✨ Your Next Right Step: Take ⁠the Reinvention Pattern Quiz⁠ and get your personalized Reinvention Starter Kit.

Waiting for something that just won't come—a job offer, medical results, someone's decision, or in my case, a resident card that's 410 days overdue. The patience runs thin. The hope starts to dwindle. And the guilt creeps in for not "handling it better."

In this episode of The Pivot Season, I'm bringing you into the messy middle of my 500-day wait for Portuguese residency while navigating a layoff and an uncertain future.

Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is stop pretending we have it all together and start holding space for the grief, the fear, and the cognitive load that uncertainty creates.

If you're waiting for something that feels like it may never come, this episode is for you.

Resources:

• Apply for The Pivot SZN, a 1:1 Coaching Program for women ready for change: ⁠⁠https://thepivotseason.kit.com/coaching⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠Sign Up For The Future You Letters⁠⁠: a monthly guide to keep the momentum alive
• ⁠Follow Me On Instagram⁠⁠

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Uncertainty

00:33 Welcome to The Pivot Season

00:54 Sharing My Vulnerable Story

01:38 The Pain of Waiting

05:33 Navigating Uncertainty

08:09 Understanding Grief in Uncertainty

14:06 Coping Strategies for Uncertainty

22:08 Closing Meditation and Final Thoughts

✨ Your Next Right Step: Take the Reinvention Pattern Quiz and get your personalized Reinvention Starter Kit.

Making the side hustle to entrepreneur pivot sounds exciting until you’re living inside it.

Suddenly, you’re juggling a full life, growing expectations, and an invisible pressure to move faster, do more, and prove that you’re “serious” about your business. Guilt creeps in. Comparison takes over. And what started as passion begins to feel like pressure.

In this episode of The Pivot, Ambar Paloma breaks down the emotional, neurological, and identity shifts that come with the side hustle to entrepreneur transition—and why this phase is one of the most misunderstood pivots women make.

Want more on comparison? Check out my other episode:

Breaking Free From The Comparison Trap

Resources:

• Apply for The Pivot SZN, a 1:1 Coaching Program for women ready for change: ⁠https://thepivotseason.kit.com/coaching⁠
• ⁠Sign Up The Future You Letters⁠: a monthly guide to keep the momentum alive
• Grab Your Reinvention Playbook, a free mini-course to kick off your next chapter.
• Follow Me On Instagram⁠

Chapters:

00:00 The Side Hustle Pivot & an Abundant Mindset
00:43 January Pressure & the Urge to Rush the Pivot
01:52 Big Life Changes That Often Trigger the Entrepreneur Pivot
02:24 The Side Hustle to Entrepreneur Pipeline (What No One Explains)
04:01 Guilt, Comparison & Unrealistic Expectations
08:25 Burnout, the Nervous System & Why Hustling Backfires
11:03 Escaping the Comparison Trap During Your Pivot
17:51 Finding Your Pace with the Finisher’s Framework
27:36 Identity Shifts Required to Sustain the Entrepreneur Path
28:46 Final Thoughts for the Woman Mid-Pivot

✨ NEW: Take the Reinvention Pattern Quiz to discover your most dominant pattern keeping you stuck, plus get a personalized action plan to break through it.

You know that feeling when you make a powerful decision to change your life—and then 3-4 weeks later, fear creeps in and suddenly your old situation "wasn't that bad"? Yeah, we're stopping that cycle TODAY.

In this episode, I break down the exact 7-stage cycle of change that keeps people stuck in their pivots, and more importantly, how to navigate the critical moment where most people backtrack. Spoiler: brute force and "just push through it" isn't the answer.

You'll discover:

• The predictable cycle that happens every time you try to make a change (and the one stage that determines success vs. failure)
• Why your brain isn't actually scared of the future—it's scared of something else entirely
• The compassionate approach to fear that creates lasting momentum (not just a one-time push)
• How to use 90-day goals to create safety and certainty for your nervous system
• The "delusional confidence" mindset that helped me gain 3,000 followers and 60 email subscribers in less than a month after being laid off

If you've ever started strong and then talked yourself out of your own dreams, this episode will change everything. We're not backtracking in 2026—we're moving forward with intention, compassion, and yes, a little delusional confidence.

00:00 Introduction

00:22 Welcome to 2026 & Why New Year's Energy is Magic for Pivoting

00:44 New Year Excitement and Gratitude

01:48 The Cycle of Change: Why You Keep Backtracking on Your Goals

02:41 Introducing the Reinvention Pattern Quiz

03:32 Stages of the Cycle of Change

06:40 The Truth About Fear: It's Not Blocking Your Path, It IS the Path

17:34 Delusional Confidence: The Secret Weapon for Your Pivot

22:34 Final Thoughts and Upcoming Plans