Embrace the Squiggle: Change happens. Growth is a choice.
Embrace the Squiggle is the podcast about navigating change in work, identity, leadership, and life with intention. Because change happens. Growth is a choice.
This show explores the honest, human stories behind reinvention. From career pivots and leadership shifts to identity crises, mindset shifts, and unexpected detours, each episode dives into what it really looks like to move through uncertainty instead of waiting for clarity.
Our guests share candid stories of obstacles, failures, breakthroughs, and hard-earned lessons. Not because they had it all figured out but because they chose growth in the middle of the mess.
Each week, Colleen DelVecchio and Ashleigh Beadle unpack the pivots, pauses, leaps of faith, and “what am I even doing?” moments that shape a non-linear life. This isn’t about chasing a straight line. It’s about building the mindset and courage to evolve on purpose.
Embrace the Squiggle: Change happens. Growth is a choice.
Leaving Corporate Success to Find Personal Purpose with Lachandra B. Baker
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What if the thing that broke you was also the thing that set you free?
Lachandra Baker spent 35 years climbing the corporate ladder, reaching executive roles in communications and culture at multi-billion dollar organizations. Then life handed her a knot she couldn't ignore: navigating a high-powered career while serving as her husband's primary caregiver through cancer. Everything she thought she knew about success started to unravel.
That unraveling became her greatest squiggle. In this episode, Lachandra shares how she walked away from corporate prestige to found LBB Edutainment and how the framework she built through her own hardship now helps organizations build belonging, amplify missing voices, and connect culture to real business outcomes. They also get into DEI backlash, what allyship actually means, and why leadership has nothing to do with your title.
If you've ever had a life event force you to redefine success this one's for you.
About Lachandra Baker TEDx speaker, DEIB strategist, and founder of LBB Edutainment. Author of Your Own Biggest Cheerleader and creator of the "Heads, Hearts, and Hands" framework.
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