{"podcast":{"title":"The Future of Education","slug":"the-future-of-education-3943663","podcast_index_feed_id":3943663,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/35034.rss","website_url":"https://michaelbhorn.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/35034/67964806249217177198c211d5106191.jpg","author":"Michael B. Horn","episode_count":140,"summary":"Stay up to date on the innovations, changemakers, & trends to transform learning & education worldwide so that all individuals can build their passions, fulfill their potential, and live a life of purpose","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T04:19:48.283625+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-future-of-education-3943663"},"episode":{"title":"Launching Vocation, the AI Coach to Help Individuals Make Career Progress","slug":"launching-vocation-the-ai-coach-to-help-individuals-make-career-progress","published_at":"2025-11-10T15:32:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-future-of-education-3943663/launching-vocation-the-ai-coach-to-help-individuals-make-career-progress","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-future-of-education-3943663","url":"https://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/launching-vocation-the-ai-coach-to","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/178123811/e1668853f269ef3fc1234943466c9754.mp3","summary":"Cliff Maxwell joined me to announce the launch of Vocation , an AI-powered career coach. Built on decades of research, Cliff and I cofounded Vocation with Bob Moesta, my coauthor of the bestselling book Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career . Cliff and I discussed how Vocation now brings the process from Job Moves to you with the help of AI—so that you can identify what truly drives and energizes you at work and move beyond traditional resume-based or job title-focused career tools. Cliff shared some early stories of how Vocation has helped individuals. I’m excited that this resource can now be in all of your hands—and we look forward to your feedback. Links: https://www.joinvocation.com/ Michael Horn Excited to be with you, Cliff, as we talk about this new company we have created together, with Bob Moesta as well, called Vocation. It is based off the book Job Moves that we did. We had, you know, over a decade of research with a thousand-plus individuals who had made job changes and started coaching them and so forth. Ethan Bernstein’s class at the Harvard Business School, one of our coauthors pivotal in doing this, and then you sort of looked at this [book] and you’re like, hey, we could create a product out of this. And you were actually one of the early victims, if you will, of our research and tried out some of the work on you and I think it, I think it helped [you]. But before we start to introduce what Vocation is, maybe let’s tell your own personal story into this work and how you got to be here. We’ve been collaborators and friends for I think over a decade at this point. But why don’t you tell it through your own, your own words, your personal story into this. From Semiconductors to Education Innovation Cliff Maxwell Yeah, no, it’s so great to,…","meta_description":"Cliff Maxwell joined me to announce the launch of Vocation , an AI-powered career coach. Built on decades of research, Cliff and I cofounded Vocation with…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1965,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-future-of-education-3943663/episodes/launching-vocation-the-ai-coach-to-help-individuals-make-career-progress/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-future-of-education-3943663/launching-vocation-the-ai-coach-to-help-individuals-make-career-progress.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}