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How to Leave Your Corporate Career and Successfully Launch Your Own Gig

Debra Bednar-Clark is the CEO and founder of DB+co, and the curator behind the popular style blog DB Style. Her business today — a leadership coaching firm dedicated to helping leaders bring their whole self forward to achieve success with fulfillment — was formed from her own personal struggle. She was at the top of the tech world in her position as a global head of strategy and growth at Facebook, which came after time at Microsoft, McCann Erickson, Arnold Worldwide and Accenture. But she realized that in order to climb up the ladder, she’d left pieces of herself behind. She had success without achievement. So she decided to launch DB Style as a hobby for her feminine, creative side, and began the slow transition to where she is today.

Read Entrepreneur.com for her steps for leaving one career in order to start another, more fulfilling venture that incorporates all of your passions and talents.