About JT

If life's ever thrown you off script — your plan, your job, or just your rhythm — yeah. I've been there. More than once.

I'm JT. City girl. Coffee drinker. Sports fanatic who can rattle off playoff stats faster than my own grocery list.

After 28 years in high tech — managing teams, living in airports, answering to calendar invites like they were law — AI politely tapped me on the shoulder:

"We've got it from here."

The irony isn't lost on me. I spent decades in tech, only to be restructured by the very tech I helped build and promote.

Expected reaction: rage, panic, LinkedIn frenzy.
Actual reaction: relief.

For the first time in years, there was no meeting to run, no inbox to clear, no one waiting for my approval.

Just... breathing room.

And in that space, I finally heard the question I'd been avoiding:

"Hello, me? Are you there?"

Turns out I'd been running on autopilot — managing, fixing, delivering, proving — for so long that I'd stopped checking in on her.

What I know about life interruptions:

Life doesn't do subtle. It's handed me curveballs big and small — the kind that make you scream, "Wait... WTF! What now?"

I missed the flight on 9/11.
Was branded "widow" at 48.
Survived online dating — barely.
Found love again in my 50s.
Then Menopause showed up late, loud, and unapologetic, and naturally took over the room.

I adjusted. Kept moving. Called it progress.
Never stopped long enough to actually process any of it.

Then came the AI interruption — the one that finally made me pause.
Not to fall apart. Not to reinvent myself.
Just to ask: who am I today?

That's where Make ONE Move started. Intentional moves, today, that fit who I am right now. Not yesterday's corporate JT. Not some imaginary future JT with everything figured out. This one. The one standing here.

The people in my life:

My partner, my family, and my friends keep me grounded and real. They're the background hum of my life, not the main characters in this blog. They didn't sign up for public storytelling, so you won't find their full names or their stories here.

That's also why it's JT, not my full name.

What you'll find here: blunt honesty, enough sarcasm to handle the cringe, and occasionally funny takes on life's interruptions — because if you can't laugh at the absurd, what can you do?

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