You don’t know what to call yourself anymore. Welcome.

It starts small. You’re filling out a bio, updating your LinkedIn trying to describe what you do. And nothing sounds right.

Too vague. Too stiff. Too narrow. Too inflated.

You used to have a title that fit. A role that made sense.

Now? You’ve moved on, but the words haven’t.

And suddenly something that should take 30 seconds has you spiraling — because if you can’t explain it, how will anyone else understand it?

Most people wait for a job title to tell them who they are.

But when your path doesn’t follow a clean ladder, when you’ve worked across roles, shipped things on your own, and picked up new tools along the way, that question gets harder to answer.

You know you’re not lost. You’re working. You’re building.

But when you try to explain it, it sounds scattered.

So you default to the last version of you people understood.

Even if it’s not true anymore.

This hit me hard over the last few months.

I went from a decade of community building with something clear and established, something people knew me for, to making my own products from scratch.

I started shipping small ideas that became paid customers but every time someone asked what I do, I’d flinch.

Because there wasn’t a one-liner.

Because I couldn’t point to a job description.

Because I wasn’t sure if “product builder” made sense for someone who never learned to code.

And even as things worked, even as people paid for what I built, I still felt like I didn’t know how to introduce myself. I still don’t.

Here’s what helping me get through that fog:

• Stop trying to find the perfect sentence. Write something functional and let the work do the talking. If the sentence gets better later, great. But don’t wait for it.
• Describe your direction, not your identity. “I’m working on X, I’m building Y, I’m focused on Z” is often truer than anything with a label.
• Trust that coherence comes after the fact. The people with crisp bios usually wrote them after the interesting part was over. Don’t copy their clarity while you’re still in motion.
• Don’t go back to a past version of yourself just because it’s easier to explain. That’s how people get stuck doing work they’ve outgrown.

You don’t need to impress anyone with your answer.

You just need to keep going until your new shape makes sense. To you first, and everyone else later.

No one’s going to give you your next title.

You’ll grow into it.

And when it lands, it won’t be because you wrote a better headline.

It’ll be because you kept moving through the part most people never do.

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