Career reinvention
Subject in Careers
Career reinvention has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Tim Ferriss Show. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Lori GottliebPsychotherapist, advice columnist and author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Gottlieb views her work in entertainment, medicine, journalism and therapy as a single career exploring human stories from different angles.
“So I don't feel like I had four different careers. I feel like I had one career”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and More (Aug 12, 2026) · Listen from 19:40
Gottlieb says awareness of mortality motivated her to leave medical school rather than spend two more years finishing it.
“just acknowledging that life has 100% mortality rate. And most of us don't know how or when we're going to die”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and More (Aug 12, 2026) · Listen from 20:27
Matthew McConaugheyAmerican actor quoted on parenting with money
McConaughey argues that his roughly 22-month absence allowed him to unbrand rather than rebrand, making him a new good idea to the industry.
“So what happened was that 22 months or whatever, that drought, that desert, I unbranded. I didn't rebrand, I unbranded”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and More (Aug 12, 2026) · Listen from 12:03
Podcasts
- The Tim Ferriss Show · 1 episode
Episodes
#879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreThe Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 12, 2026 · 1 h 1 min
Tim Ferriss compiles stories of reinvention from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Lori Gottlieb, Suleika Jaouad, Samin Nosrat, Martine Rothblatt and Debbie Millman.