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Hosted by Aisha Ommaya · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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This podcast isn’t about work. It’s about the beliefs, systems, and expectations that “employ” us.Through interviews with experts and honest conversations with people who’ve chosen a less-known path, we explore what it takes to break old patterns and choose differently.Become “unemployed” from anyone else’s definition of a life well-lived, and design your own.
Aisha Ommaya hosts The Unemployment Diaries, a education show with 20 episodes published.
On this podcast, we explore the beliefs and systems that hold us back. But what if our mind isn’t the only source of intelligence and discernment in the body? Jeff Goelitz is the Director of Education at the HeartMath In
As a licensed clinical psychologist who's spent over a decade at the intersection of mental health, burnout, and creativity, Dr. Talissa Dorsaint makes the case that most of us have burnout completely wrong. It's not jus
Today’s guest trained almost every day for five years chasing a national championship and still lost. But that loss taught him something he's used ever since: how to play a long game without needing to see the finish lin
On this podcast, we talk a lot about the process of becoming unemployed from beliefs and systems that hold you back. But what happens when you know what you want to say, but can’t figure out why you’re not being heard? B
What happens when a 9/11 survivor, Navy veteran, and 28-year corporate travel veteran gets laid off on a Zoom call with 4,000 other people ? Harold Wilkerson didn't panic or spiral. He has too much experience with hard t
Will is a triple threat: stand-up comedian, actor, and B2B content strategist with a newsletter that gets a 70% open rate. He's also someone who spent years flattening himself to fit inside corporate culture (anyone else
How many people do you know who are actually building the life they want, instead of the one they settled for? Jessica (Jess) Almeida played basketball for Portugal from the age of 13. At 24, she traded the sport for a c
Change. Whether it's a shift in career, lifestyle, or behavior patterns — we usually know what we need to do differently. So then… why can't we do it? Raj Singh had the career everyone told him to want. LSE economist. Ba
Have you ever thought about how you learn? Or, for that matter, why you learn in the first place? Romy attended schools that prided themselves on academic rigor. From the third grade, she was pulling all-nighters and spe
Florence Acosta spent years building herself around her credentials of nurse anesthetist and executive director of a surgical center. On the weekends? She was doing work she loved but never fully committed to: facilitati
What happens when the career you built becomes the thing that breaks you down? Yannick Kpodar spent fifteen years in front-row seats at some of Europe and San Francisco’s fastest-growing companies — LinkedIn, PayFit, and
What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the making of you? Patrick grew up knowing exactly who he was going to be. His grandfather's photo above the fireplace. His dad's. A blank third frame he
What if the thing that changed your life wasn't supposed to be your life at all? Maya stumbled into a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu class at 16 thinking it was kickboxing. She then started a business at 19 with $2,000 and kept it
What if you already know what you need to but you just won't do it? Jacob Templer went from law school to state attorney to elephant conservation to tech sales to travel content creator. Any one of those would have been
What if the life you always wanted had no map, no guarantee, and no way back? Linda Jackson spent decades in tech sales and marketing, working for startups and surviving volatile bosses. Then she sailed out under the Gol
What if the trait you've been hiding is actually your greatest asset? Mohamed Fadel spent years behind a computer screen, finding community, purpose, and progression in online gaming. Then, at only 24, he became the Glob
What if the question "so, what do you do?" is the wrong question entirely? Charlie Rogers never had a conventional answer because he never took the conventional path. He built and closed businesses, represented Great Bri
A layoff. A house under construction. A trip to London. And the realization that the life he wanted was within reach. These moments pushed Tim Akapo to trade a 20-year supply chain career for an espresso machine — and bu
Motherhood. A global pandemic. And the realization that the career she had pursued for so long no longer fit. These major life shifts prompted Sofía Paredes Chaux to leave the United Nations and step into a new chapter —
Whether you’re building a company, navigating a career pivot, dreaming up your next big idea, or just trying to understand the insane pace of technological change, this conversation might change how you think about innov
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The Unemployment Diaries is hosted by Aisha Ommaya. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 20 episodes.
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