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EPISODE · Jun 9, 2025 · 9 MIN

The Quiet Pivot: If I'm Not That Job, Who Am I?

from Stories for the future · host Veslemøy Klavenes-Berge ✨

This episode is about something that hit harder than I expected when I lost my job in oil and gas: Not the income. Not the office.But the identity.Who was I if I wasn't “Veslemøy, the geophysicist”?What was I supposed to say at parties, in my bio, or when someone casually asked, “So, what do you do?”In this solo episode, I talk about how I’d unknowingly tied my self-worth to my job title — and what happened when that label disappeared.You’ll hear how I started peeling back the layers, reconnecting with parts of myself I’d shelved for years, and learning how to sketch a new identity from the inside out.🧰 This episode is part of The Quiet Pivot Companion PackA simple Notion-based toolkit designed to support you if you’re navigating a career pivot — especially if it wasn’t entirely by choice.In today’s episode, I reference a couple of the tools:The Identity Sketch Pad and the mind hack I like to call Put Your Professional Identity on the Shelf📦 Want the Companion Pack?You can get it two ways:🔑 Paying Substack subscribers get full access: vklavenes.substack.comOr if you prefer a one-off download instead; go to storiesforthefuture.com/pivotI really hope you will find this valuable - wheter going all in with the Pivot Pack, or just by listening to the podcast episodes.Want to be a guest on Stories for the future: Beyond the Bubble? Send Veslemoy Klavenes-Berge a message on PodMatch.You can always find more information about the podcast and my work on storiesforthefuture.com Get full access to Stories for the Future by Veslemøy Klavenes-Berge at vklavenes.substack.com/subscribe

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