The Exit Diaries
The Exit Diaries is about the moment you realise staying hurts more than leaving. Told through intimate conversations with people who faced that choice and chose to walk away.
The Exit Diaries
Diary Entry #2: Rachelle Peterson — When the C-Suite Was No Longer Enough
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Rachelle Peterson spent 30 years inside corporate media — building a career across Warner Brothers, Sky, and CNN.
She climbed. She delivered. She became exceptional at the game.
And then something shifted: the title stopped feeling like safety, and the ladder stopped feeling like progress.
This is a diary entry about the internal cost of staying, and when being exceptional is no longer enough.
Exit Diaries excavates the internal cost of corporate life through conversations with people who left.
Written and hosted by Jack Long.