Welcome to a new segment of Starting Overdrive called RETHINK in which we explore various issues related to starting over in an effort to rethink conventional perception of change, life at large, and what it means on many levels to deal with that change.

With this new segment of the podcast, the goal is to re-explore, re-examine, and rethink issues and topics that should be re-thought so that we can better process and handle change as it relates to starting over.

Get ready to rethink how you look at a variety of issues, dynamics, and topics related to starting over.

The first episode of RETHINK explores how life at large is a series of starting over moments.

This new segment raises such interesting questions and topics as:

- Dealing with constant change

- Dealing with sudden change

- Being forced to start over

- Starting over by choice

- How we are afraid of change

- Why are we so afraid of change?

- Why are some people better equipped to deal with change?

- How we avoid the pain of change

- Preparing to expect the unexpected

- Rethinking how we process change

- Starting over for someone in need

- Surrendering to unexpected change

In the eighth part of the new segment of Starting Overdrive called Turning Points, which explores life-defining events of irreversible change, creator and host, Reg Seeton, continues his story of starting over after a life-defining accident changed his life.

After being hit by a car, spending a week in a coma, surviving three major brain surgeries, nearly losing his life, and enduring five years of recovery, Reg never thought he'd have a professional career. His friends and peers passed him by in university and career while his life was on hold. 

Moving across the country into the unknown, finding himself lost in search of direction, starting over again, Reg eventually discovered his true purpose and career path.

In Part 8, Reg tells the story of the biggest opportunity of his life. 

After a chance meeting in 1996, Reg was asked to join a popular online team in the early days of the Internet. As a result of this new opportunity, Reg's professional world opened up in ways he could have never imagined, taking him to Los Angeles, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Hawaii, Hollywood and beyond.

In this Turning Points episode, topics and themes include:

- The early Internet and embracing the unknown

- A key meeting of like minds

- The online landscape of 1995

- How the Internet was disrupting the writing world

- The biggest opportunity at the right time

- The online entertainment industry in 1996

- Remaining open to opportunity

- Starting a media career at the top of an industry

- A direct mainline to Hollywood and the keys to the Kingdom

- Disrupting the corporate powers of the entertainment industry

- Disrupting the traditional print publication industry

- Renegades versus journalists

- The fight for credibility

- Creating an industry

- Early remote working

- Overcoming fear and self-doubt

- Understanding opportunity and the unknown

- Starting over and the cyclical nature of life

- Starting over when the entire world was forced to start over

- How starting over became a huge career opportunity

In the seventh part of the new segment of Starting Overdrive called Turning Points, which explores life-defining events of irreversible change, creator and host, Reg Seeton, tells the story of how he discovered his true purpose in life after starting over on the west coast, being lost, and having his life on pause for so many years on the east coast.

After getting hit by a car in 1985, waking up from a coma, a five-year recovery, starting over, and moving across Canada into the unknown, Reg found himself lost all over again in a new home struggling to find his true purpose.

In this episode, Reg recalls how he woke up one day in 1995 and made the pivotal decision to take control of his professional life and work to make his dreams come true.

In Turning Points: Part 7, Reg explores the many reasons why he was lost and searching for a greater purpose in life after years of overcoming family dysfunction, the loss of his family unit, the demise of his parents' relationship as a young teen, getting hit by a car, waking up from a coma, years of surgeries, and unresolved trauma.

In this episode, Reg shares exactly how he started over again and found his true purpose in life, a fulfilling long-term career, and how the discovery of his purpose was the very beginning of a 20-year career that saw Reg become an early pioneer in one of the most popular online industries.