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Prestige has a Price - One Woman’s Pivot

What If the Life You Worked Your Whole Career to Build Is the One That's Breaking You? On toxic leadership, the courage to choose yourself, and what I’ve learned sitting across from people who finally did. There are moments that quietly rewrite us. Not the dramatic ones we point to later as “the day everything changed,” but the slower kind: the Sunday night dread we normalize, the tension in our shoulders we joke about, the version of ourselves we no longer recognize in the mirror. In my work, I’ve learned that the most dangerous place to stay is not the job that’s hard or demanding. It’s the one that slowly convinces you the damage it’s doing is your fault. That’s the real subject beneath my conversation with Kim Huey Steiner. Kim has the résumé most strivers recognize. Big name brands. Senior roles. A long, steady climb through media sales into the type of position we’re taught to see as proof: number two to the president, access, travel, status. The kind of job that makes people nod approvingly when you tell them what you do. What we talked about wasn’t her ascent. It was what happened when she finally arrived and realized the room she’d worked so long to enter was the one disassembling her from the inside. She knew enough going in to know the culture was complicated. She knew the leadership had a reputation. She took the job anyway, for reasons many of us would recognize: prestige, trajectory, the story of who she was “supposed” to become. When the reality didn’t match the promise, she didn’t immediately blame the system. She blamed herself. That, to me, is the hallmark of a toxic environment. It doesn’t just exhaust you. It rearranges your internal narrative so that every signal of misalignment becomes evidence of your own inadequacy. In Kim’s case, that misalignment showed up in small but telling ways. A leader who outsourced the hardest decisions but kept the clean, polished image. Requests that violated her sense of integrity in the name of “this is how things are done.” A culture where power moved freely but responsibility did not.