WORKSHOP
Get Your Story Straight
Turn your complicated career journey into a story that's compelling and completely yours - without spinning the truth or pretending the hard parts didn't happen.
If you’ve ever stumbled through explaining a layoff, career pivot, or left an interview wishing you said something differently, this workshop is for you.
Get Your Story Straight is a 2-hour narrative strategy workshop that provides a structured and practical approach to turn your experience into a story that works for you, not against you.
Our goals:
Help you build a clear, honest narrative you actually believe in
Give you language for the hard parts: gaps, pivots, layoffs
Go from stumbling in interviews and networking conversations to confidence
Pivot from over-explaining to owning the full picture of what you bring
Send you away with a story that feels true and lands with what people need to hear
When: Friday, April 17th 1-3pm EST
Where: Virtual
Hosted by: Roberta Dombrowski from Learn Mindfully
Heres What You'll Get
❋ Live Workshop Session2-hour workshop where you’ll work through everything in real time. Come with your career history, leave with a framework and first draft of your story. You’ll get guided exercises, real time feedback, and peer practice.
❋ Story Straight Workbook15-page workbook with frameworks, prompts, and exercises from the session so you can return to long after the workshop is over. Use it to prep for interviews, refresh your narrative after a shift, or work through your story any time it needs updating
❋ Post Workshop RecordingCan’t make every moment count in real time? You’ll get a recording of the session to revisit the frameworks and work through exercises at your own pace.
❋ A Supportive SpaceOur events prioritize comfort, safety, and respect—so you can show up as you are and fully engage in the process.
Why It Works
Most workshops teach you to polish your portfolio. We teach you to own your narrative because your materials only get you to the room. The story gets you the offer.
Most interview prep gives you scripted answers. Ours gives you a framework you can use for any question or audience, because real confidence comes from clarity, not memorization.
Most career advice assumes a linear path. We’re designed for the messy middle that actually reflects how women move through roles in tech.
That's the power of joining The Get Your Story Straight Workshop.
Join Get Your Story Straight
Friday, April 17th
1-3pm EST, virtual
This is where we help you build a story you actually believe in so you can show up without apology and stop leaving conversations wishing you said something differently.
Who Will Get The Most Out of This
Who this isn’t for
❌ Folks who are in survival mode and need to land a new job immediately
❌ You want scripted answers to memorize
❌ You want to spin your story or hide the gaps
❌ You’re not willing to get honest about what's happened in your career
Who this is for
✅ You’re a women in tech with a path that you struggle to explain clearly
✅ You’ve experienced a layoff, career pivot, or complicated role and don’t know how to talk about it
✅ You leave interviews or networking conversations wishing you said something differently
✅ You know you have expertise and value - you just can’t seem to make others see it
✅ You’re ready to stop shrinking and start owning the full picture of what you bring
Meet your CoachHi, I’m Roberta Dombrowski
I spent 15 years in the corporate world before leaving my VP role to build something different. Since that time, I’ve watched hundreds of women undersell themselves - not because they lacked experience, but because they haven’t learned to translate their experience into language that resonated.
When I went through my own career transitions (3 and counting), I had to figure out how to tell a story that included layoffs, major pivots, and years of work in roles that didn’t have clear titles. I discovered that most career advice assumes your path is linear, and most interview prep skips right over the hardest parts to explain.
That’s why I've created the Get Your Story Straight Workshop. It's the session, I wish I had when I needed it the most.
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What to Expect
This 2-hour narrative workshop will introduce you to a framework to turn your complicated, non-linear career into a story that's compelling and completely yours - without spinning the truth or pretending the hard parts didn't happen.
Step 1Find the thread
Identify the throughline that connects every chapter of your career.
The Old Way: Listing every role in chronological order. Leaving it up to the listener to connect the dots. Apologizing for gaps or pivots before you’ve been asked about them. Letting others define what your experiences mean.
The New Way: You’ll uncover a consistent throughline in your work - the core skills, values, and impact; this helps you to lead with the narrative instead of your job titles. You’ll stop letting the listener decide what your path means and start giving a clear, compelling story.
✅ Quick Win Example: A UX Researcher who held a product role stops saying “I know my background is a bit of a mess” and opens with “I’ve spent my career at the intersection of research and product, which means I can translate my insights into decisions in ways that most researchers can’t”
Step 2Reframe the hard parts
Build honest, confident language for layoffs, pivots, and chapters that don’t fit nearly into a story
The Old Way: Avoiding the topic until asked directly. Overexplaining with too much context. Saying things like “it was a toxic environment” in ways that raises questions. Minimizing what you actually learned. Hoping no one notices the gap on your resume.
The New Way: You’ll learn to address the messy moments directly and without apology - framing them as evidence for your clarity and growth. You’ll practice language that's honest without oversharing.
✅ Quick Win Example: Instead of stumbling through explaining a layoff, you’ll leave with a response you feel confident about : “My entire research team was eliminated in a company-wide restructure. But it gave me the push to be intentional about what I want in my next role”
Step 3Land the story
Put it all together in a narrative that works in interviews, networking conversations, and other areas where you want to show up fully.
The Old Way: Giving a different answer every time you're asked about your background. Underselling yourself because you're not sure what parts matter. Leaving conversations wishing you said something differently.
The New Way: You’ll craft and practice a flexible, authentic narrative you can adapt across contexts. You’ll know when to go longer, shorters, or how to lead with different audiences.
✅Quick Win Example: A client who has been in tech for 12 years but could never answer the “tell me about yourself” question in a succinct way leaves with a clear, concise elevator pitch she can adapt for LinkedIn.
Quick Recap: What You Get
✅ Live 2-hour workshop— Structured workshop where you’ll work through your career story in real time. Come with your messy history and leave with a narrative framework and first draft. Includes guided exercises, real-time-feedback, and peer practice.
✅ Story Straight Workbook — Including all of the frameworks and exercises, yours to keep and return to
✅ Post Workshop Recording— Full session recording for referring back to
✅ Peer Practice — Real time feedback from other women working on the same issues
✅ Practical Tools — Tools and frameworks you can immediately use in your next interview or conversation
Your Investment: $225
FAQs
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This was built specifically for complicated. A linear career doesn't need much help — it's the pivots, the gaps, and the non-obvious moves that this workshop is designed to untangle.
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You'll come with your pre-work done and spend the two hours building, drafting, and practicing. You'll leave with something written, not just ideas.
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A 90-second story you've actually said out loud, a workbook with frameworks you can return to, and the building blocks to draft your 30-second and written versions on your own after the session.