Clocking Out with Raymond Lee

Clocking Out is a podcast about bold moves and personal breakthroughs. Each episode spotlights people who’ve made the life-changing decision to walk away from jobs, careers, or situations that no longer served them in pursuit of something more meaningful. Through candid conversations, we explore the pivotal moments, mindset shifts, and personal values that fuel these transformations. Guests share the setbacks, surprises, and self-discoveries that helped shape their new paths, with themes of resilience, reinvention, and purpose woven throughout. Created as a tribute to Raymond's mother, who inspired the show by chasing her own dream of career fulfillment, Clocking Out is a reminder that it’s never too late to choose yourself.

Clocking Out with Raymond Lee is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 72 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #11

  Jamie Jacobs: HR Executive to Founder & CEO of Gig Talent

  Aug 12, 202656 minS5

  Jamie Jacobs spent two decades climbing the corporate HR ladder before walking away from it, and the thing that made the walk possible was courage she'd been quietly building since childhood. She grew up in the San Diego area with parents who stayed married and never finished college, and a father known around town as "Mr. Mercedes," a general sales manager at a Mercedes-Benz dealership for 25 years who could work any room. Her drive showed up early: her parents were called into her kindergarten class by a teacher worried they were pushing her too hard. They weren't. She fell into HR at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, starting in front office roles before a position opened on the people side. Five years later she was at Ingersoll Rand, hired as a generalist and covering her boss's role two weeks in when she went on leave and never came back. A pattern emerged: she was the person called in to build something new or fix something broken, never to maintain it. Somewhere along the way she ran an environmental training division, got certified as an underground storage tank operator, and found herself on a plane to Houston to teach Shell Oil about California law, a lesson less about expertise than about walking into the room anyway. The clocking out moment came at a fast-growing company where she was the first HR hire, scaling from roughly 150 employees to 675 in twelve months. When regulatory changes reversed the growth, she told the chairman of the board she didn't think they needed her role. She took three weeks alone to think, wrote a book on culture, started consulting, and in 2019 co-founded Gig Talent, buying out her co-founder at the end of 2024 and rebuilding it around a single question: what is this actually meant to become? She did much of it while raising a daughter as a single mom. This conversation is about the difference between success that looks right and work that feels aligned. About holding a goal lightly enough that it can grow past what you imagined, about fear as a signal rather than a stop sign, and about what happens when you stop asking what the system rewards and start asking what you're actually here to build. Connect with Jamie at: Website: https://gigtalentagency.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gig-talent/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlatianojacobs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamielatianojacobs/ and https://www.instagram.com/gigtalentagency/ Follow Raymond: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raymondlee.co Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpod X: http://twitter.com/hrentrepreneur Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videos Become a guest on Clocking Out: https://bit.ly/46sqClq

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  Episode #10

  Bianca Alba: Federal Public Health Career to Entrepreneur & Travel Influencer

  Jul 29, 202653 minS5

  Permission . It's the word that anchors this conversation, and few people have claimed it as fully as Bianca Alba. Born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and brought to the US at six months old, she grew up in the DMV as the oldest of four girls, watching her parents work multiple jobs to keep food on the table. She became the first in her family to earn a college degree on a full scholarship after failed courses in microbiology and organic chemistry redirected her from the medical route toward public health. That path led to the CDC, an internship during the Ebola outbreak, and a competitive fellowship that took her to Santa Fe, New Mexico, on a $20,000 salary. Alone in a new city, she learned to take herself on dates, hike, and travel solo, quietly laying the foundation for everything that came next. A deployment during the Zika response brought her to Puerto Rico, where she's lived for nearly a decade. Then Covid hit. Deployed relentlessly to the front lines, living out of hotels and building test kits at night, Bianca reached a breaking point: she couldn't promote mental health while struggling with her own. She started a podcast on the side:This Latina Travels, moved to a remote federal role, and kept building an emergency fund just in case. When that position was eliminated in a reduction in force last year, her preparation met its moment. She chose herself, going all in on the platform she'd built, which now spans a blog, speaking engagements, and service-focused college programs in Puerto Rico that have put over $70,000 into local hands. This conversation is about giving yourself permission,to start before you're ready, to grieve a career even as you outgrow it, and to trust that preparation, community, and purpose can turn an ending into a beginning. Connect with Bianca at: Website: https://www.thislatinatravels.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thislatinatravels/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biancaalba/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thislatinatravels FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thislatinatravels Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisLatinaTravels Follow Raymond: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raymondlee.co Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpod X: http://twitter.com/hrentrepreneur Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videos Become a guest on Clocking Out: https://bit.ly/46sqClq

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  Episode #9

  Eloise Skinner: Corporate Lawyer to Psychotherapist & Author

  Jul 15, 202656 minS5

  Are you alive — not just breathing, but truly, deeply alive?" It's the question that anchors Eloise Skinner's work, and few people have chased it as far as she has. A psychotherapist and author specializing in existentialism, Eloise has lived more versions of herself than most people let themselves imagine; corporate lawyer, monastic, fitness instructor, writer, founder. Raised in London by two musicians, she grew up immersed in music, playing piano above all. But at sixteen, in a quiet act of rebellion, she turned away from the family art and chose law, partly because it was a clean slate. She wanted a firm foundation under her feet, studied at Cambridge, and became a corporate tax lawyer at a US firm's London office. She loved it. Yet alongside the work, something else grew: she began writing and teaching, drawn less to the contracts than to helping others find their footing. At twenty-six, still practicing law, she joined a one-year monastic community run out of Lambeth Palace, structured around a "rule of life" of poverty and silence. She kept her job and lived it in parallel, spending her annual leave on silent retreats. What the silence revealed didn't break her; it built her, forcing a confrontation with herself that modern life is designed to help us avoid. Then, in 2021, amid the Great Resignation, she left law — not out of bitterness, but from a conviction that every day on the legal path was another day too long away from a path she couldn't yet name. Since then she's trained as an existential psychotherapist, founded The Purpose Workshop, and written The Purpose Handbook and But Are You Alive? This conversation is about living from a foundation of self-knowledge rather than a fixed plan about what stillness reveals, refusing to abandon yourself through a hard transition, and the courage to follow an inner pull you can't fully articulate, trusting that reinvention is a slow, ongoing act of becoming. Connect with Eloise at: Website: https:// www.eloiseskinner.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elois eallexia Follow Raymond: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raymondlee.co Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpod X: http://twitter.com/hrentrepreneur Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videos Become a guest on Clocking Out: https://bit.ly/46sqClq

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  Episode #7

  Terentia Browne: Chemical Engineer to Leadership Coach & Entrepreneur

  Jun 17, 202656 minS5

  In this episode of Clocking Out, we meet Terentia Browne, a woman who spent two decades mastering one of the most demanding technical disciplines in the world, before realizing that the most meaningful work she'd ever done had nothing to do with chemistry at all. Terentia grew up in Durban, South Africa, during the final years of apartheid, the first grandchild on either side of her family to go to university. Her mother, a single parent who never got the opportunity herself, made the message unmistakable: education was the only thing that could break the cycle. So Terentia chose chemical engineering, thrived, and went on to build an ice cream factory alongside international teams, lead engineering at Johnson & Johnson, and earn the Healthcare Businesswoman's Association Rising Star Award. On the surface, a career in full ascent. But beneath the promotions, something else had always been running. She was coaching people. Not formally, not for money, just because it was where she came alive. The pivot didn't arrive as a crisis. It arrived in a Dubai hotel room in February 2019, when a single question stopped her cold: what is the significant impact you want to make on this world? She resigned from J&J, flew home on the first of March 2020, and landed in a global lockdown with no clients and no office. She sat in her apartment and built a leadership program from scratch. The first sale was three hundred dollars. By year's end, she had sold the same program to Airbus OneWeb Satellites for sixty thousand. Impel Talent now works with Fortune 500 companies across life sciences, space and tech, and renewable energy, developing the technically brilliant people nobody ever taught to lead. This conversation is about a calling that doesn't announce itself loudly, but builds slowly and unmistakably over two decades. It's about telling your mother you're walking away from the degree she sacrificed everything for. It's about flying two planes at once, and knowing when to let go of the one you're on. Connect with Terentia at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terentia-browne/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@terentiabrowne Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terentia_browne Website: https://www.impeltalent.com/ Follow Raymond: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raymondlee.co Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpod X: http://twitter.com/hrentrepreneur Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videos Become a guest on Clocking Out: https://bit.ly/46sqClq

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  Episode #6

  Paul Tasner: Clorox Executive to Sustainable Startup Founder and TED Speaker at 66

  May 13, 202643 minS5

  In this episode of Clocking Out, we meet Paul Tasner, a man who spent four decades doing exactly what he was supposed to do, before getting fired at 64 and discovering that the most important chapter of his life hadn't started yet. Paul grew up in Newark, the son of a postal worker who carried mail on his back and complained about it quietly for thirty years. Without anyone saying it out loud, the message was clear: find something stable, stay there, keep your head down. And Paul followed that script with remarkable dedication. He chose industrial engineering because it was the least intense option. He pursued a PhD in mathematics and walked away five years in because he couldn't see himself living that life. He took a job with his favorite uncle and left within two years because the man he'd idolized was impossible to work for. Then he landed at Clorox, where he stayed for fifteen years. The first five full of ambition, the middle five a plateau, and the last five quietly suffocating under a boss who wanted him gone. At 64, fired and clear-eyed about his odds of being hired again, Paul didn't retire. He needed income, so he started consulting. But consulting felt like doing the same work for other people's companies, and he'd done enough of that. Over two years, an idea took shape: sustainable packaging made from waste pulp, a compostable replacement for the toxic plastic blister packs lining store shelves everywhere. He launched PulpWorks in 2011, at 66, into a market that wasn't ready for it. And he built it anyway, waiting for the world to catch up. Fifteen years later, with nearly 3 million views on a TED Talk he thought had the worst title he'd ever heard, Paul is still at it. Still checking his email every morning with something close to excitement. Still convinced that doing your own thing feels fundamentally different when it belongs to you. This conversation is about what it actually takes to start over late. Not with great courage or a grand plan, but with a financial need, a few good relationships, and the slow realization that the safe path was always a detour. It's about staying current, the unexpected gift of being let go, and what a Netherlands life insurance company told Paul after his TED Talk: that finding a passion in your senior years might be the single most powerful thing you can do for how long, and how well, you live. Connect with Paul at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2336787/admin/dashboard/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=pulpworks%2C%20inc Website: https://pulpworksinc.com/ Follow Raymond: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raymondlee.co Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpod X: http://twitter.com/hrentrepreneur Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videos Become a guest on Clocking Out: https://bit.ly/46sqClq

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