ZigZag | Step 1: The Pulse
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4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The past year changed us. We’re defining success differently. We’re ready for a reset. So for the next few months, we're sharing something special: The ZigZag Project, another show from the TED Audio Collective.
In six episodes of ZigZag, a podcast about being human, host Manoush Zomorodi will help you better align your personal values with your professional ambitions. In a process that has been beta tested by listeners and with insight from luminaries who have helped her stay the course, the show will offer an interactive experience, combining audio storytelling with written exercises and a companion newsletter. Join the community at ZigZagPod.com.
In this first episode, Manoush shares stories, struggles, and data from the 150 listeners who beta tested the project. And we learn about transition theory and “the neutral zone” from MIT Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein. If you enjoy the episode and want to listen to the next episode, find and follow ZigZag wherever you're listening to this.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, everyone. For the next few months, we're going to share a bit of bonus content. |
| 0:11.6 | We're sharing six episodes of Zigzag, a business podcast about being human that is also part |
| 0:17.3 | of the Ted Audio Collective. These six episodes are organized around one goal, to help listeners |
| 0:23.7 | align their values with their work. And if you keep listening, you'll also hear a guest |
| 0:28.8 | appearance from me. Now, let's tune into Zigzag, hosted by Manouche Zamorodi. |
| 0:35.4 | Support for this podcast comes from BCG. There are so many urgent questions in the minds of |
| 0:40.5 | business leaders today. What will the economy look like in six months? Should you be investing in |
| 0:45.6 | generative AI for your company? Is the metaverse real or just hype? And what can you do to hold on |
| 0:51.6 | to your best employees? The so-what from BCG is a podcast featuring award-winning British journalist |
| 0:57.8 | Georgie Frost, interviewing BCG's leading thinkers and doers to get you the answers. |
| 1:02.6 | It's about making sense of today and preparing busy leaders and executives for the day after tomorrow. |
| 1:08.0 | Listen to the so-what from BCG, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:13.8 | Hey, listener, a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if |
| 1:18.4 | you could take just a few minutes to respond. Please visit survey.prx.org slash business to take |
| 1:25.4 | the survey today. That's survey.prx.org slash business. Thanks. |
| 1:33.0 | Hi, Manouche. I would describe this moment in my career as a roller coaster and stuck, |
| 1:40.8 | or maybe a stuck roller coaster. I would describe this moment in my career as stagnant and confusing. |
| 1:47.8 | I would describe this moment in my career slash business as dormant and directionless, emergent and |
| 1:55.4 | restructuring, weird transitional zigzagging period of law and grief. |
| 2:06.6 | Oh yeah, listeners. This is a really weird time for a lot of us, for most of us, |
| 2:11.5 | when it comes to work, our businesses and our lives. And I wish that I could get a clear vision |
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