Finding the Courage to Quit: Overcoming Fear and Taking the First Step

Finding the Courage to Quit: Overcoming Fear and Taking the First Step

June 19, 2026 · 9 min · Season 2 · Episode 268

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This episode discusses the challenges and fears associated with quitting a job and finding the courage to make a career change.

Send us Fan Mail This week, we’re tackling one of the scariest—yet most liberating—moves you’ll ever make in your career: finding the courage to quit when you know it’s time. Are you living with that nagging voice that says, “Something has got to change”? I open up about my own struggles with the decision to leave a job that no longer fit, sharing what it really felt like to write my resignation, confront my boss, and walk away from a place I’d invested years into. We unpack the myth of fear,...

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