For Women 50+ Navigating Workforce Exit
From Performing a Life to Designing One
You spent decades showing up for everyone else. You were exceptional at it. Now it is time to design the chapter that was always meant to be yours.
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Who This Is For
If any of this sounds familiar, you are exactly who Susan works with.
You are within one to five years of leaving the workforce, or you have already left. From the outside, your career looks like a success. From the inside, you are quietly asking questions nobody around you seems to be asking.
- Who am I without my title?
- Do I have enough to actually leave?
- Why does everyone expect me to be excited about this when I feel like I am disappearing?
- I am managing my job, my aging mother, my marriage, my kids, and nobody is asking how I am doing.
- I know I should make the leap, but something keeps stopping me and I do not even know whose voice that is anymore.
You are not falling apart. You are navigating one of the most significant transitions of your life without a roadmap. That is exactly what Susan built one for.
What It Is Costing You
You have spent decades being the one everyone counts on. This transition is asking something different of you, and nobody prepared you for it.
The identity crisis is real. You have spent decades being the Director, the Executive, the one everyone counts on. You have no idea who you are without that title, and that terrifies you.
The money fear is real. You do not know if you have enough to actually leave, and you are too embarrassed to admit you do not have a real plan.
The purpose gap is real. Everyone tells you to be excited about retirement. So why does it feel like you are disappearing?
The invisible transition is real. You are managing everything at once while the world keeps moving, and nobody is stopping to ask how you are doing.
The doubt is real. You know you should make the move. Something keeps stopping you. You second-guess every decision and you do not even know whose voice that is anymore.
What changes when you
Work With Susan
Women who work with Susan do not just feel better. They leave with something concrete.
A clear, grounded sense of who they are beyond their career, and the language to claim it out loud.
The clarity and courage to face their financial reality without shame, and a framework for making decisions from truth instead of fear.
An answer to the question nobody else is asking: what actually lights you up beyond your career? And a first real step toward building something with meaning.
A community of women who are navigating the exact same season, so you stop doing this alone.
A name for the voice that keeps telling you that you are not ready, and a proven method to take back the power and move forward with confidence.
Meet
Susan
She lived the question. Then she built the answer.
“For twenty years, I showed up. I ran the room from behind the scenes and kept everything moving. But behind the competence was a woman who had quietly built her entire identity around a role that was never her own story.”
When Susan walked away from her twenty-year career, she did not just leave a job. She stepped into the question that over 20 million women are facing right now but rarely say out loud: Who am I without my title? Will I have enough? Will I still matter?
That question became her calling.
She did not just reinvent herself. She launched businesses, built a rental real estate portfolio, raised two children, and is now navigating one of the most quietly demanding roles of midlife, caring for her aging mother. She knows firsthand that women in this season are not managing one transition. They are managing several, simultaneously, while the world keeps moving and rarely stops to ask how they are doing.
Susan is a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, podcast host, and co-author alongside Lisa Nichols. As the creator of The Doubt Committee Framework, she helps high-achieving women navigate the full human experience of workforce exit, not just the financial side, but the identity crisis, the purpose gap, and the hunger for community that comes with stepping away from a career that defined them for decades.
Her message is direct. Her framework is proven. Her audience leaves changed.
Speaking
Her audience does not just leave inspired. They leave equipped.
Susan speaks to corporations, women’s summits, associations, and ERGs. Her audiences walk away with a concrete framework for navigating the exit, language to name what they have been feeling, and the clarity to take their next step with confidence rather than fear. Her TEDx talk in March 2026 expands on how judgment shapes identity and leadership at scale.
The Exit Interview
Masterclass
The Exit Interview You Should Be Having
A 75-minute live virtual masterclass held every second Wednesday. Each session covers a different dimension of workforce exit: identity, financial clarity, purpose, and the relationships that shift when you do. You will leave every session with a framework, a deliverable, and a room full of women who are navigating the exact same thing.
Every 2nd Wednesday, at 11:00 AM PST.
Single Session $247 | Founding Bundle $997 | 6-Month Bundle $1,197
The Encore
Circle
A 12-month intimate mastermind capped at 15 women. This is where you do the full work: identifying the beliefs that have been running your transition, tracing where they came from, rebuilding your identity on your own terms, and designing your next chapter with real structure, real accountability, and a founding community of women who are done pretending and ready to build. Women who complete this program know exactly who they are beyond their title, what they want next, and how to get there.
$7,500 · 12 months · 15 women · Signups open October 2026
Done Pretending
Podcast
A podcast for women 50+ who are navigating the questions that come with this season and are finally ready to stop performing and start living.
Every episode is an honest conversation about what it actually feels like to leave a career that defined you, face the financial fears nobody talks about, figure out who you are when the work is done, and design something that is genuinely yours. No inspiration without application. No filters. No pretending.
If you are in this transition, or getting close, this is the space that was built for you.
The Next Chapter
Newsletter
A weekly note for women 50+ who are designing what comes next.
Each week Susan sends one focused insight drawn from her coaching work, her masterclasses, and the conversations she is having with women in this exact season. Practical. Direct. Built for the transition you are actually in.
When you subscribe you will receive weekly insights on identity, purpose, financial clarity, and next chapter design, along with early access to masterclass registrations, cohort openings, and speaking announcements.
Frequently Asked
Questions
Yes. Susan’s work is designed for women who are within one to five years of leaving the workforce, as well as those who have already left. If you are approaching the transition and want to be prepared rather than blindsided, this is exactly the right time to start.
Because nobody prepared you for it. You spent decades building competence, identity, and community around your work. When that chapter closes, the financial questions are the ones everyone talks about. The identity questions, the purpose gap, the feeling that you are disappearing, those are the ones nobody warned you about. That is the conversation Susan is built for.
The masterclass meets every second Wednesday and covers one dimension of the transition per session: identity, financial clarity, purpose, relationships, and more. It is the entry point. The Encore Circle is a 12-month intimate mastermind capped at 15 women where you do the full work, building your belief audit, your identity declaration, and your next chapter blueprint with Susan over the course of a year. The masterclass gives you frameworks. The Encore Circle changes you.
The waitlist is open now. Signups open in October 2026 and the founding cohort begins in December 2026. It is capped at 15 women and this founding price of $7,500 will not be offered again. Waitlist members receive first access before any public announcement.
It is a weekly podcast for women 50+ navigating this transition. Each episode is an honest conversation about what it actually feels like to leave a career that defined you, who you are when the work is done, and how to design something that is genuinely yours. No inspiration without application. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
Yes. Susan speaks to corporations, women’s summits, ERGs, and associations on four topics: The Prepared Exit (her signature keynote), Don’t Retire Reinvent, The Doubt Committee, and Done Pretending. She is available virtually and in person for audiences of 20 to 500+. Visit the speaker page or reach out directly to book her.
Susan’s faith informs her perspective and shows up authentically in her work. It is not the framework. Her work is designed to be accessible to women of all backgrounds. If faith is part of your story, it will feel familiar. If it is not, it will not get in the way.
Therapy focuses on healing the past. Life coaching focuses on goals and accountability. Susan’s work focuses on the transition you are in right now. She helps you understand what has been driving your decisions, separate what is actually true from what fear has been telling you, and build a concrete plan for what comes next. It is practical, framework-based, and built for this specific season.
Start with the masterclass. It is the lowest barrier to entry and the fastest way to get a framework in your hands. If you are ready to go deeper, join the Encore Circle waitlist. If you want Susan at your event, visit the speaker page.
From Performing a Life
to Designing One.
You spent decades showing up for everyone else. The next chapter is yours to design. Start here.