GROWTH & REDIRECTION: A journal

Latest articles on making big changes, overcoming challenges, energy & burnout, being true to yourself, & creating your ideal career (and life) in a healthy way.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

Leadership in Times of Change Part 2: Sustainable, Healthy, and Generous Leadership starts with you

On navigating layoffs, crisis, and taking care of your team while making sure to prioritize your own needs. This is a message for anyone in a tough leadership position, who cares about their people, and wants to help as much as they can. If you’re burnt out and giving your all to serving your team while trying to get everything done, this is written for you.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

Leadership in Times of Change Part 1: Embracing Evolution & Perspective

On navigating layoffs, uncertainty with AI, leadership stress, restructuring, and other workplace crises.

This is a message for anyone in a tough leadership position. Anyone who cares about other people, and wants to help as much as they possibly can. Who is trying their best to hold everything together, but is on the verge of breaking down on the inside. If you’re navigating a lot of change at work, this is written for you.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

What you “DO” vs who you “are”

The way we talk about ourselves reinforces what we believe about ourselves. A thought that gets repeated gets cemented in the brain. The more we use “what we do” to describe “who we are,” the more our brain gets used to that idea being the truth. But it’s not. Not the full truth.

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Yekaterina Benson Yekaterina Benson

A Letter to a Lady Leader

You love all the responsibility, the things you’ve achieved, the projects you get to be in charge of. You want to keep growing, help more people, earn more, create more! It’s exciting. You know that there’s nothing you can’t do. As long as you have the energy to do it all, that is. As long as you have the physical and mental resources for all of it, and as long as the stress and the weight of the work isn’t too overwhelming…

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