Losing Everything and Finding Your Voice with Sarah Barnes Humphrey

About this episode

Shelby interviews Sarah Barnes Humphrey about her journey of losing her career and finding her voice.

In this episode of Confident Sober Women, Shelby sits down with entrepreneur, podcast host, and author Sarah Barnes Humphrey for a conversation about identity, resilience, and rebuilding life after everything falls apart. Sarah shares the story of what she calls the worst day of her life. Just days before her 37th birthday, her family’s logistics company suddenly closed, leaving her without the career path she had spent nearly two decades building. What followed was a period of grief, uncerta...

People in this episode

Host: Shelby

Guest: Sarah Barnes Humphrey

Topics covered

• identity
• resilience
• rebuilding life
• entrepreneurship
• grief
• career change

Keywords

• identity
• resilience
• entrepreneurship
• grief
• career change
• podcast
• life rebuilding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: logistics company

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