When the Work Stops Lighting You Up: Leaving Corporate Before They Push You Out w/ Kristen Hamborg

About this episode

Kristen Hamborg shares her journey of leaving a 25-year corporate career to pursue coaching and the lessons learned along the way.

Kristen Hamborg is six weeks out of a 25-year corporate interior design career — and she's never looked back. In this episode Kristen shares how burnout, a pandemic pivot, and a coaching certification she pursued on the side slowly shifted everything. ...

People in this episode

Host: Brett Trainor

Guest: Kristen Hamborg

Topics covered

• burnout
• career transition
• coaching
• creativity
• community support
• identity shift

Keywords

• corporate escape
• interior design
• pandemic pivot
• coaching certification
• referrals
• virtual retreat
• identity shift
• creativity

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