I thought I had “made it.” Five years into a dream sales career in tech, earning over $200K a year without a college degree, it felt like my life checked all the boxes. But then I got laid off.

And instead of freaking out and applying to 100 jobs, I decided to treat this as an invitation to start a full-blown creative career break.

In this first episode, I’m walking you through the emotional unraveling, and the surprising shifts in my body, stress, and creativity that have unfolded in just five months.

If you’ve ever wondered what a career break can do to your identity, ambition, and sense of possibility, this is the raw, real, behind-the-scenes starting point of my story.

In This Episode:

• What it was like to be a high-earning breadwinner, the lifestyle upgrades I loved, and the downsides that it cost me
• My decade-long pattern of shelving my own ideas to work behind the scenes for 7-figure creators
• The expensive coping ritual I created to escape stress multiple nights a week after work
• The surprising changes that unfolded after my layoff (both mental + physical), and how wildly different my life feels, 5 months in

Let's Connect:

Want more real talk? Let’s be friends on Instagram: @alisonkinsey

I also help entrepreneurs and thought leaders launch and grow their podcasts through my boutique podcast editing agency, Podcasting for Creatives.

I spent years chasing success, money, and shelving my creative dreams. I was a lifestyle blogger, a secret weapon inside of a 7-figure creator business, and a high earner in tech. Then I got laid off, and EVERYTHING changed.

Real Time Creator is my unfiltered, voice note style diary of what it's like to be in your late 30's, reinventing your entire life and business.

Every week, you'll catch me nerding out over money transparency, identity shifts, entrepreneurship, the zig-zag of living your life online and building in public, and the messy middle.

Start with episode 1 for my full story.

Let's Connect:

Want more real talk? Let’s be friends on Instagram: @alisonkinsey

I also help entrepreneurs and thought leaders launch and grow their podcasts through my boutique podcast editing agency, Podcasting for Creatives.