JORMAZIN'

Have you ever left a job, finished a project, or moved into a new chapter of life - but somehow, part of you was still holding on?

Letting go doesn't have to mean forgetting what you're grateful for.

In this JORMAZIN' Pause, we explore how to consciously complete a chapter of life, appreciate what it gave us, and create space for what comes next.

I share a personal story about a job I left years ago but never really let go of. A chapter that brought me important relationships, learning, and even my path into coaching.

As a Co-Active Coach who loves learning and often rushes toward the next certification, I'm discovering how powerful it can be to stop and acknowledge what we've experienced.

Together, we'll explore how gratitude can help us let go without losing what truly matters.

And I'll guide you through a gentle reflection to discover what might be ready for completion in your own life.

Which chapter of your life is still open - and what would you like to thank it for before allowing it to be complete?

Take a quiet moment. Think of one thing that chapter gave you. Something you learned, someone you met, or who you became.

Maybe all it needs is a conscious thank you.

And perhaps that's where freedom begins.

If this reflection gave you something to think about, subscribe and share it with someone who might need this Pause too.

JORMAZIN' - your space to pause, calm down, reconnect to your roots, awaken your spirit, and remember what truly matters.

You are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.

I'm Jorma, and you're amazing.

Jorma — Co-Active Coach | 20+ years in corporate life

Website: http://www.jormaschneider.com/

Free Chemistry/Sample Coaching Session:

https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

Substack:

https://substack.com/@jormazin

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

Timestamps:

00:00:00 The Open Tabs — Why We Hold On

00:00:50 The Espresso — Always Looking Ahead

00:02:20 Finishing vs. Completing

00:03:20 The Job I Never Really Left

00:05:40 How Gratitude Creates Energy

00:06:30 Completion Doesn't Mean the End

00:07:45 Your Moment of Reflection

00:09:45 I Am Complete

Music made with SUNO AI V6.

What if the reason something feels off in midlife isn’t that your whole life is wrong — but that some important parts of you have slowly become too quiet?

For more than 20 years in corporate life, I became very good at turning up certain channels:

Work. Responsibility. Performance. Solving problems. Getting things done.

All valuable.

But at some point, I started wondering:

What happened to the other sliders?

Play. Creativity. Connection. Adventure. Nature. Feeling fully alive in my own body.

Maybe what we sometimes call a midlife crisis is not always a request to blow up our lives.

Maybe it’s an invitation to look at the mixing desk and ask:

What part of me has become too quiet?

In this episode of JORMAZIN’, I explore the idea of life as a mixing desk, why the settings that once served us may no longer be the right settings today, and how we can consciously turn up the volume on what feels alive and essential now.

I also share two very different volume knobs from my own life — inline skating in a skatepark and simply going for a walk with my wife — and introduce a reflection I’m calling the Wheel of Fully Alive.

Because feeling more alive doesn’t necessarily mean making life more extreme.

Sometimes it means noticing what brings you back into fuller contact with your own life.

Imagine your own life as a mixing desk.

What is already very loud?

Work?

Responsibility?

Achievement?

Being there for everyone else?

And then ask:

What part of me has been too quiet for too long?

Choose just one slider.

Then ask:

What would turning it up by 5% look like this week?

You don’t need to reinvent your life today.

Maybe you don’t need a completely different life at all.

Maybe you just need a more conscious mix.

If this reflection gave you something to think about, subscribe and share it with someone who might need this Pause too.

You’re Amazing!

Jorma — Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

🎵 Songs used in this episode:

I created the song used during the Wheel of Fully Alive moments with AI on Suno.

Listen here:

https://suno.com/s/f5WOeCceDzdN5xc2

Song: A Place in the Stars: Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: 1OGMH2XZ0BFHWN7W

00:00:00 — Imagine Your Life Had a Mixing Desk

00:00:47 — What Has Become Too Quiet?

00:01:24 — The Channels Life Teaches Us to Turn Up

00:02:25 — Why a Good Life Can Still Feel Flat

00:03:05 — Inline Skating: One of My Volume Knobs

00:04:06 — Aliveness Doesn’t Have to Mean Adrenaline

00:04:45 — The Wheel of Fully Alive

00:06:00 — Why Every Slider Should NOT Be at 10

00:06:55 — Are These Still Your Settings?

00:07:45 — What Is Essential to You Now?

00:08:24 — Turn One Slider Up by 5%

00:09:13 — Don’t Turn Aliveness Into Another Project

00:09:46 — Maybe You Just Need a Different Mix

What if the reason you don’t know what you want anymore is that you’ve spent so long listening to what you should do that it has become difficult to hear what you actually want?

For more than 20 years in corporate life, I became very good at knowing what came next - the next meeting, responsibility, target or problem to solve.

At some point, I noticed something uncomfortable:

I had become incredibly good at managing my calendar - and strangely unfamiliar with myself.

That led me to notice two words that quietly shape so many of our choices:

I should.

Some of those “shoulds” may have helped us succeed, belong or feel safe. But what happens when we change - and the voice doesn’t?

In this episode of JORMAZIN`, I explore how old expectations can start sounding like our own voice, why knowing what we should do can become easier than knowing what we actually want, and how a simple Pause can bring us back to conscious choice.

Think of one area of your life where you often say:

I should…

Then pause and ask:

Who is speaking?

Is this still true for me now?

You don’t need to change your life today.

Maybe the first step is simply noticing.

If this reflection gave you something to think about, subscribe and share it with someone who might need this Pause too.

You’re Amazing!

Jorma - Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

00:00:00 — “I should…”

00:00:34 — Who is speaking?

00:01:12 — Why this question matters to me

00:01:55 — 20+ years, 10+ companies, 15 roles

00:02:48 — The free Saturday that didn’t feel free

00:03:42 — Becoming the person I thought I needed to be

00:04:52 — When an old identity keeps leading your life

00:05:50 — Where our “shoulds” come from

00:06:48 — Exhaustion, expectations and staying in an old role

00:07:38 — The Pause: Who is speaking?

00:08:42 — Choosing before automatically obeying

00:09:14 — Closing reflection

What if reinventing yourself is not really about becoming someone new?

For more than 20 years in corporate life, I changed roles, companies and systems again and again. And almost every transition gave me another opportunity to reinvent myself.

But after recently changing companies once more, something felt different.

This time, I did not enter the new system asking:

Who do I need to become here?

I entered as the person I already am — corporate professional, coach, curious human being, someone building his own practice and still learning every day.

And then I watched Toy Story 5.

Underneath the story about toys, technology and staying relevant in a changing world, I saw something surprisingly familiar: what happens when the role that once gave you purpose, value or belonging begins to change?

That question stayed with me.

And it made me wonder whether all those years of reinvention were actually leading somewhere else.

Maybe reinvention is not about creating a new version of yourself every time life changes.

Maybe it is about becoming more and more able to show up as who you already are.

In this episode of You’re Amazing, I explore that with you.

We look at:

• what happens when an old role no longer fits
• why role changes can easily start feeling like identity changes
• what 20+ years of corporate transitions have taught me about reinvention
• what Toy Story 5 made me notice about relevance, usefulness and belonging
• the difference between adapting to a new system and abandoning yourself to fit it
• why a Pause can help you recognize what genuinely needs to change — and what does not

how your next chapter might become less about creating a “new you” and more about allowing more of you to show up

Think about one role in your life that matters to you right now.

If that role changed tomorrow:

What would you want to carry with you?

What might you finally be ready to leave behind?

And when the titles, expectations and old ideas about who you should be become quiet for a moment:

Who do you want to be when you walk into what comes next?

If this reflection gave you a different way of looking at your own transition, subscribe and share it with someone who may be standing between an old role and a new chapter right now.

I am Jorma and

You’re Amazing!

Jorma — Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

00:00:00 — What Toy Story 5 can teach us about reinvention

00:00:50 — Welcome to You’re Amazing

00:01:20 — My newest corporate transition feels different

00:03:35 — 20+ years of reinventing myself

00:05:35 — What Toy Story 5 has to do with identity

00:07:25 — When your role starts becoming your identity

00:09:15 — The Pause: Who am I right now?

00:10:50 — Maybe reinvention isn’t about becoming someone new

00:12:35 — Bringing the same human into different systems

00:14:10 — Your question for the next chapter

This reflection was inspired by Pixar’s Toy Story 5.

Learn more about the film and the people behind it on the official Pixar page:

https://www.pixar.com/toy-story-5

Thank you to the filmmakers, artists, storytellers and everyone involved in creating a story that opened this unexpected Pause for me.

Toy Story 5, Toy Story, Pixar, Disney, and related characters, names, images, footage and trademarks are the property of their respective rights holders.

This video is an independent commentary and personal reflection and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Disney or Pixar.

Any referenced material is used only where relevant for commentary, criticism and discussion. No ownership of third-party copyrighted or trademarked material is claimed.

Visual note: The thumbnail for this video was created with the support of generative AI, using an original image of me as reference. It is a creative visual and does not depict a real scene.

If you are stuck in a decision, waiting for clarity, or trying to control what comes next, this conversation is for you.

In this episode of JORMAZIN`, I’m joined by Jeffrey Schwab, founder of Uncertain Pathfinders and wonderfully, Chief Possibility Officer.

Together, we explore how uncertainty can become less of an enemy and more of a companion. Not because everything becomes easy. But because we may not need the whole path before taking one small honest step.

Jeffrey uses coaching, facilitation, applied improv, and playful experimentation to help people meet the unknown with more curiosity, courage, and connection. In our conversation, he shares how improv shaped his relationship with uncertainty, why he chose to put the word “uncertain” into his work, and how small everyday experiments can shift the way we relate to not knowing.

This episode is not about fixing uncertainty or forcing clarity.

It is about moving from overthinking toward action.

From control toward curiosity.

From needing the perfect plan toward trusting the next small “bunny hop.”

And from feeling alone in uncertainty toward remembering that not knowing is part of being human.

In this conversation:

How to move when clarity has not arrived yet

Why uncertainty does not always mean you are lost

How improv can help us trust what emerges

What it means to choose curiosity over fear

Why small “bunny hops” can be more useful than perfect long-term plans

How playfulness can create connection, even in serious moments

Why being too attached to outcomes can limit possibility

A simple everyday exercise to shift your relationship with not knowing

&

Why saying “I don’t know” can be honest, human, and connecting

Question for your week:

Where in my life am I waiting for certainty before taking one honest step?

Or more simply:

What becomes possible if I let uncertainty be my friend for a moment?

If this conversation supported you, follow or subscribe - and if someone came to mind while listening, send this episode to them.

You’re amazing! Not because you always know the path. But because something in you can keep listening, choosing, and becoming, even when the path is unclear.

Guest:

Jeffrey Schwab

Founder of Uncertain Pathfinders | Chief Possibility Officer

🌐 www.uncertainpathfinders.com

💼 Jeffrey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-schwab

💼 Uncertain Pathfinders on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncertain-pathfinders/

🎧 Uncertain Pathfinders Podcast: available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and other platforms

Host:

Jorma

Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

Timestamps:

00:00:00 — The Running Bear cold open

00:00:16 — Welcome to JORMAZIN`

00:01:52 — Meet Jeffrey Schwab, Chief Possibility Officer

00:03:55 — How uncertainty became Jeffrey’s topic

00:06:09 — What improv teaches us about not knowing

00:08:39 — Jeffrey’s personal relationship with uncertainty

00:12:29 — Choosing curiosity over fear

00:12:46 — Rainbow thinking, bunny hops and small adventures

00:15:48 — Why structure does not always create certainty

00:17:30 — What happens when people start to play

00:23:34 — A live improv exercise: The Running Bear

00:32:38 — What children teach us about playfulness and uncertainty

00:37:20 — Being too attached to outcomes

00:42:28 — Simple exercises to embrace uncertainty today

00:48:46 — Where to find Jeffrey and Uncertain Pathfinders

You’re amazing. I mean it.

And maybe part of your amazingness is that you know more than you allow yourself to know.

Not in a loud way. Not always in a clear way.

Sometimes it starts as a tiny signal. A feeling in your body. A word that appears. A silence that suddenly feels full. A sense that there is something more here.

Before you know, you sense.

In this Pause, I explore what happens when you stop ignoring that quiet signal and start listening to it more closely.

Because sometimes the thing you sense is not asking you to be certain. Maybe it is asking you to pay attention.

In this Pause:

Why your first signal is often the one you want to dismiss

What happens when you override what you feel because you cannot explain it yet

Why the body often notices before the mind catches up

How one honest sentence can shift a conversation

What it means to trust what you sense without turning it into truth too quickly

Question for your week:

Where in your life do you already sense something but you keep waiting for permission, proof, or perfect words?

If this Pause helped you, subscribe and share it with someone who may need a little more space to listen to what they already sense.

I am Jorma and

You’re Amazing!

Jorma - Coach | 20+ years corporate L&D

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

🆘 Crisis support in your country: https://findahelpline.com

00:00:00 — Before you know, you sense

00:00:30 — The question behind this episode

00:00:50 — Welcome to You’re Amazing

00:02:00 — One moment that stayed with me

00:04:15 — The body often notices before the mind catches up

00:06:50 — Safety note

00:07:20 — Three moments to notice

00:10:10 — The Pause — a guided reflection

00:12:00 — Your question for the week

What if the person you are looking for is not someone you need to become, but someone you need to remember?

In this Pause, I explore what changes when we stop treating ourselves like a problem to solve and start meeting ourselves with curiosity again.

Because some of the things we call self-knowledge may actually be old stories we have repeated for so long that they started to feel like truth:

“I’m not disciplined.”

“I always overthink.”

“I’m bad at relationships.”

“This is just who I am.”

But what if those stories are not the whole truth?

What if growth does not always mean becoming more?

What if sometimes it means pausing long enough to remember what has always been there?

In this Pause:

Why growth does not always mean becoming more

How old stories can quietly turn into identity

What changes when you ask, “Is this still true?”

Why curiosity can bring you back to yourself

How to remember one thing that is still true in you

Question for your week:

What have you decided about yourself that deserves another look?

If this Pause supported you, follow or subscribe and share it with someone who may need a moment to remember who they are today.

You’re Amazing.

Jorma Schneider — Coach | 20+ years in corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

If this episode touches something tender or feels too much to hold alone, please reach out to a trusted professional or a crisis support service in your country.

🆘 Crisis support: https://findahelpline.com

Timestamps

00:00:00 — You already know. You just forgot.

00:00:30 — The question behind this episode

00:00:55 — Welcome to You’re Amazing

00:01:45 — The story of becoming vs. remembering

00:03:50 — Building on top of yourself vs. building from yourself

00:04:45 — When self-knowledge becomes self-forgetting

00:06:35 — A gentle safety note

00:07:15 — Three invitations: notice, wonder, remember

00:08:45 — The Pause: a guided reflection

00:10:45 — Your question for the week

00:11:20 — You’re Amazing!

Have you ever been physically present somewhere - but mentally completely elsewhere?

In this 10-Minute Pause, I explore one of the most generous things we can offer - to another person, to a moment, and to ourselves: our real attention.

Because presence is not about being perfect. It is about returning.

In this Pause:

Why your body being somewhere does not mean your attention is there too

What a trip through Japan taught me about collecting experiences vs. truly entering them

The three levels of listening — and how they change the quality of every relationship

Why coming back is not a failure — it is the practice

Three simple invitations to bring more presence into your week

Question for your week:

Who or what is asking for you to really be here?

If this Pause helped you, subscribe and share it with someone who may need a moment to come back today.

I am Jorma and

You're Amazing!

Jorma - Coach | 20+ years corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

🆘 Crisis support in your country: https://findahelpline.com 🆘

Timestamps

00:00:00 — Have you ever been there, but not really there?

00:00:30 — The question behind this episode

00:00:50 — Welcome to You're Amazing

00:02:20 — Japan and the practice of arriving

00:05:00 — Where does your attention live?

00:08:00 — Safety note

00:08:45 — Three invitations: notice, listen, come back

00:11:30 — The Pause — a guided reflection

00:14:00 — Your question for the week

Something broke.

Maybe a relationship. A dream. A version of yourself you thought would last.

And maybe your first instinct was to hide it or move on as fast as possible.

In this 10-Minute Pause, I explore Kintsugi - the centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold. Not to hide the break. But to honour it.

I’m not a ceramics expert. This is my lens, my understanding, and what this concept activated in me - including a broken mug, a always fully booked workshop, and a coaching moment I have never forgotten.

This episode is for you if you’ve ever tried to get back to who you were before - instead of asking who you are becoming through this.

In this Pause:

• A simple glimpse into Kintsugi - to join with gold
• Why the break may be part of the story, not the end of it
• How what we choose to repair can reveal what we value
• Why speed is not always healing
• A gentle Pause to sit with what is asking to be honoured

Question for your week:

What in my life am I trying to hide, rush past, or replace - that might actually be worth repairing with gold?

Or more simply:

What break in my story is asking to be honoured - not erased?

If this Pause helped you, follow or subscribe - and if someone came to mind while listening, send this episode to them.

I am Jorma and

You’re amazing! Not because you never break. But because life can move through you - even there.

Jorma - Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

Timestamps:

00:00:00 — What do you do when something breaks?

00:00:22 — The third way and why it changes everything

00:00:38 — Welcome to You’re Amazing

00:01:46 — Kintsugi - to join with gold

00:01:55 — The origin story and what it means

00:03:40 — The broken mug, the Hamburg workshop, and what stopped me

00:06:10 — Three gentle invitations from Kintsugi

00:08:46 — The Pause - a guided reflection

00:10:21 — Your question for the week

You're amazing. I mean it.

Not because everything is perfect but because underneath the noise, the overthinking, and the old patterns, there is something whole in you.

But how well do you actually know that person?

In this 10-minute Pause, I explore one of the most powerful movements in personal growth: letting learning and action become partners. Not as a concept, but as a lived experiment you can start today.

Because real change does not come from fixing yourself.

It comes from getting to know yourself more honestly and then taking one courageous step from that knowing.

In this Pause:

Why insight alone does not create change but it is where change begins

Why learning without action becomes a beautiful cage - and action without learning becomes exhaustion

How the Learning–Action Loop works in real life

What sports, morning routines, and listening to myself taught me about one true step

How to begin without a life overhaul

Question for your week:

What do you already know about yourself - that is ready to be lived?

If this Pause helped you, subscribe and share it with someone who may need one honest experiment this week.

You're Amazing!

Jorma - Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate

🌐 www.jormaschneider.com

📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

🆘 Crisis support in your country: https://findahelpline.com

Timestamps

00:00:00 — How well do you actually know that person?

00:00:20 — The question behind this episode

00:00:35 — Welcome to You're Amazing

00:01:45 — Learning without action — and action without learning

00:03:35 — A small but important note

00:04:15 — My personal reflection: sports, mornings, and the loop

00:06:00 — Three invitations: knowing, becoming, and one true step

00:07:45 — The Pause — a guided reflection

00:09:00 — Your question for the week