This episode is about something that hit harder than I expected when I lost my job in oil and gas: Not the income. Not the office.

But the identity.

Who was I if I wasn't “Veslemøy, the geophysicist”?

What was I supposed to say at parties, in my bio, or when someone casually asked, “So, what do you do?”

In this solo episode, I talk about how I’d unknowingly tied my self-worth to my job title — and what happened when that label disappeared.

You’ll hear how I started peeling back the layers, reconnecting with parts of myself I’d shelved for years, and learning how to sketch a new identity from the inside out.

🧰 This episode is part of The Quiet Pivot Companion Pack

A simple Notion-based toolkit designed to support you if you’re navigating a career pivot — especially if it wasn’t entirely by choice.

In today’s episode, I reference a couple of the tools:

The Identity Sketch Pad and the mind hack I like to call Put Your Professional Identity on the Shelf

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I really hope you will find this valuable - wheter going all in with the Pivot Pack, or just by listening to the podcast episodes.

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