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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In this episode, Paul Kirby, author of The FUSE Pathway: How to Find and Lead a Fulfilling Life, shares how to identify your core passions, combine them into a unique vision, and build a realistic, evolving plan to pursue them. Drawing from his own experience of designing a robot that paints, Paul explains the FUSE framework—Find, Upgrade, Start, Evolve—and how it can guide anyone toward a life filled with purpose and creativity.
In this conversation, we explore:
Paul’s FUSE model is an encouraging and actionable guide for anyone feeling stuck, scattered, or uncertain about how to bring their passions together into a life that truly fits.
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1:02.7 | Okay. Hello and welcome back to beyond the to-do list, a podcast about productivity. |
1:24.3 | I'm your host, Eric Fisher, and in in this episode I am joined by Paul Kirby, |
1:28.7 | West Point grad, Harvard MBA, artist, engineer, and author of The Fuse Pathway, How to |
1:35.4 | Find and Lead of Fulfilling Life. In this conversation, Paul shares the fuse method |
1:41.0 | for how people can take all these different interests and skills and passions and fuse |
1:47.0 | them into meaningful work and a life. We'll break down what each of the letters of fuse, F-U-S-E, |
1:54.5 | stand for. Dig into some of Paul's story how making big changes can come in small steps. You don't need to burn it all down and |
2:02.8 | start over. You can start by upgrading and experimenting where you are now and how real world |
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