Who Are You Without Verizon?

For many Verizon employees, the company wasn’t just a job. It was identity, community, routine, and purpose.

When that chapter ends, the hardest part isn’t updating a resume.

It’s answering a much deeper question: Who am I now, and how do I move forward with confidence?

In this session, Heather Ruiz shares her personal journey navigating life after a long corporate career, where so much of her identity was tied to one organization. Together with Goalster, this conversation will help you reset, refocus, and reframe your experience into a clear, future-ready narrative you can use whether you’re pursuing a new role, exploring independent work, or considering a fractional or advisory path.

This is about regaining agency, clarity, and momentum. Not rushing into the next thing, but choosing it intentionally.

What You’ll Get

In this session, you will:

• Understand why corporate identity runs so deep and how it impacts confidence after a transition

• Learn how to separate who you are from where you worked

• Reframe decades of experience into transferable value, not just titles

• Clarify the different paths forward (job search, advisory, fractional, or independent work)

• Walk away with a grounded starting point for how to position yourself moving forward

  
  

This is not about “selling yourself.”

It’s about reclaiming your story.

Who This Session Is For

This session is ideal if you:

• Spent many years at Verizon and feel disoriented about what comes next

• Are struggling to articulate your value outside the company

• Feel like your identity has been shaken by the transition

• Are considering multiple paths but don’t know how to evaluate them yet

• Want clarity and confidence before making your next move

You do not need to have a plan coming in.

This session helps you create the foundation for one.

Why Show Up

Most people rush to update resumes, LinkedIn profiles, or job applications before they’ve actually processed the identity shift that just occurred.

That leads to:

• Unclear positioning

• Loss of confidence

• Playing smaller than your experience deserves

• Chasing roles or opportunities that don’t fit

This session helps you pause, reset, and re-anchor so that whatever path you choose next is intentional, aligned, and sustainable.

Support & Next Steps

If you want help executing what we cover, staying focused, consistent, and confident throughout your search, we provide structured, hands-on support through Goalster.

Our approach is built around clarity, certainty, and accountability:

• Clear goals instead of vague intentions

• Defined weekly actions instead of endless applications

• Visible progress so you always know where you stand

  
  

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Event Details

Jan 14, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

https://meet.google.com/cpj-fsuq-rtz