Look to the past to shape the present
Before Breakfast
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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Youthful interests might suggest what you'd enjoy doing now
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:13.6 | Good morning. This is Laura. |
| 0:17.3 | Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | Today's tip is that if you want something new in your present life, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. |
| 0:28.5 | Today's tip is that if you want something new in your present life, look to your past for ideas. |
| 0:36.4 | So I have noticed that a lot of people in their 40s and 50s crave a professional reset. |
| 0:40.1 | Some people have been out of the workforce while parenting, |
| 0:46.8 | and they are ready to re-enter. Some people have made enough money to retire comfortably when the time comes, and they're looking for more meaning or more fun in the next season of work. Other people love their careers for years or decades, but the spark is gone, and they want to |
| 1:00.8 | find new work that they will be excited about. |
| 1:04.1 | Then there are people who still love their careers but want to add a new twist or want to |
| 1:08.2 | add a serious hobby or volunteer outlet on the side. |
| 1:12.0 | I have been reflecting on mid-career resets since I interviewed Dr. Jillian Goddard for this |
| 1:17.3 | podcast a few months ago. |
| 1:20.0 | Jillian is a practicing endocrinologist, and she recently launched Hot Flash, a newsletter |
| 1:26.4 | about menopause that has quickly scored a lot of readers |
| 1:29.3 | looking for accurate information about this hot topic. In our conversation, Jillian mentioned |
| 1:35.5 | that she did journalism when she was much younger. That seems totally unrelated to her career |
| 1:41.0 | in endocrinology. But she has returned to journalism in a way, and combined |
| 1:46.4 | it with her medical work by writing her newsletter. Her college pursuit connects with a midlife |
| 1:52.6 | twist on a career she loves. She is a physician and a writer now. It makes sense that what we did as kids or teenagers or young adults would still speak to us. |
| 2:06.2 | We love these things in the past, and while we might be different people now, |
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