The Elder Who Fired Me

Rachel Tan ran a third-generation manufacturing business until 2021, when the family board — several of whom attend her church — voted to replace her.

Rachel describes the meeting itself, the six months before it when she knew something was moving, and the specific damage of being removed by people whose faith she shared.

She now chairs a board herself, and the last twenty minutes are about what she does differently: how she tells people bad news, and why she refuses to let a decision about a person happen without that person in the building.