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Burn the Map

Shelley McIntyre

Burn the Map is for people who spent decades in corporate jobs and now need to figure out what"s next.Host Shelley McIntyre is a former corporate strategist who left to become a coach. She knows what it"s like to have your entire identity wrapped up in a job title, and what it takes to untangle yourself from it.Weekly episodes cover the messy middle of career transition: how to admit you don"t want what you worked years to get, how to stop performing competence you no longer care about, and how to

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29: Calling vs. Competence

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2026/02/03

Follow your bliss. Pursue your passion. Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.For those of us who never felt particularly called to anything, all of it can be a letdown. You wonder what's wrong with you.If you ever felt punished for not having a calling, this one's for you. Rather than brush it off as the realm of cult leaders and artists, I'll position it against competence and reframe calling into something accessible, grounded, and useful.In this episode,

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28: Wanting to Want: Why You Can't Get Excited About...

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2026/01/27

Are you familiar with the state of wanting to want? It feels miserable and heavy.Wanting to want is the annoying time before you can declare what you don't want and get on with figuring out what you DO want. It's the long middle before change can happen, full of effort, pressure, and constant self-judgment.In this episode, I explore why we get stuck trying to want things that look good on paper, where the pressure comes from, and how to get out of the spiral.What you'll learn:Why

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27: Reluctant Entrepreneur 3: Your First Move

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2026/01/20

You've worked through your resistance. You know what kind of entrepreneur you are. Now what?Most people stall here because they're waiting for the complete roadmap. But you don't need the whole plan, just one next move.And that move isn't what you think. Your first move isn't execution. It's learning.In this episode, I walk you through specific first actions based on the path you're considering: consulting/fractional work, buying a business or franchise, or

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26: Reluctant Entrepreneur 2: Choose Your Archetype

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2026/01/13

After 20+ years in corporate, you already have an entrepreneurial operating system; you've just been using it inside someone else's company.In this episode, we explore the three dimensions that determine what kind of entrepreneur you are: who you work with, what you create, and your risk tolerance. Then we match those dimensions to specific business paths: fractional work, franchises, buying a business, or starting from scratch.This isn't a personality test. It's discernment

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25: Reluctant Entrepreneur 1: Unlocking Resistance

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2026/01/06

You didn’t plan on becoming an entrepreneur. After decades in corporate life, you assumed you’d stay put, retire quietly, or at least have options. Then layoffs, ageism, and a shifting job market changed the math.For many people in midlife, entrepreneurship isn’t a dream, it’s a reluctant consideration. And that reluctance isn’t a flaw. It’s information.In this episode, we unpack what resistance to entrepreneurship is really protecting you from: fear of financial uncertainty, loss of structure,

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24: Asking For Help as an Entrepreneur

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2025/12/30

After decades in corporate, asking for help feels like admitting failure. You were the indispensable one, the person with all the answers. Now you're building something new and the skill you avoided most is suddenly essential.Asking for help isn't just awkward, it feels like a violation of the role you always played. Like you're bothering people. Like you have nothing to offer back. Like admitting you're incompetent.But here's the truth: most people actually want to help

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23: Don't Build the Same Box You Just Escaped

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2025/12/23

You finally escaped corporate. Three months later, you're at your desk at 8am sharp, working through lunch, feeling guilty about that doctor's appointment you're thinking of canceling. Again.You rebuilt the exact same prison you just left. Same hours. Same guilt. Same burnout.Here's what's happening: your corporate wiring is running your new system. Decades of conditioning about productivity, worth, and "acceptable" work doesn't disappear overnight. The box

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22: Ignite Your Competitive Drive, GenX

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2025/12/16

You think you're not competitive enough to build your own business. But here's what I know: your competitive drive has been there all along, hiding in your irritation, not your achievements.That thing that makes you mutter "oh, absolutely not" under your breath? That's not complaining. That's your inner competitor pointing at what needs to change.In this episode, I'm reframing competition. Not as aggressive ego domination, but as focused determination fueled by

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21: Fight Isolation After Leaving Corporate

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2025/12/09

You've been isolated for years. You just didn't notice because you were trapped in meetings.So let's confront the isolation you're already living, and the fear that leaving corporate will make it worse. Because work friendships come with an asterisk, and now you're worried solopreneurship means being even more alone.Before you go from the frying pan to the fire, we'll get clear about what isolation actually is, how to fight it, and how to design a social world that

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20: The 4 Phases of Career Reinvention (And Where...

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2025/12/02

You've been "planning to leave" for two years. Or you're deep in a 2 a.m. Reddit rabbit hole about fractional work, but haven't contacted anyone. Or you've told three different friends about your brilliant business idea while doing absolutely nothing about it.In this episode of Burn the Map, I'm walking you through the four predictable phases of career reinvention and helping you figure out which one has you stuck.Because reinvention isn't one big leap

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19: How to Tell Your Career Pivot Story With Confidence

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2025/11/25

At some point, every GenXer leaving corporate faces the question: "What do you do now?" Without your job title, the answer gets stuck in your throat.In this episode of Burn the Map, we're tackling the identity crisis that comes after leaving corporate. How do you introduce yourself when the title that made you legible to the world is gone? And how do you explain your pivot without launching into a 10-minute monologue that makes people regret asking?It's awkward. But it

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18: Turn Your Resentment into Fuel

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2025/11/18

At some point, every GenXer realizes they've been carrying a grudge that only hurts them. The company moved on. The manager moved on. But you're still bitter.In this episode of Burn the Map, we're unpacking the invisible contract fueling your workplace resentment. The one you created but never told anyone about. The one that's draining your energy and keeping you stuck in the past.It's uncomfortable work. But it's also liberating.You'll learn:Why GenXers are wired

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17: Break Up Before It Breaks You: How to Leave...

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2025/11/11

You’re slogging away in a job that’s slowly draining your soul, but you tell yourself you have nothing to complain about. The paycheck is steady, the benefits are fine… so why does it still feel like something’s dying inside you?In this episode of Burn the Map, we’re talking about pre-traumatic growth: how to make a change before crisis hits, and how to start designing a life that fits without waiting for a breakdown.You’ll learn: • How to recognize when stability has quietly turned into stagnation

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16: GenX and the Leadership Illusion: Seeing Leaders...

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2025/11/04

At some point, every GenXer realizes that the people running things aren’t the wise adults we hoped they were. And maybe, neither are we.In this episode of Burn the Map, we’re unpacking what happens when the pedestal collapses. When you see that leadership, whether corporate or personal, was never meant to make you invincible.It’s a wake-up call and a relief all at once.You’ll learn: • Why overestimating leaders (and yourself) keeps you stuck in outdated roles • How misplaced loyalty and “fixer”

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15: Why GenX Thrives in Uncertainty

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2025/10/28

Hey GenXer. Remember the dot com bust of 2001 when you discovered you were laid off because your badge didn't work when you came back from lunch?Six years later, you witnessed another economic crash. You survived both of those events through your resilience and ingenuity. You have evidence that you can navigate uncertainty. This episode is your permission slip to start something even while the world feels uncertain. We’ll bust the myth of corporate stability, show how previous downturns sparked

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14: GenX, Optimize For What Matters

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2025/10/21

Hey, GenXers. If you’re on your way out of corporate (or already gone), there’s one thing that can trip you up on the outside: running the same routines you built to survive in corporate life. You optimize your calendar and habits for a performance review, a manager’s quirks, or a schedule you never liked.If you leave your job but keep optimizing for the corporate world, you’ll rebuild the same cage.My friend, we need to do a little deprogramming. Living and building outside of the business

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13: After the Career Ladder Vanishes

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2025/10/14

You didn’t plan to leave. You planned to stay. Maybe you were aiming for one more promotion or just a chance to build something solid again.But then you get called into a meeting with your manager and HR. “It’s not personal,” they say. The layoff hits you hard. The ladder didn’t break. It disappeared. And now you’re staring at the space where it used to be, wondering what to do now that there's nothing to climb. You quickly decide that the job was a failure. That YOU are a failure.Not so fast,

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12: GenX Legacy 2: Now Build What’s Next

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2025/10/07

Hey GenXer. Let's say you worked hard to release a legacy or family tradition that kept you stuck. Now you're staring at the blank canvas of your future, and panic is setting in.But starting something new doesn’t erase the past. Legacy is constantly evolving, and it includes how you live forward from this moment. Your life and work history contain ideas. And you probably have a good idea of the type of person you’d like to be as you do that, because you know that legacy also lives in how

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11: GenX Legacy 1: How to Choose What Stays

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2025/09/30

Hey GenXer. Do you ever think about your legacy? Unless you’re a big philanthropist with your name on a building, it might not come up. But it’s hidden in a question I hear a lot of clients ask: “did my work in corporate even matter?” Legacy is the imprint you leave on your kids, your people, and your work. For many, especially GenXers, that legacy is tangled up with family expectations and career traditions. But what if parts of that legacy were never really yours to carry?There are other ways to

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10: Post-Corporate Detox: the Fog is Real

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2025/09/23

You finally did it. You resigned. Or they finally did it - they let you go. But instead of feeling free, you feel dumb and skittish; incapable of focusing long enough to finish anything.You wonder what’s wrong with you, or if you made a terrible mistake by leaving. You didn’t. You’re just offgassing.In today’s episode, we’ll talk about what happens right after you leave corporate, and why the transition often comes with a mental and emotional fog. I’ll show you how to make sense of that phase, how

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