empowerment narratives 2025-09-26T17:50:57Z

Rain lashed against my office window like a thousand tiny fists, each drop mirroring the frustration building in my chest. I'd just spent 45 minutes reworking a client presentation only to watch my manager delete the core slides with a dismissive flick of his wrist. "Too radical," he'd muttered, not even looking up from his phone. The walk back to my desk felt like wading through wet concrete, the fluorescent lights humming a funeral dirge for my ideas. That's when my thumb instinctively found t