Donn Durante

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Five layoffs compressed my pattern recognition from years to weeks. What I learned through disruption—about career design, resilience, and finding your "just right" in unstable times—became The Goldilocks Journey, a memoir-theory hybrid coming September 2026.

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THE GOLDILOCKS JOURNEY
Finding Your "Just Right" in a Complex WorldA memoir-theory hybrid about navigating career disruption, late blooming, and the space between extremes.Five layoffs in eight years taught me pattern recognition I couldn't learn any other way. By the third, I was recovering faster. By the fifth, I'd started looking for what came next before the official notice. That compression—from years to months to weeks—revealed frameworks worth sharing.This book doesn't prescribe solutions. It maps territory through lived experience: DJ instincts applied to career design, lessons from teaching English in Japan,
trading family time for six figures before hitting a wall, and learning to navigate polarities instead of seeking static balance.For anyone facing disruption, rebuilding after setback, or questioning whether their path still fits.COMING SEPTEMBER 2026Join the email list for early chapters, launch updates, and advance reader opportunities.

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I've spent three decades navigating the space between extremes—as a DJ reading rooms and finding gaps, as an English teacher in Japan learning cross-cultural translation, as a corporate executive trading family time for six figures before
hitting a wall, and through five career disruptions that taught me more about resilience than any business book.The Goldilocks Journey grew from recognizing patterns across those experiences. After the third layoff, I noticed I was recovering faster. By the fifth, I'd started looking for what came next before the official notice arrived. That compression—from years to months to weeks—revealed something worth sharing.I'm not selling solutions. I'm mapping territory I'm still navigating, offering frameworks tested through lived experience for others facing similar terrain.Currently: Store lead at Men's Wearhouse, writing weekly on Substack, completing manuscript revisions, staying curious about what's emerging.

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