ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, "I worked this hard to get here, so why am I even thinking about doing something else?" Maybe the career is good. Maybe you are successful. Maybe other people would love to have what you have. So when something new starts pulling at you, the first instinct can be to talk yourself out of it. Be realistic. Be grateful. Do not throw away everything you already built.
On second thought, maybe we have been looking at a career pivot the wrong way.
What if the better question is not whether you should leave everything behind, but whether there is an opportunity sitting inside what you have already learned? In this episode of On Second Thought, Katie Love and I get into how she knew it was time to pay attention to something new, what made her willing to bet on an industry people were still dismissing, and what she wishes women understood about following an opportunity before there is enough proof to make it feel safe.
Katie Love is a former NBC news reporter and the founder of Love Social Media, the multimillion-dollar social media agency she has spent the last 10 years building. Before becoming a founder, Katie spent eight years in broadcast journalism covering crime, missing children, natural disasters, and presidential elections. Today, she leads a team of 25 and helps women-led businesses and major brands use storytelling, content, and community to grow online. She has lived both sides of this conversation: building the career she thought she wanted and then taking everything it taught her somewhere completely different.
What's Discussed:
(05:25) What it can feel like when the career you worked so hard for no longer feels like the place you are supposed to stay.
(11:05) How to recognize the skills you can carry into your next chapter instead of assuming a pivot means starting over.
(14:09) How to spot an opportunity before everyone around you sees why it matters.
(18:05) What to do with the fear that nobody will need, understand, or pay for the thing you want to build.
(31:24) Why slow growth does not automatically mean you are on the wrong path, and what to pay attention to before you change direction.
(37:47) How to tell the difference between something that needs more time and something that actually needs a new strategy.
(49:01) What to remember when everyone else's success is making you feel like yours should be happening faster.
Listen to this episode if part of you keeps thinking about a different path, but another part keeps reminding you how much you already invested in the one you are on.
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