How to know when it's time to go
Letting go of roles you've outgrown—without losing your mind (or your money)
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There’s a moment in every career when something shifts. You’re not miserable, exactly, but you’re not growing either. You’ve outgrown the role, but the fear of instability, money, or what people will think keeps you frozen.
That’s where our conversation with Eleena Broadfoot, CFO at Beauty Pie, starts. We talked about the quiet signs it’s time to move on, how financial anxiety keeps us stuck, and why walking away doesn’t have to mean torching the place on your way out.
Eleena Broadfoot is the Chief Financial Officer for Beauty Pie and works as a non-executive director and executive coach. She's spent over a decade navigating high-growth companies, including Virgin, Trainline and Funding Circle.
Her experience of working with founders and their teams as a CFO and NED has provided her with some fantastic opportunities to reach beyond the traditional finance remit and enabled her to use her skills and knowledge to create value and deliver strategic insight to help drive growth.
In this episode, we cover:
Why financial anxiety keeps us trapped in roles we've outgrown
The real signs that you've hit your natural expiration date
How to leave without burning bridges or feeding the office gossip mill
Why your identity shouldn't be tied to your job title
The art of manufacturing luck versus hoping it finds you
Key takeaways:
Good executives add tremendous value in the first 18 months to 2 years. After that, your energy, clarity, and drive steadily decline.
Financial anxiety is about more than money. Until you unpack what money actually represents to you, you'll make career decisions from a place of fear rather than strategy.
Your world becomes smaller when you stay too long.
Professional departure is an art form.
Luck is manufactured.
Are you clinging on past your expiration date?
Understand how to know when to go →
Where to find Eleena:
Additional Resources:
Leadership Transitions [episode]
The Leadership Growth Tool - a comprehensive tool for leadership development
Vesting modelling calculator - to understand what you're actually leaving on the table
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Best,
Beth and Brandon