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Erin Gallagher

Erin Gallagher

South African swimmer

Sep 1, 2026

5:21
Did you, did you stop working when that happened? Did you make big changes right away with your work?
5:28
Well, it's interesting that I was I didn't love my corporate job and I had in my mind I had a plan that I was going to in February 2016.
5:39
I would be putting in my my letter of resignation and also kind of hopefully, you know, picking up and putting, you know, having something else lined up.
5:50
And then my son died in February of 2016.
5:54
So I hung around in that job for a minute just because I wasn't in a position to make any major changes.
6:03
And then about a year later, it was just all a lot.
6:08
It was too much.

13 MINS LATER

19:20
Tell me everything, please.
25:09
Yeah.
25:09
I had to sit across from myself, this, this latest version and say, "What do you want now? What are your priorities? What, what isn't working that is just now a part of your daily life and routine?" And then once I kind of answered those questions and I had an idea of, like, the areas where things needed to shift, then I had to have conversations with other people, and I had to renegotiate the terms.
25:37
So my husband and I went through a really challenging time because he married a corporate good girl.
25:47
That's who he married.
25:48
I was, like, rising inside of my agency, and that felt comfortable to him.
25:52
I got a paycheck every two weeks.
25:54
I had a 401[k].

31 MINS LATER

56:27
Yep.

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