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Career Strategy with Laverne McKinnon

Practical wisdom for reimagining your career after professional loss.

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  1. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Do You Say Ouch in Public or Private? (opens the original)

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    When I was just getting started in the entertainment industry as an assistant at a large talent agency, I had the great fortune of being mentored by the head of business affairs, an awesome woman I’m going to call “Sarah.”Sarah was brilliant, and the agents fought over time with her because she was wildly creative in figuring out how to make the best deals on behalf of clients. They were all secretly intimidated by her legal prowess, depth of relationships, and fire. It was inspiring to see a wo

  2. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    Hum It Out (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Grief Is a Form of Learning (opens the original)

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    Over the past few years, I’ve been writing a book about grief. The kind of grief that isn’t about the loss of life. Rather, the kind of grief that comes when we lose something else we were attached to—a home, a friendship, a job, an identity, a future we thought we were going to have.During my extensive (and ongoing) research, I came across the work of neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor. She wrote The Grieving Brain and I cannot recommend it highly enough.<p

  4. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Let Your Body Let Go (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Module 9: Knowing It’s Over Isn’t Always Enough (opens the original)

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    Welcome back to Solid Ground.Over the past several modules, you’ve spent time investigating the story connected to your professional loss. You named the meaning you created, identified the voice that reinforced it, began to create some distance from that voice, and looked more closely at whether the meaning you’ve been living by is actually true.Now we’re moving into the third task of the RISE framework: Signal the Shift.Understanding that something is over and experiencing it as over aren’t nec

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