The Becoming: My War With Identity, Visibility, & Coming Back

Gabrielle Scout is back after almost six months away, and a lot has changed...starting with the name of this podcast. Welcome to REVUE by SCOUT.

In this episode, Gabrielle pulls back the curtain on where she's actually been: the four-year "domino wipeout" that took down almost every identity she'd built: the first hard season at Scout's Agency, closing Okay Sis Podcast with her sister, selling her home, the end of her marriage, and becoming a single mom. She talks about why visibility felt impossible while she was rebuilding, the acqui-hire offer she turned down to bet on herself, and how she finally stopped treating "business Gabrielle" and "REVUE Gabrielle" as two different women.

This episode is part update, part behind-the-scenes, part reintroduction...and it sets up everything to expect from this show going forward: weekly episodes, real interviews with women in business and creativity, and conversations that go deeper than the usual podcast format.

In this episode:

• Why Gabrielle stepped back from content, her podcast, and being the face of her business
• The four-year "domino wipeout": business hardship, closing Okay Sis Podcast, divorce, selling her home, single motherhood
• Turning down an acqui-hire deal from a dream PR agency to bet on Scout's Agency instead
• The "Interesting Woman" archetype and why Gabrielle split herself into two identities — the Scout's Agency woman and the REVUE woman
• How she finally integrated both sides of herself, and what's next for Scout's Agency
• What to expect from REVUE by Scout going forward: weekly episodes, interviews, and deep, nuanced conversations on money, motherhood, ambition, and self

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• REVUE, Gabrielle's Substack newsletter — a Sunday newsletter plus personal essays twice a month
• Scout's Agency — the leading agency for booking women as podcast guests
• Instagram: @gabriellescoutmaio

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