Company of One with Dale Callahan | Podcast Guru

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You’re a high-achieving professional—maybe in tech, engineering, or leadership—but your career feels stalled. You’re paid well, but it’s not enough. You want more: more purpose, more income, more control over your life.Company of One is a podcast for professionals who want to grow their income, make strategic career moves, or even build something on the side. Hosted by Dr. Dale Callahan—engineer, entrepreneur, and director of a top-ranked graduate program—this show gives you real strategies to take ownership of your future.Whether you’re climbing the ladder or considering stepping off it to build your own thing, this is your place to get unstuck and take action.

Recent Episodes

Want to Quit Your Job But Don’t Know What to Do Instead?

You want out of corporate. But what would you actually do instead? Dale Callahan walks you through three questions to identify what you want to change, find work you might enjoy, and arrange a conversation with someone already doing it. With examples from teaching, software work, and real estate, this episode helps you choose one possibility worth exploring while you keep your job. Bring a piece of paper and leave with a next step for this week. ➡️ Get the free Calling Exercise at https...

15 MIN

How to Make Your First $100 Outside Your Job

You don't need to quit your job to create another source of income. Start smaller: find one problem you already know how to solve and see if someone will pay you $100 to solve it. Here's a practical way to turn years of experience into the beginning of Income #2. watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/50djnBvqRJ4 Company of One is about taking ownership of your work and finding a path toward something you’d love to get paid to do. 🔥 Get the free calling exercise: https://dalecallahan.com/calling...

32 MIN

Find Work You Love While Keeping Your Job

You can appreciate your job and still want to explore work that means more to you. In this episode of Company of One, Dale Callahan talks about how to find work you love while keeping your job. Trent went to work at Disney. Brian opened his own company. Their stories show two different paths toward work they wanted to do. Dale shares questions to help you notice what interests you and practical ways to explore a possibility before making a big decision. Start with a conversation, observe some...

18 MIN

The Career Ladder Is Reversing. Build a Second Income Before You Need It

The traditional career ladder rewarded professionals for moving farther away from the work. Now organizations are flattening, management layers are shrinking, and leaders are expected to produce again. Dale explains why your title may offer less protection than you think and why a small second income can provide something more important than money: evidence that your value exists outside your employer. This is not about quitting your job. It is about testing one clear offer, earning the first...

35 MIN

AI Made You Faster. Why Are You More Exhausted?

AI was supposed to save us time. Instead, many people are producing more, responding faster, managing more information, and ending the day more exhausted. In this episode, Dale Callahan explains why better technology rarely leads automatically to less work. When every competitor gains the same productive capacity, faster output becomes the new baseline. Deadlines shrink, expectations rise, and the time saved by AI is quickly filled with more work. You will learn why AI can make the workday me...

18 MIN