Andy Johns
Andy Johns is a former tech exec and VC who had a successful run at several startups—including Facebook, Twitter, Wealthfront, and Quora—but left it all behind a few years ago to take a new direction in life. Now a mental health advocate, he aids military veterans with PTSD, guides burnt-out high achievers to new paths, and shares his healing journey from childhood trauma and mental illness through his newsletter, Clues Dot Life.
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Career Skills
Major career transitions often require recognizing when professional achievement has become a maladaptive survival mechanism for personal self-worth.
"It was a difficult decision to walk away from my career at the peak of it, but I guess the takeaway, and then I'll stop for a bit, is it's important for people to understand that there are formative e..."
A radical career change can be a proactive act of self-compassion rather than a reactive escape from a job.
"The transitions that I talk about are the big fundamental ones like the transition that I've been going through myself... me, for example, stepping away from my career, at the end of the day, I wasn't..."