# Dobby is free

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For years I gave everything to a job.

I hosted events and seminars. Copywriting, social media management, Went out on location with production crews. Wrote scripts, edited videos — sometimes I was doing things I genuinely didn't know I was capable of. I even did a voice-over in English once. (It didn't make the final cut. My voice, apparently, had other plans.)

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There were late nights. A lot of them. And one night before a big event where I didn't sleep at all, just kept going until the morning came and the event started and somehow it was fine.

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I worked hard. I cared.

And somewhere in all of that, I lost myself a little.

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So I left.

I timed it with the end of my maternity leave, that window that had been quietly counting down in the background. When it closed, I didn't go back. I chose this instead.

As of June 8th, I'm out. No more corporate schedule. No more working for someone else's brand at the cost of my own.

**Finally. Doby is free.**

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But here's the thing about freedom, it's a little terrifying.  
I don't have it all figured out. But I'm starting. Something exciting is about to happen and I know it.

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Are you also in the middle of a starting-over moment?