Aug 24, 2026 · 55 min · 13 segments
**Check Out These Highlights:** Kristin reflects on her early years as an art major, moving to San Francisco, and the defining moment when she stepped into the corporate world at McKinsey & Company…
Kristin BeldenGuest
Toby MylesHost
I would imagine too, that's not something, losing a job in that way so suddenly is not really something that you can predict or plan for how you're going to feel, right? Like if you had time, you know, if they said, hey, we're shutting the doors, you know, in a month or three months or whatever, at least you would have that, okay, well, this is disappointing, but now I can kind of go through this and get used to the idea of it.
But so suddenly I would imagine that you could never have predicted all of the range of emotions you went through after the fact.
Everything I had worked on for three and a half years, I no longer had access to.
So I really like struggled for a while to think like, what did I even do for three years? You know, I held on to I have all of these notebooks that I write everything in and I probably had 10 or 15 of those that I could not get myself to get rid of for, I think probably like two years after the fact, because I felt like this anchor that like, what if I need to remember this? You know, something comes up and of course I'm never going to go through those things.
So I, there was a very cathartic moment, you know, a couple of years in where I took that whole box of notebooks out to the bin and said, you know what, it's time to release all of this.
Couldn't have predicted any of that, you know, or the fear that comes with when you're on in the executive team, of a company that's going through a massive investigation.
But when you're in that moment of, I don't know how far they're going to cast the net into inquiry and, So you're sitting on your phone waiting to see if FBI is knocking on your door.
I would imagine too, that's not something, losing a job in that way so suddenly is not really something that you can predict or plan for how you're going to feel, right? Like if you had time, you know, if they said, hey, we're shutting the doors, you know, in a month or three months or whatever, at least you would have that, okay, well, this is disappointing, but now I can kind of go through this and get used to the idea of it.
But so suddenly I would imagine that you could never have predicted all of the range of emotions you went through after the fact.
Everything I had worked on for three and a half years, I no longer had access to.
So I really like struggled for a while to think like, what did I even do for three years? You know, I held on to I have all of these notebooks that I write everything in and I probably had 10 or 15 of those that I could not get myself to get rid of for, I think probably like two years after the fact, because I felt like this anchor that like, what if I need to remember this? You know, something comes up and of course I'm never going to go through those things.
So I, there was a very cathartic moment, you know, a couple of years in where I took that whole box of notebooks out to the bin and said, you know what, it's time to release all of this.
Couldn't have predicted any of that, you know, or the fear that comes with when you're on in the executive team, of a company that's going through a massive investigation.
But when you're in that moment of, I don't know how far they're going to cast the net into inquiry and, So you're sitting on your phone waiting to see if FBI is knocking on your door.
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