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Layoffs. Burnout. Reinvention. Welcome to the messy middle of career change — and the community that's not afraid to talk about it. Hosted by Dray Jankowski, a former tech program manager laid off in 2025, The Reboot Era is part unfiltered storytelling, part emotional support group, and part career comeback plan. Through weekly solo episodes and candid guest interviews, we explore what it really means to rebuild your life — professionally, emotionally, and financially. We’re not here to sell you hope. We’re here to tell the truth — with humor, heart, and a little chaos. Each episode dives into one of our seven pillars: • Layoffs & Unemployment • Motivation & Momentum • Strategy & Income • Redirection & Reinvention • Mental Health & Renewal • Closure & Reflection • Identity & Calling If you’ve ever screamed into a throw pillow after reading a rejection email — this is your
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dray sits down with Sharon Markowitz, founder of Your Career Wings and former product marketing leader at Zoom, to unpack what it really takes to navigate today’s job market. From experi
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a 17-year career comes to an unexpected end? In this episode, I sit down with Steve Fiore , who shares his journey from long-term corporate leadership into an unplanned chapter of refle
Send us Fan Mail In July 2025, 9,000 employees were laid off in a single day. Quentin Cobb was one of them. After 17 years in the gaming industry — working across studios owned by Sony, Bethesda, and Microsoft — Quentin
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Reboot Era, James shares the emotional aftermath of being laid off, the uncomfortable silence of job applications going nowhere, and the pivot that led him to launch Wonderfish , a pod
Send us Fan Mail Layoffs may be framed as business decisions—but for the people impacted, they’re deeply personal. In this episode, Dray sits down with Mark Nickerson , a leadership and management coach with 30 years of
Send us Fan Mail AI is changing everything — but not in the way most people expect. In this episode, I sit down with Oleg Danyliuk , Founder & CEO of Duanex and Co-Founder & CTO of Insyghtful AI , to talk candidly about
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dray reconnects with two returning guests from season one who faced job loss, uncertainty, and career pivots head-on — and came out stronger on the other side. Rob Sarro shares how he: W
Send us Fan Mail Season two of The Reboot Era is officially here. In this kickoff episode, I reflects on everything that’s happened since season one ended — landing a new job, navigating a completely new company, dealing
Send us Fan Mail When I started The Reboot Era five months ago, I had just been laid off and was staring down one of the hardest job markets in recent memory. What began as a way to process my own story quickly grew into
Send us Fan Mail Last guest episode of the season and it's with a thoughtful, candid conversation about DEI with Lilian Argueta —first-gen American, Human Development grad (UCSD), and DEI operator with experience at UC S
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Reboot Era, I reconnect with my fellow Bryant University alum Vivian to explore her unconventional career path — one defined by global adventures, freelancing experiments, and fear
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Reboot Era Podcast , host Dray Jankowski sits down with Hilary Torn , co-founder of Jobbyo, to talk about burnout, failed startups, and the messy reality of career pivots. Hilary s
Send us Fan Mail Guest: Valentina — Founder of Go Lancer , a centralized freelancer workspace (tasks/projects, time tracking, invoicing, booking, AI income forecasts). Started Jan 2025; now in beta . We cover: Why freela
Send us Fan Mail Guest: Steve Jaffe — author of The Layoff Journey ; 25 years in marketing/advertising; laid off four times; now helping people navigate the emotional side of job loss. In this Reboot Era episode, we cove
Send us Fan Mail This week on The Reboot Era: HR insiders Laura Browne and Barbara Limmer show you how to stop guessing and start translating interviews—so your answers are authentic, on-target, and memorable. Perfect fo
Send us Fan Mail At 25, Riley Simmons decided the safe path wasn’t his path. After a stint in the Marine infantry and a climb into corporate finance, the promotion he’d been eyeing crystallized one truth: he didn’t want
Send us Fan Mail When Dan Sanchez — better known as Danchez — was let go from his startup role, he could’ve played it safe. Instead, he leaned into what he saw as the next big thing: artificial intelligence. In this epis
Send us Fan Mail After being laid off twice in just a few months, Shelia Benson—better known as Flower—turned her pain into purpose. In this episode, Flower shares how her intuition helped her prepare for job loss, how s
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Reboot Era, I sit down with Nellie Hughes — a design director with 20 years in the gaming industry, most recently at Xbox Publishing. Nellie shares her journey from creating open-w
Send us Fan Mail What would you do if you were laid off… twice… in just six months? Patrick Lyons didn’t just bounce back — he built forward. In this episode of The Reboot Era, Patrick shares how he turned back-to-back M
Vivian
retired nurse and writer · BlueLayers
1 appearance on this show
Valentina
Founder · Go Lancer
1 appearance on this show
Steve Jaffe
author of "The Layoff Journey: From Dismissal to Discovery" · New York County District Attorney's Office
1 appearance on this show
Laura Browne
1 appearance on this show
Patrick Lyons
The Lyons Group
1 appearance on this show
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