Geoff Curtis: You're Not Burned Out, You're in Purgatory

Podcast: Brett Trainor Unplugged · Brett Trainor

Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

I've had north of a hundred authors on this show. This one stuck with me differently, and it's because of one word: Purgatory. Geoff Curtis spent nearly thirty years building a career in healthcare communications. Title, expertise, platform, the whole thing. Then the company was acquired, his role went redundant, and all of it disappeared at once. What followed wasn't a reinvention arc. It was the discovery that he'd spent his adult life using work to avoid feeling anything. He picked purgatory on purpose. As he puts it, words like transition imply progress, and he...