Self Taught with Tim Frazer
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Self Taught with Tim Frazer

Empower your journey: Unconventional paths to success.

Self Taught with Tim Frazer

Empower your journey: Unconventional paths to success.

Self-ImprovementCareer ChangeInspirationPersonal StoriesTech and Innovation
You speak directly to listeners questioning traditional career paths
You get space for honest, unhurried conversations about your pivots
You showcase the real steps behind your self-taught journey
You connect with a growing circle of unconventional builders

About Self Taught with Tim Frazer

Empower your journey: Unconventional paths to success.

Nobody gave them permission. Every week, Tim Frazer, a former yoga teacher now a tech leader and investor, meets with musicians, ex-cooks, dropouts, and so many interesting people.

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Career Change Audience Reach

You speak to listeners actively pursuing Self-Improvement, Career Change, and Tech and Innovation, already primed to value your hard-won lessons.

Deep-Dive Personal Storytelling

You get a relaxed, narrative-style interview where your Personal Stories, pivots, and experiments are explored beyond a surface-level bio.

Hosted By Operator-Investor

You’re interviewed by Tim Frazer, a former yoga teacher turned tech leader and investor, who understands nonlinear, self-taught paths firsthand.

Shareable Proof Of Your Journey

You walk away with a polished episode you can share as evidence of your self-taught expertise and unconventional path.

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From "Wrong Path" To Right Life

You walk listeners through the exact moment you chose a different life and how you navigated the fallout.

The story of who you were before everything changed The trigger that made staying on the old path impossible The first risky steps you took without a clear plan What you wish someone had told you at that crossroads

How You Actually Taught Yourself

You break down the real learning process behind your self-taught skills so listeners can copy your playbook.

Why formal education wasn’t the right route for you How you designed your own curriculum and practice Tools, communities, and projects that accelerated you How you still learn and stay sharp today

Crossing Worlds: From One Identity To Another

You explore how moving from one scene to another—like musician, ex-cook, or dropout to builder—reshaped your identity.

The culture of the world you started in The first signals that another world might fit better Transferrable skills you didn’t realize you had How you now integrate your “old” and “new” selves

Early Signals You’re On The Right Path

You help listeners recognize subtle signs—like in the “Early Signal” episode—that their unconventional route is working.

Tiny wins that told you to keep going Feedback from others that shifted your confidence How you measured progress without titles or degrees Signals you advise listeners to watch for now

How You'd Contribute to the Show

Audience Takeaways

Your episode helps listeners see exactly how to bet on themselves, learn what they need, and navigate a major reinvention without waiting for permission.

Hot Topics

• How you navigated the moment you decided to walk away from the expected path
• The specific skills and systems you used to teach yourself what you needed
• The emotional cost of reinvention: doubt, identity shifts, and relationships

Why Trust Me

Hosted by a tech leader and investor who personally transitioned from yoga teaching
Features musicians, ex-cooks, dropouts, and unconventional builders as peers
Focused on real-world, non-academic paths that resonate with self-directed learners

The Ideal Guest

You’re ideal if you’ve built a self-taught or nonlinear career—especially in tech, creative fields, food, or music—and you’re ready to share the unpolished, practical truth of how you did it.

Recent Episodes

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Self Taught with Tim Frazer • Jul 2, 2026

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We're booking guests to discuss self taught engineer, career change podcast, nontraditional careers. Remote recordings, Available Tuesday to Thursday. If you bring practical stories and clear takeaways, let's talk.

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