…And You Know What Else Sucks?

Loneliness. The cherry on top of the sh*t sundae of layoffs. Nobody puts that in the exit interview. Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you get laid off. You don’t just lose a job. You lose your people. And not in the “our most valuable resource” way they said at every all-hands meeting. I […]

You Didn’t Lose Your Confidence. You Gained Enough Doubt to Bury It.

A mentor once said something to me that I haven’t been able to shake. “You don’t lose confidence. You gain doubt that eclipses it.” I didn’t fully understand that until I got laid off. And then – standing in my kitchen at 10am on a Tuesday with nowhere to be – it hit me all […]