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Jen Barrett's avatar

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

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Gwen Krosnick's avatar

Kelly my god this is so beautiful. Love love love. ❤️

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Ruth Diaz .Psy.D.'s avatar

wow. so much of this. yes. Please DM if you'd like to connect.

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Natalie Ponte's avatar

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.

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Nicole Michels McDonagh's avatar

Kelly - Behind you all the way. Always have been. Always will be.

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Alice Zimmermann's avatar

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

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Rebecca's avatar

That mare broke free

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Sandy W's avatar

Beautiful writing - as a horse loving woman, your metaphors reflect how so many corporation try to break the spirit. When is enough money enough?

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Jason Knix's avatar

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.

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Heather's avatar

“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.

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Anne Bradley's avatar

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!

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Sally Stone's avatar

Thank you for sharing what people don’t see on the other side of “success” 🙏🏻

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