Instead of focusing on the 'big leap,' think instead about small experiments that can get you closer to where you want to be.
Get an honest understanding of what their lives are like. Ask them: Do these companies require you to work after 5 p.m.? Do they e-mail you on weekends? We’re doing life design here, not just career design. If you’re working somewhere eight or more hours a day, you want to make sure that place aligns with how you want to design your life.
This kind of transition is always scary. Your brain is going to try to place ‘yet’ at the end of every thought. I’m not ready yet. I don’t have enough experience yet. I don’t know the right people yet, and that will keep you exactly where you are. I’m a person who loves a deadline. It’s helpful to say, ‘This is the day that I’m going to take X, Y or Z steps, regardless of whether or not I feel ready.
Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party is openly hostile to DEI and climate initiatives, and federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s likely prime-minister-in-waiting, repeatedly uses the word “woke” as a pejorative while promising to undo the signature piece of climate policy produced by the current Liberal government.