Hi, I’m Joanne, and I Call Myself a Recovering Career Woman

It literally took walking into a wall to wake me up.

At the height of the pandemic, I was at my dining room table, working long hours, running on autopilot as an Executive Director in the Canadian Federal Government.

For decades, I had poured myself into my career, believing that reaching the top was the ultimate goal. But when I finally got there, the view wasn’t what I expected. The climb had left me dr…