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Abi Majekodunmi on Building a Runway Out of the 9-5
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- May 27, 2026
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Summary
Most people leave the 9-5 one of two ways: they quit in a blaze and figure it out later, or they stay until they burn all the way down. Abi Majekodunmi found a third way. She ran the numbers. Abi is the founder of Freedom Runway™ and a former senior tech marketing manager... a mom of two boys who looked, from the outside, like she had it all handled. Six figures. Good reviews. The promotions. And one morning, driving back from school drop-off, she went right past her own house. She wasn’t running from her family. She just couldn’t make herself go back inside for one more day of the rush. What she did next is the whole episode. She asked herself a question she had never actually asked before: what do I want? Then, because she is a self-described money geek, she built a runway... a number separate from her emergency fund, sized to her family’s real expenses, so that when she left she would never feel like she had to come back. She thought it would take twelve months. It took five. Abi and I come at this from opposite directions. I leapt on a gut feeling; she got strategic and was gone in a season. But we land in exactly the same place: if you don’t get honest about what you actually want and what your numbers actually are, you carry the stress right out the door with you. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome and Introducing Abi Majekodunmi 01:05 Who Abi Is: From Burnt-Out Corporate to Helping Moms Exit 02:50 The Immigrant Script: Become a Doctor, Lawyer, or Accountant 05:14 COVID, Two Kids at Home, and Meetings With the Camera Off 07:04 The Morning She Kept Driving Past Her Own House 10:53 The First Question She Ever Asked: What Do I Want? 12:19 Building a Runway Beyond the Emergency Fund 13:44 Twelve Months Became Five: The Power of a Takeoff Date 17:32 Why a Coach Holds Your Vision…