Showing results for "I Quit" in Biographies & Memoirs

'Through this book, I hope to inspire you. I hope to make you laugh a little and I hope that you take away this, if nothing else-if I can do it, so can you.' In August 2015, Munaf Kapadia quit his four-year-long career as a consultant at Google to pursue another venture - with his mother! Two...

In January 2021, Freda Love Smith, acclaimed rock musician and author of Red Velvet Underground, watched as insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol. It felt like the culmination of eight months of pandemic anxiety. She needed a drink, badly. But she suspected a midday whiskey wouldn’t cure what was really ailing her—nor would her nightly cannabis gummy, or her four daily cups of tea, or any of the other substances she relied on to get through each day. Thus began her experiment to remove one addictive behavior from her life each month to see if sobriety was really all it was cracked up to be.

While daydreaming about my next project, I realised that quitting has become one of my top skills in both good and bad ways. It is a skill I have honed since childhood. I have quit the usual: jobs, sports, instruments, friendships (ouch!); and some less common things: high school, Bible college, countries. If you need a little break from the stories of achievement, join me as I recount the things I have quit as well as the things I have quit trying to quit (social media and procrastination, I’m looking at you!). Hopefully, my failures (and a couple of successes) will make you feel better ...

Just a couple of girls sharing their love for murder and disdain for work

Sh*I Just Quit My Job is a podcast about the questions that surface when life stops making sense: Is this it? What do I really want? Who am I if I’m not defined by my work, my old story, or other people’s expectations of me? Through candid conversations and personal reflections, host Maricella Herrera sits with the uncertainty and explores what it takes to build a life that feels more honest, joyful, and real.