Career disruption
The Deadline
On the particular dread of a job search with a runway that has an end date — and what actually helps.
Read on Substack →Now What? is a small, honest community for women 40+ navigating layoffs, burnout, and career transitions. Real tools, straight information, and people who actually get it.
Maybe you were laid off. Maybe you saw it coming. Maybe you're still employed and running on empty. Wherever you are, there's a seat here.
Small enough that Rachel knows your name, your situation, and where you're stuck. Structure without performance.
Multiple times a week. You show up, you work, you're not alone at your kitchen table. Momentum without the pressure to perform.
Peer-led sessions with real feedback. Practice out loud — the only way interview prep actually works.
What happens before the layoff notice. What a severance offer actually means. The stuff that usually costs $400/hour — from someone who's sat on that side of the table.
Set goals alongside people doing the same thing. It's harder to stay stuck when someone's asking how it's going.
Members get access to the tools built alongside this community — and anyone can use them, member or not.
The dashboard for your whole search: severance calculator, BS translator, job-lead tracker, and more. Included free with any membership.
Explore the Command Centre →Stop applying into the void. Reachline finds companies and decision-makers, verifies with AI, and runs reply-aware outreach — so you reach a human, not a portal.
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"I've been on both sides of the table — the one delivering the news and the one receiving it. I know what HR doesn't tell you, and what the standard job-search advice gets wrong for women our age. I built this because I needed it and it didn't exist." Rachel Maxcy · HR professional, certified career strategist, founder of Now What?
On layoffs, job searching, burnout, and what a liveable next chapter actually looks like.
On the particular dread of a job search with a runway that has an end date — and what actually helps.
Read on Substack →What you're entitled to ask, what the standard severance offer really means, and what you can push back on.
Read on Substack →You need a strategy for your energy, not just your calendar. Here's one that doesn't require you to be a different person.
Read on Substack →Ageism, wage gaps, caregiving penalties, a hiring market not built for you. A structural problem — naming it clearly is where we start.
Read on Substack →When something useful happens — a new resource, a community event, a piece worth reading — it goes here first. No drip sequences. No funnels.
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