The Life You Knew Is Changing. It Doesn’t Fit Into One Box.
The job ended, but the bills and exhaustion did not.
A relationship ended, but the lease, shared friendships and imagined future are still there.
Your body is asking for a different pace, while your calendar keeps expecting the person you used to be.
Or nothing visible has happened at all. You are still showing up, still capable, still doing what needs to be done—and quietly realizing that the life you built no longer feels like yours.
When one part of life changes, the others rarely hold still. Yet finding support can require you to explain the same experience, one piece at a time, to systems that seldom speak to one another.
What would change if we listened to the whole person before deciding what to build?
That question is guiding The Exit Strategy Network™ (TESN). I’m developing The Exit Strategy Network™ to help people navigating the place between no longer and not yet find language for what has changed, encounter relevant people and resources, and choose a next step that fits their actual lives. The work brings together meaningful media, creative practice, facilitated experiences and, eventually, responsible technology.
The Listening Cohort is how this next phase begins.
I’m inviting people in transition to help test the questions, relationships and experiences that might make that vision useful. We’ll begin with conversations and small guided experiments before deciding what needs to become a digital product.
You do not need a clear plan or a polished account of what happened. What feels confusing, helpful, absent or difficult to name is part of what we need to understand. The button below opens a short interest form. It is an invitation to be considered for a listening conversation or future pilot test, but the full platform is still in development.
We’re Listening Before We Build
You may have found advice, resources or programs and still felt alone with the work of figuring out which ones fit your life.
We want to understand what happens in that gap. What helps someone name what has changed? What feels supportive when they cannot yet explain what comes next? When does a recommendation open a possibility and when does it feel like one more person or platform telling them who to be?
Our first step is to listen to people living through different kinds of transition. Those conversations will inform a small, guided test of Your Now, a proposed experience that begins with a question:
What’s true for you right now?
From there, we want to explore whether a person can identify what deserves care, encounter a useful resource or human perspective, try one manageable step and remain free to say, “That doesn’t fit.”
The human experience will be tested before deciding what belongs in the technology. Later experiments may include small, facilitated discussions, Scholar/ Creator contributions, and gatherings that bring people together away from the screen.
Your Experience Can Help Us Ask Better Questions
You do not need a polished story or a lesson to teach us.
We are beginning with mid and later-career impact professionals including educators, artists, wellness practitioners, nonprofit and community workers among others whose lives or sense of identity are shifting. Your transition may involve work. It may also involve money, health, relationships, home, grief, purpose or several of these at once.
You might know exactly what changed. You might only know that the old way of living is no longer working.
We want to learn:
Where have you felt seen, and where have you had to explain yourself all over again?
What kind of support would have helped before you had a clear plan?
What feels useful, intrusive or overwhelming when someone recommends a resource or next step?
When would you want a digital tool, a conversation with another person, or simply permission to step away?
If your experience does not fit neatly into a category, that matters too.
What Joining Means Right Now
When you complete the short interest form, you’re letting us know you may be open to a listening conversation, a brief reflection, or a later pilot invitation.
We will share the purpose and format of any opportunity before asking you to take part. You can decide what to share, and you can decline questions that feel too personal. We will ask for separate permission before using your name, words or story publicly.
Joining the interest list does not guarantee a place in the first round, and you do not need to be available for every future activity.
You do not have to arrive certain to be worth listening to.
Three Ways to Help Shape What Comes Next
If you are navigating transition: Help us understand where support has felt useful, scattered, intrusive or missing. Selected participants may be invited to a private conversation, a brief written reflection or a guided test of the emerging Your Now experience.
If you have a practice to share: Are you an artist, educator, scholar, facilitator or practitioner whose knowledge could help people reflect, make meaning, take practical action or connect? We will consider Pilot Scholars/Creators-in-Residence once the first member conversations show what is needed.
If you can help resource the pilot: We welcome conversations about participant access, contributor compensation, gathering space, relevant expertise and support for testing the experience.
Start Where You Are
Maybe you are standing in the middle of a decision. Maybe a decision was made for you. Maybe someone you love is trying to find their footing, and you want to understand how to support them.
The first invitation is simple: help us hear what this part of life is actually like, so the next thing we build responds to people rather than assumptions.
