6 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Make your ending matter. Leave with grace. Take a sabbatical, or plan anything else. Let's prepare to reinvent your life and career.
6 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Make your ending matter. Leave with grace. Take a sabbatical, or plan anything else. Let's prepare to reinvent your life and career.
Course overview
That's probably a question you've never been asked before.
Because there's no award for quitting things in this world. Quitting may as well be a synonym for Failing.
But what if it's actually the biggest win of your life?
We're taught to value grit and resilience and to fight in the face of adversity. We're told that it's more honorable to hold on than to let go.
And, to what end?
We're told not to leave good things, to just be grateful for what we've got. We're worried about being so selfish or irresponsible to consider something else for our lives, like:
taking a break from routine, going on retreat, making art, pursuing a project, seeing the world, spending time with family, exploring creativity, healing.
How radical.
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In a world of quiet quitting, the real flex is to know how you can quit WELL — how to move on gracefully, and with dignity, and with conviction.
Because the other option? Well, you may already be familiar with it:
● silently resigning yourself to giving up on your whispers instead of giving in to them
● feeling full of potential, but filled with resentment
● leaving your creativity on the table
● exhausting yourself in the name of "working hard and being successful"
● staying put where you are because of "a great team of people you don't want to walk away from"
● still wondering to yourself "is this really all there is?"
...What would it be like to intentionally move forward to a kind of life where your heart feels full and your spirit comes alive?
A life where you:
✔︎ feel in integrity with yourself, your heart, and the intended next direction for your career
✔︎ feel more energized, connected, and inspired by your life
✔︎ gracefully close out this chapter of your work
✔︎ lower your stress levels, and increase your ability to recover from burnout
✔︎ give yourself the opportunity to pursue other interests, creative pursuits, and life activities that enhance your well-being
✔︎ connect to yourself with true self-care and self-love
✔︎ stop compartmentalizing and negotiating who you are and start bringing your whole, authentic self to achieving your dreams and desires
✔︎ have more clarity and trust about life’s unknowns
✔︎ may find yourself quitting your job and following your dreams
If you look closely enough, your dissatisfactions can be the very inspirations you are looking for.
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How to Quit mentorship is ideal for those who are yearning to create some space and time off to pause, reset, and redirect their life and career focus in the next 4 to 12 months.
It's time to ask ourselves:
What else is possible? And what would it take to create it?
Welcome to the quitting club.
Note: This isn't an official career change program. While it'll help prepare you to quit your current role, there's no job-search-strategy work here.
01
THE GO GETTER
"No matter how much I plan my time, I need more hours in the day. I’m exhausted. What would a break feel like? I want one."
02
THE DARING LEADER
“I’ve worked hard & I’m where I thought I wanted to be, but I'm ready for new directions now. Time to rest and redirect."
03
THE SOUL SEARCHER
“Life’s great, but something feels missing. My life is changing and I'm not sure where it’s going."
04
THE HIDING ARTIST
“I have this idea that keeps calling to me. It’s exciting but overwhelming, and I know I need to explore it."
Identify the outdated career ideas that restrict you from making honest change. Activate your curiosity, courage, and creativity to create a new life & career vision and bring it to life.
Overcome them through data-gathering and planning tools that provide you an honest, doable direction forward without compromising on your values and priorities.
Plan for what to expect, say, and do in the process of informing others (colleagues, family, boss, etc) of your decision. Second-guessing and self-doubt is normal and it's easy to be influenced by other people's fears. Learn how to stay in integrity throughout the transition.
Brainstorm how to optimize for leaving everything and everyone better than how you found them. Wherever you can, go with grace.
Find evidence in each other that will inspire you to commit to taking the intentional time you desire to recreate your life and career.
How to Quit
01
Get Curious
You'll gain insight and connect the dots about your career and life storyline so far, and begin to identify and claim what you want/need your next chapter to be about.
Whether it's for personal discovery, rest, travel, building out a creative project or business idea, something else, or a bit of all of it -- we'll uncover what you're really after.
02
Activate Courage
You'll identify and rewrite the fears and beliefs holding you back from your greatest desires. You'll practice some tools to release the guilt and give yourself permission to make this change in a way that is best for you.
03
Create Solutions
You'll get practical here and challenge any concerns about time, money, purpose, and status. You'll calculate your numbers, determine a timeline, and claim a purpose for quitting that is true, inspiring, and supportive to YOU. Do the groundwork and learn how to realistically give your attention to a neglected dream or creative yearning.
04
Befriend Boundaries
You'll set yourself up for success during this transition time by identifying what to say no to, what parts of life and work you can delegate, and how to let go of any lingering "shoulds" and "have-tos." You begin practicing your new choices right away.
05
Communicate With Conviction
You'll plan for what to expect, say, and do in the process of informing others (colleagues, family, boss, etc) of your decision. Whether your leave is a temporary sabbatical or a complete career redirection, you'll develop an offboarding plan designed to help you leave your role better than how you found it and stay connected to those who matter.
06
Date The Dream
Whether your quitting timeline is four weeks or four months or more, you'll learn how to stay connected to your larger dream and create rituals and practices to care for yourself as you pursue your reimagined life and career.
weekly from April 10th - May 20th
The live facilitated Zoom sessions will be scheduled based on best availability for the group between April 10th to May 20th.
All sessions are hosted by Gloria and will include a combination of reflection exercises, mini-lectures, discussions, and action planning.
At midpoint week and at final week
Get "love seat" coaching time with Gloria. Bring your questions and curiosities, fears, doubts, visions, and challenges. The aim is to help you unlock your possibilities and get you closer to actualizing a dream that your current reality isn't providing.
30 - 90 mins per week
We don't make these kinds of life changes in a vaccuum. You'll walk away from every session with some sort of exercise, inquiry, contemplation, challenge, or task to engage with, designed to move you forward.
Em Bailey
Taylor Mee-Lee
Jei So
Katy Alambo
Francis Arevalo
Sukhmani Puewal
I'm Gloria, and I've quit big roles, great teams, and life-affirming work over the course of my career.
In 2016, I quit my career track with no set plan, taking a 10-month career pause that ultimately propelled me into the creative life and work I have today.
I was inspired to uncover the answer to the question that gnawed at my high-achieving, success-oriented psyche: "Who am I without my work?"
Some parts of the process are painful. Most parts are truly liberating. The decision to quit was always in service of becoming more myself, accessing more of my creative potential, and listening to what life was wanting for me next.
But there's no prescribed career track for that. So I made it up.
I've created the kind of mentorship I wish I had when I was contemplating and preparing to quit my roles and pursue what was next.
Now, I help leaders of all kinds navigate the pains of growth and transitions, access their creative abilities, and become who they need to be to carry out their unique roles in life and career.
I write, dance, work, play, and live a life more and more true to my nature. And I want the same for you.
To learn more about me, my approaches, and the support I offer, visit www.gloriaeid.com.