What if your most aligned work sits at the crossroads of what you’ve done and what you’re drawn to now? Aimee Gindin’s career is a masterclass in the "winding path," featuring significant pivots from crisis counseling and a pre-med detour at Harvard to a 14-year climb up the marketing corporate ladder.

At age 40, Aimee walked away from the C-suite to build a career rooted in empathy and human connection. In this conversation, we deconstruct how she leveraged transferable skills, strategic volunteering and self-trust to reinvent herself multiple times, eventually finding her "nexus" in weight-inclusive health and intuitive eating.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

The "Why" Behind the Pivot: How to recognize when you are chasing status instead of satisfaction.
Strategic Volunteering: How Aimee used an unpaid internship to land her first marketing role with zero prior experience.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: How a coach's powerful question—"How dare you not share your gifts?"—sparked Aimee's entrepreneurial leap.
Intuitive Eating 101: A research-backed look at why 95% of diets fail and how to rebuild trust with your body.
Building Community: Inside The Full Plate, a space for food neutrality, myth-busting, and weight-inclusive provider directories.

About Our Guest: Aimee Gindin is an intuitive eating counselor, certified nutrition coach, and former mental health therapist. She is the founder of The Full Plate, a community designed to help individuals make peace with food and their bodies through a weight-neutral lens.

Connect with Aimee:
The Full Plate Newsletter & Full-plate-nutrition.com
LinkedIn.com/in/aimee-gindin

Books referenced in the episode:
The Pathfinder, by Nicholas Lore - a book on choosing careers that changed Aimee's life. (Note: This is an affiliate link, which helps support the show!)

Intuitive Eating, by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch - The go-to resource for building a healthy body image and making peace with food, once and for all.

(Note: Both books are affiliate links, which helps support the show!)

This conversation explores midlife career reinvention, transferable skills, and how intuitive eating and weight-inclusive care can reshape both personal health and professional purpose.

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107. Career Pivots & Food Freedom: Aimee Gindin on Leaving the C-Suite to Found The Full Plate