Sep 1, 2026 · 13 min · 6 segments
What happens when the life you carefully planned suddenly goes completely off schedule? I thought I was taking a two-week break. Instead, I bought a 1960s house in Alabama, moved across state lines…
Holly PowellHost
And so, you know, when you're thinking about yourself in a moment of transition and you're like, wow, I have a plan.
This is the perfect example of business because my business, honestly, y'all has taken a back burner.
I'm actually recording this from my phone because I don't know where any of my podcasting stuff is.
So unfortunately, you know, moving into a house that isn't ready to be moved into just kind of put your life in a little bit of shock.
But I do want to tell you that even though my business and podcast hasn't gotten the attention it deserved, one of the things that I realized about this transition in this moment is Is Holly three years ago working in the corporate world would have been completely panicking about not being at her job, not being and showing that she's committed.
You know, when I moved from Delaware to North Carolina, I didn't even take any time off that I needed in order to work.
And so this test for me from moving now, being a business owner, growing my business, growing my podcast, and actually taking a step back and allowing myself this time to process what's going on, try to be in the let life happen the way that it needs to has tested me but in a way that's a really good way because my faith is strong and everything that's happening is a beautiful test to what the lord has put in my heart with me talking about okay you want to exit corporate this is what you want to do well you've got to be able to live your life on your terms and this is a perfect example for me of i'm building this business around my life not my life around the business And if you're sitting there in corporate and you're wondering to yourself, like, okay, what would I do in that situation? If I were moving states and I've made this big decision, how would you handle it? And maybe that's something you want to do.
And so, you know, when you're thinking about yourself in a moment of transition and you're like, wow, I have a plan.
This is the perfect example of business because my business, honestly, y'all has taken a back burner.
I'm actually recording this from my phone because I don't know where any of my podcasting stuff is.
So unfortunately, you know, moving into a house that isn't ready to be moved into just kind of put your life in a little bit of shock.
But I do want to tell you that even though my business and podcast hasn't gotten the attention it deserved, one of the things that I realized about this transition in this moment is Is Holly three years ago working in the corporate world would have been completely panicking about not being at her job, not being and showing that she's committed.
You know, when I moved from Delaware to North Carolina, I didn't even take any time off that I needed in order to work.
And so this test for me from moving now, being a business owner, growing my business, growing my podcast, and actually taking a step back and allowing myself this time to process what's going on, try to be in the let life happen the way that it needs to has tested me but in a way that's a really good way because my faith is strong and everything that's happening is a beautiful test to what the lord has put in my heart with me talking about okay you want to exit corporate this is what you want to do well you've got to be able to live your life on your terms and this is a perfect example for me of i'm building this business around my life not my life around the business And if you're sitting there in corporate and you're wondering to yourself, like, okay, what would I do in that situation? If I were moving states and I've made this big decision, how would you handle it? And maybe that's something you want to do.
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