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The exit interview
for your career.

A podcast hosted by Jessica Zwaan. Each episode begins with a thought experiment: imagine you're stepping away today. Not resigning from a day job but closing the whole chapter on your career. 
What would you say on the way out?

Sponsored byLeapsome
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Jessica Zwaan laughing while holding her books Purpose and Work and Built for People
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The premise

Careers don't just magically happen. They're built with diligence, thought, and plenty of small decisions we make every day... some deliberate, some accidental, all of them building on the other to shape the work we put out into the world.

This show sits down with people who have built interesting ones and asks them to do the retrospective reflection that I found so compelling during writing Purpose and Work: What did all that work add up to? What was it for? And did it bring you closer to purpose, or further from it?

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Jessica Zwaan holding her two books, laughing

Your host

Jessica Zwaan

Hi there! I'm Jessie, author of Built for People and Purpose and Work. I like to ask the questions about work most of us never get asked, because I care deeply about the way work changes us, and the jobs our jobs do for us.

The show is sponsored by Leapsome, whose mission is to make work fulfilling for everyone. Each episode tests that mission against a real career, told honestly by the person who lived it.

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