The Career Pivot Playbook
Eleven pages, fillable. Starts with what made you feel like a kid, then moves straight into market research, a resume rewrite, and the outreach message you've been avoiding.
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Careers don't go in straight lines. Neither do bodies.
I'm Michelle. I spent a decade in operating rooms, helped put the first brain implants into human beings, and then left to build something of my own. I write about food as medicine, listening to what your body is already telling you, and the unglamorous middle of changing your life.
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Ten years of it
Neuralink — Surgery Team Lead, PRIME trial
Nudge — Study Operations Manager
NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell
Villanova, BSN RN
What I write about
Three questions I keep coming back to.
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Food is medicine
Not as a slogan. As a mechanism. What you eat is the most frequent decision you make about your own body, and almost nobody explains how it actually works on the inside.
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Body signals
Notice, connect, adjust. Most people are not broken; they've just never been taught to read their own data. Foggy, tired, wired at 11pm — those are sentences, not moods.
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Careers that turn
You're not starting over. You're translating. Everything you've already built comes with you — it just needs a different set of words.
The short version
I'm the person who builds the thing before there's a plan for it.
I scrubbed into plastic surgery in New York. I ran study operations at a neurotech startup. I led the surgical team on the first in-human brain-computer interface implants — a job with no manual, because nobody had done it before.
What every one of those rooms had in common: someone had to write the process down while it was still happening. That's the part I'm good at. Now I do it out loud, for a living, mostly about the body.
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Things you can use
Built to be finished, not admired.
Every page ends in a decision, a filled-in worksheet, or something you can use the same afternoon. If it doesn't, it gets cut.
Built to Pivot
A career change you complete in one weekend. Friday night through Sunday night, eighteen sessions. You end it with a direction, a translated resume, five target companies, and one next step.
See what's insideTwenty minutes with me
One call. You bring the knot you can't untie — the pivot, the offer, the thing you keep ping-ponging between — and we take it apart together.
Book a timeRecent
Letters from the unglamorous middle.
Nobody hands you the pamphlet
What they don't tell you about leaving a job that made sense on paper.
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Food is fuel before it's anything else
The most frequent decision you make about your body, and how little we're taught about it.
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Translate, don't reinvent
Why a career change is a language problem more often than a skills problem.
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The newsletter
Come get the letter.
Food, pivots, and what I'm figuring out in real time. Written to one person, across a coffee table.