The Career Positioning Strategist

Nothing I Teach Is Theoretical

My career path was not linear. I did not have a plan. I started in the hospitality industry, learned the hard way how things work, and eventually reverse-engineered my way into recruiting, landing at Indeed and then Google. I did not know what my thing was for a long time. I just kept figuring it out.

Then I got laid off at Google. And I was hit with the question every high-performer dreads: what is next? My entire identity had been tied to the achievement of reaching Google. Without it, I had to rebuild. Not just my career. My sense of who I was and what I was actually building toward.

That pivot led me to coaching, to building HatStack, and to finally doing the thing I had dreamed about for 30+ years but never believed was possible for me: moving abroad. I relocated myself, my husband, my kids, my father-in-law, and our 4 dogs from Chicago to Spain. A dream that felt impossible became real in 14 months.

That is why I do this work. Not because I read about career transitions in a book. Because I have lived every version of it. The pivots. The layoffs. The promotions that never came. The reinvention. The relocation. I help people see what is possible and make their own career move a reality. Because if I figured it out, so can you.