Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide

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Who Am I When My Career Is No Longer My Identity? |...

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide ·

2026/10/10

“I wish I would’ve started earlier.”That is the thought that ran through my head before my husband and I reluctantly met with our Financial Advisor to see if we were prepared for retirement.He was turning 65 this year, and things, like Medicare, had to be done by a certain time.We put this meeting off for years because we were afraid we would be told we couldn’t retire until we were 80.The regret of not starting my 401K until a few years into my career was palpable, because at the time, there was

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25:14

Who Am I at Work When I’m Not Trying to Prove Myself?

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2026/10/08

Do you remember learning how to ride a bike?Maybe you started with training wheels. And with those training wheels on, you could ride. You weren’t thinking about balance or wondering whether you could stay upright. You climbed onto the seat, put your feet on the pedals, and took off.Maybe you rode up and down the sidewalk or raced the other kids in the neighborhood. You learned to steer around cracks in the pavement and how hard you had to push the pedals to climb a hill. You might have even gotten

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17:57

Trauma-Informed Career Development: What Kind of Work...

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2026/10/03

When was the last time you thought about what kind of work jazzes you?Not what you’re qualified to do.Not what someone would hire you to do.Not what you’ve already spent 10, 15, or 20 years doing.I’m talking about the kind of work that makes something in you come alive.The problem you can’t resist trying to solve. The conversation you could have for hours. The thing someone asks for your help with and, instead of feeling drained afterward, you find yourself thinking about three more things you could

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35:02

Why Does My Boss Trigger Me? CPTSD, Authority, and...

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide ·

2026/10/01

Have you ever had a reaction to your boss that felt much bigger than what was actually happening in the moment?I have. I had been with the company for almost 22 years when a manager told me she wanted me to start accounting for my time.By that point in my career, I was a tenured senior leader. I knew how to manage my workload. I knew how to get my work done. No one needed me to account for how I spent every hour of my day before.But my response to her request wasn’t simply, I disagree with this

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15:38

CPTSD at Work: When Being Capable Becomes Part of...

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide ·

2026/09/26

Do You Remember Darth Vader?From the moment Darth Vader appears in Star Wars, there is no question that he is someone to be reckoned with.He doesn’t have to announce his power. You can feel it.The black helmet. The cape. The mechanical breathing that lets you know he’s coming before he even enters the room.He is intimidating. Commanding. Driven. Powerful.He walks into a room and people respond.He doesn’t appear uncertain. He doesn’t appear overwhelmed. He certainly doesn’t look like someone who

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25:13

Workplace Triggers: Why Do I Get Triggered So Easily...

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide ·

2026/09/23

Sometimes the hardest part of the workday isn’t the work.It’s the deadline that suddenly gets moved up.The meeting where you’re expected to present without much notice.The manager who checks on your progress for the third time today.The project that changes direction after you’ve already spent hours getting it right.The performance review sitting on your calendar next week.The disagreement with a coworker you can’t stop thinking about.The vague announcement about “organizational changes” that leaves

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14:45

CPTSD and Entrepreneurship: How Complex Trauma Can...

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide ·

2026/09/19

Have you ever thought, “Maybe I should just work for myself”?Maybe it came after another difficult interaction with your boss.Or after leaving a workplace that had become unbearable.Maybe you were exhausted from constantly managing triggers, personalities, expectations, office politics, and trying to hold yourself together while still doing your job.Maybe you lost a job and couldn’t imagine putting yourself through another workplace like the one you’d just left.And somewhere in all of that,

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13:20

When CPTSD Makes You Question Everything, Including...

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2026/08/13

Last week I had a discovery call with a man who has spent almost three decades in the financial sector. He's the kind of person people trust in a room. Steady. Reliable. The one everyone assumes has it together.He was diagnosed with CPTSD last year.He told me that in the months since, nothing has felt safe. Not the people he works with, not the meetings he used to walk into without a second thought, not even his own reactions. He’s found himself questioning everything he thought he knew about

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7:38

The Question Every Manager Skips Before a PIP

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2026/08/12

"He's been a little fussy lately," the mom said, handing her baby over to me in the church nursery like it was nothing.I’ve rocked six grandbabies to sleep over the years, so by the time she passed him to me, I was confident I could handle it. I know the bounce that works, the hold that works, the lullaby that buys me another ten minutes. And this baby was normally the calm one, the one who’d smile at you from across the room before you even picked him up. So when she said “a little fussy,” I wasn’t

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14:52

Stuck At Work? Here's How to Plan Your Next Move on...

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide ·

2026/08/04

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett uses a simple but honest metaphor to open the conversation: the moment you realize the house you loved no longer fits. That same tension, loving where you are and knowing you have outgrown it, is exactly what a lot of people are feeling in their careers right now. Cyndi gets personal here too, sharing what hitting the ceiling of her own knowledge with this podcast taught her about effort versus strategy, and walking through the three-step process she used to

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12:51

How To Advocate For Yourself At Work When You're...

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2026/07/28

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett gets honest about something she lived herself: building an entire program management office from scratch, watching new hires with bigger titles walk into the room she built, and waiting for her manager to speak up for her. She didn’t. This episode is built around the question that moment forced Cyndi to ask herself, and that she now asks every client who comes to her with some version of the same story: are you waiting to be noticed, or are you willing to build

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14:06

How to Stop One Bad Manager From Defining How You See...

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2026/07/21

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett gets personal. She shares what it was like to leave a difficult manager behind and still spend hours reviewing work before sending it to a new one who never once suggested anything was wrong. This episode is about what happens when one relationship, one loud, repeated, authoritative voice, becomes the lens you view every workplace interaction through afterward. Cyndi names what is actually happening when that old voice shows up in new rooms, why the reaction is

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11:15

How To Know Who You Can Actually Trust At Work

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2026/07/14

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett tackles something most networking advice completely skips over: what it actually looks like to identify safe people at work when the broader culture does not feel safe to begin with. The standard advice about building relationships and getting face time assumes trust is the default setting. For anyone who has come out of a workplace where it was not, that advice can feel almost naive. This episode is a different approach. Cyndi walks through five specific

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8:06

How To Write A Resume That Reflects Your Real Value...

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2026/07/07

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett gets practical. No deep processing today, just the specific thinking that goes into building a resume when the job you are describing stopped being the job you agreed to take. Most resume advice assumes a clean, stable role with a clean exit. This episode is for everyone whose role shifted underneath them, whose responsibilities changed without support, or whose last chapter closed in a way that is now making it hard to find words for what they actually did

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13:33

How To Make Big Career Moves When You're...

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2026/06/30

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett speaks to everyone who has ever stood in front of a real opportunity and had absolutely no idea what to do with what they were feeling. The problem is not a lack of information. It is not knowing whether to trust the signals coming from inside, because for many trauma survivors, that trust was worn down long before this decision ever arrived. This episode breaks down what is actually happening when your brain and your gut are pulling in different directions,

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11:38

Why You Are More Qualified To Lead Than Your Resume...

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2026/06/23

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett names something most leadership development never teaches: the specific, functional capacities that come from navigating hard things professionally, not despite your history, but because of it. While formal programs are built around frameworks, competencies, and idealized organizations, there is a category of professional knowledge that can only be acquired through lived experience. Cyndi breaks down four specific capacities this kind of experience builds, and

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22:06

How To Ask For What You're Worth When You've Been...

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2026/06/16

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett digs into the very specific kind of silence that shows up right before you ask for more money. The moment you have done the research, rehearsed the words, and then something tightens and a voice says, “Who do you think you are?” This is an honest exploration of where that voice comes from, what is happening physiologically in those moments, and how to build the capacity, on both a cognitive and somatic level, to ask for what you are worth and mean it. Whether

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16:53

How To Stay Professionally Visible When You Want to...

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2026/06/09

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett talks about something she sees constantly: talented, capable people doing genuinely good work who are still being passed over, overlooked, and left out of conversations where they belong. The reason, more often than not, comes back to visibility. Or more specifically, to the ways that being seen feels like a threat. This episode is an honest look at why the pull toward invisibility makes complete sense for trauma survivors, what it actually costs when we go

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16:04

How to Job Search When Burnout Has Stalled Your Momentum

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2026/06/02

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett speaks directly to the people who know they need to do something about their job situation and yet cannot seem to make themselves start. This is not an episode about productivity hacks or applying to more jobs. It is an honest look at what is actually happening when burnout meets a job search, why the standard advice feels almost absurd when you are in it, and how to start moving again in a way that honors where you actually are. If the momentum has stalled and

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15:06

What To Say When Your Career History Is Messy

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2026/05/26

SummaryIn this episode, Cyndi Bennett tackles something that most career advice completely misses: what happens in your body when an interviewer asks you to explain a gap, a difficult departure, or a stretch of time you are still making sense of. This is not an episode about polishing your talking points. It is an honest, practical conversation about why narrating a complicated career history is genuinely harder for trauma survivors, what the freeze, the spiral, the performance, and the avoidance

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