Ashley is a career and leadership coach and founder of the coaching practice Unstuck Collective. She brings 10 years of experience in Human Resources, with a strong background in organizational dynamics, performance strategy, and systems thinking. Through her coaching, she helps people navigate difficult workplace challenges, recognize their own agency, and make intentional changes to build the careers and lives they want.

For millions of American families, food insecurity has little to do with whether someone is working. It has everything to do with whether work pays enough, stays consistent, and comes with the stability needed to plan for basic needs. This is the reality Lemontree, a nonprofit food assistance platform, confronts every day — and it's a reality that overlaps closely with the workplace and employment challenges Empower Work exists to address.

Feeling constantly overworked, emotionally drained, and disconnected from your job? These are some signs that you may be having more than just a rough week. You may be experiencing burnout.

When you’re struggling at work, finding the right words to describe what you’re feeling is hard. And finding those words in a language that isn’t your first can feel deeply isolating. If English isn’t your native language, you’re not alone.

Ever wonder what it’s like to text Empower Work? Meet Dawn. Dawn was struggling with long-term unemployment for two years when she reached out to Empower Work for support. She is a caretaker, a mother, and now a CNA who found light at the end of the tunnel of a long and harrowing job search where she’d felt like she’d tried everything. Our writer, Mackenzie, met with Dawn to get a sense of what her job search was like, and what it was like to text Empower Work. 

At Empower Work, we hear from thousands of workers navigating challenges related to career growth, job searches, workplace stress, finding stable employment, and more. We’re proud to support people through these moments via our peer support text line, and through partnerships with trusted community spaces like public libraries. We’re thrilled to be testing a new partnership with public libraries starting with the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), with the goal to supplement the jobs and career support that public libraries offer the library patrons with the Empower Work text line.