I didn’t become a Chief Troublemaker.
The system made me one.

I spent the formative years of my career at elite HR tech companies like Indeed, LinkedIn, and Handshake doing what women are taught to do: work harder, stay grateful, shrink strategically, survive professionally.

And it worked… until it didn’t.

The layoffs, the politics, the gaslighting, the late ADHD diagnosis at 39 — it all cracked open a truth I can’t unsee:

I was never broken.
The system was extracting me.

I NEEDED A NEW SYSTEM.

And if you’re here, I’m betting you’ve felt that too.

Part un-gaslighting guide, part identity architect, part career strategist — full-time TROUBLEMAKER.

Once you stop contorting yourself to survive, the real work begins.

HERE’S WHAT I BELIEVE:

Your voice isn’t too much.
You were just in systems that couldn’t hold it.

Visibility is power.
And women reclaiming power terrifies the right people

“Selfless leadership” is a trap.
It’s code for: give until you disappear so nobody else has to grow.

Your patterns weren’t dysfunction.
They were survival algorithms in a broken ecosystem.

If selling yourself feels gross, it’s not because you’re bad at it.
It’s because you were taught models of selling built on pressure, performance, and extraction — instead of alignment, consent, and real value.

You’re not allergic to ambition.
You’re allergic to systems that demand self-abandonment as the price of success.

Organizing your life around other people’s expectations slowly kills neurospicy women.
You’re allergic to systems that demand self-abandonment as the price of success.

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