Bust Your Fears: Prepare Yourself for Career Reinvention

Hosted by Alison Gretz, ACC and Nicole Johnson

Tue, Jul 7, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Prepare your financial runway and Freedom Number

We'll share the top three fear busting strategies for the nitty gritty of modern finances, what to prepare for and how.

Know your employee rights

Get ahead of the severance letter or push-out by knowing your rights as an employee.

Discover how your title is keeping you trapped

Reimagine what your career can look like when you take a broader aperture to all your possibilities.

Why this topic matters

Layoffs are at an all time high, 1.2million last year in the US alone. Unemployment is outlasting benefits – with a quarter of folks experiencing 6+ months. The time is now. To reclaim your agency where you are. To have the contingency plans in your pocket. To know who you are outside of work.

You'll learn from

Alison Gretz, ACC

Burnout hit a few years ago. The reliable paycheck stopped, and I had to reassess everything — including how much of my “what's next?” was shaped by old titles, fear of the unknown, and what other people would think. Now I make my own way, and I have the confidence I'll keep figuring it out no matter what.

Nicole Johnson

I spent nearly three decades in tech watching smart, capable people slowly disappear inside their jobs. I did it too — longer than I should have. Now I'm demonstrating that there's another way — and that you don't have to wait for a dramatic moment to start finding it.

corporate escapees from

Target
Amazon
Thomson Reuters
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