
The Break - with Michael Gardon
Hosted by Michael Gardon · Michael Gardon
4.5from 115 ratings
- 537
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 115
- Ratings
- 2006
- First episode
About The Break - with Michael Gardon
Entrepreneur Michael Gardon is on a mission to help people BREAK work and get intentional about their career journey. In 2018 work wasn't working for Mike, so he decided to BREAK work and design a better work-life. Now, he helps people do the same. Hear from corporate careerists who have found fulfillment in new industries. Hear from entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who invest in themselves in pursuit of a more fulfilled, more sane life. Hear from side hustlers who are building more resilient work lives. Hear what their break moment was, hear how they overcame resistance and their actionable advice for doing the same. You'll also hear a short strategy or story each week from Mike's own experience reinventing his career 6 different times! There's never been a better time to take control.
- Publisher
- Michael Gardon
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Dec 2006
- Latest episode
- 24 Mar 2026
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[…] In a world where, quite frankly, right now, this idea of having a full -time job for any length of time is really, you know, whether it's AI or whether it's layoffs or other things, the economy. A lot of people are having to question that right now. And unfortunately, it's, you know, what I had happened to me back in 2009 with kind of throwing under the bus, rug yanked from under me, whatever it was that forced me to kind of reckoning with this. People are seeing that on mass right now. And so it's like, how can we create something that allows them to see a path forward, you know, to go, okay, I did this for 20 years in this particular role or this particular industry. […]
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