HeyJaredBurn the Map
Burn the Map is for people who spent decades in corporate jobs and now need to figure out what's next.Host Shelley McIntyre is a former corporate strategist who left to become a coach.
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46: What You Left Off Your Resume (opens the original)
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The resume editing is just the surface. Behind the polished gaps and sabbatical euphemisms is a much longer editing project: one that's been running your personality for years. This episode is about what that cost, and what's still in there underneath it. What you'll learn: What the things you left off your resume reveal about what corporate asked you to hideHow the adaptive personality develops, and why numbing yourself to moral injury was a rational response to an irrational systemWhy the c...
45: Change Is a Magnet (opens the original)
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End of summer tends to concentrate change. Kids leaving, job searches ramping up, early retirement decisions. These feel enormous on the inside and invisible to everyone else. And then other changes start piling in. What you'll learn: Why big internal changes attract more change, and the need for visible proof that something is differentThe difference between additive changes that are overdue and generative, and the ones that feel a little panickedWhy visible changes and good conversations wi...
44: Why You're Not Doing the Thing (opens the original)
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Not doing something isn't the same as not wanting it. Most of us live in the murky middle (wanting to leave the job, speak up, follow through) and just not doing it. This episode is about figuring out why. There are two categories of not-doing, and they require completely different responses. What you'll learn: Why the gap between intention and action is sometimes environmental and sometimes something much deeperHow habit stacking works for logistical not-doing — and where it breaks downWhat ...
43: Did You Do Enough? (opens the original)
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Between layoffs and early retirement packages, a lot of people in midlife are on the other side of a long corporate career, and running an internal audit that isn't returning comfortable results. This episode is about who's actually keeping score, and whether they earned that job. What you'll learn: Why the grief of abandoning a goal you never worked toward is real and has a nameHow the metrics you measured your career against were probably borrowed from someone else without examinationWhat r...
42: The Snob's Advantage (opens the original)
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When everything feels uncertain (the job, the applications, the new identity you're building), your brain is working overtime on problems with no clear outcome. What it needs is rest that isn't sleep, isn't scrolling, and isn't zoning out. This episode is about finding it in something you're already good at. What you'll learn: Why learning under stress is so cognitively expensive, and what your brain is actually asking for when you reach for TikTok or salt and vinegar chipsWhat happens neurol...
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