July 17, 2025 • 34 mins
Have you ever faced a layoff, career detour, or total life upheaval and thought, “Why is everything falling apart?” In this raw and vulnerable episode, Audra shares her personal journey through multiple career shakeups—including getting laid off with a baby at home—and how each “no” turned out to be a divine redirection.
This episode will resonate deeply with anyone navigating career chaos, unexpected life changes, or the fear of being seen. You’ll walk away with a powerful mindset shift around rejection, alignment, and what it really means to follow your soul’s path—even when it makes zero sense at the time.
Whether you're in the middle of a career transition or just craving deeper spiritual alignment, this episode will help you trust the unfolding of your path.
🔹 Topics We Explore:
The hidden spiritual meaning behind career setbacks
How getting laid off/rejected opened unexpected doors
Listening to your intuition when logic says otherwise
Why your “failures” might be your greatest redirections
The power of releasing resistance and flowing with divine timing
This story is proof that the Universe always has a plan—often better than we imagined. ❤️
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Hey, I'm Audrey Yankton, empowerment coach and
researcher, and this is Unveiledyou, the podcast where
spirituality meets practicality to help you step fully into your
power. Each week we'll talk about what
it really means to align with your higher self, trust your
inner knowing and walk through life with grounded soul LED
confidence. Let's get into it.
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Hey beautiful souls, this is Audra of the Future technically
for this episode. Before we dive into today's
episode, I just wanted to share a little bit of context.
I actually recorded this months ago, but at the time it felt way
too personal to release. I was still working through my
fear of visibility and it's justa stepped approach.
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It just shows that you work on stuff and you can finally get to
the place that you want to be. And I'm finally there right now.
This episode is me, raw, honest,in the middle of a season of
chaos and uncertainty, especially around my career.
I wasn't ready to share it back then, but I'm definitely ready
to now. I think it'll help a lot of you
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going through a lot of career quote setbacks, and I'm just
excited for you to listen. If you've ever experienced a
layoff again, a career set back or a moment where nothing made
sense, I hope the story reminds you that your path is still
unfolding with your purpose and the universe totally has your
back. I'm in a much different space
now, and I've been working on some new offerings for Unveil
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you that I can't wait to share with you soon.
So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, you can always
connect with me on Instagram at unveilyou.co or visit my website
alsounveilyou.co to explore waysthat we can work together.
All right, let's go ahead and dive in.
Hey there, beautiful soul, and welcome back to the Unveil You
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podcast. I'm Audra, your guide, your
confidence coach, and your fellow traveler on this wild
ride that we call life. Today, we're diving into what it
really means when life feels chaotic.
You know, when plans fall through, doors are slamming
shut, nothing seems to be makingsense.
That kind of chaos. I'm sharing my personal story of
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navigating through that exact kind of breakdown and just
exactly how to make sense of that and understanding that
things aren't necessarily happening to you.
But for you, we're going to be talking about the kind of
failure that actually is a divine redirection.
So if you've been asking why is everything falling apart or what
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am I missing, this episode is going to help you connect the
dots. You're going to walk away with a
new perspective on chaos and some powerful ships you can make
right now to move from confusionto clarity.
So if you're in a season where doors keep closing or if you're
wondering why nothing seems to be working in your favor the way
that you want it to work, this one is for you.
So I'm going to take us back years ago to when I had first
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graduated grad school. I was fresh out with all this
education and no experience, which we all know what the hell
of applying for jobs is like when that's the case.
It took about seven months. And finally I reached out to a
friend that worked at a company.She worked at a company that was
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based in the city in Colorado that I was living in at the
time. And I was like, okay, so she
knows I've been opening in a sales position.
I do not know anything about sales.
I am a customer researcher, a food scientist, all things, not
sales. So it was definitely one of
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those things where I'm like, it's been seven months, I
haven't had a job, I really needsome money right now, So what
can you do for me? So she hooked me up, gave me a
referral, and I was able to get an interview and the job would
be selling quinoa of all things.Now, I can't imagine many things
more exciting than a quinoa sales position, or at least
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that's what I told myself at thetime.
Just whatever I needed to tell myself to get to the finish
line, start getting a paycheck, I was eager and willing to do
it. So with this company, the
interesting thing that they do is they will, well, not totally
crazy, but they do administer a drug test and I wasn't too
worried about it. I definitely am somebody that
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enjoys cannabis gummies on occasion.
I had definitely not been doing anything like that during this
job search though. And I mean, it had been months
and months, like, I don't know, something like four or five
months since I had a gummy last.So I was not worried about this
at all. That should not have been a big
deal. So, but weirdly enough, they
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forced me to do a hair test, which is a very, very intense
type of drug test where they're looking at like the depths of my
soul for any and everything thatI might have been doing in my
life. And I, you know, even at that,
though, I still wasn't worried about it.
Whatever I had, my parents were taking us to Hawaii just shortly
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after I had to do this hair test.
I was going to be fine. I would come back from this trip
over New Year's and be able to start this new job.
So I go in and I take this hair test and it kind of seemed like
they took a lot of hair, like a lot, a lot.
And then they cut it down to a pretty long piece.
And I was like, huh, I thought they were only going to take
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like 1/2 inch or something, whatever.
It's not my job. I don't know how to do that.
I go to Hawaii and I was able totake my boyfriend, thankfully at
the time, he's now my husband, by the way.
So it worked out. But yeah, that was like the
first trip I was able to take a significant other on.
And so that was pretty exciting.We were on our way and had just
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landed in Honolulu and I get this phone call and I just got
this horrible feeling about it. I was like, why are they calling
me at such a strange time of day?
Honestly, time doesn't exist in Hawaii.
It was probably like 4:00 AM Hawaii time.
So it's probably a normal time back in the mainland.
But you know when you just can tell something's not going to go
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your way? It was actually the drug testing
company and they were calling meand they said, hey, so like,
what's going on here? We found the tiniest, tiniest
bit of THC in your system. And I was like, are you kidding
me? Like how much?
And I, well, we have a very sensitive test.
We were able to detect one part per million of THC in your hair.
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And I was like, are you kidding me?
That's crazy. Well, you know, he didn't.
I couldn't refute it. I was living in a state where
that was perfectly legal and I was allowed to do stuff like
that in my own time. And this again, this company was
based in Colorado, so it seemed retty crazy to me.
I was like, well, I mean, he cango report that back.
I'm not doing anything that's wrong.
And like later in the day, we had just checked into our
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Airbnb. I was relaxing and I get a phone
call from the company and I was like, Oh no, is this for real?
They're going to rescind this job offer on the first day of
this beautiful trip to Hawaii that I'm with, with my whole
family and my boyfriend. And it just couldn't have gotten
any worse than that. So, yeah, I answer the phone and
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they're like, unfortunately, we are going to have to rescind
your job offer due to a failed drug test.
Now, the things that we're goingthrough my head were, well, lots
of things, first of all. But number one, I was
disappointed because here I was jobless again.
I thought I could check that offthe list.
And here I was having to go backinto the job market.
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But the thing that I was really scared of was telling my parents
we were on their 30th wedding anniversary trip, and this was a
big deal. Like, this is something that my
mom definitely did not approve of.
She had thoughts about it and itwas not going to go down.
Well, I was, I was ashamed of myself.
I was disappointed. And so, yeah, I I was really
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dreading this moment of having to potentially, like, ruin the
whole trip because people weren't able to keep their
emotions in check. Before I went to them, though, I
went to my boyfriend, my now husband, and I just told him
what was going on. And he was like, you know what?
Whatever. Did you really want to sell
quinoa anyway? What a blessing.
And I was like, you know what? You're right.
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We're gonna make the best of this vacation and everything's
gonna be fine. I'm out.
Nothing more than when I came. So I did tell my family about it
in the most low key way possible.
Which really, to be honest, there's really no good way to
tell that news when you're like,hey, I've been dependent on you.
And I'm 22 years old, 23 years old, however old I was at the
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time. And, you know, I I'm going to
need a little help for a little bit longer because I failed a
drug test. So, yeah, it really did not land
well with my mother. She was pretty upset with me.
But my dad, even though he was disappointed in the outcome, he
was pretty clear with me that, you know, we're all human.
We all make mistakes. Like, we're going to make the
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best of this. I spent all this funny,
Everybody needs to have a good time, that kind of thing.
He really came through for me inthat moment.
And then also, my boyfriend was my husband.
I'll just call him husband for the rest of this.
It's probably easier. Just for context, we were not
married or engaged at this time.So, you know, it's just nice to
see how he stepped up for me. And I ended up having a
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wonderful, wonderful vacation. It was fun and I was energized
and ready to jump back into the job market when I got back.
So despite I guess you could saythat that was my very first
glimpse of what how large and how out of control universal
redirection truly can be was that that job was very much not
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in alignment for me. And the universe knew it and it
was just not going to let that happen.
So flashback or flash forward then to getting back to Colorado
and I was, you know, fresh back in the job market.
I think I went to Indeed and found some kind of local
cannabis company that was looking for a food scientist to
help with product development. And I went ahead and applied for
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it with my food scientist resume.
But also adding in that, hey, I do these food testing thing.
This is what my grad school specialty is in.
It's called sensory. And surprisingly, within a week
I got a call back and this company was very excited to
interview me and they invited mein for a formal interview and
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they you heard me out, heard what I could bring to the table.
They said they needed some help making some new edibles and they
loved my sensory experience so much.
They actually created a positionfor me that was actually more
towards my consumer testing witha little bit of food science
added in, which was really exciting because here's this
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like thing that I had trained for in grad school and I was
finally feeling really seen for the skills that I had.
It's like I couldn't get a job anywhere before this.
Then I get that job taken for mebecause of a marijuana test.
And now all of a sudden here I am getting a wonderful position
at a company that ironically is a cannabis company that is
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creating a position just for me,for my skills.
And that was really exciting. So again, just in that moment, I
was able to just understand so much of the irony of failing a
cannabis drug test and then getting a job in the cannabis
industry. That was a kind of my first
taste of how this universal stuff works of like, OK, that's
a funny joke. I wish it wasn't so funny all
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the time, but you know, I'll take it.
It was, it was pretty awesome. So I, I'm eager I'm ready to
start working. I actually will also say that
this job was off was offering me50% more base salary than this
other job was, which when you'rebroke and you're fresh out of
grad school, any amount of moneyis a lot of money, let alone
like a 50% increase from the jobthat, you know, just never send
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an offer from you. So things were shaping up to
look pretty good for me. So I am working in this
industry. It was amazing.
I, I got to, I had a lot of autonomy.
I got to really cut my teeth in a lot of ways that fresh grads
don't get to do of, you know, truly creating a lot of base
recipes and creating innovative ways of testing these kinds of
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products. We did a lot of CBD, just for
context. I wasn't out there just handing
THC out to any random person that would be not allowed.
So there was a lot of challengesand a lot of really cool things
that I got to do though in the testing of that, we were able to
help a lot of patients that had cancer and it felt really good.
But in the cannabis industry, it's a really interesting
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industry because a lot of companies are just trying to get
just big enough so that somebodywill come and buy them.
So that had happened. A larger Arizona based company
had come in and bought the company that I was working for
and everything seemed OK at first.
They were winning and dining us,so to speak.
They took us like and had a big party to announce the
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acquisition and giving us all this swag and all sorts of free
stuff. And then something just didn't
sit well with me in the middle of this big party.
They were throwing us, throwing us.
They had a sign this pretty intensive NDA of or not an NDA,
but they had a sign this pretty intensive non compete and all
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sorts of different stuff that came with that.
This new company was owned by a team of lawyers.
So it was very much dotting IS and crossing T's and it just
didn't sit well with me. It kind of felt like, hi, you're
buttering us up and then slapping this contract in front
of us. That's kind of sketchy.
And then the following week, they had a round of layoffs.
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So it was a lot of duplicate positions, the pretty obvious
ones, kind of more like, OK, we already have HR, so we're gonna
get rid of HR here, that kind ofstuff.
So it made sense, but still didn't sit well with me.
I also was going through a lot of changes myself, like my
boyfriend and I had gotten engaged.
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We were going to get married. We had finally with this job and
the nine months that I had it had saved up enough money and
we're starting to build a savings that we were able to
purchase an engagement ring. That was a very big deal for us.
We, we were, you know, not long before that thinking how are we
even going to afford, afford wedding bands, let alone like an
engagement ring with a diamond. So that was a wonderful,
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wonderful accomplishment we madetogether.
And just as we do that, then allof a sudden I'm feeling like
something might change and not in a good way.
But I wasn't very open minded atthe time to thinking about
having to go back into the job market because let's be honest,
I was not trying to get back in there anytime soon.
That was not not something I desired as it took me so long to
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find this first job. So unfortunately, I just knew
that I was going to get laid off.
The job was becoming more and more simple.
I was getting less and less communication for my managers,
less project involvement. It was just all the signs were
there. Even though I had never been
laid off before in my entire life.
I just knew I'm going to get laid off.
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Even though I'm the only food product developer at this entire
company. I'm a disposable income.
They don't, I'm a disposable like cost center.
They don't need a food scientistto keep functioning.
So it was just not a good time. I went to work every every day
for weeks, months. Actually it was about 3 months.
I was only there nine months. And the last three months of
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that job, I was worried any day I was going to get cut because I
just my intuition ears were perked.
I could absolutely see somethingcoming.
And I'll never forget I was out having lunch with a Co worker
when we got a text from the supervisor at the facility that
was basically like, hey, can youand Audra come back?
And she's like OK, no problem. Tells me that.
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And I was like, well, they're going to lay me off.
And she's like, no, why would they do that?
She's like, actually I talked tomy boyfriend about this and he
says that's actually not possible that you can get laid
off because your job is so important.
And I was like, oh, that's funnybecause that's not true.
I'm pretty sure I'm getting laidoff.
So I get there and everybody waslocked in the lab.
It felt like like, yeah, like something really bad was going
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on. And I could just tell.
I'm like, oh, no, HR is here from Arizona.
I could, I could see, you know, other people from Arizona
walking around. I was like, man, guys, I start
telling everybody my goodbyes. Everyone thought I was crazy.
And then within minutes they say, hey, Audra, can you come
upstairs? And I was like, Yep, I know this
is it. This is the end of this job for
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me. And that's exactly what
happened. I was sat down in front of HR
and here I was just like this little scared puppy almost, and
I noticed I know what they're doing right away and I just
start crying and they're like, yeah, unfortunately, we're going
to have to go our separate ways.We're eliminating your position
here is severance, which we werea public Canadian company or a
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company public in Canada, not the United States because of
cannabis laws here in the UnitedStates, but we were public in
Canada at the time, which the law at that time stated that
they only needed to give like I think it was, I want to say it
was 2 weeks severance, maybe 4 weeks, but I think I'm being
generous. They gave me like 2 weeks
severance. And at the time I was like, oh,
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cool, bonus paycheck. That's a lot of money.
And then like I've known people have gotten laid off since then
and gotten like a few months severance.
I'm like, wow, I really got screwed there.
But you know, I took it. I took the severance pay and I
had to get escorted to my desk by a security guard and you had
to walk me out to my car. I wasn't even allowed to say
goodbye to anybody. It was true, really pretty
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embarrassing and pretty intense.Like I, there's nothing about
that experience that I loved going through.
But you know, I spent a couple of days just kind of wallowing
in self pity trying to figure out what am I going to do now?
And then I just decided to pull myself up by the bootstraps and
be like, you know what, I'm going to get back into this job
market, even if it involves A relocation.
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We don't really like living in Colorado anyway.
What's the big deal? My husband had been going
through some heart problems, andhe had actually just finished
recovering from a surgery like an open, well, not an open heart
surgery, but a pretty intense heart surgery that cured his
A-fib. So, you know, I was feeling
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like, OK, yeah, you know what? We're at a good time.
Whatever. I started just applying anywhere
that had a job opening that was a skills fit and after a few
interviews at a few different places and nothing working out,
I end up getting a call from a company called Traeger Wood
Pellet Grills out here in Salt Lake City.
And I just remember thinking when I was applying for jobs
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like man, you know, here, I obviously have been shown that
having anything cannabis on my record or resume seemingly is
such a black mark. And I was really scared that
like everybody was with discountme or call me like a druggie
loser or something like that. Which if you know me, that is
not me at all. I am very much your Elle Woods
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type of bubbly pink Princess personality.
So the fact that anybody could associate with me with that,
that kind of stuff was just mortifying at the time.
I, I was just very embarrassed of that.
And so I get the job and Traegerflew me out to Salt Lake City,
which was my first time out in Utah.
And I remember having a really good conversation with my then
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supervisor and he mentioned without me even having told him
I'd been laid off, he had some really nice things to say about,
you know, most people in their life get laid off like two or
three times or something throughout their entire career.
And I was like, wow, it's like he knew I was laid off, but he
decided to comfort me in that moment and he knew he was gonna
give me the job at that point, I'm fairly certain.
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Cuz he was just like, yeah, thisis a slam dunk.
We love your skills. This is a great fit.
And then it even came up with the cannabis stuff.
He's like I, I mentioned to him like, look, I, I was really
nervous that having a cannabis job on my resume was going to
make me not marketable. And, you know, especially
thinking the conservative natureof Utah in general, I really
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just didn't think they would be open to something like that.
And he goes, you know, what is actually funny about your resume
is that's the one thing that stood out to me was that you
worked in cannabis. And I thought that was so
interesting and I just had to interview you O that introduced
to me the power of being different and differentiating
and justice living fully in yourauthenticity in that way.
And it ended U getting me my next job at Traeger, which was
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an absolute joy of a ride. It was a fantastic job,
fantastic people, great company.I got to really do a lot of
really cool different types of research that I hadn't done
before in my life. I'd only, you know, at certain
points even learned about in grad school that anything I
wanted to do they were game for.And we just had a really good
time traveling the country testing grills and eating a lot
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of really great food on the Traeger and at people's houses,
going and doing like smash burger research, you name it.
We did a lot of really fun stuff.
And finally I had, you know, I gotten, I think two or three
promotions while I was there in the 2 1/2 years that I was
there. And I just got to a point where
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I was like, you know what, I am still in a point in my life
where I'm really trying to grow my career.
And I didn't really know what mygoal was.
Was it to be sea level someday? What does that look like?
But at that time in my career, Iwas committed to the corporate
ladder. I wanted to climb it.
I wanted to get to the very top.And to do that at Traeger, I
would have had to replace my boss.
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And he wasn't leaving anytime soon.
And so I kind of had this harsh reality of like, OK, you know, I
love working here, but I feel like I can grow by going
elsewhere faster and speed to the job title was all I cared
about at that time. So I went ahead and was looking
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around passively in the background for other positions
that would allow that. Well, there was a company back
in my home state of Nebraska that was a full remote job of
managing a consumer insights team.
And I was able to get a, I was able to get an interview and I
got all the way to the end and got a pretty great salary bump.
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And I was going to lead my own team and it was going to be full
remote even. Like this opened so many doors
for me. I was so excited because at that
time, my husband and I were kindof sick of Utah.
We just hadn't quite found our footing in the state yet.
And we're just like, you know what we are thinking about maybe
having a baby at this point. I don't know, let's go back to
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Nebraska. Let's try this out.
So I accepted the job, parted ways with Traeger, sadly still
holds a very near and dear spot in my heart.
I loved that place. Can't say enough good stuff
about that place in my supervisor, but officially moved
on to lead out this team and manage people for the first time
in a full time capacity. I've managed people in other
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ways before, but not like an entire department.
So, so that was what we did. And then we worked on our goal
of buying our first home and we found a house out in eastern
Nebraska that that was close to my family is like 10 minutes
from my sister. It was going to be great.
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And this job was, you know, seemingly working at the time.
And So what happened was we actually, it was pretty crazy.
My husband was working a job just like an hourly position as
a manager at a store and he was pretty sick of it.
He'd been passed up for a promotion that he thought
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definitely he should have gotten.
And I agreed with him. And it was kind of one of the
thing, one of those things wherewe're like, hey, well, we don't
really need that money right now.
And if that's something that youhate going to do and it's soul
crushing, then screw it, quit. And I will never forget.
It was Halloween day and I just had a feeling.
I was like, I don't know if I had a weird dream or what was
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going on, but I found out that Iwas pregnant while my husband
was at work and I was at home doing my remote job.
And it was pretty crazy because that was the day he was going to
work to quit his job. So I knew that if I told him I
was pregnant, it might sway his decision.
And I really, really wanted him to do what felt right for him.
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And I totally knew we could still do it.
Either way, we were going to make it work.
So I waited for him to quit his job and come home.
And he I asked him how did it go?
He explained the situation to me, how it went down.
He was great. You know, he quit his job and
then I handed him a positive pregnancy test and he was like,
Oh my God, like, can't even believe it.
And it was one of those things where we're like, yeah, let's go
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back to Nebraska. We've been wanting to buy a
home. Anyway.
The Utah housing market is pretty crazy.
Like, this just makes a lot of sense for us.
Or it seemed to at the time, forsure.
So yeah, we found a new home or so.
Yeah, we found a house out in eastern Nebraska, checked all
the boxes of what we needed at the time, and it was close to my
sister in the same city as her. And we went ahead and just put
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down some roots there. And we became parents later that
summer. And then I was on maternity
leave. But in all of this, I realized
before maternity leave, indefinitely during maternity
leave, that this job was not a good fit for me.
I was miserable every single day.
I seriously would wake up every single Monday in absolute tears
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because it just wasn't a good fit for me.
Like the company just wasn't really like doing things.
Yes, I was working in a consumerinsights capacity, but the
product that they sold just wasn't a good fit for me.
I didn't really, I didn't have passion behind it.
And also it was just like lots of secrets and lots of like
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gossipy culture and and then also I realized I really don't
like managing people all that much.
It's really challenging. It's like hard enough to do your
job, let alone like manage people and their careers and
their growth on top of it. So lovely humans.
I loved working with both of them, but managing is for me
extremely challenging and I, I really was just having a hard
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time with it and didn't have a lot of good resources to go to.
And the company seemed to just be blocking me anytime I was
trying to do something. So the writing was on the wall
Pretty soon after I came back from maternity leave and for, I
think it was probably 05 months after I came back from maternity
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leave. So I, I, I was pretty sure my
department was going to get cut just the way that they were
talking, they were trying to, you know, the typical warning
signs of travel freezes and hiring freezes and, you know,
just kind of like take your pickof all the layoff warning signs.
And all of them were right in front of me.
And I had a team that was demanding answers and no one was
telling me anything. And it was just a lot for me.
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It was really stressful. So the day came and I get the
Zoom call and yes, I was gettinglaid off and here I was a young
mom with a stay at home husband.My husband is is still a stay at
home dad to this day. But at that time it was still a
brand new thing for us. We were five months into this
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post maternity leave stuff. And yeah, I had a mortgage to
pay, I had a baby, I got a husband, everybody depended on
me. And also I had realized how soul
crushing this job was for me. So even though this was all the
pieces of security that I, I thought I wanted, it was just I
was fighting against what the universe wanted for me so hard
that it was actually starting tosuffocate me.
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So again, I was laid off and I was back in the job market again
looking for my next thing. And this job market, the last
time I was looking was absolutely wild, like I had more
connections and more experience than ever.
And I was getting all sorts of first time interviews both
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through referrals and through just good luck of applying and
recruiters getting back to me. But all of a sudden I would get
ghosted. I would get rejected for things
that weren't true. Like oh, you don't have enough
research experience. For example, was when I got from
a company where I definitely wasdown grading on title.
I mean no disrespect in that way.
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That's just the reality. It was a step backwards, if not
2 steps backwards from what I had been doing.
And they were saying that I didn't have enough research
experience, which is hilarious when I'd had like at that time
at like 7 or 8 years and the minimum was only like two or
three years. So again, it was just, it was
just crazy. Like it just felt like I was
getting blocked everywhere I looked and getting ghosted too.
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And that was pretty wild. So in the middle of all of this,
I really tried to stay positive because I had more at stake than
ever again with my family and everything going on.
And so I was able to utilize my connections and I got a job
interview at the company I'm actually currently AT.
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And everything about this company was fantastic.
Checked all the boxes, was giving me everything I wanted in
every way except for the fact that they wanted me to move back
to Utah, which is hilarious, right?
It's the second time in my life that I've ever been forced to
relocate. And here it was back to the same
exact state. It's almost like the universe
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was just saying, like, we get back to Utah, this is where
you're supposed to be. And I'm still trying to figure
out exactly what that looks likefor me.
Am I supposed to help more people in Utah?
Am I supposed to do more work out here?
Like, I'm not entirely sure, butUniverse, I've heard you.
We're back in Utah. This is where we're gonna stay
for a very long time. Mostly because I'm sick of
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moving, but also because it's a beautiful state and the people
are really nice here. So yeah, we're like, you know
what, it really sucks. We had just finally redone our
house exactly how we wanted to. We were only there a year and a
half and here we were having to go and get like, sell it
basically. We tried to do Airbnb for a
while while we figured out what we wanted to do, but ended up
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selling our house earlier this year.
So yeah, it was not exactly whatwe wanted, but we kept an open
mind and just said, you know what, this is just where the
universe seems to be guiding us.So that's what we're going to
do. And I, I only found this out
because I just stopped resistingand going with the flow of what
what the universe wanted for me.And I can say I've never felt
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more in alignment and more happywith my life than I do right
now. And in the time since, I've been
doing what feels right, what feels intuitive and not
resisting the world's plan for me.
And it's really worked out. So that being said, it's just
like I have wanted to create unveil you and I did create
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unveil you because I just know that like my life is bigger than
whatever corporate America has in store for me.
I know that there is something Iam on this planet for that is
bigger than just a nine to five job.
I mean, I love this job, I love the people and I will stay here
for a long time. But that being said, it's not
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like I don't have time outside of this career to do other
stuff. And this is a huge complement to
that, is that I don't think corporate life solely for what I
thought I wanted it to be fits into the soul that I've grown
into. I want to guide others through
the fog that I once had to stumble through myself.
And it's really scary when you're doing it by yourself.
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And you know, nobody in my family has corporate jobs.
They all work for themselves or they work in healthcare or stuff
like that. It's just a very straightforward
path. But you know, I know what
alignment really looks like now.And the more you live in
alignment, the more doors that do open up to you.
It's like at the same time, likedoors will shut for you.
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But you have to understand that like when a door shuts, like not
just one more opens, like a dozen more will open.
It's just up to you to look for them and find the door that
feels right to you and walk through it.
So here's what I want you to do if you're still listening at
this point, is I want you to start paying attention to all of
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the Nos in your life, the hard rejections.
So write down 3 moments where you felt rejected or blocked or
defeated. And I want you to see if you can
find the redirection of them. What else did that no lead you
to? Like for example, when I failed
that drug test, it led me to a better job, ironically, in the
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cannabis space. Like it was devastating at the
time, kind of ruined a family vacation, but it led me to this
better place for me to land at that time.
And was that where I was supposed to be forever?
No, but it was better than what I was going to be doing.
And it's just only gotten betterfrom there.
Every subsequent job and experience I've had is level up
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and new lessons to learn that come with that.
So and again, figure out what did that no lead you to that
actually benefited you. And this is how we begin to see
the divine choreography at play in our lives and realizing that
the universe is not trying to hurt you.
It's just trying to unveil your truths and help you step into
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your alignment. So with that, I just want to end
this by saying if you're navigating your own divine
detour and you're wondering whatit all means, I just want you to
know that you're not alone. I have walked in those same
shoes many times before and comeout stronger on the other side
just by stopping the resistance and doing what felt right and
just going with the flow. And that's what Unveil you is
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all focused about is just stepping into your alignment and
again, unveiling that more confident version of yourself.
So if any of this resounded withyou, you want to learn more
about the work that I do at Unveil you, maybe even work with
me as a one-on-one coach. Head to unveilyou.co to learn
how we can work together and help you unveil the life that's
been waiting for you all along. Hope you all have a beautiful
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week and thank you for listening.
Bye.
Hey, I'm Audrey Yankton, empowerment coach and
researcher, and this is Unveiledyou, the podcast where
spirituality meets practicality to help you step fully into your
power. Each week we'll talk about what
it really means to align with your higher self, trust your
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confidence. Let's get into it.
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Hey beautiful souls, this is Audra of the Future technically
for this episode. Before we dive into today's
episode, I just wanted to share a little bit of context.
I actually recorded this months ago, but at the time it felt way
too personal to release. I was still working through my
fear of visibility and it's justa stepped approach.
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It just shows that you work on stuff and you can finally get to
the place that you want to be. And I'm finally there right now.
This episode is me, raw, honest,in the middle of a season of
chaos and uncertainty, especially around my career.
I wasn't ready to share it back then, but I'm definitely ready
to now. I think it'll help a lot of you
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going through a lot of career quote setbacks, and I'm just
excited for you to listen. If you've ever experienced a
layoff again, a career set back or a moment where nothing made
sense, I hope the story reminds you that your path is still
unfolding with your purpose and the universe totally has your
back. I'm in a much different space
now, and I've been working on some new offerings for Unveil
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you that I can't wait to share with you soon.
So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, you can always
connect with me on Instagram at unveilyou.co or visit my website
alsounveilyou.co to explore waysthat we can work together.
All right, let's go ahead and dive in.
Hey there, beautiful soul, and welcome back to the Unveil You
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podcast. I'm Audra, your guide, your
confidence coach, and your fellow traveler on this wild
ride that we call life. Today, we're diving into what it
really means when life feels chaotic.
You know, when plans fall through, doors are slamming
shut, nothing seems to be makingsense.
That kind of chaos. I'm sharing my personal story of
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navigating through that exact kind of breakdown and just
exactly how to make sense of that and understanding that
things aren't necessarily happening to you.
But for you, we're going to be talking about the kind of
failure that actually is a divine redirection.
So if you've been asking why is everything falling apart or what
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am I missing, this episode is going to help you connect the
dots. You're going to walk away with a
new perspective on chaos and some powerful ships you can make
right now to move from confusionto clarity.
So if you're in a season where doors keep closing or if you're
wondering why nothing seems to be working in your favor the way
that you want it to work, this one is for you.
So I'm going to take us back years ago to when I had first
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graduated grad school. I was fresh out with all this
education and no experience, which we all know what the hell
of applying for jobs is like when that's the case.
It took about seven months. And finally I reached out to a
friend that worked at a company.She worked at a company that was
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based in the city in Colorado that I was living in at the
time. And I was like, okay, so she
knows I've been opening in a sales position.
I do not know anything about sales.
I am a customer researcher, a food scientist, all things, not
sales. So it was definitely one of
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those things where I'm like, it's been seven months, I
haven't had a job, I really needsome money right now, So what
can you do for me? So she hooked me up, gave me a
referral, and I was able to get an interview and the job would
be selling quinoa of all things.Now, I can't imagine many things
more exciting than a quinoa sales position, or at least
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that's what I told myself at thetime.
Just whatever I needed to tell myself to get to the finish
line, start getting a paycheck, I was eager and willing to do
it. So with this company, the
interesting thing that they do is they will, well, not totally
crazy, but they do administer a drug test and I wasn't too
worried about it. I definitely am somebody that
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enjoys cannabis gummies on occasion.
I had definitely not been doing anything like that during this
job search though. And I mean, it had been months
and months, like, I don't know, something like four or five
months since I had a gummy last.So I was not worried about this
at all. That should not have been a big
deal. So, but weirdly enough, they
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forced me to do a hair test, which is a very, very intense
type of drug test where they're looking at like the depths of my
soul for any and everything thatI might have been doing in my
life. And I, you know, even at that,
though, I still wasn't worried about it.
Whatever I had, my parents were taking us to Hawaii just shortly
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after I had to do this hair test.
I was going to be fine. I would come back from this trip
over New Year's and be able to start this new job.
So I go in and I take this hair test and it kind of seemed like
they took a lot of hair, like a lot, a lot.
And then they cut it down to a pretty long piece.
And I was like, huh, I thought they were only going to take
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like 1/2 inch or something, whatever.
It's not my job. I don't know how to do that.
I go to Hawaii and I was able totake my boyfriend, thankfully at
the time, he's now my husband, by the way.
So it worked out. But yeah, that was like the
first trip I was able to take a significant other on.
And so that was pretty exciting.We were on our way and had just
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landed in Honolulu and I get this phone call and I just got
this horrible feeling about it. I was like, why are they calling
me at such a strange time of day?
Honestly, time doesn't exist in Hawaii.
It was probably like 4:00 AM Hawaii time.
So it's probably a normal time back in the mainland.
But you know when you just can tell something's not going to go
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your way? It was actually the drug testing
company and they were calling meand they said, hey, so like,
what's going on here? We found the tiniest, tiniest
bit of THC in your system. And I was like, are you kidding
me? Like how much?
And I, well, we have a very sensitive test.
We were able to detect one part per million of THC in your hair.
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And I was like, are you kidding me?
That's crazy. Well, you know, he didn't.
I couldn't refute it. I was living in a state where
that was perfectly legal and I was allowed to do stuff like
that in my own time. And this again, this company was
based in Colorado, so it seemed retty crazy to me.
I was like, well, I mean, he cango report that back.
I'm not doing anything that's wrong.
And like later in the day, we had just checked into our
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Airbnb. I was relaxing and I get a phone
call from the company and I was like, Oh no, is this for real?
They're going to rescind this job offer on the first day of
this beautiful trip to Hawaii that I'm with, with my whole
family and my boyfriend. And it just couldn't have gotten
any worse than that. So, yeah, I answer the phone and
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they're like, unfortunately, we are going to have to rescind
your job offer due to a failed drug test.
Now, the things that we're goingthrough my head were, well, lots
of things, first of all. But number one, I was
disappointed because here I was jobless again.
I thought I could check that offthe list.
And here I was having to go backinto the job market.
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But the thing that I was really scared of was telling my parents
we were on their 30th wedding anniversary trip, and this was a
big deal. Like, this is something that my
mom definitely did not approve of.
She had thoughts about it and itwas not going to go down.
Well, I was, I was ashamed of myself.
I was disappointed. And so, yeah, I I was really
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dreading this moment of having to potentially, like, ruin the
whole trip because people weren't able to keep their
emotions in check. Before I went to them, though, I
went to my boyfriend, my now husband, and I just told him
what was going on. And he was like, you know what?
Whatever. Did you really want to sell
quinoa anyway? What a blessing.
And I was like, you know what? You're right.
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We're gonna make the best of this vacation and everything's
gonna be fine. I'm out.
Nothing more than when I came. So I did tell my family about it
in the most low key way possible.
Which really, to be honest, there's really no good way to
tell that news when you're like,hey, I've been dependent on you.
And I'm 22 years old, 23 years old, however old I was at the
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time. And, you know, I I'm going to
need a little help for a little bit longer because I failed a
drug test. So, yeah, it really did not land
well with my mother. She was pretty upset with me.
But my dad, even though he was disappointed in the outcome, he
was pretty clear with me that, you know, we're all human.
We all make mistakes. Like, we're going to make the
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best of this. I spent all this funny,
Everybody needs to have a good time, that kind of thing.
He really came through for me inthat moment.
And then also, my boyfriend was my husband.
I'll just call him husband for the rest of this.
It's probably easier. Just for context, we were not
married or engaged at this time.So, you know, it's just nice to
see how he stepped up for me. And I ended up having a
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wonderful, wonderful vacation. It was fun and I was energized
and ready to jump back into the job market when I got back.
So despite I guess you could saythat that was my very first
glimpse of what how large and how out of control universal
redirection truly can be was that that job was very much not
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in alignment for me. And the universe knew it and it
was just not going to let that happen.
So flashback or flash forward then to getting back to Colorado
and I was, you know, fresh back in the job market.
I think I went to Indeed and found some kind of local
cannabis company that was looking for a food scientist to
help with product development. And I went ahead and applied for
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it with my food scientist resume.
But also adding in that, hey, I do these food testing thing.
This is what my grad school specialty is in.
It's called sensory. And surprisingly, within a week
I got a call back and this company was very excited to
interview me and they invited mein for a formal interview and
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they you heard me out, heard what I could bring to the table.
They said they needed some help making some new edibles and they
loved my sensory experience so much.
They actually created a positionfor me that was actually more
towards my consumer testing witha little bit of food science
added in, which was really exciting because here's this
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like thing that I had trained for in grad school and I was
finally feeling really seen for the skills that I had.
It's like I couldn't get a job anywhere before this.
Then I get that job taken for mebecause of a marijuana test.
And now all of a sudden here I am getting a wonderful position
at a company that ironically is a cannabis company that is
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creating a position just for me,for my skills.
And that was really exciting. So again, just in that moment, I
was able to just understand so much of the irony of failing a
cannabis drug test and then getting a job in the cannabis
industry. That was a kind of my first
taste of how this universal stuff works of like, OK, that's
a funny joke. I wish it wasn't so funny all
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the time, but you know, I'll take it.
It was, it was pretty awesome. So I, I'm eager I'm ready to
start working. I actually will also say that
this job was off was offering me50% more base salary than this
other job was, which when you'rebroke and you're fresh out of
grad school, any amount of moneyis a lot of money, let alone
like a 50% increase from the jobthat, you know, just never send
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an offer from you. So things were shaping up to
look pretty good for me. So I am working in this
industry. It was amazing.
I, I got to, I had a lot of autonomy.
I got to really cut my teeth in a lot of ways that fresh grads
don't get to do of, you know, truly creating a lot of base
recipes and creating innovative ways of testing these kinds of
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products. We did a lot of CBD, just for
context. I wasn't out there just handing
THC out to any random person that would be not allowed.
So there was a lot of challengesand a lot of really cool things
that I got to do though in the testing of that, we were able to
help a lot of patients that had cancer and it felt really good.
But in the cannabis industry, it's a really interesting
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industry because a lot of companies are just trying to get
just big enough so that somebodywill come and buy them.
So that had happened. A larger Arizona based company
had come in and bought the company that I was working for
and everything seemed OK at first.
They were winning and dining us,so to speak.
They took us like and had a big party to announce the
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acquisition and giving us all this swag and all sorts of free
stuff. And then something just didn't
sit well with me in the middle of this big party.
They were throwing us, throwing us.
They had a sign this pretty intensive NDA of or not an NDA,
but they had a sign this pretty intensive non compete and all
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sorts of different stuff that came with that.
This new company was owned by a team of lawyers.
So it was very much dotting IS and crossing T's and it just
didn't sit well with me. It kind of felt like, hi, you're
buttering us up and then slapping this contract in front
of us. That's kind of sketchy.
And then the following week, they had a round of layoffs.
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So it was a lot of duplicate positions, the pretty obvious
ones, kind of more like, OK, we already have HR, so we're gonna
get rid of HR here, that kind ofstuff.
So it made sense, but still didn't sit well with me.
I also was going through a lot of changes myself, like my
boyfriend and I had gotten engaged.
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We were going to get married. We had finally with this job and
the nine months that I had it had saved up enough money and
we're starting to build a savings that we were able to
purchase an engagement ring. That was a very big deal for us.
We, we were, you know, not long before that thinking how are we
even going to afford, afford wedding bands, let alone like an
engagement ring with a diamond. So that was a wonderful,
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wonderful accomplishment we madetogether.
And just as we do that, then allof a sudden I'm feeling like
something might change and not in a good way.
But I wasn't very open minded atthe time to thinking about
having to go back into the job market because let's be honest,
I was not trying to get back in there anytime soon.
That was not not something I desired as it took me so long to
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find this first job. So unfortunately, I just knew
that I was going to get laid off.
The job was becoming more and more simple.
I was getting less and less communication for my managers,
less project involvement. It was just all the signs were
there. Even though I had never been
laid off before in my entire life.
I just knew I'm going to get laid off.
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Even though I'm the only food product developer at this entire
company. I'm a disposable income.
They don't, I'm a disposable like cost center.
They don't need a food scientistto keep functioning.
So it was just not a good time. I went to work every every day
for weeks, months. Actually it was about 3 months.
I was only there nine months. And the last three months of
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that job, I was worried any day I was going to get cut because I
just my intuition ears were perked.
I could absolutely see somethingcoming.
And I'll never forget I was out having lunch with a Co worker
when we got a text from the supervisor at the facility that
was basically like, hey, can youand Audra come back?
And she's like OK, no problem. Tells me that.
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And I was like, well, they're going to lay me off.
And she's like, no, why would they do that?
She's like, actually I talked tomy boyfriend about this and he
says that's actually not possible that you can get laid
off because your job is so important.
And I was like, oh, that's funnybecause that's not true.
I'm pretty sure I'm getting laidoff.
So I get there and everybody waslocked in the lab.
It felt like like, yeah, like something really bad was going
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on. And I could just tell.
I'm like, oh, no, HR is here from Arizona.
I could, I could see, you know, other people from Arizona
walking around. I was like, man, guys, I start
telling everybody my goodbyes. Everyone thought I was crazy.
And then within minutes they say, hey, Audra, can you come
upstairs? And I was like, Yep, I know this
is it. This is the end of this job for
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me. And that's exactly what
happened. I was sat down in front of HR
and here I was just like this little scared puppy almost, and
I noticed I know what they're doing right away and I just
start crying and they're like, yeah, unfortunately, we're going
to have to go our separate ways.We're eliminating your position
here is severance, which we werea public Canadian company or a
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company public in Canada, not the United States because of
cannabis laws here in the UnitedStates, but we were public in
Canada at the time, which the law at that time stated that
they only needed to give like I think it was, I want to say it
was 2 weeks severance, maybe 4 weeks, but I think I'm being
generous. They gave me like 2 weeks
severance. And at the time I was like, oh,
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cool, bonus paycheck. That's a lot of money.
And then like I've known people have gotten laid off since then
and gotten like a few months severance.
I'm like, wow, I really got screwed there.
But you know, I took it. I took the severance pay and I
had to get escorted to my desk by a security guard and you had
to walk me out to my car. I wasn't even allowed to say
goodbye to anybody. It was true, really pretty
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embarrassing and pretty intense.Like I, there's nothing about
that experience that I loved going through.
But you know, I spent a couple of days just kind of wallowing
in self pity trying to figure out what am I going to do now?
And then I just decided to pull myself up by the bootstraps and
be like, you know what, I'm going to get back into this job
market, even if it involves A relocation.
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We don't really like living in Colorado anyway.
What's the big deal? My husband had been going
through some heart problems, andhe had actually just finished
recovering from a surgery like an open, well, not an open heart
surgery, but a pretty intense heart surgery that cured his
A-fib. So, you know, I was feeling
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like, OK, yeah, you know what? We're at a good time.
Whatever. I started just applying anywhere
that had a job opening that was a skills fit and after a few
interviews at a few different places and nothing working out,
I end up getting a call from a company called Traeger Wood
Pellet Grills out here in Salt Lake City.
And I just remember thinking when I was applying for jobs
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like man, you know, here, I obviously have been shown that
having anything cannabis on my record or resume seemingly is
such a black mark. And I was really scared that
like everybody was with discountme or call me like a druggie
loser or something like that. Which if you know me, that is
not me at all. I am very much your Elle Woods
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type of bubbly pink Princess personality.
So the fact that anybody could associate with me with that,
that kind of stuff was just mortifying at the time.
I, I was just very embarrassed of that.
And so I get the job and Traegerflew me out to Salt Lake City,
which was my first time out in Utah.
And I remember having a really good conversation with my then
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supervisor and he mentioned without me even having told him
I'd been laid off, he had some really nice things to say about,
you know, most people in their life get laid off like two or
three times or something throughout their entire career.
And I was like, wow, it's like he knew I was laid off, but he
decided to comfort me in that moment and he knew he was gonna
give me the job at that point, I'm fairly certain.
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Cuz he was just like, yeah, thisis a slam dunk.
We love your skills. This is a great fit.
And then it even came up with the cannabis stuff.
He's like I, I mentioned to him like, look, I, I was really
nervous that having a cannabis job on my resume was going to
make me not marketable. And, you know, especially
thinking the conservative natureof Utah in general, I really
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just didn't think they would be open to something like that.
And he goes, you know, what is actually funny about your resume
is that's the one thing that stood out to me was that you
worked in cannabis. And I thought that was so
interesting and I just had to interview you O that introduced
to me the power of being different and differentiating
and justice living fully in yourauthenticity in that way.
And it ended U getting me my next job at Traeger, which was
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an absolute joy of a ride. It was a fantastic job,
fantastic people, great company.I got to really do a lot of
really cool different types of research that I hadn't done
before in my life. I'd only, you know, at certain
points even learned about in grad school that anything I
wanted to do they were game for.And we just had a really good
time traveling the country testing grills and eating a lot
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of really great food on the Traeger and at people's houses,
going and doing like smash burger research, you name it.
We did a lot of really fun stuff.
And finally I had, you know, I gotten, I think two or three
promotions while I was there in the 2 1/2 years that I was
there. And I just got to a point where
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I was like, you know what, I am still in a point in my life
where I'm really trying to grow my career.
And I didn't really know what mygoal was.
Was it to be sea level someday? What does that look like?
But at that time in my career, Iwas committed to the corporate
ladder. I wanted to climb it.
I wanted to get to the very top.And to do that at Traeger, I
would have had to replace my boss.
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And he wasn't leaving anytime soon.
And so I kind of had this harsh reality of like, OK, you know, I
love working here, but I feel like I can grow by going
elsewhere faster and speed to the job title was all I cared
about at that time. So I went ahead and was looking
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around passively in the background for other positions
that would allow that. Well, there was a company back
in my home state of Nebraska that was a full remote job of
managing a consumer insights team.
And I was able to get a, I was able to get an interview and I
got all the way to the end and got a pretty great salary bump.
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And I was going to lead my own team and it was going to be full
remote even. Like this opened so many doors
for me. I was so excited because at that
time, my husband and I were kindof sick of Utah.
We just hadn't quite found our footing in the state yet.
And we're just like, you know what we are thinking about maybe
having a baby at this point. I don't know, let's go back to
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Nebraska. Let's try this out.
So I accepted the job, parted ways with Traeger, sadly still
holds a very near and dear spot in my heart.
I loved that place. Can't say enough good stuff
about that place in my supervisor, but officially moved
on to lead out this team and manage people for the first time
in a full time capacity. I've managed people in other
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ways before, but not like an entire department.
So, so that was what we did. And then we worked on our goal
of buying our first home and we found a house out in eastern
Nebraska that that was close to my family is like 10 minutes
from my sister. It was going to be great.
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And this job was, you know, seemingly working at the time.
And So what happened was we actually, it was pretty crazy.
My husband was working a job just like an hourly position as
a manager at a store and he was pretty sick of it.
He'd been passed up for a promotion that he thought
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definitely he should have gotten.
And I agreed with him. And it was kind of one of the
thing, one of those things wherewe're like, hey, well, we don't
really need that money right now.
And if that's something that youhate going to do and it's soul
crushing, then screw it, quit. And I will never forget.
It was Halloween day and I just had a feeling.
I was like, I don't know if I had a weird dream or what was
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going on, but I found out that Iwas pregnant while my husband
was at work and I was at home doing my remote job.
And it was pretty crazy because that was the day he was going to
work to quit his job. So I knew that if I told him I
was pregnant, it might sway his decision.
And I really, really wanted him to do what felt right for him.
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And I totally knew we could still do it.
Either way, we were going to make it work.
So I waited for him to quit his job and come home.
And he I asked him how did it go?
He explained the situation to me, how it went down.
He was great. You know, he quit his job and
then I handed him a positive pregnancy test and he was like,
Oh my God, like, can't even believe it.
And it was one of those things where we're like, yeah, let's go
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back to Nebraska. We've been wanting to buy a
home. Anyway.
The Utah housing market is pretty crazy.
Like, this just makes a lot of sense for us.
Or it seemed to at the time, forsure.
So yeah, we found a new home or so.
Yeah, we found a house out in eastern Nebraska, checked all
the boxes of what we needed at the time, and it was close to my
sister in the same city as her. And we went ahead and just put
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down some roots there. And we became parents later that
summer. And then I was on maternity
leave. But in all of this, I realized
before maternity leave, indefinitely during maternity
leave, that this job was not a good fit for me.
I was miserable every single day.
I seriously would wake up every single Monday in absolute tears
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because it just wasn't a good fit for me.
Like the company just wasn't really like doing things.
Yes, I was working in a consumerinsights capacity, but the
product that they sold just wasn't a good fit for me.
I didn't really, I didn't have passion behind it.
And also it was just like lots of secrets and lots of like
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gossipy culture and and then also I realized I really don't
like managing people all that much.
It's really challenging. It's like hard enough to do your
job, let alone like manage people and their careers and
their growth on top of it. So lovely humans.
I loved working with both of them, but managing is for me
extremely challenging and I, I really was just having a hard
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time with it and didn't have a lot of good resources to go to.
And the company seemed to just be blocking me anytime I was
trying to do something. So the writing was on the wall
Pretty soon after I came back from maternity leave and for, I
think it was probably 05 months after I came back from maternity
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leave. So I, I, I was pretty sure my
department was going to get cut just the way that they were
talking, they were trying to, you know, the typical warning
signs of travel freezes and hiring freezes and, you know,
just kind of like take your pickof all the layoff warning signs.
And all of them were right in front of me.
And I had a team that was demanding answers and no one was
telling me anything. And it was just a lot for me.
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It was really stressful. So the day came and I get the
Zoom call and yes, I was gettinglaid off and here I was a young
mom with a stay at home husband.My husband is is still a stay at
home dad to this day. But at that time it was still a
brand new thing for us. We were five months into this
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post maternity leave stuff. And yeah, I had a mortgage to
pay, I had a baby, I got a husband, everybody depended on
me. And also I had realized how soul
crushing this job was for me. So even though this was all the
pieces of security that I, I thought I wanted, it was just I
was fighting against what the universe wanted for me so hard
that it was actually starting tosuffocate me.
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So again, I was laid off and I was back in the job market again
looking for my next thing. And this job market, the last
time I was looking was absolutely wild, like I had more
connections and more experience than ever.
And I was getting all sorts of first time interviews both
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through referrals and through just good luck of applying and
recruiters getting back to me. But all of a sudden I would get
ghosted. I would get rejected for things
that weren't true. Like oh, you don't have enough
research experience. For example, was when I got from
a company where I definitely wasdown grading on title.
I mean no disrespect in that way.
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That's just the reality. It was a step backwards, if not
2 steps backwards from what I had been doing.
And they were saying that I didn't have enough research
experience, which is hilarious when I'd had like at that time
at like 7 or 8 years and the minimum was only like two or
three years. So again, it was just, it was
just crazy. Like it just felt like I was
getting blocked everywhere I looked and getting ghosted too.
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And that was pretty wild. So in the middle of all of this,
I really tried to stay positive because I had more at stake than
ever again with my family and everything going on.
And so I was able to utilize my connections and I got a job
interview at the company I'm actually currently AT.
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And everything about this company was fantastic.
Checked all the boxes, was giving me everything I wanted in
every way except for the fact that they wanted me to move back
to Utah, which is hilarious, right?
It's the second time in my life that I've ever been forced to
relocate. And here it was back to the same
exact state. It's almost like the universe
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was just saying, like, we get back to Utah, this is where
you're supposed to be. And I'm still trying to figure
out exactly what that looks likefor me.
Am I supposed to help more people in Utah?
Am I supposed to do more work out here?
Like, I'm not entirely sure, butUniverse, I've heard you.
We're back in Utah. This is where we're gonna stay
for a very long time. Mostly because I'm sick of
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moving, but also because it's a beautiful state and the people
are really nice here. So yeah, we're like, you know
what, it really sucks. We had just finally redone our
house exactly how we wanted to. We were only there a year and a
half and here we were having to go and get like, sell it
basically. We tried to do Airbnb for a
while while we figured out what we wanted to do, but ended up
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selling our house earlier this year.
So yeah, it was not exactly whatwe wanted, but we kept an open
mind and just said, you know what, this is just where the
universe seems to be guiding us.So that's what we're going to
do. And I, I only found this out
because I just stopped resistingand going with the flow of what
what the universe wanted for me.And I can say I've never felt
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more in alignment and more happywith my life than I do right
now. And in the time since, I've been
doing what feels right, what feels intuitive and not
resisting the world's plan for me.
And it's really worked out. So that being said, it's just
like I have wanted to create unveil you and I did create
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unveil you because I just know that like my life is bigger than
whatever corporate America has in store for me.
I know that there is something Iam on this planet for that is
bigger than just a nine to five job.
I mean, I love this job, I love the people and I will stay here
for a long time. But that being said, it's not
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like I don't have time outside of this career to do other
stuff. And this is a huge complement to
that, is that I don't think corporate life solely for what I
thought I wanted it to be fits into the soul that I've grown
into. I want to guide others through
the fog that I once had to stumble through myself.
And it's really scary when you're doing it by yourself.
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And you know, nobody in my family has corporate jobs.
They all work for themselves or they work in healthcare or stuff
like that. It's just a very straightforward
path. But you know, I know what
alignment really looks like now.And the more you live in
alignment, the more doors that do open up to you.
It's like at the same time, likedoors will shut for you.
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But you have to understand that like when a door shuts, like not
just one more opens, like a dozen more will open.
It's just up to you to look for them and find the door that
feels right to you and walk through it.
So here's what I want you to do if you're still listening at
this point, is I want you to start paying attention to all of
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the Nos in your life, the hard rejections.
So write down 3 moments where you felt rejected or blocked or
defeated. And I want you to see if you can
find the redirection of them. What else did that no lead you
to? Like for example, when I failed
that drug test, it led me to a better job, ironically, in the
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cannabis space. Like it was devastating at the
time, kind of ruined a family vacation, but it led me to this
better place for me to land at that time.
And was that where I was supposed to be forever?
No, but it was better than what I was going to be doing.
And it's just only gotten betterfrom there.
Every subsequent job and experience I've had is level up
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and new lessons to learn that come with that.
So and again, figure out what did that no lead you to that
actually benefited you. And this is how we begin to see
the divine choreography at play in our lives and realizing that
the universe is not trying to hurt you.
It's just trying to unveil your truths and help you step into
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your alignment. So with that, I just want to end
this by saying if you're navigating your own divine
detour and you're wondering whatit all means, I just want you to
know that you're not alone. I have walked in those same
shoes many times before and comeout stronger on the other side
just by stopping the resistance and doing what felt right and
just going with the flow. And that's what Unveil you is
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all focused about is just stepping into your alignment and
again, unveiling that more confident version of yourself.
So if any of this resounded withyou, you want to learn more
about the work that I do at Unveil you, maybe even work with
me as a one-on-one coach. Head to unveilyou.co to learn
how we can work together and help you unveil the life that's
been waiting for you all along. Hope you all have a beautiful
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week and thank you for listening.
Bye.
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