These articles are for you if:
- You're considering a career change but don't know if you're brave or just reckless
- You're building something of your own (or thinking about it) and feel like you're making it up as you go
- You're tired of performing competence in a job that's draining you
- You're trying to figure out what "success" even means to you anymore
- You're wondering if anyone else feels this stuck/scared/ambitious/confused about their work life
Common questions these articles explore:
- How do I know if it's time to quit or if I just need a vacation?
- What does it actually take to start a business, creatively or financially or emotionally?
- How do other people navigate the gap between the career they have and the one they want?
- What if I make a big professional change and it doesn't work out?
- How do I redefine my relationship to work in a way that doesn't burn me out or bore me?
What you can expect to learn:These conversations show you what career transition and entrepreneurship actually look like - the financial realities, the identity shifts, the fears that don't go away just because you made a brave choice. You'll hear from people who quit stable jobs, started businesses, changed industries, or decided to stay put but reimagine what their work means. You'll get less cheerleading and more honest reckoning with what it costs and what it gives you to change your professional life. Enjoy!
Meryl Hayton found herself with a broken wrist, a former brick and mortar business, no money and no clear plan of what to do next. Then, walking as fast as she could with her arm in a cast, she decided she couldn’t wait any longer. She closed the book and ...
It might look like identity change is a single dramatic moment: a walkout, a public break, a clean line between before and after. The truth is often messier. For many people, the real work of deconstruction happens in the small, repeated choice to keep asking questions after everyone around them ...
Most people don’t choose the moment their career changes. It chooses them, usually with a phone call they didn’t see coming. One day you’re hitting your numbers and planning your next promotion. The next [day], you’re clearing out a desk that was never really yours to begin with. A career ...
Career change might look like a simple shift. In most cases it’s probably more complex. People make the decision in pieces, over years, often while they are also doing something else entirely: studying for an exam, holding a newborn, sitting in a cubicle they did not choose. Career change stories ...
Resistance has a way of pointing to exactly what a person needs to do next. It’s not always just the easy things. It’s the things that feel too big, too exposed, too far outside a comfort zone to seriously consider. For Leisa Reid, that thing was stand-up comedy, a form ...
It’s possible for a person to spend decades living at half capacity, and they might not even know it. They show up to work, to relationships, to dinner. And they perform. Not in the theatrical sense, but in the quiet, exhausting way of someone who has quietly decided that the ...
St. Patrick’s Day, Santa Monica. A new mom is pushing a stroller through a crowded promenade, watching strangers laugh and drink and exist with zero effort. She is six months postpartum, sleep-deprived to the point of cognitive fog, physically broken from a delivery that fractured her tailbone, and completely invisible ...
Crissy Fishbane hit her breaking point in a carport, sitting in her car crying before she could bring herself to walk through her own front door. She had done everything right: earned her master’s degree, landed her dream job teaching high school psychology, planned to put in her 30 years. ...
Career Change After Becoming a Mom Is More Complicated Than Anyone Tells You There is a version of new motherhood that gets all the attention: the Instagram-worthy one, with the curated nursery and the Pinterest birth plan. Then there is the version that actually happens, which involves grief, recalibration and ...
Tiphany Kane spent years being told she was too passionate about her work. The feedback that derailed her career in education turned out to be the pivot point that launched her into a second life as a media entrepreneur, and the story of how that happened is one that anyone ...