WEBVTT - MINI: Career 180s

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<v Speaker 1>Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to talk to you on the next half

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<v Speaker 1>an out about Korea one eighties. I've got lovely text

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<v Speaker 1>on one of you yesterday in Patsy's News yesterday was this.

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<v Speaker 1>I think you had some stats packs about people who

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<v Speaker 1>later on their life really regret that they feel trapped

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<v Speaker 1>in the jobs that they kind of didn't think they'd

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<v Speaker 1>be doing for the rest of their lives and they

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<v Speaker 1>wish they could have gone back.

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<v Speaker 2>About fifty people or something when they were surveyed, about

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<v Speaker 2>a fifth thought, nah, I wish I hadn't have done this,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's too late to change now once they're in

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<v Speaker 2>their fifties.

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<v Speaker 1>And then Trisha said that she's in her sixties and

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<v Speaker 1>that's not true. She did a career one eighty where

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<v Speaker 1>she was a cleaner, and she went back and retrained

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<v Speaker 1>and she's now a teacher's aide and has never been

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<v Speaker 1>happy and she's in her sixties. So I'd love to

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<v Speaker 1>hear from people during the next half an hour. It

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<v Speaker 1>might motivate someone today about actually, it's never too late,

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<v Speaker 1>and there are so many people who've got these really

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<v Speaker 1>amazing stories about carea one eighties. There's a friend of

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<v Speaker 1>mine who was my first mentor in radio and one

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<v Speaker 1>of the best radio presenters there's ever been, called Tony

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<v Speaker 1>and he used to be He used to have a

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<v Speaker 1>massive radio show in the UK in a city called Newcastle.

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<v Speaker 1>Newcastle was a big, very very well known and loved

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<v Speaker 1>city in the north of England. Tony's breakfast show was

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<v Speaker 1>so big there. You know how the ratings were. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a percentage of how many out of a universe of

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred percent, how many are listening to your radio show.

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Horn for about eight years had fifty seven percent

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<v Speaker 1>of that city listening to him every single morning. Huge, right,

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<v Speaker 1>you know where we are. Imagine if you're at fifty

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<v Speaker 1>seven percent. And he literally was the city anyway. He

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<v Speaker 1>did breakfast radio for years and years and years and

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<v Speaker 1>years and then just got burnt out. He is now

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<v Speaker 1>a different person, far happier. He's a postman, right, and

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<v Speaker 1>he still listens to my show sometimes and give me

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<v Speaker 1>notes and feedback, which I love. My mentor is still

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<v Speaker 1>out there listening to.

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<v Speaker 2>Me, sweet together, whistling up and down even street listening

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<v Speaker 2>to the show.

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<v Speaker 1>And no one would know and he's a post in

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<v Speaker 1>the city that he used to be the main guy.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an incredible story. So PARSI, do you know anyone

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<v Speaker 1>who's in a career.

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<v Speaker 2>My girlfriend Lennie, who I met in radio. Lenny was

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<v Speaker 2>an absolute news reading legend, so big at Triple M

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<v Speaker 2>in the eighties and had a long radio career, then

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<v Speaker 2>went into PR and has suddenly had a complete change,

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<v Speaker 2>is now studying to be a funeral director with a

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<v Speaker 2>major group here in Melbourne. So that change of you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I think she just got herned out after COVID. She

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<v Speaker 2>work for the Health Department and that was hard. It

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<v Speaker 2>was tough doing PR during those years, and she's thought,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, I need to do something completely different

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<v Speaker 2>and she's taking all those amazing people skills she's got

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<v Speaker 2>and she's going to marry it with the funeral industry

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<v Speaker 2>and she'll be brilliant with families. She'll be so good.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, hardcore course apparently like it's as you can imagine,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty involved, but complete change.

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<v Speaker 1>Directors. You met the one Alex that we have for

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<v Speaker 1>my mother in law. Last year she made what is

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<v Speaker 1>just like the worst time for my wife and her

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<v Speaker 1>sister going through all. It's just like this overwhelming admin

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<v Speaker 1>you have to get into immediately when you're also trying

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<v Speaker 1>to process grief. She was incredible, just like they make

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<v Speaker 1>such a difference in people's lives going through that.

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