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- A Little Less Explaining, A Lot More Deciding
What if moving backward in your career is actually the move that takes you forward?
In Season 2, Episode 1 of The Last Straw, Kristi sits down with Laurie Hofer to talk about career pivots, resilience, reinvention, and why your career doesn’t have to follow a straight path.
After being told she wouldn’t even be interviewed for a role she felt qualified for, Laurie made an unexpected decision: she moved into a lower-level position in a different part of the company.
A year later? She returned to her previous organization at an even higher level.
The lesson: your career should be a jungle gym, not a ladder.
Sometimes growth means moving sideways. Sometimes it means taking a step down. Sometimes it means choosing experience, relationships, and opportunity over a title.
In this episode, Kristi and Laurie unpack what it means to build a resilient career, embrace change without ego, expand your experience, and stop allowing a company, boss, society, or someone else’s expectations to determine what your career is supposed to look like.
If you’re navigating a career transition, considering a professional pivot, or questioning what your next move should look like, this conversation is for you.
🎧 Watch or listen to Season 2, Episode 1 of The Last Straw.
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About The Last Straw Podcast
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High achievers hit a breaking point. The world calls it burnout. We call it a reckoning.
The Last Straw is where executive women, founders, and quiet disruptors finally get the…
truth about leadership, identity, and the visibility required to grow your influence and your income. This is where the polished stage meets the real story. The boardroom meets the breakdown and rebuild. The ambition gets a voice.
Each episode pulls you behind the scenes of what actually happens after the keynote, inside high stakes rooms, and in the private moments leaders never talk about. You’ll hear the conversations clients whisper after the promotion. The fears that surface before the opportunity. The power moves that change everything.
Visibility becomes capital here. Presence becomes strategy. Voice becomes the asset that sets your career, your business, and your legacy on a different trajectory.
This is your entry point into the Lighthouse Leadership ecosystem. If you’re craving clarity, identity-led authority, and real elevation, you’re in the right place.
You’ll leave every episode feeling seen, activated, and a little giddy you found us.
Subscribe and step into the room.