New Podcast Work-Shaped Life Asks the Career Question of the Moment

Sheepscot Creative today announces the May 11 launch of Work-Shaped Life, a new podcast hosted by company founder Dave Weich that examines one of the defining questions of our time: how do you build a satisfying career when both you and the world around you never stop changing? The series debuts with three full episodes featuring a forensic archeologist, a political theorist, and an executive recruiter, available on all major podcast platforms.

Work-Shaped Life arrives in a moment of widespread career disorientation. AI is reshaping entire industries, the job market has turned brutal for many, and the educational system has not kept pace. The old map (study something, become that thing, build a life around it) has quietly stopped working for most people. Even those on steadier paths face the same ongoing recalibration; what felt like the right fit at 22 looks different at 35, and different again after that.

The podcast tagline frames it plainly: a show about what making a living makes of our lives. Each episode features an extended conversation with someone whose career has been shaped by curiosity, circumstance, and constant refinement. Some guests have a clear throughline. Some are still finding it. What connects them is the trying and self-awareness that comes from doing the work of figuring it out.

This isn’t a self-help podcast, but it can be helpful. Each conversation explores the same fundamental question and reveals a different pattern, angle, and hard-won insight. The interviews are full of takeaways worth holding onto. Weich and his team will surface standout moments through ongoing social posts, pushing forward the lines and ideas that stuck with him the most across each conversation.

Weich shares: “My obsession with work goes back to discovering Ecclesiastes in the liner notes of a John Mellencamp album. ‘So I saw that there is nothing better for men than that they should be happy in their work.’ I had that quote taped to the side of my computer all through college, before I had any clue what I wanted to do. Many years later, I’m still thinking about how our jobs, over a lifetime, expose us to so much of what we come to know of the world.”