
From Corp to Home
Leaving your career is hard. But it’s harder not to follow your life’s purpose. A journey on leaving the corporate world for family life.
Changing Google for Changing Diapers – a Review
In the end, these are other peoples’ words and beliefs. We, my husband and I, were more interested in our own thoughts.
Failure is Victory – Lessons from 10 years at Google
Still, there had been a damage to the brand – the opposite of my main purpose at work.
Finish line
The final milestone to the Coaching Certification has started. This evaluation consists of eleven sessions of Observed Coaching and professional feedback. Today was the first session and it was very good to see other people coaching. There...
Mirrors – Reflections on Disrespect
Everyone that enters our lives is a teacher, they all have something to give. This lesson was a very expensive reminder that I come first. It is true that I can try to understand where others are on their path in life and what they are struggling with (narcissism, a very broken soul?). Yet, protecting my own space and needs must come first.
First cycle of changes
Occasionally it still seasons my dreams with characters, projects and experiences from the past.
Detox
So, what happens when you leave the place you've been intensely working at for the past ten years? Surprisingly little, at first. I still wake up from dreams about work, wondering about a report, or a project that needs to get done. A keyword, a name will trigger an...
Badging out
It was 9:30 on a Friday and I was having the meeting with HR. Everytime we had worked together in the past it had been great so it felt particularly awkward to be having an exit interview with them. It was over 10 years working there and it matters to me to leave...
Reframing. Exit career. Enter family.
Reframing Perspectives My first coaching session was about reframing perspectives. The main message behind it is that Acceptance is not resignation. It's understanding things as they are, keep standing and being able to then find the best way to respond. You might not...
Another day at the office
It's a simple email, with some updates to send to a few people. Out of courtesy, I show it to two other people so they can feel like a part of it and even add their name - team work, yay! But no, no, no. Now we have to share it with four other people, at least,...
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Middle life crisis or not, it's time to reinvent myself and change things upside down. I've been working for 10 years in the corporate world for a big technology company. I´ve studied hard, took an MBA, travelled the world and worked in 4 different countries....