What does a life well lived actually look like?

At 75, Ken McArthur has already lived more careers than most people have jobs:
computer programmer calculating orbits for NASA, pet store owner, police officer, rock musician, studio owner, film producer, community builder, and now the founder of a new AI-powered platform for human connection.

In this episode of RESET, we don’t talk tactics or funnels. We talk about life:


Volunteering for the Army in the Vietnam era


Writing code on punch cards and 16K machines


Buying a pet store because one fish had 100 babies


Working nights as a cop in Lakeland, FL


Building a recording studio and playing music through the best decade of rock


Creating live events that changed thousands of lives


Bootstrapping everything (movies, software, platforms) with no VC money


Why he sold it all, moved to 80 acres in Missouri… and what went wrong


The simple question he asks people: “What do you want to do when you get up in the morning?”


His new project, ConnectLab, and how he’s thinking about AI, connection, and the future


Why he’s on a five-year plan at 75 – and what he wants those years to mean

Ken’s core philosophy is disarmingly simple:

Find something. Make it better. Then do it faster for more people.

If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s “too late” to start over, or whether you’ve already missed your shot… this conversation will mess with that belief in the best possible way.

👉 Watch now and see what a lifetime of pivots really looks like.

What does a life well lived actually look like?
At 75, Ken McArthur has already lived more careers than most people have jobs: computer programmer calculating orbits for NASA, pet store owner, police officer, rock musician, studio owner, film producer, community builder, and now the founder of a new AI-powered platform for human connection.
In this episode of RESET, we don&rsquo;t talk tactics or funnels. We talk about life:
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Volunteering for the Army in the Vietnam era
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Writing code on punch cards and 16K machines
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Buying a pet store because one fish had 100 babies
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Working nights as a cop in Lakeland, FL
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Building a recording studio and playing music through the best decade of rock
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Creating live events that changed thousands of lives
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Bootstrapping everything (movies, software, platforms) with no VC money
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Why he sold it all, moved to 80 acres in Missouri&hellip; and what went wrong
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The simple question he asks people: &ldquo;What do you want to do when you get up in the morning?&rdquo;
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His new project, ConnectLab, and how he&rsquo;s thinking about AI, connection, and the future
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Why he&rsquo;s on a five-year plan at 75 &ndash; and what he wants those years to mean
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Ken&rsquo;s core philosophy is disarmingly simple:
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Find something. Make it better. Then do it faster for more people.
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If you&rsquo;ve ever wondered whether it&rsquo;s &ldquo;too late&rdquo; to start over, or whether you&rsquo;ve already missed your shot&hellip; this conversation will mess with that belief in the best possible way.
👉 Watch now and see what a lifetime of pivots really looks like.

RESET with Joel Comm is a conversation for anyone who’s ever had life fall apart and wondered what comes next.

Every episode begins the same way: with one honest, disarming question that cuts straight to the truth. No bios. No hype. No small talk. Just two humans talking about the moments that broke them, the choices that reshaped them, and the wisdom they wish they’d had sooner.

Joel Comm—author, creator, and lifelong reinventor—invites guests to share the resets that changed everything: divorce, collapse, reinvention, identity shifts, career pivots, spiritual awakenings, creative rebirths, and the “I didn’t see this coming” chapters we all face eventually.

If you’re navigating your own reset—or feel one coming—this show is your companion in the dark and your spark in the light. Real stories. Hard-earned truth. Zero pretense.

This is RESET. And it starts with a single question.

RESET with Joel Comm is a conversation for anyone who&rsquo;s ever had life fall apart and wondered what comes next.
Every episode begins the same way: with one honest, disarming question that cuts straight to the truth. No bios. No hype. No small talk. Just two humans talking about the moments that broke them, the choices that reshaped them, and the wisdom they wish they&rsquo;d had sooner.
Joel Comm&mdash;author, creator, and lifelong reinventor&mdash;invites guests to share the resets that changed everything: divorce, collapse, reinvention, identity shifts, career pivots, spiritual awakenings, creative rebirths, and the &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t see this coming&rdquo; chapters we all face eventually.
If you&rsquo;re navigating your own reset&mdash;or feel one coming&mdash;this show is your companion in the dark and your spark in the light. Real stories. Hard-earned truth. Zero pretense.
This is RESET. And it starts with a single question.

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