141. The Engineering of Human Potential: Reverse-Designing Your Child’s Success and Your Second Act

About this episode

Nate Turner discusses the importance of re-envisioning personal dreams alongside parenting.

Send Jay comments via text Your Child Isn’t the Only One Launching: It’s Time for Your Own Re-Envisioning. When Nate Turner’s 16-year-old son told him, "It's not too late for your dreams. You've still got time." it was a tectonic shift. Nate had spent decades reverse-engineering a world-class life for his son. From humble beginnings, to international soccer and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon only to realize he had neglected his own Identity Equity. In this high-authority conversation, Nate Turner...

People in this episode

Host: Jay Ramsden

Guest: Nate Turner

Topics covered

• parenting
• personal development
• identity
• success
• reverse engineering

Keywords

• human potential
• identity equity
• success
• parenting
• dreams

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carnegie Mellon

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