Career Switch Podcast: Expert advice for your career change · Lixandra Urresta

48: Tuning into your younger self (Women's History Month)

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I would like my younger self to speak to me because my younger self was fearless.

Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first Black woman cartoonist nationally syndicated in the US mainstream press, shares her journey from fashion writing at Essence to 14 years of her comic strip 'Where I'm Coming From' to 18 years at Parents Magazine, and how getting laid off in her 60s during the pandemic led to an unexpected creative renaissance. She discusses channeling her fearless younger self's mindset and opening herself to unimaginable opportunities including a State Department trip to Nigeria, MoMA collaboration, and San Diego Comic-Con recognition.

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A reflective career-switch conversation about cartooning, family legacy, and the money risk.

Barbara Brandon Croft's return to cartooning comes through as a practical reset, shaped by timing, pay, and the choice to move on after a layoff.

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Barbara's return to cartooning after a layoff shows a career switch can carry family legacy and real stakes.

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