#004: Be Willing to Get Off the Treadmill with Devon Hunt

Devon Hunt is a writer, a retreat host, and someone who is drawn to taste, style, and how it comes about.

She went to a good school, snagged a business degree, became a CPA, and spent the better half of a decade at a Big 4 firm. She checked promotions off one by one in a career that felt predictable, until one day, she chose to step off the treadmill.

In this conversation, we dig into what apathy at work tells us, why the fear of making the wrong choice keeps people stuck longer than the wrong choice itself ever would, and what happened when Devon finally gave herself permission to want more (and allowed herself to be seen doing it).

We get into:

• Why passion fall-off is a signal worth listening to (and why pushing through isn’t always the answer)
• What burnout leave looks like (spoiler: it’s not a bubble bath)
• The difference between an opportunity finding you and working your ass off to be in the right place for it, and how they often coexist and seem to intermingle
• Why publishing her writing was more difficult for her than the writing itself
• Why fashion and aesthetics deserve intellectual rigor

Find Devon

Substack: closetbrainrot.substack.com

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