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Your career isn’t broken. Your heart is.

And if you’ve been feeling this heartbreak for a while, you may also be feeling stuck and not sure what to do to get your mojo back. I’ve been there. And I want to talk about the kind of stuckness that doesn’t respond to a new resume, a new routine, or a new burst of motivation.

It’s the kind of stuckness where you’re doing your best, but something in you feels like the weight of the world is burrowed in the pit of your stomach. Here’s what it might look like:

* You can get things done, but you cannot get traction.

* You keep circling the same decision.

* You second guess yourself more than you used to.

* The idea of making a move feels exhausting, even when it is a good move.

* You are functioning, but something feels flat.

When people describe this, they usually assume it means one of two things. They’re a failure. Or they’re lazy.

I don’t think either of those is the most useful explanation. And honestly, it’s often not accurate. I think a lot of ongoing career stuckness is unresolved career grief.

How do I know this? Because I know career grief personally. Like the time I was fired from a company I worked at for ten years. Or the conscious uncoupling of my company a few years ago. Or the movie I was producing that lost its financing after the actor and writer strikes of 2023.

Career grief is what shows up when something you were attached to in your work life ends, changes, or never becomes what you hoped it would be. A role. A team. A leader. A project. A promotion. A future you were counting on.

Career grief is real, and it can break your heart. In the way that makes you more cautious than you want to be. In the way that makes you feel guarded in rooms where you used to feel confident. In the way that makes you wonder if you even have it in you anymore.

Hard truth about the entertainment industry:

Talent is not the bottleneck. Access is.

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Here’s the part most of us miss. Naming the heartbreak helps, but naming it is not the actual work of getting back your mojo.

Because when grief doesn’t get space, it hardens into self protection. It shows up as cynicism, silence, risk aversion, burnout, disengagement. It shows up as stuck.

This is why I keep returning to one idea.

If your career broke your heart, you do not just need a strategy.

You need a way to mourn what happened, so you can move again.

That’s what I’m building inside Moonshot Mentor for paid subscribers.

Solid Ground: An ongoing community for navigating career grief with clarity and courage.

It’s a monthly practice for people who are tired of white knuckling their way through change and ready to make space for what was lost, without getting swallowed by it.

RISE is the structure I use to help you name what was lost, make sense of what happened, create compassionate closure, and take a real next step.

Here’s what happens each month.

* First, you get a short video from me, under five minutes, with one insight from the RISE framework.

* Next, you get a worksheet that helps you reflect and take one practical step forward.

* Then, on the fourth Thursday of every month at 12 pm PST, we meet live for coaching. Bring your questions. Bring the situation you cannot stop replaying. Bring the decision you keep postponing. I will coach you in real time.

The coaching sessions will be recorded and available on replay for paid members only. Throughout the year, I’ll also bring in guest speakers to help us go deeper on grief, change, identity, and rebuilding after a setback.

A few brass tacks, because I believe in transparency.

* Paid membership is $5 per month or $50 for the year.

* Paid members also receive weekly Moonshot Meditation drops on Sunday mornings, plus exclusive journal prompts that accompany my weekly career strategy blogs.

If you’re not a paid member yet, you still get the weekly blogs and a monthly live Ask Me Anything. This month’s AMA theme is Re Entry.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, I want to leave you with this. Stuckness is not a character flaw. It’s information. And it may be telling you that you have unresolved grief from a professional setback or loss.

If your career broke your heart, and you’re ready for a monthly structure to mourn and move forward, I would love to have you as a paid member.

Come join us in Solid Ground: An ongoing community for navigating career grief with clarity and courage.

If someone came to mind while you were reading this—please send it their way. You never know the impact a well-timed message can have.

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Perks for Paid Members

Moonshot Mentor is for people and teams moving through professional change that hits harder than expected. Get short monthly video lessons on career grief, plus a simple guide that helps you turn insight into your next right step, live monthly coaching to work through what’s happening in real time, and weekly meditations and journal prompts to steady yourself and move forward with clarity.

Journal Prompts

Here are 3 journal prompts for paid Moonshot Mentor members. Use these to name what’s been sitting heavy, make sense of what it’s been costing you, and take one small step toward movement again.