The Good Hello
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7:30 AM. A Friday.

"Your role has
been eliminated."

By lunch, you've applied to 10 jobs. All of them are basically the one you just lost…the one that spiked your cortisol levels to panic mode.

This is the moment everyone gets wrong.

The Layoff Trap:

You activate the stupid 90-day Career Studio portal.
You have ChatGPT create 5 resume versions…WTF.
You register for (and forget to attend) the Pathway to Success webinar.

UGHHH. This is outplacement - the only thing the company knows how to do, pulled straight from the 1990’s layoff binder. It exists to get you re-hired fast…for a job that’ll either be replaced by AI or go obsolete. So what do you do?

You rush straight back to the room you just got kicked out of :(

Reapplying for another job to pay your bills ASAP after a layoff? Makes sense. But leaning on corporate for your financial security? That's a dead deal, now accelerated by AI.

What's not dead is your life experience. It's been your MVP all along. You've just kept it on the bench while believing your resume is the star player to help you recover from this layoff loss.

So here's our question:

Will you let this layoff become the story that quietly shapes every move you make next, or will you look at it honestly first and choose what comes after…

On your own terms.

Jackie and Gladys, at home, sunlit

Say a good goodbye to the job you just lost

(before you decide what comes next)

Your first chat is on us

Well, hello there!
Your first chat is headed to your inbox, on us. See you in there.
An alternative outplacement experience by Dr. Gladys & Jackie Ato
Release Date: Fall 2026

A way through the loss, not around it

And a break from the story that’s kept you playing safe.

Here’s why we love layoffs: they show you the real story you believe about what’s possible after every loss you’ve had to grieve.

Grief can become one of two stories:

One says, “protect myself from future loss.”
The other asks, “what will I create from what I’ve gone through?”

Your layoff is a real loss. And the grief of that loss is showing you the story that’s shaped your sense of security & self-worth this whole time.

We’re gonna rip up the parts limiting what you believe is possible so you stop treating your life experiences as liabilities & start seeing what they actually make you.

We know that when you stop deciding what’s possible from an old grief script that led you to choose safety over expansion, opportunities will pop up more easily. You’ll be choosing what comes next instead of running from what just happened.

You’re meant to reap the harvest of everything you’ve lived through. That’s what makes you the one-of-a-kind expert no employer could ever fully recognize.

We’re ready when you are.

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A peek at the conversation space with AI avatars of Gladys & Jackie

For mid- to late-career tech professionals who got laid off and are already back on the job boards:

Before the next application, have the conversation nobody gave you.

Well, hello there!
Your first chat is headed to your inbox, on us. See you in there.

Grieve it properly, then choose.

A method, two humans behind it, and one goal: to get you out of panic mode so the next move is one you actually picked.

The method

A clear strategy for change.

Built on The Good Goodbye® Approach, Dr. Gladys Ato's proprietary method for turning a loss into a chosen next chapter. We help you see your patterns tied to loss and help you choose a new path forward.

The two voices

A sister duo who gets you.

Jackie & Gladys with you each week through unlimited text support and as avatars trained in The Good Goodbye® Approach. Jackie will get you out of the layoff WTF fast. Gladys will help you see what the loss is actually showing you.

What you keep

You stop panic applying.

Leave with a glowed-up version of your professional self you've never been shown before, and the calm to choose your next step instead of spray 'n praying your way back into the same room.

Jackie and Gladys, seated by the cactus with a dog

This layoff was a moment.
Let’s make it good.

Jackie got laid off on her birthday. Twice in two years. The second time, LinkedIn had spent months teaching her AI so she could automate her own job out of existence. Classic.

The day after, she called her sis Gladys, a clinical psychologist and former CEO who laid off 140+ employees herself back in 2015. One conversation and she saw - for the first time - exactly what had been steering her career all along and sucking the life out of her.

And it had nothing to do with her doing anything wrong.

Gladys was pissed to hear Jackie had 4 hours to pack up her shit before getting locked out of her computer filled with her proud projects. That night, Gladys pulled out her own proud project tucked away in a “Brilliant Ideas” folder since 2017:

A completely new model for company execs to do layoffs humanely, rooted in The Good Goodbye® Approach: a framework based on Gladys’ 20+ years of helping people through life’s hardest transitions that actually moves people forward.

When Jackie said, “Everyone should have a Gladys to talk to after a layoff,” Gladys said “Duh.”

Two days later, Jackie was building what would become The Good Hello™…and making her 2nd layoff the thing that broke her free from doing more of what she was tired of.

One conversation did that.
We’re handing it to you for free.

Start your first chat

A layoff is a big WTF moment. For once, be proud to share it.

The LinkedIn #opentowork badge, the "I have shitty news” group chat…they all reek of the shame you’re now carrying that isn’t even yours. We change that script and make this layoff the best thing that’s happened in your career.

The real future-proof: Choosing you.

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Start with the goodbye.

The Good Goodbye® Approach is Dr. Gladys Ato's proprietary method for moving through a loss instead of outrunning it — with unlimited text access to Gladys & Jackie and ongoing support from their AI avatars, where you'll:

  1. Unearth the patterns that keep you loyal to an uncertain career identity.
  2. Name what this layoff actually cost you, instead of racing past it.
  3. Get out of panic mode, so your next step is one you chose.

Your first chat is on us.

Free · 48 hrs
Before you panic apply
Tell us about your layoff. We'll uncover the grief story beneath it that's kept you playing safe so you can stop treating ‘the job’ as your source of security & value.
Plus Integration, where you can stretch it out with Jackie and breathe it out with Gladys.

This is the conversation your outplacement package didn't give you…but should have.

A good goodbye first. You in?

Your first chat is on the house, for 48 hours.

Well, hello there!
Your first chat is headed to your inbox, on us. See you in there.