Why I Quit Shopify… and Told Everyone I Got Fired.

What if what makes you "inefficient" in certain systems, is actually your secret superpower? (ADHDers & Creatives, this one is for YOU)

THE SPIRAL

There was a time that I thought I was broken… actually broken.

I couldn’t hit the quotas.
I couldn’t juggle three chats at once.
I couldn’t force my brain to move in three directions at lightning speed, while pretending to be calm, strategic, robotic, and bubbly, all at once.

Even though I loved the merchants.
Even though I actually solved the problems.
Even though one customer literally held their phone out the window while driving to his store through the Australian Outback so we wouldn’t get disconnected,
because, as he told me, "You are the only one who has actually listened to my problem. The only one who actually gives a damn."

Someone else sent me dog leashes as a thank-you, for fixing his checkout issue (just an unclicked button but costing him hundreds a day in lost revenue).
Because I was that kind of support. And I loved it.
I really loved working for Shopify.

But it didn't matter.
Because I wasn't "scalable", not as an employee.
I certainly wasn't promotable based on the requirements of my job
(you know, the three chats, the timeliness, the “efficiency”).

So I started calling in sick.
I started not showing up.

I didn’t get fired.
I just quietly... backed myself out.

And when they finally checked in, it was like, “Hey… sooo, where’d you go?”
I said, "I can't do this anymore."

I mean, I could in MY way, but I couldn’t keep pretending I was okay inside a system that demanded I disconnect from who I was. And how I operated.

I didn’t quit because I didn’t care.
I cared too much.

And for a long time, years, I thought I had failed.
But I didn’t fail at all.

I was in a spiral.

And now?
I know what it really was.

Btw, this is NOT my only Shopify story. *Tehee.

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MY INVITE TO YOU

It wasn't failure.
It was the beginning of an awakening to something else...

Have you ever been told that you care too much about certain things?
That your natural rhythm was inefficient or too slow?
That your truth made you “difficult” in certain situations?

Same. 100% same. High five.

Inside the Unfiltered Café (below), I’m breaking down what happened after I left Shopify.

Including:

→ The spiral I didn’t want to admit I was in
→ The real shift that changed everything for me
→ How I realized I wasn’t broken, I was just unfit for that machine (and others)
→ The slow, steady shift and what I rebuilt in the years to come
→ And the exact practice I use now to create work that works for me, that changed how I lead, create, and rest

This drop isn’t about leaving a job.
It’s about leaving behind the parts of you that were never the problem. And reclaiming them (because they’re actually your greatest superpower.)

🌀 The full moment, the messy middle, and the movement to get out of it?
That lives inside the Café.

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