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Jun 19, 2025 • Katharine Gallagher

You're well-paid, well-regarded, and one layoff away from starting over.

You're not in trouble. You're exposed. This issue shows you how to read that exposure clearly and what to build before the decision gets made for you.

14 hrs ago • Katharine Gallagher

Ana Calin from How We Grow: From Corporate Marketing Burnout to a $119K/Month Newsletter✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Ana Calin, the creator of How We Grow, on leaving corporate burnout to build a newsletter that pays her, and why owning your audience changes…

Apr 8 • Katharine Gallagher and Ana Calin

You're upgrading tools instead of upgrading judgement.

You've done the courses, earned the credentials, and kept pace with every new platform. The market has noticed. It just isn't paying more for it.

Apr 6 • Katharine Gallagher

Daria Cupareanu from AI Blew My Mind: Making AI Useful for Non-Technical Professionals✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Daria Cupareanu from AI Blew My Mind shows non-technical professionals how to use AI in real work and turn it into income.

Apr 1 • Katharine Gallagher and Daria Cupareanu

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Sam Illingworth from Slow AI: Building a Portfolio Career Around Critical AI Literacy✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

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Apr 1 • Katharine Gallagher and Daria Cupareanu

Jessica Drapluk: From Pediatric Oncology to Building Health, Wealth, and Ownership✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Mar 2 • Katharine Gallagher and Jess, The Creator

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You're well-paid, well-regarded, and one layoff away from starting over.

You're not in trouble. You're exposed. This issue shows you how to read that exposure clearly and what to build before the decision gets made for you.

14 hrs ago • Katharine Gallagher

You're upgrading tools instead of upgrading judgement.

You've done the courses, earned the credentials, and kept pace with every new platform. The market has noticed. It just isn't paying more for it.

Apr 6 • Katharine Gallagher

Daria Cupareanu from AI Blew My Mind: Making AI Useful for Non-Technical Professionals✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Daria Cupareanu from AI Blew My Mind shows non-technical professionals how to use AI in real work and turn it into income.

Apr 1 • Katharine Gallagher and Daria Cupareanu

Raghav Mehra From Fintech Trader to Building Cash & Cache Read his Backstory & Advice✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Raghav Mehra of Cash & Cache shares how he moved from fintech trading into AI, building skills, documenting in public, and turning it into a growing…

Mar 30 • Katharine Gallagher and Raghav Mehra

James Presbitero, Founder of Unpromptable: How a Freelance Writer Rebuilt His Career Around the Tool That Threatened to End It✨The Career…

James Presbitero turned an AI-driven income crisis into a thriving newsletter, community, and client business. Here's how.

Mar 20 • Katharine Gallagher and James Presbitero

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You're Still Employed (the Perfect Time to Build Leverage).

You still have the role, but you want to become more secure. This issue shows you how to use that position to build leverage that compounds beyond it.

Mar 26 • Katharine Gallagher

Chloe Markham from Joyful: Helping Burned-Out Women Move from Survival to Feeling Good Again✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Chloe Markham, Joyful: a career pivot playbook on moving from burnout and a studio model to a calm online business built on nervous system work and…

Mar 25 • Katharine Gallagher and Chloe Markham

Career Change Using Communication Skills: The Skill Every Industry Is Hiring For Right Now

Career change using communication skills is more achievable than you think. Discover transferable roles, real pivot examples, and a strategy that works.

Mar 14 • Katharine Gallagher

John Brewton: How a Family Business, Harvard Economics & a $75M Exit Led to Writing for the People Who Actually Run Things✨The Career Pivot…

John Brewton, creator of Operating, one of Substack's fastest-growing publications, didn't stop after a $75M exit. He started writing for the people who…

Mar 9 • Katharine Gallagher

365 Lessons That Turn Career Stagnation Into Real Momentum

Stuck in your career and not sure what's next? These 365 hard-won lessons will help you get clear, get visible, and start earning from what you already…

Feb 27 • Katharine Gallagher

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Ana Calin from How We Grow: From Corporate Marketing Burnout to a $119K/Month Newsletter✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Ana Calin, the creator of How We Grow, on leaving corporate burnout to build a newsletter that pays her, and why owning your audience changes…

Apr 8 • Katharine Gallagher and Ana Calin

Rodney Daut from Course Builder’s Corner: Helping Coaches and Writers Turn Expertise Into Income✨The Career Pivot Playbooks Series

Rodney Daut shares how he moved from teaching to online business, helping coaches and writers turn expertise into products, clients, and income.

Mar 23 • Katharine Gallagher

You've earned the expertise. Now own it too.

The system you built your career inside is getting smaller. This issue shows you how to make your expertise visible, portable, and yours.

Mar 19 • Katharine Gallagher

Derek Hughes: From 30 Years in Nonprofits to Creating the Irresistible Writer✨The Career Pivot Playbook Series

Derek Hughes pulls back the curtain on how he built the Irresistible Writer on Substack — starting over at 51 with no experience, no audience, and no…

Mar 16 • Katharine Gallagher and Derek Hughes

You're learning constantly... but your market value hasn't moved. Yet.

You're investing in yourself every week. The market hasn't noticed. Here's the structural reason why, and what actually changes it.

Mar 12 • Katharine Gallagher

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