Betting on Yourself: A Conversation on Community, Redirection, and Purpose.

There's a version of a career path that looks clean from the outside, a straight line from point A to point B, intentional and certain. Mine was never that. It was layoffs and pivots, taking a leap of faith and a redirection I didn't see coming. But every detour offered me tools and resilience that the straight line never could have. And now I'm walking in my purpose, doing work that actually fills me up: helping founders, particularly women, build communities that actually retain people, without burning out in the process.

I recently sat down with Obehi Podcast to talk about all of it, the corporate climb, the layoff that launched everything, and what it really takes to show up authentically in an oversaturated market like New York.

4+ years at General Assembly. Two promotions. Communities scaled across Canada and the East Coast. Then the fourth round of company-wide layoffs hit in 2024, and I was impacted. I could have called it a loss. Instead, I called it a redirection, and I launched TheBriScribe. What looked like an ending was the beginning of the work I was always meant to do.

I partner with women founders as a strategic adviser, starting every engagement with a community audit: what's working, what's broken, what members actually need. Then we build something scalable. But there's one thing I never compromise on: wellness. Because you cannot lead a thriving community from an empty place, and too many of the women I work with are trying to do exactly that.

Watch the full conversation here.

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