Why I Left

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Megan Martin Strickland is a career coach with ReBoot Accel, where she empowers women to lead lives of impact. She consults with Fortune 500 and midsize companies, along with startups and foundations to promote best practices for building inclusive workplaces. Megan was featured in an Oprah Daily article entitled, Why Havent More Moms Returned to...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Charissa Stewart graduated undergrad right before the world shut down due to the pandemic. She shares her story of what it was like, and how she realized what she wanted to do. Charissa is an aspiring paralegal who is passionate about the legal industry. After experiencing working environments that werent conducive to her values, she decided it wa...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Yemane Williams posted a great resignation video on TikTok that was featured on Adam Grants Work Life podcast. Yemane has learned more about herself than ever before. And the pandemic offered a path of enlightenment. She exists in a moment of space being received by time with the goal of evolution. During the pandemic, she shifted her focus to her...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Daniel Jordan is the owner of Demo Pros a commercial and residential demolition company in Montana. His companys mission is to provide a healthier and cleaner solution to interior demolition by providing a dust free environment during projects. After getting furloughed from his job in California and taking a leap of faith in a new state with other...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Today, Brian chats with Patrecia Ming Buckley. Patrecia is an experienced business development and operations leader living down under in Australia. She has a passion for serving others and has worked diligently to further equality, diversity and belonging in the spaces in which shes shown up. Patrecia left the consulting industry to reset, refocu...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. In today's episode, I chat with Tomeka Jordan. After working in operations management in the supply chain industry for over a decade, she made the ultimate pivot to marry her love of travel with her career and joined the great resignation to become an international flight attendant. I enjoyed hearing how much shes built her confidence over th...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Ep. 13 - Don't Let Fear Take The Fun Out Of Life - Brad Hicks Brad Hicks is a 25+ year veteran of the sales industry who has driven multi-million-dollar growth in a variety of competitive markets. Hes adept at ensuring growth of company revenues while maintaining profit margins and serves as mentor and leader in his field. The pandemic gave h...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Kimberly Mayes is a psychotherapist, speaker, author and wellness expert who is passionate about bringing clarity & mental health support to her clients. She owns and operates the Essence Therapy & Wellness Center, which focuses on Recreating the definition of therapy & self-care for the BIPOC community. The pandemic taught her a lot,...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Keith Allen Johns is a former Chief Operating Officer for a tech company who realized that work shouldnt suck, so he founded Keith Allen and Company to help people find their purpose, turn it into a business idea, start that business on the side and exit the corporate world. Hes helped leaders who are feeling stuck in their 9-5 break free from cor...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Marguerite Thibodeaux is a leadership coach, consultant, and Founder of Magnanimous Leadership. Shes on a mission to increase the happiness and fulfillment in the world by helping leaders have fun unleashing the sustainable, exceptional results hidden inside their teams, and passionate about empowering leaders to lead with humanity and purpose. Ov...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Gamal Harding is a financial services industry veteran who led multiple teams for Fortune 100 companies and left his job to pursue real estate. He is now a property management executive and co-founder of Dream Living Homes and 10x Property Management in the Columbus, OH metro markets. I enjoyed hearing about his entrepreneurial spirit and how he b...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Courtney Maron joins to share her story of how having faith in herself allowed her to pivot into something she truly loves and the positive effects it's had on her relationship with her children. She had a successful twenty-five year career in advertising. In executive leadership roles, she was responsible for negotiating multi-million dollar...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Wale Ayantoye is a FinTech industry veteran with vast experience in the Anti-Money Laundering space. He transitioned roles multiple times during the pandemic and shares his perspective on the current state of the job market. In our discussion, Wale discussed how advantageous the work environment is now for prospective employees and how he used tha...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Valeria Colato is a Brazilian professional with experience in Sales, Customer Service, Account Management, and Marketing. She moved to Ireland in 2017 and marketed for well-known Irish brands prior to joining the Great Resignation and deciding to change her career and industry in December 2021. Since March 2022, she is happily working in the Tech...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. #TheMoreYouKnow: As of July 16, 2022, people in the US can call/text 9-8-8 when experiencing a mental health crisis. Joan Pons Laplana is on a mission to disrupt healthcare and empower frontline staff & patients to lead together. He currently works at Health Education England where he helps young adults gain work experience and skills. In 2018...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Jennifer Walton is the Chief Brand Officer and Partner of SkyNile Consulting. She spent the last 10 years of her career hustling for one brand at a time, working hard to climb the corporate ladder, reach Executive level, and unlock many of life's "achievements, but couldnt find peace. She lacked fulfillment and joined the public sector,...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Ken Pendergast is an experienced digital marketing and business development professional within the field of healthcare. Ken has expertise in program management, business strategy, data analysis, and interpersonal communication. After losing one job, Ken graduated with his masters and struggled to find work. Eventually he found another job, only t...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Chelsea is on a mission to build a healthy world, one organization at a time. She turned her passion for leveraging the power of movement as medicine into a wellness career where she supported large government and Fortune 100 companies. In the throws of the covid-19 pandemic, she joined the Great Resignation to launch her company, SiteWell Solutio...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Brian Aquart is the Creator and Host of the Why I Left Podcast, a show chronicling real stories from real people about why they left their jobs during the pandemic. He is passionate about knowing the why. He's learned valuable lessons from his family which helped him build relationships, understand peoples motivations, and navigate difficult...

Send a message to the show Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Why I Left! During the worst pandemic in over 100 years, 1 in 4 people voluntarily left their jobs, but why? What caused this mass exodus? Why I Left brings you bi-weekly episodes of honest, informative, and entertaining discussions with people across industries who left their job. Created and hosted by Brian Aquart, he aims to explore...