The Podcast
Candid conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and others trying to make a difference in the world – to discover how they switched gears professionally without going backwards.
Why?
Some of us followed our artistic dreams only to discover we also needed money.
Others pursued careers in business only to find ourselves trapped in a silo at work.
All of us found ourselves in exactly the same place:
Desperate to build a better life and do something that matters . . . but with too much invested to throw everything away and start all over from scratch.
So my co-hosts and I interview people at various stages of reinventing themselves.
We Discover:
Why some created businesses.
How others found unconventional ways to make a living.
We learn where effort and opportunity meet.
And hear stories about what happens along the way.
Ultimately we’re looking for ways to impact the world from where we are NOW.
The Hosts
Aaron Anderson
Aaron Anderson
Aaron’s hard-won experience began as an Army Explosive Ordinance Specialist struggling to get out of a wheelchair after a year in a military hospital. Fast-forward to the present where Aaron is now probably the only person in the world to hold simultaneous university positions in Art, Business, and Medicine.
His unique background helped him found three successful companies; and for the past 15 years, he has coached leaders on five continents, from congressional candidates and government officials to doctors, lawyers, and Fortune 500 CEOs.
Tara Courtland
Tara Courtland
Tara Courtland is a recovering journalist and news junkie. After two decades in newspapers, she now works as a technical editor, public relations consultant, all-around grammar expert and occasional talking head.
Kelly Beekman
Kelly Beekman
Kelly Beekman is the co-founder and parter of Envoy, a negotiation firm, where she consults with clients to find common interests when building partnerships. Prior to her consulting work, Kelly worked on democratization initiatives in the Middle East for an NGO based in DC. Her passion for the region coupled with her degree in Islamic Studies led her to volunteer for a refugee mentorship program in 2016 (Reestablish) and she later joined their board in 2018.
The Backstory
A friend asked me to start a podcast to help people like her. She has a background in the arts but finds it difficult to make a living that way. Instead she’s forced to side-hustle in the gig economy — trying to piece together a living as an adjunct and freelancer while also trying not to lose the passion and creativity that drew her into arts in the first place.
She asked me because I’ve been lucky enough to work successfully in the spaces between the worlds of arts, medicine, and business and am in contact with hundreds of people who are reinventing themselves in similar “in-between” ways.
Her idea was for me to interview those people and others — to find out how they do it — to learn from their mistakes and their struggles — to share their experience — so that all of us can learn how to move forward professionally without going backwards.
This podcast puts you in the room with those amazing people. They aren’t a part of the cult of celebrity. These are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. I’m enjoying all the conversations enormously - and learning about career possibilities and life lessons I never knew existed. I hope you do too.