From strategic planning to strategic pausing, I share practical strategies for intentional career breaks and purposeful transitions. My talks blend leadership insights with authentic storytelling, helping audiences reimagine success on their own terms.

SPEAKING TOPICS

  • Transformational Travel: The Career Break That Pays Off for Your Career and Your Life

  • Career Breaks to Help You Level Up

  • Rest is Restorative: Why a strategic pause is a good idea

  • Creating Space for Growth: Why a Strategic Pause Should Be Part of Your Long-Term Plan

  • Permission to Pause: How to Step Away Without Stepping Back OR Why You Don’t Need to Earn Your Break

Interviews and Features


Second Act Women: 47. Quit My Corporate Job To Travel the World For Work

My Kind of Pleasure: Profile

Essence Magazine: How to Make Friends in a New City

Driven Spice: Solo Travel Secrets: A Woman's Journey of Slow Travel Around the World

Driven Spice: Breaking Free: A Woman's Inspiring Career Break for Worldwide Adventure

Black Women Leave America: Transformative Travel: Learn From Nadia Mitchem's Journey to Croatia

DePauw Magazine: Accidental Nomad Responds to Whisper and Whim

Speaking


SXSW-Sydney: The Nomad and Expat Meet-Up

SXSW -Sydney: Transformational Travel: Career Breaks and Sabbaticals (Workshop)

SXSW-Austin: Wanderlust Crossroads: A Nomad and Expat Meet-Up