The corporate job is not the only option. It just feels that way until someone shows you differently.
Angelia McFarland is joined by Nishita Roy-Pope — founder and CEO of WorldRoo and Tribe Academy, TEDx speaker, and former leader at Dell Technologies — for a conversation about what it takes to leave the safety of a Fortune 50 company and build something that actually belongs to you.
Nishita spent a decade in high-impact corporate roles — innovating, scaling global programs, leading global teams — and one day recognized that none of it was hers. The ideas she built, the systems she designed, the results she delivered: they were assets on someone else’s balance sheet. So she left. Not impulsively. Deliberately, after years of making sure the pieces were in place.
This episode is about that decision: why she made it, what it cost, and what it revealed. It also challenges the unspoken assumption that corporate employment is “the standard” — the only way to apply a career’s worth of expertise with integrity and financial sustainability.
Nishita’s ventures — an EdTech company focused on early childhood STEM and diversity, and a talent coaching firm connecting diverse professionals with leading corporations — are proof that the standard is a choice, not a requirement.
What you’ve learned in corporate is yours. The question is what you’re going to do with it.
This auntie has more to say.
Find Angelia and her full body of work at eopmedia.com. If you’re ready to turn individual clarity into collective infrastructure, The Agency Collective is the next step. For Season 3 and beyond, check out The Tech Aunties on Spotify.
