all your free time reading. You dreamed of being

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Speaker 1: a librarian, but became a lawyer instead. If your kids

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Speaker 1: are launched and your law school loans are paid off,

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Speaker 1: it may not be too late to earn your MLS

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Speaker 1: and become a librarian after all. Or perhaps you could

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Speaker 1: stick with your current career but provide pro bono legal

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Speaker 1: services to the library or serve on your library foundation's board.

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Speaker 1: Maybe your favorite job ever was teaching at a summer

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Speaker 1: academic program during college, but now you lead your family business.

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Speaker 1: Could you teach a night class at a nearby business

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Speaker 1: school to combine your experience of being a small business

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Speaker 1: leader with your love of teaching. Or maybe when you

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Speaker 1: were in college you worked in the kitchen of a

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Speaker 1: fabulous restaurant, and imagine being a chef one day. Whether

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Speaker 1: you are a doctor or a teacher or communications officer,

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Speaker 1: these days, you could lean into your love of cooking

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Speaker 1: by hosting dinner parties or cooking for a local feeding

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Speaker 1: ministry in your off hours. If you are at a

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Speaker 1: point in your life when you are craving something new,

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Speaker 1: think about what your past self loved to do. This

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Speaker 1: might point the way to a total career change. But

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Speaker 1: it also might point the way toward job crafting, as

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Speaker 1: doctor Jillian Goddard has done, or it might lead to

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Speaker 1: something rich on the side. All of these could be

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Speaker 1: fabulous outcomes. Is there anything from your youth that you

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Speaker 1: would like to add to your present life. You can

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Speaker 1: let me know at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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