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Hosted by Adam Beasley and Stephen Reiff · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 74 episodes
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The podcast for high achievers who seem to have it all, yet still feel something’s missing. Co-hosts Stephen and Adam bring humor, honesty, and a touch of mid-life wisdom to conversations about how work shapes our sense of self, and how we can reshape it to find greater meaning in work and life. With careers spanning consulting, private equity, start-ups, and entrepreneurship, they share research-backed insights and real-world stories that help uncover new ways to drive more meaning each day. We’re excited to have you join us on this journey!
Adam Beasley and Stephen Reiff hosts Identity Work, a business show with 74 episodes published.
For the first in-person episode of Identity Work, Adam is joined by his friend and podcast superfan Griffin Davis. Stephen is absent, so Griffin receives the full Adam Beasley Experience: one microphone, two coffee mugs,
What if the peace is not just an aspiration, but something we can actually experience in our work today? Adam and Stephen sit down with Kevin Ainsworth, founder of GuideCap Partners, to discuss calling, ambition, content
Comparison Is the Thief of Joy Why does someone else’s success make us question our own lives? A former Bain coworker announces a massive startup fundraise. A younger colleague climbs the career ladder faster. Someone on
Back pain and late work nights have left Adam stuck on the same question most mornings at 4:45 a.m.: snooze for more sleep, or get up and protect the routine? Adam and Stephen dig into the research on sleep and morning r
Back pain and late work nights have left Adam stuck on the same question most mornings at 4:45 a.m.: snooze for more sleep, or get up and protect the routine? Adam and Stephen dig into the research on sleep and morning r
Adam made $3,000 selling World Cup tickets and got to attend two games for free. It was an objectively great outcome. Then ticket prices doubled a few days later, and all he could think about was the additional $7,000 he
What happens when pain keeps you from doing the things that make you feel like yourself? After reinjuring his back and barely sleeping for six weeks, Adam wrestles with losing his ability to work out, focus, write, and b
Adam and Stephen are back after a run of guest episodes to talk about Adam’s recent home-buying journey, the unexpected satisfaction of painting a house, and why physical work can feel so different from knowledge work. W
What if meaning is not something you find, earn, or finally arrive at, but something you design one moment at a time? This week, Adam and Stephen are joined by three-time guest Emma Wood to discuss How to Live a Meaningf
What if doubt is not a weakness to overcome, but a skill to practice? This week Adam and Stephen are joined by Professor Bobby Parmar from the UVA Darden School of Business, award-winning professor, researcher, and autho
Adam noticed something strange during one of the most demanding stretches of his career: the Sunday Scaries had quietly faded. This episode is a genuine attempt to figure out why, and what it reveals about the relationsh
Adam and Stephen reckon with a quietly uncomfortable truth: knowing something intellectually and actually living it are very different things. Inspired by 4,000 Weeks , Adam shares how understanding human finitude hasn't
Adam and Stephen take a full-length look at Oliver Burkeman's 4,000 Weeks , a book that quietly dismantles the productivity obsession most high achievers carry without questioning. The episode centers on a single uncomfo
Adam and Stephen get honest about the paradox at the center of their AI experiences: they're both more productive and more consumed than ever before. What starts as a conversation about efficiency quickly turns into some
Adam and Stephen revisit the sabbatical conversation, but with a twist: what if you don't need seven months abroad to get the benefit? After Adam's wife took a one-week retreat and came back changed, the two wrestle with
This episode tackles one of the quietest career crises high achievers face: the moment when the habits that made you successful start to hold you back . Adam opens up about a tension he's navigating — that the responsive
What if you could chase $10M in 10 years… but choosing not to made you feel like you’re wasting your potential? Adam and Stephen dig into the seductive promise (and hidden cost) of money-as-mission. In this episode, we r
Welcome to another episode of the Identity Work podcast! This week we welcome CEO, career journeyman, long-time friend, and super fan Brendon Marks. Brendon is the CEO of Capture H2O, a company that provides water treatm
In this week's episode, Lexi Reiff joins us for a conversation on self-perception and identity. It's a dense but fun one! We discuss the impact of work on personal identity, exploring the evolving self-concept and the qu
Ever felt outside of the 'room where it happens?' We have. This episode dives in to the power of the inner circle based on C.S. Lewis's article on our insatiable desire for joining increasingly exclusive groups. We discu
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Identity Work is hosted by Adam Beasley and Stephen Reiff. The show is categorised under business (careers) and has published 74 episodes.
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