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Abi Majekodunmi on Building a Runway Out of the 9-5
Description
Most people leave the 9-5 one of two ways: they quit in a blaze and figure it out later, or they stay until they burn all the way down. Abi Majekodunmi found a third way. She ran the numbers.
Abi is the founder of Freedom Runway™ and a former senior tech marketing manager... a mom of two boys who looked, from the outside, like she had it all handled. Six figures. Good reviews. The promotions. And one morning, driving back from school drop-off, she went right past her own house. She wasn’t running from her family. She just couldn’t make herself go back inside for one more day of the rush.
What she did next is the whole episode. She asked herself a question she had never actually asked before: what do I want? Then, because she is a self-described money geek, she built a runway... a number separate from her emergency fund, sized to her family’s real expenses, so that when she left she would never feel like she had to come back. She thought it would take twelve months. It took five.
Abi and I come at this from opposite directions. I leapt on a gut feeling; she got strategic and was gone in a season. But we land in exactly the same place: if you don’t get honest about what you actually want and what your numbers actually are, you carry the stress right out the door with you.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome and Introducing Abi Majekodunmi
01:05 Who Abi Is: From Burnt-Out Corporate to Helping Moms Exit
02:50 The Immigrant Script: Become a Doctor, Lawyer, or Accountant
05:14 COVID, Two Kids at Home, and Meetings With the Camera Off
07:04 The Morning She Kept Driving Past Her Own House
10:53 The First Question She Ever Asked: What Do I Want?
12:19 Building a Runway Beyond the Emergency Fund
13:44 Twelve Months Became Five: The Power of a Takeoff Date
17:32 Why a Coach Holds Your Vision When You Cannot
19:57 The Pause: Nine Months of Rest Before Building Anything
22:38 What She Would Tell Herself 10 Years Ago
27:10 The Donkey Parable: Someone Will Always Have an Opinion
28:25 The Third Option: You Do Not Have to Quit or Burn Out
36:49 Where to Find Abi and Her Free Calm Exit Check
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Free Calm Exit Check (5 questions before you leave the 9-5)
About Victoria
Victoria Steward helps senior corporate women stop saying "just one more year" and finally understand what leaving would actually take. She knows the gap between the numbers looking fine and the feeling being anything but: she left the Navy with more than most people's "enough" in the bank, and her anxiety got worse. Now she helps women build the financial clarity and self-trust to leave corporate on their own terms, their own timing, their own scenic route.
Financial Empowerment Coach | Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach