You have been running the numbers your whole life.
Not because anyone told you to. Because the numbers were supposed to mean something.
The degree meant something.
The title meant something.
The decades of showing up, of doing it right, of building something real inside a system that kept telling you the next level was the one that would finally hold, that meant something.
And then it didn't.
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
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