You left corporate — or you're on your way out — and right now the path forward isn't clear. Maybe you're months in and nothing has clicked yet.

Maybe you're still in the job and exhausted by it. Maybe you've started building something and you keep wondering if it's working.

This week I want to tell you something I've had to remind myself of recently: the hardest part is often the part right before something shifts.

I came back from a trip to Cornwall last week feeling overwhelmed and depleted — not inspired, not clear, just spent. And it was in that exact moment, before I'd had chance to recover, that a business idea I'd been circling for months finally surfaced. I didn't see it coming. I couldn't have, from inside the exhaustion.

I've watched the same pattern with clients. The moment they're most tempted to walk away is almost always the moment something is about to move. Seth Godin called it the dip and my own experience keeps confirming it.

If you're in the middle of a career change, burnout recovery, or just trying to find work that means something to you, this episode is for you.

Wherever you are in that process, the difficulty isn't a signal to stop seeking. It might be just the opposite.

Next steps:

✦ Subscribe to my emails
✦ Book a call with me

Related episodes:

→ The Room You Used To Belong To Isn't Yours Anymore
→ What's The Worst That Can Happen?
→ What Changes When You Stop Looking For An Exit



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