One Year Anniversary of a Major Career Transition: A LinkedIn Reflection
Posted to my LinkedIn Page 07/09/2022
In a month it will be the one year anniversary of losing my job.
A part of me wishes that this post would be a “and look at me now!” success story that everyone would like and congratulate me for.
It’s not.
This year has been really hard.
And while I appreciate hearing “I’m not worried about you” for the 100th time from family and friends….I can’t help but think, well I am. I’m worried.
I’m downright scared.
Because what I’m doing is SCARY!
I started off doing what I thought I should. I made a big international move. I applied to jobs. I hustled. I got one. We all celebrated. Then the realization came that I was not where I was supposed to be. I had taken the “easy way out” when something bigger was calling to me.
I’m grateful to have had a toxic manager and an incredible best friend (Kelly Bron (ᑭᐊᓕ) Johnson (ᔭᓐᓴᓐ) wake me up. They helped me to shift gears and go back into the scary unknown.
That place where I don’t have a job. No benefits. No “security”. No really cool thing to say when someone asks “what do you do?”
In the nothingness that that creates, there is fear. There are all the negative narratives and scary stories. There is also…space. And possibility.
In this time I’ve been completing my EMBA with Quantic School of Business and Technology and I’ve also been completing my professional coaching certification with Co-Active Training Institute. I continue to support DEI initiatives as a freelance facilitator with Blue Level and then I did the wildest thing, which was to declare that I am someone who is here to help people. That is what I do. I’m a coach and people come to me to cut through the fog in their lives and to get to what really matters.
I’m also a human being. Who experiences his own fog. It fuels me and gives me empathy, and perspective.
In the short amount of time since I started DBF Coaching Services I have had some really cool highs, and sluggish, trudging lows. It’s hard.
But, if you’ve read this far (thank you), there’s one thing I hope you will take from this. And that is that I am so proud to be doing something hard. It feels real and it feels meaningful.
I am happy to be so far outside my comfort zone. I choose this. It’s challenging and at times I come close to breaking, but it’s mine. It’s the path that is in line with my values of integrity, courage and service.
My wish for you is to go do something really hard. Fail at stuff. Get messy. Feel all the things.
That will be the set-up of your success.
It will be how you know you’re alive.
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