#187 - Reinvention: Why it’s never too late to change, credentials don’t matter, and there are no small moments

Jay Sargeant has never had a job. At 79, he is building his eighth working life. Before that he was a community organizer, a tennis professional, a franchise developer, an NLP training consultant, the builder of a distributor network, and, starting at 72, a pickleball coach. He started most of those with no credential, no background, and no backup plan. In this conversation Jay tells Ryan how he became a tennis pro before he ever hit a tennis ball, how he walked into the office of one of the biggest names in franchising with no resume and left with the job, and what a stranger at a Marina del Rey swimming pool handed him that redirected the next decade of his life. He also names the three things he believes hold people back: credentials are overrated, there are no small moments, and it is never too late to change. The last one he learned from his grandmother, who found a second great love at 94. If you are competent, respected, and quietly finished with what you are doing, this one is worth an hour. What you will hear Why Jay will help you rebuild your house for free but cannot be told to show up at seven The five-person question he asked when he wanted out of tennis, and the answer all five gave The blue suit, the briefcase he never opened, and the meeting with no resume Graduating 326th out of 327 at Boston Latin, and what six years of excuses actually taught him The stranger at the pool, Frogs into Princes, and eleven pages that changed his career The 90-year-old with a $1,000 annual growth budget Why he walked away from a business he was winning at, more than once Connect with Coach Jay Sargeant The Shift Project Academy: https://www.theshiftproject.academy/ Shift: The Gift of Reinvention (Kindle and paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Shift-Gift-Reinvention-Jay-Sargeant-ebook/dp/B0GX2WMQZD The SHIFT course ($99): https://www.theshiftproject.academy/thecohort Free readiness scorecard: https://view.genially.com/6a460ab616a6e13e09878263 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheShiftProjectAcademy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachjaysargeant/ If this conversation lands, follow The Personal Success Podcast so the next one finds you.