Some still in the middle of it, some on the other side, for now. Hosted by Scott Bain, who spent 23 years as a firefighter and is still in the middle of his own.
About Scott – scottbain.me
I spent 23 years as a firefighter.
What stops people isn't fear. It's disorientation — not knowing where they are or who they are when things change.
Most of us feel we are explained by something. A job. A relationship. A place. A role we've held for years. The Reinventionalist is about what happens when that explanation stops working. We explore all of it through a podcast, a YouTube show, and a newsletter.
Field notes, solo episodes and conversations, recorded in a studio in Ubud and on the road.
Full story at scottbain.me →Sometimes nothing obvious breaks. The job is still there. The routines still run. Life looks perfectly reasonable from the outside — but something no longer fits.
Sometimes it's us that's changing. Sometimes it's the world around us. Usually, it's some combination of both.
The Reinventionalist begins there. Not with fixing ourselves or finding another five-year plan, but with noticing what's changing, questioning what we've assumed to be true, and staying with the question long enough to see what it's asking.
The Reinventionalist Dispatch
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I read every one. Some become conversations on the show — especially if you're still in the middle of it.