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I Sucked at Leadership — Because I Tried to Be the Hero
I got promoted — no confetti, just more responsibility. Suddenly, my team came to me with constant questions, and I did what made me successful: I solved everything. It felt like leadership… until I became the bottleneck. This post is about the painful shift from doer to leader — and how I’m learning to enable instead of execute.
Staying employable robs your life of meaning
I did everything “right”—great grades, internships, entrepreneurship, no gaps, all the employability checkboxes. But when the job market shifted, I was left with something unexpected: emptiness. I was employable, but lost. This is a reflection on why chasing employability can erase purpose—and what it might mean to redefine success.