Florian Kemmerich spent 15 years climbing the corporate ladder in the medical device world, running companies across Germany, Mexico, and the United States. From the outside, he had won. Then a coaching session put him in a chair across from his five year old self, and that kid told him he was wasting his life. He calls what he found the absent subject of his own education. School gave him every tool to make a living and nothing that told him who he was.
Florian is the co-founder of Human Planet, the author of On Vocation, and the founder of Vocating.ai. He has mobilized close to a billion dollars of impact capital and chairs TIGER 21 in Switzerland. He is also a father of five, a former paratrooper, and a national level judoka who walked away from a run at the 1992 Olympics because it was not his why. His philosophy is four words. Impact Lives, Share Profits.
This is not a finance lecture. It is the quiet question a lot of successful men carry and will not say out loud.
Here is some of what Chris and Florian get into:
- Why society trains men to perform and provide, and never asks what they want
- The moment at 33 that blew up a career, and what it cost his wife and family
- Why making money or making a difference is a false choice, and how to do both at once
- Why burnout is usually a direction problem, not a rest problem
- The three exercises to find your why. Cut the noise, go back to your earliest memory, look forward to your deathbed
- Your imprint. What happened between ages two and six, and how to flip it
- Why your hobby is not a waste of time, and how to use it inside the job you already have
- Why chasing fame, fortune, and power will make you miserable
- Money as a means, not an outcome
- What AI actually changes, and why the answer is not inside the chatbot
If you are winning on paper and quietly asking is this it, start here.
Find Florian:
- Book and personal site: on-vocation.com
- His firm: human-planet.com
- His AI career platform, beta signup: vocating.ai
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/floriankemmerich
- Instagram: instagram.com/flokemmerich
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