About this episode

Breanne Gjurich-Wozniak shares her journey of leaving a successful corporate career to build a consulting business that aligns with her passions.

If your career looks successful on paper but feels off inside, you're not alone. Many mid-career professionals reach a point where the work that used to fit no longer does. Breanne Gjurich-Wozniak's story is one path forward: a portfolio career that combined her biotech expertise with her animal welfare interests. Breanne had a career that looked solid from the outside. Biotech R&D, then regulatory work submitting new technologies to the FDA. Director-level. Real success. Inside, the fit was changing. The work was drifting.She started looking at R&D and regulatory roles she was qualified for. Nothing gave her any excitement. That's when she found HTYC's free 8-day mini course and joined the Career Change Bootcamp. She built one 5-year career plan with her manager and a separate one with her career coach. The two plans were so different. The energy in each was so different. She knew it was time to leave. What followed wasn't a traditional job search. It was 20 conversations with strangers, a series of career experiments, and surprising feedback from people who'd only met her for an hour. Her coach introduced the idea of a portfolio career: multiple types of work, multiple…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Anthony Barlow

Guest: Breanne Gjurich-Wozniak

Topics covered

• career change
• portfolio career
• biotech
• animal welfare
• mid-career pivot

Keywords

• career change
• biotech
• animal welfare
• portfolio career
• consulting business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HTYC, FDA

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