Clarity On Fire

My former client Kara is one of those women who was good at doing what she was “supposed” to do.    She went to college, studied engineering (just like her dad), and became an engineer. She also got married and had kids, all while progressing in a very demanding field.    But eventually, as life tend to do when it isn’t built on the sturdiest, most authentic foundation, things started to fall apart. Kara went through a divorce, became a single working mom, and was faced with a whole new reality.   She’d spent 20 years checking a lot of boxes, only to realize that she wasn’t satisfied and desperately needed a change (and a break).   In this month’s interview with a normal person, Kara and I talk about what it’s like to leave a career after so long and start something entirely new.   Listen in as we talk about…   How she realized it was time to move on Her advice for women who are in more traditional, heavily-masculine-energy-type fields like engineering Taking an 8-month sabbatical from working, and what she