In this episode, Simon Johnson, Professor at MIT Sloan and co-founder of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance, tells us about how he transitioned from his first career aspiration -- which was to be a rescue helicopter pilot for the Navy – to becoming the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and a tenured Professor.

We cover his journey plus:

Paul Sagan, Managing Director at General Catalyst and former CEO and Director at Akamai Technologies, shares his career journey with us. We had a great conversation with Paul and learned a lot from his journey through journalism to being the CEO of Akamai. In this episode, we talked with Paul about the following and more:

In this episode, Chris Bell, CEO of Whele, tells us about how he achieved his career goal of running his own company. We cover his career journey plus: 

In this episode, we spoke with John Chisholm, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and author of Unleash Your Inner Company: Use Passion and Perseverance to Build Your Ideal Business. John tells us about how an early setback in his career,  getting fired from his job, eventually led him to build and grow a company that is part of Google today. He also describes how he persevered through the dotcom bust, taking a $300,000 personal loan and putting his house as collateral to keep his company afloat.

John Harthorne, founder and former CEO of MassChallenge talks to us about his career path and how pursuing struggle is the only way for him to find meaning and joy. MassChallenge is a start up accelerator headquartered in Boston, MA and as of 2019, it has helped almost 2,000 start ups raise over $5B in funding which have gone on to generate almost $3B in revenue. In this episode, we cover a lot of topics, including: 

In this episode, Elyse Neumeier, Chief People Officer at EverQuote, tells us about how she embraced the many twists and turns of her career. 

We cover her journey plus: