The Woman I Became Along the Way: Journey to the Career Reset Circle – By Sermoya Sandiford

What begins as starting over can become a journey back to yourself. Sermoya Sandiford shares how navigating personal pain, motherhood and entrepreneurship led her to create the Career Reset Circle, a space for women o pause, reflect and realign.

SERMOYA SANDIFORD

Trinidad and Tobago

Two years ago, I did not set out to become an entrepreneur. I was simply trying to find my way back to myself. I was navigating one of the most significant personal changes and hardest moments in my life.

So many thoughts flooded my mind about starting over, lifting my head again, but, most importantly, about who I was in the eyes of my then-5-year-old daughter. It was that thought that scared me the most, that kept me awake at night: What is my daughter seeing through me that she would then accept as “normal”?

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