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Nell Debevoise Dewey: Doing Less on Purpose

2026-10-1355:39

Send us Fan Mail Doing too much at work: Nell Debevoise Dewey on doing less on purpose Doing too much at work has a way of looking exactly like success, right up until the day it costs something. Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey built a career across three continents, in nonprofits, in post conflict communities, and in a company she founded and led for ten years. By her own account she had gotten herself aligned. The meditation practice was in place. The marriage was good. The work mattered to her...

Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins: The Work She Actually Loved

2026-10-0639:17

Send us Fan Mail Mickey Fitch-Collins: The Work She Actually Loved | Career Change After 20 Years A career change after 20 years sounds impossible until you hear how Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins did it. She was successful in higher education, and somewhere along the way the work stopped matching what she loved to do. She had gone into it to help students find their way, and her days had become more meetings about resource allocation than actual helping. She calls what came next a discernment proc...

Micheal Shaw: Finding Gaps and Filling Them

2026-09-2953:56

Send us Fan Mail Micheal Shaw made his career pivot after twenty-two years of running his own photography studio, when the same digital technology that started his business changed the industry around him. The skill that carried him forward was one he had been giving away for free for fifteen years, because he assumed nobody would pay for it. Micheal grew up in Rochester, New York, raised by his grandparents, and started his first business at eight years old selling frozen Kool-Aid cups out o...

Sara Skowronski: Betting on Herself

2026-09-2258:18

Send us Fan Mail Starting a business after being laid off is the path Sara Skowronski took. For twenty years she was the person every company leaned on, hired for HR and soon running IT, finance, and whatever else needed an owner. She was let go by a new owner on a Monday, and the first thing she noticed underneath the shock was how much lighter she felt. Now a fractional HR partner and Certified AI Consultant, Sara walks through the pattern that ran through a dozen jobs and the moment she ch...

Dr. Kevin Snyder: The Story He Wished He'd Heard

2026-09-1659:58

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Kevin Snyder: The Story He Wished He'd Heard Every choice carries a consequence you can't always see at the time. Kevin Snyder became Dean of Students at High Point University, a role he'd worked toward for years. It came with one condition: give up his public speaking. He agreed, figuring it didn't matter much. Then he realized he'd given up too much. Most of us have made a version of that trade. We take the promotion, the safer path, the thing that looks right, and we q...

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