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Carly Vivian
Carly Vivian is a career reinvention strategist who spent 30 years at the table when Fortune 50 organizations made their biggest calls - mergers, transformations, and leadership transitions at a combined $100B scale. She now helps senior executives, post-exit founders, and athletes leaving sport decode what built their First Act and architect a deliberate Second Act. Her work runs on the Discover, Design, Develop methodology, which also anchors her book in progress, Lightning Strikes Twice. Alongside the platform she keeps a separate, referral-based executive coaching practice.
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Carly Vivian is a career reinvention strategist who spent 30 years at the table when Fortune 50 organizations made their biggest calls - mergers, transformations, and leadership transitions at a combined $100B scale. She now helps senior executives, post-exit founders, and athletes leaving sport decode what built their First Act and architect a deliberate Second Act. Her work runs on the Discover, Design, Develop methodology, which also anchors her book in progress, Lightning Strikes Twice. Alongside the platform she keeps a separate, referral-based executive coaching practice.
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Grieving the Loss of Focus in a Second Act
A LinkedIn post by Carly Vivian reflects on the emotional cost of transitioning from a specialized corporate role to running one's own business. It explores how entrepreneurs often grieve the loss of deep expertise and identity tied to their former craft, not just the workload shift.
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Summary
A LinkedIn post by Carly Vivian reflects on the emotional cost of transitioning from a specialized corporate role to running one's own business. It explores how entrepreneurs often grieve the loss of deep expertise and identity tied to their former craft, not just the workload shift.
Tags
career-transition · entrepreneurship · identity · second-act · grief · sales · self-employment
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.99) · Alan C. Moore (person, 0.92) · Will Linssen (person, 0.92) · Chuck Vivian (person, 0.92) · Second Act (concept, 0.95) · career identity loss (concept, 0.9) · entrepreneurship (concept, 0.88) · LinkedIn (technology, 0.97)
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notes · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-sonnet-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 3 Aug 2026