Episode 7: When Success Becomes a Birdcage

There’s a phase that’s harder to name than failure. It’s when the role that once felt impossible now feels… routine. When the business is growing, the team is strong, and your calendar has never been fuller. And yet. Something starts to feel different. Not wrong. Just different. In this episode, I go back to the years when I had built something real at Microsoft — and began to realize, slowly, that the very things making the work meaningful were also making it impossible to imagine…

Episode 6: Learning to Swim

There's something nobody talks about — the phase that comes after you feel out of your depth. That messy middle phase. Not the fear itself. Not the doubt. But what happens when those things slowly start to lift. When the role that once felt impossible starts to feel like yours. In this episode, I go back to those early years leading the Identity team — and the moments that quietly shaped me. The first time I stood in front of a thousand people and didn't feel ready. The leadership decision that…