Devon Hunt is a writer, a retreat host, and someone who is drawn to taste, style, and how it comes about.
She went to a good school, snagged a business degree, became a CPA, and spent the better half of a decade at a Big 4 firm. She checked promotions off one by one in a career that felt predictable, until one day, she chose to step off the treadmill.
In this conversation, we dig into what apathy at work tells us, why the fear of making the wrong choice keeps people stuck longer than the wrong choice itself ever would, and what happened when Devon finally gave herself permission to want more (and allowed herself to be seen doing it).
We get into:
Why passion fall-off is a signal worth listening to (and why pushing through isn’t always the answer)
What burnout leave looks like (spoiler: it’s not a bubble bath)
The difference between an opportunity finding you and working your ass off to be in the right place for it, and how they often coexist and seem to intermingle
Why publishing her writing was more difficult for her than the writing itself
Why fashion and aesthetics deserve intellectual rigor
I loved this conversation with Devon, and have been so excited to share it with you all. She’s self-aware, confident, fun to talk to, and has a way with words (both spoken and written). She cites Bourdieu in essays about fashion and somehow makes it feel completely natural, and has recently started sharing her journey in doing The Artist’s Way on her Substack.
What I keep coming back to from this episode is her framing of apathy as the canary in the coal mine. I know I’ve felt this, and at various stages in my life have either ignored the signs or pushed through. Devon talks about what happened when she listened to those warning signs, took a step back, and what she’s found since. I think many others can relate as well.
Find Devon
Substack: closet brain rot
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