Designed Pause Podcast

Ten planes in fourteen days. A friend's studio opening. Napa Valley with my sister. An interview on a channel I've watched for years. Time with my mom. A new coaching client whose entire perspective shifted in one...

Tarji Carter knew she was leaving corporate. She just didn't know when. So she started preparing. Two years before she actually left, she was collecting personal phone numbers and email addresses, saving aggressively...

There is a lot of noise about what a career break will cost you. You'll fall behind. Employers won't hire you. You need to have it all figured out first. Some of that is true. Some of it is outdated. And some of it is...

I'm not going to tell you to quit your job. What I will do is ask you five questions. Because the woman who is privately wondering whether she needs to make a change doesn't need someone to hand her an answer. She needs...

If you're wondering whether now is the right time for a career break or career pause, this episode is for you. High-achieving professionals — directors, VPs, senior managers — have built programs from nothing, led teams...

The thing standing between most high-achieving women and a career pause isn’t information. It’s the internal work. The self-sabotage. The scarcity mindset. The fear of what people will think. The way we overcomplicate...

Kat Kibben quit their job on a Thursday. By Monday they had given their notice. No fallback plan. No slow walk. Just a decision made in the middle of caregiving for their mother, after a manager told them they had no...

You have a folder. Maybe it doesn't have a label. But it's there. Career break posts. Sabbatical stories. Financial independence threads. Women who walked away and figured it out. You've been saving them for months...

I lost someone recently. Someone close to me. And I’ve been sitting with something ever since — not just grief, but gratitude. Gratitude that when it happened, I was fully present. That my pause made it possible to show...

Stuck behind a desk wondering if a career pause means falling behind? In this episode, I'm breaking down 5 ways to come back from your pause more valuable than when you left. In this episode: Why a hybrid pause is the...

Sandy Diaz Haley did not leave corporate on a whim. She left when the timing was right, the cushion was there, and nothing on the corporate side excited her anymore. And even then — it was the hardest she has ever...

<p >Kalilah Wright founded Mess in a Bottle in 2016 with less than $500, during one of the hardest seasons of her personal life. What followed was nearly a decade of building something remarkable — national television...

<p>Bernadette Smith has been an entrepreneur for 22 years. She didn't leave corporate to start over — she never went in. And what she built instead is a masterclass in following purpose over comfort, even when it means...

<p>The thing keeping most high-achieving women from making a big life decision isn’t other people’s opinions. It’s the anticipation of them.</p> <p>In this episode I talk about what it actually looks like to make a...

<p>You know you need to stop. Your body knows it. Your sleep knows it. But you can't quite give yourself permission to do it.</p> <p>That's not a logistics problem. That's an audacity problem.</p> <p>In this episode I...