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A private session with Trish Calhoun

Not Like This.

You may not need a new job.
You may need to stop honoring an agreement you never consciously made.

For women who know something about the way work and life fit together isn’t working anymore. Even if it still looks perfectly reasonable from the outside.

90 minutes · One-to-one · $497

What we’ll do

The arrangement

You’re good at this.
That may be part of the problem.

You know how to make it work. The job. The schedule. Being the person who notices what needs doing and quietly does it.

And because you can keep making it work, the arrangement keeps renewing itself. Your competence gets treated as consent.

Maybe you’ve been looking at job listings. Maybe you’ve been telling yourself to be grateful. Maybe you don’t want to leave at all. You just can’t keep doing it on these terms.

Underneath that can be an agreement you never remember making:

If I can handle it, it’s mine to carry.

If they need me, I have to stay.

I can want something else once everyone else is settled.

Those agreements can organize an entire life. They deserve to be examined before you build another one around them.

Leaving is not the only exit.

Sometimes the exit is a different job. Sometimes it’s a different division of responsibility, a conversation you’ve postponed, or a boundary you stop treating as negotiable. We’ll look at your actual situation.

The work

One situation.
Room to see it.

Bring the thing you keep circling. You don’t have to arrive with a decision, a polished explanation, or proof that it’s bad enough.

  1. A short intake

    Before we meet, you’ll answer a few questions about what isn’t working, what you’ve already tried, and what you need to protect. It gives us somewhere useful to start.

  2. 90 minutes, working together

    We’ll examine the arrangement: what you’re carrying, what’s actually required, and which expectations have quietly become rules. We’ll look at the options and their costs, then identify a next move that fits your life.

  3. Your written Exit Map

    Afterward, I’ll send a concise written account of what we saw: the agreement at work, what you want to keep, what you want to change, and the next step we identified. Something you can return to when the old logic starts sounding reasonable again.

  4. One follow-up question

    You can send one follow-up question by email within seven days of our session. I’ll respond in writing, so there’s room for the thing that becomes clear after we talk.

A useful place to start

“I don’t know what I want.
I know it isn’t this.”

That’s enough to bring. This session is for a specific situation you want to understand and act on. You’re willing to look at the part you’ve been playing, alongside the real constraints of money, time, responsibility, and other people.

I won’t decide whether you should stay or go. And I won’t pretend a single conversation can resolve every condition that brought you here. The work is to see the arrangement more clearly and find a move you can make deliberately.

This is a standalone session. There’s no ongoing program you need to join afterward.

Who you’re talking to

I’m Trish.

I’ve built a career in enterprise technology and operations, led difficult work inside enormous companies, and spent years studying systems, leadership, and identity. I pay attention to who carries what, which rules are real, and why a problem survives every reasonable attempt to solve it.

That’s the way I’ll look at this with you. Closely. With room for more than one explanation.

More about me

Not Like This

We can start here.

$497

Short intake. 90 minutes together. A written Exit Map.
One follow-up question within seven days.

Booking and payment are handled through Paperbell. Have a question before you book? Email me at t@trishcalhoun.com.