Molly Graham

And I was like, this feels too narrow for me, I only want to, you know, I want to work at scale, I want to impact more people.

And so I, you know, ended up in tech, which is a lot of scale and a lot of impact.

And

I'm right back there now.

Like, I really find that the kind of impact and the kind of work I want to do is so different than it was in my 20s.

And I care a lot more about depth than I do about breadth, which is, again, not what my 20-year-old self would believe.

But to me, you change as a person.

And that means that reinvention is of your career, you know, and of relationships.

A lot of people get divorced or separated around this time.

Yeah.

Yeah, and like how you see yourself in the world, like, it changes.

And you want to be able to like move your life and your work in association with that.

And I think my experience of watching it for, you know, myself and a lot of friends is it's very confusing.

You know, I think I started my sort of reinvention like eight years ago.

And the last three and a half years in particular, I felt very lost, like very, very lost, like so confused, both about what I wanted to do, but also like whether I was on the right path and all these things, because I was shedding a lot of programming.

But

I kept thinking, like, if I could just do X, I would have an answer.

If I could just do Y, I would know what this next phase was going to be.

But it's really taught me that everything is just about steps.

What's the next step that is going to teach you the thing that you need to know?