Rewriting resilience: Why I left corporate life

A thinker’s path from cybersecurity to lifestyle medicine, and what I’m building next.

For nearly two decades, I worked in corporate risk strategy and disaster recovery, helping global companies identify weaknesses, build resilience, and prepare recovery plans in case of unforeseen events. I led global teams spanning multiple time zones and cultures, though despite working together every day, I had not met a single one of my employees in person. I loved my work; it felt important and preventive. But after a long series of corporate changes and nail-biting layoffs, demolishing a team and rebuilding a new one to meet new OKR’s and goals, I was starting to feel … flat. I was waking up to work and going to sleep thinking about strategy and team objectives. I was burned completely out.

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way, but somehow, I quit my job by accident. My dog had just died, and while that loss was real, it surfaced something deeper I hadn’t fully admitted; I’d also been grieving the loss of my purpose and drive. The pride I once had for my work had faded, and my so…