From Surviving Change to Designin...
From Surviving Change to Designing It | Beste Ozer Tezcan
Pink Slip Pavilion by Ashley Waddington
S1 · E29
Sep 2, 2026
31:09
Episode notes

What if getting laid off gave you the opportunity to completely rethink how you want to work?

Beste knew her layoff was coming.

After watching reorganizations and layoffs unfold around her for more than a year, she received five months' notice that her own role was being eliminated. She would spend those final months helping train the vendors replacing her team.

But Beste was already asking herself a bigger question:

Do I actually want another corporate job?

In this episode of Pink Slip Pavilion, host Ashley Waddington sits down with Beste Ozer Tezcan to talk about navigating an expected layoff, career uncertainty, entrepreneurship, and what happens when job loss gives you permission to question the career path you've always known.

Beste had been unhappy in corporate f ... 

Keywords
Job loss
Layoff support
Resilience
Navigating layoffs
Layoff
Overcoming challenges
Career advice
Self Identity
Future of Work
AI