Debbie Weil brings the one and only Guy Kawasaki back on the show to kick off Season 3. It's a surprisingly revealing episode.

Welcome back to Season 3 of The Gap Year Podcast. We’ve got a slightly new name, a new look, and new music! This is a space to discuss change and transition, the challenge of midlife reinvention, and the collective gap year we are all living through together right now. Guests include well-known authors like Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin, Chip Conley, and Marc Freedman. As well as inspiring individuals navigating their “What’s next?” More at https://debbieweil.com/podcast

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Debbie Weil brings her husband, Sam Harrington, back on the show to reflect on 2020 (the gap year for everyone), to wrap up Season 2, and to talk about Season 3 of The Gap Year Podcast.

Debbie Weil brings Chip Conley back on the show to discuss the future of travel in the current pandemic and what travel means for so many of us.

Debbie Weil talks to Blanche Colson, a 67-year-old Black woman who reached out to ask about coming on the show because, she said, her perspective is an important one it and was not being represented. She was right. "I'm not rich or famous," she told Debbie. "I'm just an ordinary person." Of course, there was more to Blanche's story than that.

Debbie Weil interviews the one and only Seth Godin. They talk about his definition of a gap year, whether he's ever taken one himself (yes and no), what he's been up to over the past several months of social distancing (he has not paused), aging (but not yet), and more.

Rep. Genevieve McDonald of the Maine State House has stepped up into an expanded role during the pandemic, reinventing herself as a leader and a lifeline for hundreds of her constituents. She and Debbie Weil talk about how she answers 100 emails, calls, and text messages a day while also taking care of two-year-old twin daughters and lobster fishing out of Stonington, ME, as captain of her own boat.

Debbie Weil speaks with Anne Fadiman, a brilliant author and beloved writing teacher, about the writing process and how we should all be a witness to history, as writers, during this unprecedented time of a pandemic.

Debbie Weil & Sam Harrington talk about their evolving state of mind in the continuing pandemic and what the new normal of social distancing and quarantining means.

Debbie talks to Kim Klaft, a 63-year-old woman who spent 2019 on a self-organized global gap year, traveling and volunteering in 25 countries. Kim quit a well-paid position as a nonprofit executive near Detroit, MI to work in soup kitchens, food banks, homeless shelters, orphanages and in hurricane relief efforts as she moved around the globe.