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That Will Nevr Work Podcast · Maurice D. Chism, Sr. | Entrepreneur & Business Strategist

S7|G2 What’s Next Starts in Your Mind with Stephanie Cordes

March 6, 2026·30 min·2 clips
Stephanie Cordes reveals how high performers can reframe their identity beyond just a title.
The shift starts in the mind. Maurice begins with a clean idea: people may not leave work so much as outgrow the thinking that kept them there. That gives Stephanie Cordes' story room to move. She is presented as someone helping professionals loosen employee-minded habits and see ownership as possible, without pretending the leap feels easy. When she starts researching businesses with her coach, fear is the first thing in the room. She has worked in insurance, earned a master's degree in business, and built experience in clinical informatics, data, strategy, and managing teams. Even with all of that, the new arena feels different. The conversation turns when Stephanie starts treating those older skills as transferable instead of as proof she belonged only in one lane. Maurice stays with that point. His questions keep coming back to the strange middle place between director or employee and someone who can picture entrepreneurship. That is where the episode has its pulse. Mindset is not treated like a poster on the wall. It is the act of looking at your own history and deciding none of it was wasted. School, adult struggle, strategy work, and specialized experience become roots for the next chapter. Maurice keeps the listener in it, too. Near the end, he asks for one place at work where someone could think like an owner instead of an employee, then asks for the next step. The challenge lands softly: write down what's next before fear gets to run the whole show.

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A steady push to treat career history as fuel, not baggage.

This conversation sits on a familiar break point: the moment a capable professional sees that the old title no longer covers what comes next. It treats entrepreneurship less like a dramatic leap and more like a hard reset in how someone reads their own history.

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If you are staring at a career pivot and wondering who you are without the title.

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