Women Executives in Luxury - Anonymous Career Change Interviews

Quit or stay? She stayed almost a year. Crying every morning on her way to work. She had what looked like a perfect start: Permanent contract straight out of the school. Top-tier audit firm. Clear career path. But every day looked the same: Spreadsheets she didn’t understand. Tasks without context. A job that made no sense, and nobody to explain why. Alignment with her values: 1/10. Then she lost a parent. While grieving, she still heard things like: “Already leaving?” at 9pm. “You really don’t look good today” — from people who knew exactly what was happening. She didn’t call it harassment at the time. She calls it that now. She asked to move to a role closer to her values, still inside the firm. The answer: “You were hired for this job. You stay.” That “no” made the decision for her. She resigned on the last day of her trial period. No signed contract. Just a verbal promise elsewhere. A few years later: → Sustainability role in the luxury sector → Satisfaction: 8.5/10 → Salary: +66% The numbers look like a clean success story. But years later, her nervous system hasn’t fully forgotten. The body keeps the score. The risk wasn’t leaving. The risk was staying too long. Now tell me, if a woman tells you “I’m in a ‘good’ job that’s destroying me, but I’m scared to leave after only a few months”, what would you tell her? A. Push through for the CV B. Leave as soon as possible C. Negotiate an internal move first I am buiding Amaya Ora to turn real decision patterns into structured insights. An anonymous library of comparable professional trajectories, designed to help women navigate high-stakes career dilemmas with real data, not opinions. During this first phase, I am focusing on the luxury industry, a sector where careers are prestigious, yet decisions can be slow and complex. I am looking to interview women who are: → 30-45 → Corporate mid to senior level → Who made a significant career decision in the past 3–5 years 30 minutes. Fully anonymous. DM me or comment “Interested.” #CareerDecision #WomenInLeadership #LuxuryIndustry #AmayaOra