Authoring Your New Script: April Rinne on How to Flux (and Thrive) in Constant Change

April Rinne is equal parts global authority, advocate, ally and adventurer. She spent the first half of her career focused on global development and financial inclusion, and the latter half on the “new” digital economy and the future of work. For more than two decades, she has seen emerging trends early, understands their potential, and helps others do the same.

Her new book Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change is part personal guidebook, part strategic roadmap, and part blank canvas for discovery, Flux provides a refreshing, unconventional take on navigating change today and far into the future. Each of the eight Flex Superpowers helps you see differently and ground you in your truth. Our conversation is not to be missed if you want to learn how to be empowered to thrive – no matter what changes come your way.

We have a great discussion of the eight flux superpowers, which she calls a “Bento box for the mind.”

1. Run slower
2. See what’s invisible
3. Get lost
4. Start with trust
5. Know your “enough”
6. Create your portfolio career
7. Be all the more human (and serve other humans)
8. Let go of the future

In her book, April provides discussion guides at the end and the exercises and figures in each chapter that I found to be quite instructive.

We end with some guidance for listeners who are overwhelmed with change and facing anxiety or burnout, her career advice for someone who is worried about where the future of work is taking us, and the seeming paradox of her being a futurist, yet having a superpower be “Letting Go of the Future.” We went deep in looking at a world that clamors for “more, more, more,” and her perspective on Knowing Your “Enough” and how we can figure out what our enough is.

And April’s answer to my asking her about what are some of the ways she lives your life in full is not to be missed.

Most Recent Episodes

April 1, 2024

Octavia Goredema on Doing Work that Matters

How do you get the job, or position, or career, where the work that you do matters - and not just to your employer -  but to you? Few experiences in life are as awful as the feeling of being trapped...

Listen · 1:16:02

March 1, 2024

Creativity and Innovation in Business and Design: Lance Cayko on (re)Inventing Architecture

At the intersection of architecture is art, creativity, design, engineering, sociology, psychology, and inspiration, not to mention survival, sustainability, and comfort. It’s been said that...

Listen · 1:11:41

February 1, 2024

Eduardo Briceño on the Performance Paradox: When Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect

To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies know they must create a culture of growth, where experimentation and feedback are encouraged, and learning is integrated into the...

Listen · 1:11:48

Load More Episodes

Dr. Chris Stout Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Chris Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist and international humanitarian with a diverse background in various domains. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives (a Top-Rated Nonprofit) and is the Executive Producer and Host of the popular “Living a Life in Full” a top-ranked podcast with an audience of over 3 million. He was a Fellow in the School of Public Health and Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago and prior to that he held an academic appointment at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He served as a NGO Special Representative and had the honor of speaking at the United Nations; he holds the distinction of being one of only 100 world-wide leaders appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow and was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meeting in Davos.