🐆 FERAL & Free: How I Found Myself Again by Walking Away

In April of this year, on a regular Monday afternoon, I did something that most people would consider wild.

I walked away from my director-level role in higher education.

After two years of giving everything to a job I thought was a divine assignment, I realized I had talked myself into a position that had become just that: a job. It wasn’t alignment anymore, it was containment.

Let me be clear: I believe that role was a calling from God at that time. It served a purpose. It helped shape me, stretch me, and confirm some things I needed to learn. But somewhere in between emails, expectations, and committee meetings, I lost something priceless:

My joy. My creativity. My freedom.

The Attempt to Do Both

Let me be honest: I didn’t hit pause on my business.

I truly believed I could do both.

When I accepted the director role, I thought I was being obedient to a divine assignment. It wasn’t just a job, it felt like a call from God to serve, lead, and bring something new to a space that needed it.

And I still believe that call was real.

But I also believed I could balance it all, run a successful business, teach, create, lead in higher ed, and still pour into my clients the way they deserved.

What I didn’t realize is that in trying to do everything, I was slowly losing the very parts of myself that made me excellent in the first place: my creative spark, my energy, my clarity, my freedom.

I never hit pause on my business but my capacity, my inspiration, and my joy got stretched way too thin.

And if you’re an entrepreneur, you know: losing time is one of the most expensive mistakes you can make.

Two Years Lost… and Then Two Months Gained

But here’s the wild, beautiful truth…

In just two months since leaving that job, I’ve regained everything I thought I had sacrificed permanently.

✔️ I’ve reconnected with clients I adore

✔️ I’ve taught powerful trainings that lit my soul on fire

✔️ I’ve poured back into my own brand

✔️ I’ve said YES to big opportunities and meant it

✔️ I remembered what freedom feels like

And Then Came FERAL.

This week, I spent time at FERAL with the most amazing group of unapologetically brilliant minds. People who don’t water themselves down. People who lead, teach, build, and grow from a place of realness, vulnerability, and passion.

Being part of this community, teaching, training, learning, investing in myself has reminded me of who I really am:

✨ An entrepreneur ✨ A builder ✨ A teacher ✨ A creative ✨ And an independent free spirit who cannot be boxed in.

The Risk and Reward of Walking Away

Leaving a high-level role is never easy. But in my case, it wasn’t about walking away from security or benefits, my husband has always handled that part of our household. And truthfully, he was never fully on board with me taking the role in the first place.

He knew how hard I had worked to build LCK Consulting Services from the ground up. He watched the long nights, the passion, the progress. He saw what I was building before I even believed in it fully myself. So when I took the director role, even though I felt called to it, he quietly carried the wisdom of knowing that it might take me away from what I truly love.

And he was right.

The real risk wasn’t walking away from the title, it was continuing to stay and losing myself in the process.

Entrepreneurship will always come with its own set of uncertainties. But the reward? It’s unmatched. It’s waking up excited. It’s creating without limits. It’s remembering who you are and who you’ve always been.

For me, it’s the greatest act of faith I’ve ever leaned into and it’s one I’ll never regret.

Final Thoughts

To the people still wondering if it’s worth it: If you feel stuck in a life that doesn’t feel like yours, trust me, it’s worth the leap.

To the ones who’ve forgotten their creativity: It’s still in you. It just needs space.

To the ones afraid to leave the familiar: Your future is begging you to walk away from what no longer fits.

Thank you, FERAL, for giving me the mirror, the microphone, and the moment to come home to myself.

I’m back.

And I’m building, boldly!