Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milthight.

This time, leaving a job for a new work life, even if you don't yet know what that life will look like.

There becomes this thing inside of us that we know if we don't jump, we're going to die inside just a little.

And so that impulse just becomes so strong we have to listen to it and the emotional simply outweighs

the functional. But you may have to work out who you are when you're no longer your job.

I started to question whether I had ambition anymore. Like did I lose it somewhere? Did I drop it and did it roll it into the sewer?

Because I had always had it. I had always had huge ambition. Coming up, disrupting yourself, what can happen afterwards and redefining success.

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It's a time when a lot of us think about where we are in our lives and what we might like to change.

In this show, we're going to talk to two women who change their work

lives dramatically. They essentially jumped into the unknown. One was restless at her job. The other

was much more unhappy, but each of them felt it was time to go. We had a three-way Skype call.

I asked each woman to introduce herself. Hi, this is Tess. I am a former

public radio host and current author of the book Leap, Leaving a Job with No Plan B, to find the

career and life you really want. Hi, this is Whitney Johnson. I am a former Wall Street Equity analyst. I co-founded an investment firm with Clayton Christensen at the Harvard Business School, and I am the author of Disrupt Yourself, putting the power of disruptive innovation to work.

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