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What I’d Do Today If I Had to Start Over Again

A step-by-step guide to reinvention without burning your whole life down.

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Dan Mason
Jun 17, 2025
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We love a good “burn it all down” story.

Think Jerry Maguire, storming out of the agency with nothing but a goldfish and a mission statement.

Or Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love—burning out on the American Dream, ditching her marriage, her career, and her life in New York to find herself across three countries.

We’ve tu…

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