Allison Shares Her Unconventional Path to Career Freedom
Allison talks with Surrendering to the Signs host Laura Gates about how an unconventional journey led her from corporate burnout to a cabin in the woods and to an entirely new way of living.
What began as a quiet yearning for space became a full transformation: From feeling claustrophobic in her career to creating a wild sanctuary rooted in nature, community, and creative purpose. Allison shares how buying a tiny cabin led her into beekeeping, rewilding her land, and reconnecting with the rhythms of the natural world, all while continuing to teach and consult at the highest levels of data and AI leadership.
This conversation beautifully bridges the practical and the spiritual, the technological and the natural. It’s a story of listening deeply, following intuition, and allowing life to unfold in its own time, an act of applied serendipity in every sense.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
How Allison’s yearning for space sparked a life-changing journey
The healing connection between grief, land, and freedom
From corporate claustrophobia to cabin life: What happens when you listen to intuition
How one small cabin turned into a compound of creativity, connection, and care
The surprising intersections between AI, data science, and citizen science
What nature can teach us about systems, resilience, and balance
The future of community: family, tribe, and shared spaces of belonging
Healing through simplicity, rest, and reconnection
Allison’s reflections on risk, resilience, and reclaiming her own narrative
