CHALLENGE Runs AUGUST 24 - September 7, 2026KILL YOUR
DARLINGS
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You have a project in your career that is no longer serving you. I'm giving you two weeks to plan your exit.
Master the art of moving onward and upward in your career by sunsetting past-peak projects.
🟢 Challenge In Progress
You’re craving more from your career, but your plate is currently full of…
👻 Work that’s been collecting dust on the back burner (that you keep saying you’ll come back to)
👣 Work you actually finished, but have no evidence of in your career portfolio
🥀 Work that’s dragging on, technically successful, but just not hitting the same as it used to
In order to expand, you first have to release what you’ve outgrown.
"BUT what if I don't know whAT'S NEXT?"Inspiration can’t strike where you won’t let it.
You have to make space for it. The decision to move on comes first. Then comes the permission, and the push, to figure out your next best step. You don’t have to quit today, you just need to take your desire for change seriously. The ideas will come, and Kill Your Darlings will help make them possible.
Prune your career garden, watch the possibilities multiply 🌱
In Kill Your Darlings, you’ll be given the tools to recognize and use all of the value gained from your last project to expand your career. Yes, even the projects you didn’t “finish”! You’ll come out of this challenge ready to attract (or build) your next dream project instead of wondering where your next opportunity will come from.
When you make the decision to move on, you’re not leaving that chapter and starting over from scratch. You’re building on experience. What you do next is up to how well you leverage it.
Take stock of everything you gained, not just what you gave. Recognizing the skills, experience, and other assets you’re leaving with help you know what you really deserve in your next project.
Know exactly how to talk about your work. Craft a narrative that represents you well, is ready to go in the portfolio, and makes people trust your track record.
Quiet quitting leads to silent inboxes. Plan a real moment to honor the chapter that’s ending and bring visibility to what you completed. You’re strategically letting your network know what you’ve got capacity for now.
Up for the Challenge?Spend two weeks building your Sunset Plan — the first step in showing you’re ready for more.
Bring a past-peak project of your choosing: the one you drifted away from, the one you never claimed publicly, or the one that’s stopped lighting you up. We’ll spend the next two weeks transforming it into an asset you can use to secure your next come up.
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Integration
Build Your Confidence: Name the project you're releasing and start recognizing all the ways that work has built and prepared you for what’s next.
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8/29 | Sharing Session: Navigating the In-Between
Q&A + we'll talk about the liminal space of career evolutions and the emotional side of moving on: grief, doubt, fear, the bittersweet parts nobody warns you about.
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Archive & Honor
Establish Credibility: Decide on a strategic narrative about the work, gather the receipts, and decide where it all gets displayed.
Bring Visibility: Plan how you'll claim your exit — loudly, proudly, and even creatively ✨
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Portfolio 101 with Ponnd
Ponnd is the portfolio building platform for modern careers (aka yours). Join us for a live workshop on how to build a strong portfolio as a multi-dimensional human who doesn’t speak “niche”.
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9/5 | Sharing Session: What's Next?
To wrap up, we'll shift our focus to what's ahead: the ideas that surfaced for you during the challenge, how to start moving toward them, and the timing of making a safe transition.
Master the art of moving on.
The multi-hyphenates who keep growing are even better at letting go. When sunsetting becomes second nature, you unlock the freedom to truly own the story of your career and evolve on your own terms.
$226 USD
One time purchase, a lifetime of usesThe Live Experience
☀️ 3 Recorded Trainings + Challenge Assignments to create your Sunset Plan
☎️ 2 Live Calls for Q&A and discussion
💬 Access to The Group Chat (and me!) to submit assignments, get support, and make new friends
🌱 Daily Prompts in the chat for deeper processing
🏆 Leaderboard to track your progress
🗂️ Lifetime access to trainings and materials
Win a 1:1 Make It Make Sense Session 🌀🧠
$150 Value
The top three participants will win a free 1:1 Session with me. It’s a 45-minute call where we can dig even deeper into your Sunset Plan or whatever’s still fuzzy about the chapter you’re stepping into and the career you’re building overall. We’ll yap our way to a place where it all starts to make sense.
FAQsThe answers to your ifs, ands, or buts
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Multi-dimensional humans with a job, business, offer, or side project in their career ecosystem that used to fit and doesn't anymore. Employees eyeing a role change, founders sunsetting a business or service, creators retiring an outdated offer, or anyone who's outgrown the way they've been working. If you've got something you're ready to close out on purpose, this is for you.
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It’s normal to wonder. These two situations can feel pretty similar at first: Exhaustion, frustration…staring at your laptop wondering why you decided to do this in the first place. But in one scenario, you're simply on a steep part of your climb. In another scenario, you're already at the mountain peak.
Before you cut, let’s listen more closely to the signals. You can take the free Project Peak Assessment to find out where you are in the journey.
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No. We take a safety first approach to leaping 🫶🏾 If you’re sunsetting an active project, it’s likely you’ll still be working on it even after you’ve decided it’s time to move on. These two weeks are about looking at how you can leverage that project to get you where you want to go. The actual exit can happen on whatever timeline makes sense for you. This is about deciding and preparing, not necessarily quitting on day one.
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Sessions will be recorded and shared in the community space, so you won't miss anything. Attending live just means you can ask questions and process it out loud with everyone else in real time.
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I recommend picking one for this challenge. You'll get the most out of it by going deep on a single project rather than splitting your attention, and the framework will still be there for you the next time you need it.
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Sunsetting doesn't always mean a total pivot into something new. Sometimes it means giving your offer, role, or project a chance to catch up to who you've become since you built it. If you've outgrown the version you started with but still believe in the core of it, this challenge gives you the space to close out what's no longer working and rebuild it with fresh eyes.
Turn your past-peak projects into future gains.
Congratulations on your evolution! It’s time for your career to catch up. Kill Your Darlings is a practice space, not a passive one. You’ll be cheered on and challenged as you let go of the weight of old work, fully step into your growth, and confidently reach for the opportunities you know you’re prepared for.
Most people skip this step. If you don’t, you’ll end up ten ahead.