Do you want to be part of someone else's mission—or is it time to launch your own? What’s the mission only you can launch?

Our first guest in this new series: Paul Propster recently retired from his position of strategist at NASA and having worked for many years for someone else’s purpose and mission, now seeks a purpose and mission that resonates more closely with his own values. 

Paul examines the options before him in this seventh episode of The More the Brainier, he is joined by: 

🔹 Jennie Glazer, CEO at Coqual, Centre for Talent Innovation

🔹 Fady Atallah, Creative Director of Cities at Moment Factory

Covered in this episode

• Childhood stories that have impacted our adult lives
• What makes a good story?
• The power of shared stories
• The burning question: How do I launch a new career with more meaning in middlescence?
• Purpose after prestige
• Prototyping vs job seeking
• What's needed when one mission ends—but you're ready to invent your own
• The people we work with
• Taking time
• Uncomfortable travel
• Middlescence and mile-stones
• Communities

Today’s guests:

Paul Propster (Main guest); Jennie Glazer; Fady Atallah

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

Referenced: Orbiting the Giant Hairball (11:35)

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.