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​By late in her career she had already built pathways for others—mentoring members of her team so her eventual exit would be smooth. The practical guardrail for timing was simple: turning 65 meant Medicare availability; health insurance would no longer dictate her choices. She told her firm’s president months in advance and set a plan.

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The deeper readiness, though, had started years earlier at a Las Vegas show in March 2020 where a psychic medium asked volunteers to try bending a spoon with their minds. Jacqueline’s spoon folded cleanly in half. Backstage, the medium said what Jacqueline had long suspected but never named: she had gifts. That moment opened a two-year mentorship and a study of the “psychic arts” she’d always been drawn to—angels, intuition, channeling. As she reflected on childhood memories of “knowing things a six-year-old shouldn’t know,” a throughline emerged. The messages she’d always sensed were, to her, from angels.

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In 2023 she quietly launched a side endeavor, “Powered by Angels,” while still working full-time. With her niece helping part-time on social media, she began writing an angel-number blog, building an email list, and doing one-on-one sessions outside work. By the time she stepped away at 65, the scaffolding for a passion-driven next act was in place.

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Current Direction
Today Jacqueline’s work braids three strands. First, she offers one-on-one sessions to help people get unstuck, find direction, and feel more fulfilled, blending intuitive insights with hard-won leadership experience. Second, she creates educational content aimed at helping people “stay in the light," introducing concepts such as guardian angels, the roles of fifteen archangels, and, for those who want it, how astrology can serve as a practical map for growth (e.g., pairing zodiac energies with specific archangel support). Third, she’s writing a book on angels and angel numbers, with an eye toward future speaking.

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She’s also testing a small merchandise line: fifteen custom angel designs placed on gift items through a brick-and-mortar “French market” style retailer called Painted Tree. With a deep comfort in physical retail from earlier jobs at Sears and OfficeMax, she prefers in-person selling to online marketplaces. Her near-term goal for the booth is modest. To “break even or a bit more” because the real aim is community and brand presence. Meanwhile, the digital ecosystem continues to grow: 1,000+ blog followers, an 8,000-person email list, and steady activity on Facebook and Instagram under the “powered by angels” banner, all pointing to her site at JacquelineKuhn.com.

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Public acceptance? She’s moved past needing it. Raised Catholic and still believing in God and Jesus, Jacqueline did personal work including past-life hypnosis and a great deal of inner reflection to release the old pattern of seeking approval. Reactions to her path range from wholehearted enthusiasm to quiet distance. She’s okay with both. The compass now is obedience to guidance, what she experiences as messages from angels and the steadiness that comes from daily prayer and meditation. Longer term, she imagines living on the water in Florida; it isn’t required for success, but it feels like the right setting for the chapter she’s writing.

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Advice to Others

1. Get clear on needs vs. wants. The biggest blocker she sees in pivots is fear about money. Do the math. Decide what you truly need, not what habit or lifestyle says you “should” have. If fear remains, ask why? Are expectations unrealistic? Are you living beyond your means? Name it so it stops quietly running your life.
    

2. Do the inner work. Significant pivots demand work on one’s inner landscape. Whether that’s traditional therapy, coaching, spiritual direction, hypnosis, or something else, address the patterns such as approval-seeking, scarcity, perfectionism that keep you stuck. In Jacqueline’s experience, everyone who makes a meaningful shift has done some form of this clearing. Without it, most people either stay put or embrace the job they already have rather than creating the one they want.
    

3. Build from contribution. Her own career was animated by helping first through HR tech education and client service, now through intuitive guidance and teaching. When you root a pivot in service, the path tends to organize around you. Followers, clients, formats (sessions, content, products) become vehicles for the same core purpose: making someone else’s life a little easier.
    

4. Nourish the soul daily. Meditation and prayer aren’t extras; they’re fuel. If religious language doesn’t fit, use a secular practice: quiet, breath, a simple mantra. If it does, know that practices like the rosary function are moving meditations. Either way, consistent stillness clears the mental noise so you can perceive what’s next and act on it.
    

5. Expect mixed reactions and keep going. Some will cheer; some won’t understand. That’s not a verdict on your purpose. Courage is choosing alignment over approval.
    

Jacqueline’s story is a Passion Pivoter in its purest sense: leaving when the work stops being life-giving, listening for a truer assignment, and organizing a new livelihood around it. Whether you call that guidance, intuition, grace, or angels, the practical steps look the same—simplify your needs, do the inner work, serve from your strengths, and keep showing up.