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by Joy Chik
Joy Of Reinvention: Knowing Moments, Bold Choices, Lived Wisdom is a podcast about the quiet turning points that shape our lives and careers. Hosted by Joy Chik, a senior Microsoft technology executive who spent nearly three decades building products used by billions of people worldwide. Through real life stories, the show explores moments of clarity that don’t arrive with certainty or fireworks — but once felt, can’t be ignored.
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- 1 weeks ago32 min
S2 Episode 1: How Do You Know a Chapter is Complete? with Sarah Bond
Joy Chik and Sarah Bond explore the quiet signals that a meaningful chapter is complete, why responsibility can keep us there, and how choosing an ending can become an act of gratitude and agency.Sarah recently completed an extraordinary chapter at Microsoft, where she most recently served as President of Xbox. In this conversation, Joy and Sarah examine the difference between exhaustion and completion, the loyalty that keeps capable people in roles they've outgrown, and the subtle signals that responsibility has replaced aliveness.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@joyofreinvention.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout.This podcast was produced by Tom Larson and Sue Corcoran, and edited by Amy Enser.
- 3 weeks ago4 min
Episode 13: Big News — The Knowing Moments Is Becoming Joy of Reinvention
6 months ago, Joy thought she was starting a podcast. What she was really starting was her own reinvention.In this solo episode, Joy looks back on Season 1 — leaving Microsoft after 28 years, choosing to bet on herself instead of another corporate role, and what it took to become a beginner again. Then she looks ahead: what Season 2 is about, who's joining her, and the new name this show is stepping into.The Knowing Moments is becoming Joy of Reinvention: Knowing Moments, Bold Choices, Lived Wisdom. Same show, same feed, same host — new name, new chapter.If you already follow or subscribe, you don't need to do anything. This same show will simply appear with a new name and cover.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@joyofreinvention.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout.This podcast was produced by Tom Larson and Sue Corcoran, and edited by Amy Enser.
- Aug 10, 202623 min
Episode 12: How Travel Transforms Us
What makes some journeys become Knowing Moments — while others are simply vacations?For years, travel was about getting somewhere for me — customer meetings, keynotes, leadership offsites, tight schedules. I'd come home with more airline miles than memories.These days I travel differently. In this episode, I sit down with Nancy Mounir, my former Chief of Staff at Microsoft and one of my closest friends, to talk about a work trip to Saudi Arabia that changed how we both see the world — and why the moments that stay with us are so rarely the ones we planned.We talk about assumptions that fell apart on contact, the unplanned detours that outlast the itinerary, and why the greatest souvenir might not be a thing at all.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@theknowingmoments.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout.This podcast was produced by Tom Larson and Sue Corcoran, and edited by Amy Enser.
- Jul 26, 202621 min
Episode 11: What Really Recharges Us
For years, I thought I was good at recharging. I worked out almost every day. I took vacations. It seemed like I checked all the boxes. But looking back, I don’t think I really knew how to rest.This episode kicks off our summer stretch — shorter, more reflective, and for the first time, with a guest. I sat down with Trevor Opalewski, my trainer since 2021, who’s had a front-row seat to the busiest years of my career at Microsoft, my transition out, and whatever this next chapter is becoming.We talk about why real recharge is so hard to find, the difference between escaping and actually resting, why changing location isn’t the same as recovering, and why rest might be the most underrated source of creativity.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@theknowingmoments.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout.
- Jul 13, 202622 min
Episode 10: Designing a Career Beyond the Title
When I started this podcast, I thought I was documenting a sabbatical — a pause between chapters.What I was really learning was how to redesign a life.In the Season 1 finale of The Knowing Moments, I share three experiences that taught me what redesigning a career actually looks like: running three ventures and discovering each one required a different version of me; building this podcast from zero and realizing a tribe was quietly forming around it; and sitting at my kitchen table on a Sunday, scanning a calendar that was busy as ever — but that, for the first time in decades, no one had designed but me.This episode is about the part of reinvention no one warns you about: your title is not your identity, success can become a birdcage, and a meaningful career — like success, belonging, and fulfillment — can't be inherited.It has to be intentionally built.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@theknowingmoments.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout
- Jun 29, 202623 min
Episode 9: Finding Where I Belong
When you leave a long chapter of your career, you don’t just leave a job. You leave a tribe.For almost three decades, my community was built into my life automatically — the people I saw every day, solved problems with, learned from. And when that structure changes, you start asking a different question. Not “What do I do next?” but “Where do I belong now?”In this episode, I take you through three recent moments — learning to be present after years of half-listening, missing my team and discovering the belonging was changed but still there, and walking into a room full of strangers and finding a new belonging.This is about a hidden part of reinvention no one warns you about: rebuilding not just a career, but a sense of belonging — one conversation at a time.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@theknowingmoments.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout
- Jun 15, 202622 min
Episode 8: Rebuilding My Identity
There's a question that sounds simple. But for most of us — especially those who've built something real — it's one of the hardest questions to sit with.Who are you outside your job title?In this episode, I take you with me to Antarctica, to the Winter Olympics in Milan, to my farewell gathering on Microsoft's campus, and to the moment I almost didn't share my podcast publicly.Each of those moments taught me something different about identity. About how quietly it becomes wrapped up in a role. And about what it actually takes to start designing it from scratch.This is what it looks like — and feels like — to begin again.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@theknowingmoments.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout
- Jun 1, 202622 min
Episode 7: When Success Becomes a Birdcage
There’s a phase that’s harder to name than failure.It’s when the role that once felt impossible now feels… routine. When the business is growing, the team is strong, and your calendar has never been fuller.And yet. Something starts to feel different. Not wrong. Just different.In this episode, I go back to the years when I had built something real at Microsoft — and began to realize, slowly, that the very things making the work meaningful were also making it impossible to imagine leaving. The platform. The recognition. The rhythm that had quietly become a birdcage.Because success, it turns out, creates its own kind of invisible trap.The question isn’t whether things are working. It’s whether they’re still growing you.For newsletter updates, sign up here.For video episodes, visit our podcast on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.Send your feedback and suggestions for future episodes to feedback@theknowingmoments.com Logo and other art courtesy of Andy Reddout
About Joy of Reinvention
Joy Of Reinvention: Knowing Moments, Bold Choices, Lived Wisdom is a podcast about the quiet turning points that shape our lives and careers. Hosted by Joy Chik, a senior Microsoft technology executive who spent nearly three decades building products used by billions of people worldwide. Through real life stories, the show explores moments of clarity that don’t arrive with certainty or fireworks — but once felt, can’t be ignored.
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