Thank you for sharing so openly, as always. Some things do not change and your generosity to help others feel seen and not alone is one x. Love you, Kel x
I love the way you put words to these feelings and experiences - you may not have returned as a corporate show pony, but you’ve come back as something so much more powerful. A wild stallion? Retired racehorse? Either way, thank you.
sitting here beside you and feeling it all. life can be long and you are valuable and this is important, the generations need real women to speak. Thank you for being all you and inviting a new standard. 💌 KH fan club
Cannot tell you how much your experience resonates with me. I was a female lawyer working in tech and sports for a long time. Your observation about the culling of compassion out of large companies is on the nose. It’s clearly better for humanity to treat users like people - but a lot of corporations these days prefer to treat people like objects whose rights and needs and safety can be traded for their private profit. It’s a failure of democracy and it’s sickening!
I relate in a million ways. I rose up, I pushed myself past non-existent boundaries to perform, to succeed, to prove myself to myself and others, and then I crashed. 2017-2022 was 5 years of personal, mostly but not always private turmoil. And the autism diagnosis brought everything in to perspective. Yes, in some ways I am hyper capable. And in other ways, I’m profoundly challenged. In the past I focused on just being more and more and more of what I can achieve, and ignore the skills I actually needed to build to live on an essential level.
Since accepting I am autistic, it’s the opposite, almost, sort of. It’s been 5 years of learning to care for my basic needs, feeling like an idiot because the simple self care is so hard, and realizing it’s for my benefit and wellbeing that I must never ever aspire to achieve as much as I once did, career-wise.
I could go on, a classic autistic girly trying to connect by sharing her own experience after taking in your unique experience. 😬
I share to say, I see you in your unique experience. I’d be happy to FaceTime, grab a virtual treat or tea anytime and just listen or relate, whatever you need.
And thank you for sharing your experience. It’s a gift to yourself to put it into written word and an act of love to your community to share your story.
Hopefully you find a happier place than the one you left, it's unfortunate that too late you discovered you weren't happy there. The corporate world is the corporate world, whether you're man or woman, but not all are bad. I think the moral of the corporate story is to be true always to oneself. Be your own show pony, and nobody else's. Ever. Hopefully there are some police reports to go along with those horror stories.
“Surviving doesn’t mean I’m back to my former self; surviving means she’s dead.”
This is powerful and beautiful, and I feel this so deeply as a woman and mother and former tech leader who cannot imagine that version of myself existing again.
Thank you for sharing so openly, as always. Some things do not change and your generosity to help others feel seen and not alone is one x. Love you, Kel x
Kelly my god this is so beautiful. Love love love. ❤️
wow. so much of this. yes. Please DM if you'd like to connect.
I love the way you put words to these feelings and experiences - you may not have returned as a corporate show pony, but you’ve come back as something so much more powerful. A wild stallion? Retired racehorse? Either way, thank you.
Kelly - Behind you all the way. Always have been. Always will be.
sitting here beside you and feeling it all. life can be long and you are valuable and this is important, the generations need real women to speak. Thank you for being all you and inviting a new standard. 💌 KH fan club
That mare broke free
Cannot tell you how much your experience resonates with me. I was a female lawyer working in tech and sports for a long time. Your observation about the culling of compassion out of large companies is on the nose. It’s clearly better for humanity to treat users like people - but a lot of corporations these days prefer to treat people like objects whose rights and needs and safety can be traded for their private profit. It’s a failure of democracy and it’s sickening!
I relate in a million ways. I rose up, I pushed myself past non-existent boundaries to perform, to succeed, to prove myself to myself and others, and then I crashed. 2017-2022 was 5 years of personal, mostly but not always private turmoil. And the autism diagnosis brought everything in to perspective. Yes, in some ways I am hyper capable. And in other ways, I’m profoundly challenged. In the past I focused on just being more and more and more of what I can achieve, and ignore the skills I actually needed to build to live on an essential level.
Since accepting I am autistic, it’s the opposite, almost, sort of. It’s been 5 years of learning to care for my basic needs, feeling like an idiot because the simple self care is so hard, and realizing it’s for my benefit and wellbeing that I must never ever aspire to achieve as much as I once did, career-wise.
I could go on, a classic autistic girly trying to connect by sharing her own experience after taking in your unique experience. 😬
I share to say, I see you in your unique experience. I’d be happy to FaceTime, grab a virtual treat or tea anytime and just listen or relate, whatever you need.
And thank you for sharing your experience. It’s a gift to yourself to put it into written word and an act of love to your community to share your story.
Beautiful writing - as a horse loving woman, your metaphors reflect how so many corporation try to break the spirit. When is enough money enough?
Hopefully you find a happier place than the one you left, it's unfortunate that too late you discovered you weren't happy there. The corporate world is the corporate world, whether you're man or woman, but not all are bad. I think the moral of the corporate story is to be true always to oneself. Be your own show pony, and nobody else's. Ever. Hopefully there are some police reports to go along with those horror stories.
“Surviving doesn’t mean I’m back to my former self; surviving means she’s dead.”
This is powerful and beautiful, and I feel this so deeply as a woman and mother and former tech leader who cannot imagine that version of myself existing again.
Thank you for sharing what people don’t see on the other side of “success” 🙏🏻