Uncomfortable Growth® Uncut is a space where we strip away the polish and perfection and get honest about what growth really looks like. It’s unscripted. Unrehearsed. And often uncomfortable. Each conversation explores the pivotal moments that test us, when certainty disappears, identities are shaken, and the only way forward is to dig deep and keep going.
Redefining the Career Climb is a curated playlist from Uncomfortable Growth® Uncut focused on career crossroads, the moments no one prepares you for, yet end up shaping how we lead, work, and live.
Redundancy. Burnout. Missed opportunities. Unexpected pivots.
Across these three raw conversations, leaders share the career challenges that forced them to pause, rethink success, and redefine what growth really means, on their own terms.
Featured Conversations
Jo Gaines: Head of APAC at Asana
Jo’s journey includes facing redundancy as a single parent with two young children, staying on to lead a company through insolvency, and later learning cage fighting as a way to meet fear head-on. Her story is about resilience, courage, and choosing to step into challenges rather than retreat from them.
Philippa Moig: CEO of UnLtd
After years in a role she loved, Philippa stepped into a major leadership position managing 70 people and 250 stakeholders, only to find herself questioning whether this version of “growth” was sustainable. Her episode explores ambition, burnout, motherhood, and the uncomfortable truth that bigger isn’t always better.
Andrew Howie: CMO & Founder of Gallant Creative Advisory
Andrew reflects on the career disruptions that shaped him, from early dreams cut short, to navigating the Global Financial Crisis, to being made redundant. With honesty and clarity, he shares lessons on self-awareness, authentic leadership, and letting go of people-pleasing in order to create space for real growth.
Rowena Millward is a global expert in growth and reinvention for businesses and people. A consultant, speaker, mentor, and best-selling author of Uncomfortable Growth® – Own Your Reinvention, Rowena helps leaders navigate career and life crossroads and turn trials into their next chapter.
Through Uncomfortable Growth® Uncut, Rowena creates space for real, unfiltered conversations about work, life, leadership, and the messy middle of becoming who you’re meant to be.
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Because the career climb isn’t linear, and it was never meant to be.