Most people hear pivot and think something went wrong. Andrea Wade thinks that's backwards.

Today's word is PIVOT. Not as a crisis, not as a retreat. As a design.

Andrea Wade is the founder of The Pivot Lab, where she helps experienced professionals navigate career transitions with confidence. Deloitte. Arthur Andersen. Mattel. Bank of America. Years as an agent at Creative Artists Agency before she built her own. Her path has never been straight, and that is the point.

We get into why a layoff feels like rejection when it usually has nothing to do with you. Why the outside world has no idea what your title means. What Andrea calls career insurance, and why you build it before you need it. Her four-part framework: reflect, research, reframe, relaunch. And the line that stopped the whole conversation, which is that you cannot be creative and dream if you are exhausted.

Andrea leaves you with one thing. Zero in on what you are curious about, and what you are nervous about. Then get closer to both.

00:00 Coming Up
00:24 Podcast Intro
00:56 Today's Word: PIVOT
03:34 What a Pivot Actually Means
04:32 The Layoff
08:15 Nervous Is Not the Same as Fearful
12:31 Your Job Title Is Not Your Skillset
17:24 Career Insurance
21:19 The Brilliant Women Who Want to Tap Out
29:44 Reflect, Research, Reframe, Relaunch
32:28 You Cannot Have It All At Once
35:09 Sunk Cost
45:14 You Cannot Dream If You Are Exhausted
46:42 One Thing Before You Pivot
48:13 Close Out
48:30 On the Next Show

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Sanika is a founder, inventor, and strategist building at the intersection of culture, media, and technology. How Do You Divine?® is the anchor of HDV Media, a company built on one idea. The words we inherit quietly design the lives we lead.

Every episode takes one word and examines it through culture, intellect, emotion, and lived experience. Definitions that were handed to you. Definitions you adopted. Definitions you assumed were just normal.

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