What do you do when your industry shifts — and your 21-year run suddenly ends?

This week, we sit down with longtime ESPN producer Gus Ramsey to talk about career pivots, layoffs, reinvention, mentorship, and retirement planning on the Back 9.

After producing SportsCenter's most important shows during its peak, Gus was forced to recalibrate. Instead of chasing relevance, he focused on usefulness — launching a coaching practice, leading the prestigious Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting, and mentoring the next generation of broadcasters.

Now, at 59½ — emphasis on the half -- he's made another intentional pivot: retiring, relocating, and redesigning life on purpose.

This episode is about reading the signals, protecting your integrity, and making bold midlife career moves without losing yourself…on the Back 9.

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Most relationships don't end because of one big blowup. They end because too much goes unsaid.

This week on The Back 9, therapist and author Colette Fehr returns to the show to talk about her new book, The Cost of Quiet, and why avoiding conflict can quietly push couples toward distance, disconnection, and divorce. The three of us dig into how "keeping the peace" turns into resentment, how intimacy fades when hard conversations don't happen, and why this pattern shows up so often in midlife relationships and second marriages.

If you've ever stayed quiet to avoid a fight — and wondered later how things slipped so far — this conversation will hit home. It's a topic worth shouting about, on The Back 9.

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Preorder The Cost of Quiet: How to Have the Hard Conversations That Create Secure, Lasting Love
https://www.colettejanefehr.com/new-book

Website
https://www.colettejanefehr.com

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@colettejanefehr

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https://colettejanefehr.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

TEDx Talk, "Secrets from a Couples Therapist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tSUOB2yEd0

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What does it actually take to design a life you want? And do you earn your way to that clarity by going through the harder chapters first?

We're joined by someone who can answer those questions. Expat business coach and former federal criminal defense attorney Linda Perry has created a life that is a perfect model of what it looks like to build with intention. Linda shares how a 17-year career in law, a difficult ex-husband, and the work of self-reflection all shaped her understanding of who she really was and what she wanted next. Linda brings both lived experience and professional insight as a mediator and coach, offering perspective on how people break patterns and move forward with integrity.

Then we shift into the bold choice she made to live abroad. Linda walks us through life in Portugal, touching on both the process (residency options, language, bureaucracy) and how joyful daily life can be when you choose to start over in another country.

It's an episode about earning clarity, choosing courage, and deciding to design your life instead of living by default….on the Back 9.

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