The Recalibration Years began with a simple observation.
A career that once felt meaningful begins to raise new questions. Health changes. Relationships evolve. Priorities shift. The world moves faster than expected. And somewhere in the middle of it all, a quiet voice asks:
Is it just me?
It isn’t.
What TRY is about
When something feels uncomfortable, we naturally look for an explanation in the most obvious place. But what we’re experiencing is often bigger than any single issue.
A career question may be intertwined with identity. Changes in health can influence confidence, relationships, priorities and purpose. What looks like one challenge is sometimes many small shifts happening at once.
When multiple parts of life change together, the impact compounds. The connections between them aren’t always obvious, especially when we’re in the middle of living them. What feels personal is often also shaped by the systems, expectations and environments around us.
The Recalibration Years exists to help people see that bigger picture, and to make space for better questions, clearer thinking and more intentional choices about what comes next. Clarity usually arrives before answers do, and small, considered shifts often matter more than dramatic reinvention.
Why I started TRY
I’m Mischa Douglas and I founded TRY after several years of significant personal and professional change.
Like many people, I found myself navigating multiple transitions at once: career changes, health challenges,
shifting priorities, family responsibilities, a move across countries, and bigger questions about identity,
purpose and what comes next.
Individually, none of those experiences were unusual. Together, they felt like something worth paying attention to.
“It wasn’t one thing.
It was the accumulation.”
My professional background spans HR, organisational development, recruitment, leadership, technology transformation and coaching. I hold a Bachelor of Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology, and for more than two decades I’ve helped individuals, teams and organisations through change.
I’ve coached people through career transitions, led transformation programs, built strong teams and supported organisations through growth and uncertainty. Across very different industries, I kept noticing the same thing. When several parts of life or work shift at once, capable, resilient and successful people can feel off-kilter. What they needed was a way to make sense of what was happening and why.
The more I reflected on my work and my own life, the more I realised these patterns were connected. People from different backgrounds, industries and life stages were asking remarkably similar questions:
Why does something feel different?
Why doesn’t this fit anymore?
What comes next?
The Recalibration Years grew from there, where personal experience meets professional insight.
It’s a place to explore change honestly, ask better questions and share what we’re learning. These experiences don’t belong to any one generation, gender or profession. They’re part of being human in a fast-changing world.
None of us have all the answers. But change is easier to navigate when we understand what’s happening and know we’re not doing it alone.
What TRY believes
Recalibration means understanding who you are now and choosing what comes next.
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need a place to begin.
Creating clarity in complexity.
