We were taught to build careers. We should have been building power.

In this episode, Dorinda breaks down a framework she wishes someone had handed her 20 years ago: the difference between borrowed power (your title, your budget, your access — real, but never truly yours), portable power (what walks out the door with you no matter what), and owned power (what you build that no employer can take back).

Sparked by the wave of Black women — highly educated, highly experienced — sharing their frustration over job loss and the disbelief of not being able to get back in, Dorinda gets honest about her own exit from Corporate America after 20 years, the year she spent trying to keep a door open that God was already closing, and why "return to merit" assumes a starting line most of us never actually had.

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