S4-EP5: Debbie and Julie-Roxane Dissect How Reinventing Your Life Really Works
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SUMMARY
You hear so much these days about reinvention and reinventing your life. But how does that really work?
EPISODE NOTES
Debbie brings her producer Julie-Roxane back on the show. Or rather, the opposite.
Julie-Roxane takes control of the mic to interview Debbie about her experiences of reinventing her life, starting at age 14 and continuing up to the present as she turns 70. Together they explore what life reinvention really means and how it works.
It’s not that Debbie is a perfect model for life reinvention. Rather, what emerges in their conversation is a surprising life pattern.
Why would a shy teen embrace an adventure in another country?
What makes someone radically change course in a career?
What does personality type have to do with a propensity for reinvention?
Mentioned in this episode or useful:
- The Corporate Blogging Book by Debbie Weil (Penguin Portfolio, 2006)
- Season 2, Episode 6: Debbie’s Story: What Happens When You Connect the Dots Backward
- Season 3, Episode 20: Jeff Hamaoui on Navigating the Messy Middle of Transitions
- Season 3, Episode 25: Debbie Weil on Turning 70, Mortality, and Making the Most of Growing Older
- Julie-Roxane’s podcast with her husband: FAR OUT #148 ~ Going our Separate Ways
- Marriage needs tending just like a base camp (Deseret News, March 15, 1992)
- The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck (Anniversary Edition, Touchstone, 2003)
- Network Solutions (home of Debbie’s brief corporate career)
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