117: Safety Over Spectacle – Don Lee

Don Lee joins Why I Left to discuss the shift from stunt performer to coordinator, safety as leadership, and knowing when your relationship to risk has changed.

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    103: Why a PayPal Executive Walked Away to Lead Differently – Farah Hussain

    Former PayPal executive Farah Hussain shares the moment she realized corporate success wasn’t enough and how she built a new path as a leadership coach.

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    100: Faith Over Fear – Stephen A. Hart

    Stephen A. Hart shares why a stress-related health scare led him to resign from a six-figure corporate role and what faith, burnout, and legacy have to do with career reinvention.

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    Trailer: Why I Left Season 5 – Choosing What Matters

    Watch the official Season 5 trailer of Why I Left as the show celebrates reaching 100 episodes. Watch the official Season 5 trailer of Why I Left as the show reaches 100 episodes. Executive pivots, burnout, reinvention, and the courage to choose differently.

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  • Thumbnail for 23: Adapting To The Fear Of Taking Risks – Luke Chirayil

    23: Adapting To The Fear Of Taking Risks – Luke Chirayil

    When the Pandemic struck, Luke Chirayil, a self-taught programmer from Chicago, fearlessly pursued his passion for technology and marketing by pivoting from a corporate job to his own business, battling the fear of failure and the pull of comfort for a chance to follow his dreams.

    “When you’re self taught, when you drop out of school, you don’t have a degree, you’re kind of in that impostor syndrome phase where you’re like, am I a real programmer? Am I really cut out for this? So it really helped me, especially going through the boot camp, and just that helped me realize, okay, I am pretty good at this stuff.”
    Luke Chirayil is a self-taught programmer and entrepreneur who dropped out of school and launched his own digital marketing company, Ndm Analytics, prior to the pandemic. He has since leveraged the pandemic to help businesses transform digitally and stay afloat.

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