Uncertainty in a Career Pivot

Late 2025, I walked away from a full-time corporate career I’d spent 30 years building.

That’s not a humble brag. It was genuinely disorienting.

I had built something substantial. A reputation, a network, a track record inside organizations that I was proud of. And I chose to leave it. Not because it stopped working, but because something else was working louder.

My TikTok had started growing. Fast. People were finding me not because of my title or my company, but because of what I knew and how I talked about it.

That was a different kind of credibility. And it told me something I hadn’t fully let myself hear yet.

I knew how to help people. Not just place them. Actually help them navigate careers, transitions, identity shifts, and the particular weight of searching for work while holding your sense of self together.

So I bet on that.

Building a consulting practice from scratch after 20+ years inside organizations is humbling in ways I didn’t fully anticipate. I’m learning things about entrepreneurship, visibility, and client work that no corporate role ever required of me.

But I also feel more aligned than I have in years. And alignment, I’ve learned, is not something you find by staying still.

If you’re standing at a similar edge right now wondering if the thing pulling at you is worth the risk — I don’t have a perfect answer. But I can tell you that clarity usually isn’t waiting on the other side of more certainty. It’s usually waiting on the other side of a decision.