Embrace Your Calling: Becoming a teacher at 50, with Russ Hoadley

Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast · Aug 24, 2023 · 25m

In this episode, I talk to Russ Hoadley on corporate burnout, changing career mid-life, and finding your true calling, in his case as a teacher.

Russ was working up to 115 hours a week with a demanding job in international finance, spending his life on an aeroplane, resulting in an unsatisfactory work-life balance especially with a young family. After experiencing a near-fatal medical event, he knew his lifestyle needed to change.

He talks about how he started to volunteer at his children's school and coaching a junior football team and how this led to him the realisation that his prefect…