Helping you make sense of your life when the rules you’ve always followed suddenly betray you, with honest, dark-humored commentary on midlife, reinvention, mental health, and money.
This channel is about saying the quiet parts out loud.
Career detours, burnout, aging, mental health, money, starting over — it’s all here. You’ll get honesty with humor, side-eye, and a few stories that make you mutter, "oh my God, same!".
I’ve spent 50+ years surviving things I never signed up for — a traumatic childhood, mental health struggles, and a shiny, toxic corporate career that nearly broke me. Thirty years in tech taught me how power, performance, and reinvention actually work. Real life taught me what it costs to stop performing.
Now I talk about that cost — and what becomes possible when you finally tell the truth instead.
For questions about collaborations, 1:1's, workshops, or business inquiries: Sheila@SheilaHammond.com
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We were taught to be easy to love.
Low maintenance. Understanding. Grateful.
We learned to edit ourselves before anyone else had to.
Now we confuse peace with staying quiet.
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Quick update on the ketamine treatment process I shared about recently.
I was trying to get access to Spravato, the FDA-approved form of ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. If you meet a very narrow set of criteria, some insurance plans will cover it. Traditional ketamine infusions usually aren’t covered, and right now I genuinely don’t know if that option would be financially possible for me.
I was denied Spravato coverage by my insurance, and I’m appealing the decision now.
So the next steps are a bit uncertain while the appeal process plays out.
I’m sharing this not for advice or workarounds, but because this is part of the real experience too. Access, coverage, and cost are often the hardest part of treatment, not the treatment itself.
I’ll update when I know more.
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I keep seeing the same comment: “I’ll be working forever, so what’s the point of saving for retirement?”
I didn’t plan to make a video about that, but here we are.
I’ve got thoughts and a conversation coming this week.
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I’ve been living with depression, anxiety, and PTSD for over 35 years, and I’m about to start ketamine treatments after exhausting a lot of other options. This decision is years in the making because I’ve been deeply afraid of trying this. I’m debating whether documenting the experience and what it’s actually like would provide value to this community.
Would you be interested in that?
Please, I’m not looking for your input on why or why not I should or should not do it. I've been researching for a very long time and this decision was excruciating to make for me!
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We were taught that being tired meant you’d earned rest.
That if you just pushed through the day, night would take care of you.
No one prepared us for the version of tired that comes with no off-switch.
Where effort doesn’t buy relief and exhaustion doesn’t cash out into sleep.
I’ve been quieter lately, this is why. I’ll be back soon.
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I wrote this because too many people are exhausting themselves doing job hunting the slowest, hardest way possible. Start your new year throwing this approach out in the trash.
This isn’t a mindset book. It’s not motivational. It’s not about loving AI or fearing it.
It’s a practical field guide for using AI the way it actually helps:
🤖 getting your resume past ATS and in front of a human
🤖 drafting cover letters without staring at a blank screen
🤖 practicing interview questions without sounding rehearsed or fake
🤖 moving faster through the mechanical parts so your judgment still matters
AI isn’t the strategy. It’s the tool.
This book shows you how to use it without letting it flatten your voice, exaggerate your experience, or embarrass you.
If job hunting is already wearing you down, this is about conserving energy — not grinding harder.
www.sheilahammond.com/product-page/ai-for-the-mode…
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, friends.
If this season feels easy for you, I’m glad. If it feels heavy or weird or nothing like the commercials, you’re not doing it wrong. Remember that.
Also, you don’t owe anyone cheer, closure, or a personality upgrade before January first.
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People loved my Laid Off Survival Manual & Workbook so much (www.sheilahammond.com > shop), I decided to do another! And I'm stoked!
I’m building an AI job search guide for people who are smart, experienced, and deeply tired of being told to “just tweak their resume.”
Here’s what’s in it:
• MODULE 1: Welcome to the Modern Job Search (No, You’re Not Crazy)
• MODULE 2: Resume Survival Mode (ATS, Keywords, and Age Traps)
• MODULE 3: Intro to AI (How to Use It Without Letting It Humiliate You)
• MODULE 4: Intro to Prompts
• MODULE 5: Resume prompts (aligning, tightening, de-aging, without lying)
• MODULE 6: Cover letter prompts (clear, specific, not embarrassing)
• MODULE 7: Interview prep using AI (practice without sounding rehearsed)
Sound like something you can use?
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Some people leave behind movies. Some people leave behind language.
Stuff we say without thinking. Jokes we quote mid-argument.
Lines that somehow became part of how we flirt, fight, and tell the truth.
This one’s for Rob Reiner — and all the words we’ve been borrowing from him for decades without even realizing it.
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