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Michael Gardon

3 Ways To Start

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Every Sunday, join 5k+ readers getting one powerful journal memo to help break free from the steady paycheck addiction and design authentic, self-directed work-lives.

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Action packed interviews with experts and real people who have built businesses to transform their work-lives intentionally.

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I teach this course at the college level to help people harness their greatest strengths and Advantages, then reimagine  their future career possibilities. I built this program to get myself unstuck in 2018.

business inside you.

Break the corporate chains with the 

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Discover the Freedom Acclerator System 50+ shackled employees use to break free.

I help senior corporate professionals who are burned out, unfulfilled and secretly DYING for new opportunities. These highly motivated pros have achieved their way far into a single track on which they've become dependent for their income, status, and self worth. Now they're questioning what its all for.

The Career Design Lab

 

Together, in the CDL we do three things:

1. We crush corporate dependence -

that chokehold that our jobs have on our time, our income, our energy, our identity. We shift our jobs from all consuming —> tool for our futures.

2. We centralize our hidden genius 

into a core stack of true Advantages we can leverage in new ways, allowing us to monetize our experience and expertise through a variety of channels. 

 

This is your Portfolio of high odds options to a self-directed life - lifestyle, location and schedule independence to fully optimize our time based on priorities like family, health, money, growth or other goals.

3. We build -

Our offers, our services, our consultancy, our ventures  or our advisory roles with intention to create the life we want.


No more default. The end result is not one path, but rather a dynamic new approach to your career as a portfolio of exponential opportunity. One with multiple options for your hidden genius to create the highest odds of attaining freedom, fulfillment and financial security - while enjoying your journey!

I know you and I see you.
 

You're a high achieving corporate pro who's done everything "right." Yet you've got this feeling something BIG is missing. Something you can't explain or rationalize.

 

You know you only live once, so you're waking up to the possibilities and freedom you could create by  designing the highest quality life you can - on your terms. 

 

You want to work, create impact and be of service— you just want to work on things that matter.

 

You want to be alive, truly present with family, build something that's yours, and be the fearless example for your family.

 

You soul knows you need a new path. Your brain wants it all to be possible but fear keeps you shackled to that desk, hoping something better will magically come along. 

 

Everything you need to live and build a Self-Directed life is inside you, but only if you get off the sidelines.

 

The path to life changing money and impact is closer than you think, but YOU have to decide to play the game.

I can help.
 

I've been where you are - and I know you're trying. Searching for what will work - endless content, "passive income" ideas, new skills, yet each year rolls by with you in the same place, stuck with the same raw feelings.

Breaking the corporate trap isn't and escape, and it's not just about building a business — it's about seeing who you really are, and building the life you deserve.

 

I'm your guide through this transformation, turning your Advantages into premium revenue without risking everything you've built.

 

Get in the arena

Every day we are breaking our limits, and living life on our terms.

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It's time to decide if you're going to be a spectator that watches the rest of your life from the sidelines . . .

Or a participant that plays, fights, shapes and designs what you want with the time you have.

This Lab is your arena. Get in!

Writing

I write about Self Directed Living, ditching corporate overlords, and becoming UnBREAKable.

Work designed for security + optionality. Family taken care of + flourishing.

Ready to be UnBREAKable?

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