How a Career Gap Helped One Parent Return as a Brand Strategist

The Comeback Career Podcast with Fexingo: Returning After a Gap, Stay-at-Home Re-Entry · Jul 5, 2026 · 8m · transcript

When Sarah Chen left her marketing manager role in 2018 to care for her twins, she assumed her career in brand strategy was over. Seven years later, she returned to the workforce not as a junior hire but as a senior brand strategist at a midsize agency. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack Sarah's specific playbook: how she kept her strategic thinking sharp through a part-time consulting project, used a portfolio of pro-bono work to bridge the resume gap, and negotiated a return at a level higher than she left. They also discuss the 'brand strategy refresh' framework she…