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What if the reason something feels off in midlife isn’t that your whole life is wrong — but that some important parts of you have slowly become too quiet?
For more than 20 years in corporate life, I became very good at turning up certain channels:
Work. Responsibility. Performance. Solving problems. Getting things done.
All valuable.
But at some point, I started wondering:
What happened to the other sliders?
Play. Creativity. Connection. Adventure. Nature. Feeling fully alive in my own body.
Maybe what we sometimes call a midlife crisis is not always a request to blow up our lives.
Maybe it’s an invitation to look at the mixing desk and ask:
What part of me has become too quiet?
In this episode of JORMAZIN’, I explore the idea of life as a mixing desk, why the settings that once served us may no longer be the right settings today, and how we can consciously turn up the volume on what feels alive and essential now.
I also share two very different volume knobs from my own life — inline skating in a skatepark and simply going for a walk with my wife — and introduce a reflection I’m calling the Wheel of Fully Alive.
Because feeling more alive doesn’t necessarily mean making life more extreme.
Sometimes it means noticing what brings you back into fuller contact with your own life.
Your question for this Pause
Imagine your own life as a mixing desk.
What is already very loud?
Work?
Responsibility?
Achievement?
Being there for everyone else?
And then ask:
What part of me has been too quiet for too long?
Choose just one slider.
Then ask:
What would turning it up by 5% look like this week?
You don’t need to reinvent your life today.
Maybe you don’t need a completely different life at all.
Maybe you just need a more conscious mix.

If this reflection gave you something to think about, subscribe and share it with someone who might need this Pause too.
You’re Amazing!

Jorma — Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate
🌐 www.jormaschneider.com
📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider
🎵 Songs used in this episode:
I created the song used during the Wheel of Fully Alive moments with AI on Suno.
Listen here:
Turn up the volume of your life (UK Garage Remix)
https://suno.com/s/f5WOeCceDzdN5xc2

Song: A Place in the Stars: Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: 1OGMH2XZ0BFHWN7W

Timestamps
00:00:00 — Imagine Your Life Had a Mixing Desk
00:00:47 — What Has Become Too Quiet?
00:01:24 — The Channels Life Teaches Us to Turn Up
00:02:25 — Why a Good Life Can Still Feel Flat
00:03:05 — Inline Skating: One of My Volume Knobs
00:04:06 — Aliveness Doesn’t Have to Mean Adrenaline
00:04:45 — The Wheel of Fully Alive
00:06:00 — Why Every Slider Should NOT Be at 10
00:06:55 — Are These Still Your Settings?
00:07:45 — What Is Essential to You Now?
00:08:24 — Turn One Slider Up by 5%
00:09:13 — Don’t Turn Aliveness Into Another Project
00:09:46 — Maybe You Just Need a Different Mix

What if the reason you don’t know what you want anymore is that you’ve spent so long listening to what you should do that it has become difficult to hear what you actually want?
For more than 20 years in corporate life, I became very good at knowing what came next - the next meeting, responsibility, target or problem to solve.
At some point, I noticed something uncomfortable:
I had become incredibly good at managing my calendar - and strangely unfamiliar with myself.
That led me to notice two words that quietly shape so many of our choices:
I should.
Some of those “shoulds” may have helped us succeed, belong or feel safe. But what happens when we change - and the voice doesn’t?
In this episode of JORMAZIN`, I explore how old expectations can start sounding like our own voice, why knowing what we should do can become easier than knowing what we actually want, and how a simple Pause can bring us back to conscious choice.
Your question for this Pause
Think of one area of your life where you often say:
I should…
Then pause and ask:
Who is speaking?
Is this still true for me now?
You don’t need to change your life today.
Maybe the first step is simply noticing.
If this reflection gave you something to think about, subscribe and share it with someone who might need this Pause too.
You’re Amazing!
Jorma - Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate
🌐 www.jormaschneider.com
📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider
Timestamps
00:00:00 — “I should…”
00:00:34 — Who is speaking?
00:01:12 — Why this question matters to me
00:01:55 — 20+ years, 10+ companies, 15 roles
00:02:48 — The free Saturday that didn’t feel free
00:03:42 — Becoming the person I thought I needed to be
00:04:52 — When an old identity keeps leading your life
00:05:50 — Where our “shoulds” come from
00:06:48 — Exhaustion, expectations and staying in an old role
00:07:38 — The Pause: Who is speaking?
00:08:42 — Choosing before automatically obeying
00:09:14 — Closing reflection

What if reinventing yourself is not really about becoming someone new?
For more than 20 years in corporate life, I changed roles, companies and systems again and again. And almost every transition gave me another opportunity to reinvent myself.
But after recently changing companies once more, something felt different.
This time, I did not enter the new system asking:
Who do I need to become here?
I entered as the person I already am — corporate professional, coach, curious human being, someone building his own practice and still learning every day.
And then I watched Toy Story 5.
Underneath the story about toys, technology and staying relevant in a changing world, I saw something surprisingly familiar: what happens when the role that once gave you purpose, value or belonging begins to change?
That question stayed with me.
And it made me wonder whether all those years of reinvention were actually leading somewhere else.
Maybe reinvention is not about creating a new version of yourself every time life changes.
Maybe it is about becoming more and more able to show up as who you already are.
In this episode of You’re Amazing, I explore that with you.

We look at:
what happens when an old role no longer fits
why role changes can easily start feeling like identity changes
what 20+ years of corporate transitions have taught me about reinvention
what Toy Story 5 made me notice about relevance, usefulness and belonging
the difference between adapting to a new system and abandoning yourself to fit it
why a Pause can help you recognize what genuinely needs to change — and what does not

how your next chapter might become less about creating a “new you” and more about allowing more of you to show up
Your question for this Pause
Think about one role in your life that matters to you right now.
If that role changed tomorrow:
What would you want to carry with you?
What might you finally be ready to leave behind?
And when the titles, expectations and old ideas about who you should be become quiet for a moment:
Who do you want to be when you walk into what comes next?
If this reflection gave you a different way of looking at your own transition, subscribe and share it with someone who may be standing between an old role and a new chapter right now.
I am Jorma and
You’re Amazing!

Jorma — Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate
🌐 www.jormaschneider.com
📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

Timestamps
00:00:00 — What Toy Story 5 can teach us about reinvention
00:00:50 — Welcome to You’re Amazing
00:01:20 — My newest corporate transition feels different
00:03:35 — 20+ years of reinventing myself
00:05:35 — What Toy Story 5 has to do with identity
00:07:25 — When your role starts becoming your identity
00:09:15 — The Pause: Who am I right now?
00:10:50 — Maybe reinvention isn’t about becoming someone new
00:12:35 — Bringing the same human into different systems
00:14:10 — Your question for the next chapter

Toy Story 5
This reflection was inspired by Pixar’s Toy Story 5.
Learn more about the film and the people behind it on the official Pixar page:
https://www.pixar.com/toy-story-5
Thank you to the filmmakers, artists, storytellers and everyone involved in creating a story that opened this unexpected Pause for me.
Disclaimer
Toy Story 5, Toy Story, Pixar, Disney, and related characters, names, images, footage and trademarks are the property of their respective rights holders.
This video is an independent commentary and personal reflection and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Disney or Pixar.
Any referenced material is used only where relevant for commentary, criticism and discussion. No ownership of third-party copyrighted or trademarked material is claimed.
Visual note: The thumbnail for this video was created with the support of generative AI, using an original image of me as reference. It is a creative visual and does not depict a real scene.

If you are stuck in a decision, waiting for clarity, or trying to control what comes next, this conversation is for you.
In this episode of JORMAZIN`, I’m joined by Jeffrey Schwab, founder of Uncertain Pathfinders and wonderfully, Chief Possibility Officer.
Together, we explore how uncertainty can become less of an enemy and more of a companion. Not because everything becomes easy. But because we may not need the whole path before taking one small honest step.
Jeffrey uses coaching, facilitation, applied improv, and playful experimentation to help people meet the unknown with more curiosity, courage, and connection. In our conversation, he shares how improv shaped his relationship with uncertainty, why he chose to put the word “uncertain” into his work, and how small everyday experiments can shift the way we relate to not knowing.
This episode is not about fixing uncertainty or forcing clarity.
It is about moving from overthinking toward action.
From control toward curiosity.
From needing the perfect plan toward trusting the next small “bunny hop.”
And from feeling alone in uncertainty toward remembering that not knowing is part of being human.
In this conversation:
How to move when clarity has not arrived yet
Why uncertainty does not always mean you are lost
How improv can help us trust what emerges
What it means to choose curiosity over fear
Why small “bunny hops” can be more useful than perfect long-term plans
How playfulness can create connection, even in serious moments
Why being too attached to outcomes can limit possibility
A simple everyday exercise to shift your relationship with not knowing
&
Why saying “I don’t know” can be honest, human, and connecting

Question for your week:
Where in my life am I waiting for certainty before taking one honest step?
Or more simply:
What becomes possible if I let uncertainty be my friend for a moment?
If this conversation supported you, follow or subscribe - and if someone came to mind while listening, send this episode to them.
You’re amazing! Not because you always know the path. But because something in you can keep listening, choosing, and becoming, even when the path is unclear.

Guest:
Jeffrey Schwab
Founder of Uncertain Pathfinders | Chief Possibility Officer
🌐 www.uncertainpathfinders.com
💼 Jeffrey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-schwab
💼 Uncertain Pathfinders on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncertain-pathfinders/
🎧 Uncertain Pathfinders Podcast: available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and other platforms

Host:
Jorma
Co-Active Coach | 20+ years corporate
🌐 www.jormaschneider.com
📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider

Timestamps:
00:00:00 — The Running Bear cold open
00:00:16 — Welcome to JORMAZIN`
00:01:52 — Meet Jeffrey Schwab, Chief Possibility Officer
00:03:55 — How uncertainty became Jeffrey’s topic
00:06:09 — What improv teaches us about not knowing
00:08:39 — Jeffrey’s personal relationship with uncertainty
00:12:29 — Choosing curiosity over fear
00:12:46 — Rainbow thinking, bunny hops and small adventures
00:15:48 — Why structure does not always create certainty
00:17:30 — What happens when people start to play
00:23:34 — A live improv exercise: The Running Bear
00:32:38 — What children teach us about playfulness and uncertainty
00:37:20 — Being too attached to outcomes
00:42:28 — Simple exercises to embrace uncertainty today
00:48:46 — Where to find Jeffrey and Uncertain Pathfinders

You’re amazing. I mean it.
And maybe part of your amazingness is that you know more than you allow yourself to know.
Not in a loud way. Not always in a clear way.
Sometimes it starts as a tiny signal. A feeling in your body. A word that appears. A silence that suddenly feels full. A sense that there is something more here.
Before you know, you sense.
In this Pause, I explore what happens when you stop ignoring that quiet signal and start listening to it more closely.
Because sometimes the thing you sense is not asking you to be certain. Maybe it is asking you to pay attention.
In this Pause:
Why your first signal is often the one you want to dismiss
What happens when you override what you feel because you cannot explain it yet
Why the body often notices before the mind catches up
How one honest sentence can shift a conversation
What it means to trust what you sense without turning it into truth too quickly

Question for your week:
Where in your life do you already sense something but you keep waiting for permission, proof, or perfect words?
If this Pause helped you, subscribe and share it with someone who may need a little more space to listen to what they already sense.
I am Jorma and
You’re Amazing!

Jorma - Coach | 20+ years corporate L&D
🌐 www.jormaschneider.com
📅 Free Chemistry Session: https://calendly.com/jormaschneider/30min
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorma-schneider
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00:00:00 — Before you know, you sense
00:00:30 — The question behind this episode
00:00:50 — Welcome to You’re Amazing
00:02:00 — One moment that stayed with me
00:04:15 — The body often notices before the mind catches up
00:06:50 — Safety note
00:07:20 — Three moments to notice
00:10:10 — The Pause — a guided reflection
00:12:00 — Your question for the week