🎙️You’re sailing along in your career, you’ve got the experience and respect to go with it. Then you realise to do what you really want to do, you’ll have to change tack, change your boat, let go of the hard-earned position, the esteem of your colleagues/peers and head off into the unknown.

How do you navigate these transitional waters and the feelings that come with change?

Marni Heinz, Go-To-Market Expert at Datadog and Leadership Coach is not afraid of following what feels right to her, no stranger to charting a new career course and knows the direction in which she needs to go, yet even with this knowledge she still finds the period of transition the hardest one. She seeks out the advice of

🔹Lesly Simmons, Owner and President, Mobius Toys, Former Head of Community Innovation at Amazon:

🔹Noel Pacarro Brown, Author and Thought Leader in Sustainable Finance:

and Christine Renaud, Braindate (Host)

to dig deeper into: How to navigate a professional pivot that feels like a step backward when it's actually a step forward?

Covered in this episode

• Going against the grain but staying true to oneself
• Life pivots
• Unpacking the question
• The role of time in pivots/overwhelming periods
• “Repotting the plant”
• Spotting the invitations to go deeper “good content”
• What anchors us in times of flux?
• Business timelines vs personal timelines
• Shifting one’s mindset

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.