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The Title Was Never the Point (opens the original)
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I spent years chasing the CEO position.At 31, I achieved it—and felt nothing a week later.I told myself a story that once I reached that point, things would change. I would finally feel like I was enough; worthy of my own contentment.But for ambitious people, that’s never the case. There’s always another rung on the ladder, even when there’s literally not.I think that’s what was so daunting to me. I had nowhere else to go and was left to sit with myself and the realization that no role, title, o
How Do People Experience You? (opens the original)
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This July, I did something I’ve never done before—I took the month off as a celebration of my ten years with Ascend Innovations and focused on family.We took the kids on multiple trips, celebrated my 35th birthday, and spent a ton of quality time together, including slow mornings, chill days, and plenty of ordinary moments in between.It was less about taking a “sabbatical” and more about creating space to clarify my priorities and reinforce how I want to live my life. But stepping away from the
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