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The Second Act with Michael and John

Michael Newborn, John Ballenger

Booking Overview

Interview show focused on career reinvention, second acts, resilience, and purpose, typically featuring entrepreneurs, executives, consultants, and other professionals with compelling transformation stories. Agencies could credibly pitch founders, CEOs, senior executives, career-transition experts, and accomplished professionals whose experience demonstrates persistence, risk-taking, or meaningful professional reinvention; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 83

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Neutral

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 34 subscribers

Instagram: 16.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@secondactmovement.com

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Host

Michael Newborn - Co-host of a mission-driven podcast exploring professional reinvention, resilience, purpose, and personal transformation.

John Ballenger - Co-host of a mission-driven podcast exploring professional reinvention, resilience, purpose, and personal transformation.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Founders, CEOs, senior executives, consultants, and accomplished professionals with substantial career experience and a credible personal story of reinvention or overcoming adversity.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or led a company, Built a notable professional career, Successfully changed industries or career direction, Turned significant setbacks into a new professional path, Developed expertise or an organization that helps others

Recent Guest Discussions

Kent Richeson - Trust, Resilience, Execution, Entrepreneurship, Risk-taking, And The Human Qualities Behind Successful Founders.

Jason Middleton - Career Reinvention, Endurance, Leadership, Adversity, Personal Loss, And Pursuing New Opportunities After Major Setbacks.

Eileen Nebhut - Career Transition, Self-awareness, Executive Presence, Professional Identity, Purpose, And Building A Meaningful Business After A Difficult Career Pivot.

Recent Topics

Reinvention, Career Change, Resilience, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Second Act with Michael and John
:

76: Courage Creates Opportunity with Mike Dwyer (Why Some Of Mike Dwyer’s Biggest Setbacks Led To His Best Ideas, And What They Teach Us About Risk, Reinvention and Growth)

September 26, 2026

Mike Dwyer walked away from a family business, bet his livelihood on straight-commission airplane sales, left a lucrative career at Gulfstream and later mortgaged his home to keep his own company alive. His story starts on the floor of a graphite machine shop in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place he calls “a wonderful place to be from,” where long hours taught him how to work but also convinced him he wanted a very different life. After discovering flying, he took a chance on aviation with only ...

75: Choose Different Early with Kimi Green (Kimi Shares Why The Career You Never Planned May Become The One You're Meant To Build)

August 14, 2026

Kimi Green was barely into her career when she heard a room full of highly paid professionals admit they hated their lives, and decided she was getting out before it became hers. She left the corporate path behind, joined a small donut company with plans to franchise, and watched the opportunity fall short of what she imagined. But that experience pulled her into entrepreneurship, led her to cold-email her way into the startup world, and eventually put her in the orbit of entrepreneur Sam Par...

74: The Human Advantage with Kent Richeson (Kent Reveals Why Trust, Resilience, And Execution Matter More Than Your Next Big Idea)

July 24, 2026

Most people would have laughed at the idea of building a television show around intentionally bad startup pitches. Kent Richeson built it anyway. Raised in rural Oregon, where chopping firewood to heat the family home taught him grit long before he became an entrepreneur, Kent inherited his father's instinct for building things differently. After helping grow the family business, launching startups, and spending years connecting founders with investors, he realized investors weren't just bett...

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