76: What Changes When You Stop Looking For An Exit

76: What Changes When You Stop Looking For An Exit

From From Corporate Into Calling: Career Change, Burnout, Meaningful Work, Find Your Purpose by Alisa Murphy - From Corporate Into Calling

April 1, 2026 · 15 min

About this episode

In this episode, Alisa Murphy reflects on a challenging week in her journey toward meaningful work and the pivotal question that helped her find clarity.

Some weeks the journey toward meaningful work looks like momentum and clarity. And some weeks it looks like stopping dead on the school run and saying out loud: what the **** am I doing? This week was the second kind. In this episode I share what happened when a wobbly week — the investment banker advice I didn't want to hear, the complexity that kept multiplying, the energy dispersing into backup plans and exit strategies — finally brought me to a single question: am I in or am I out? And what shifted when I finally answered it. If you're building something meaningful, trying to find your purpose, or somewhere in the middle of a leap you're not sure you can land — you're in the right place. Next steps: ✦ Discover the Meaningful Business Incubator ✦ Subscribe to my emails ✦ Book a call with me Related episodes: → How to Start Building the Thing You Can't Stop Thinking About → What's The Worst That Can Happen? → How I Stayed the Course Through 15 Years of Building a Meaningful Business Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Alisa Murphy

Topics covered

  • career change
  • meaningful work
  • purpose
  • burnout
  • self-discovery

Keywords

  • career change
  • meaningful work
  • purpose
  • burnout
  • exit strategies
  • self-improvement
  • clarity

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Organizations: Meaningful Business Incubator, Ausha

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