Your "Safe" Job Isn't Safe — What Sticking It Out Is Really Costing You with Cindy Gallop

Unbehaved · Oct 6, 2026 · 50m

"Too many people make the mistake of thinking that a job is the safe option. It's not."

Cindy Gallop was 45 when she sat down on her birthday to take stock, realized she'd given sixteen years to the same advertising agency, and resigned as chairman of BBH New York with no job to go to and no idea what came next. Twenty-one years later, she has never regretted it. The one thing she'd tell her younger self: start working for yourself a damn sight sooner.

Then there's her grandmother's saying, which opens this episode: the fool says evil cannot touch me, but drop by drop the pitcher fills…