Leaving Corporate & Reinventing Yourself | Deb Boulanger

What do you do when the career you spent 25 years building no longer feels like yours?Deb Boulanger knows that question from the inside. She rose to run a full business unit two levels below the CEO at Gartner and beyond and then she walked away. Not because she failed. Because she had outgrown the life she built. What followed was a collision of divorce, burnout, perimenopause, and a silent 10-day Buddhist meditation retreat that changed everything. In this episode of Elevate Within’s Architecture of Reinvention: The Art of Unbecoming summer series, Deb joins Sandy Davis for an honest conversation about the grief that hits when you leave corporate, the identity crisis no one warns you about, and the practical tools she now teaches the women she mentors.Deb is the CEO of Life After Corporate, host of a 250+ episode podcast for women in transition, and a business mentor helping women build companies that actually fit who they are becoming not who they used to be. What You Will Hear in This Episode Why leaving corporate is an identity transition, not just a career transition and why the grief is real.How a 10-day silent meditation retreat became the turning point that changed Deb’s direction entirely.Why pushing corporate experience forward in corporate language doesn’t land with new clients.The truth about pricing struggles: they are almost always self-worth struggles in disguise.Her core entrepreneurship framework: find the demand before you build the supply, test before you invest.What she means when she says survival is just an attitude and the question she asks every woman on the edge.⭐ If this resonated, please leave a rating or review, it helps reach more women who need this conversation. 🎙️ ABOUT ELEVATE WITHIN Elevate Within is a podcast and community for high-achieving women navigating the messy middle — the space between who you were and who you're becoming.🎧 SUBSCRIBE & NEVER MISS AN EPISODE 🎵 Spotify: Elevate Within with Sandy Davis🍎 Apple Podcasts: Elevate Within with Sandy Davis ▶️ YouTube: Elevate Within Always 📻 Amazon Music: Elevate Within with Sandy Davis📻 iHeart Radio: Elevate Within with Sandy Davis📖 Substack: https://substack.com/@elevatewithin⭐ APPLE PODCAST LISTENERS If this resonated with you, a rating or review would mean everything. It helps Elevate Within reach more women who may need this conversation right now.📖 GO DEEPER ON SUBSTACK Weekly essays and honest conversations about burnout, grief, reinvention, resilience, healing, and the messy middle.🔓 Free subscribers — full access to all public content 🔐 Paid subscribers — bonus essays, early access to upcoming series, behind-the-scenes recordings, and direct community engagement👉 https://substack.com/@elevatewithin💼 CONNECT WITH SANDY 📎 LinkedIn: Sandra Davis 🌐 Leadership Advisory Services / Fractional Operations Services ElevateOpsAdvisory.com💼 CONNECT WITH CLAUDIA CUEVAS, LMFT 🌐 https://claudiacuevas.com/ OR https://www.therapyforlatinx.com/united-states/mission-viejo/therapist/claudia-cuevas-146Connect with Deb BoulangerWebsite and coaching: LifeAfterCorporate.comPodcast: Life After Corporate — 250+ episodes for women leaving corporateLinkedIn: Deb Boulanger