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Professional Hurt and Finding Your New Favorite Cheese

We’ve all heard the phrase, “It’s just business.” We make decisions that affect people, and it’s “just business,” not personal.

Yet, we know that it hurts to be laid off, fired, reprimanded, or asked to resign. Most of us have direct experience with this; some of us from both sides of the table.

But naming the experience is a radical exercise in understanding the lived experience of going through workplace hardship that personally affects us—it hurts!! Ouch!

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By waking up to who we are and what we do, and declaring who we want to be and where we want to go, we can change our whole world, our whole perspective on our life and the lives of others.

Too many of us get lost in the grind.