About Goodley Living
Hi, I'm Karina, a working mom in tech who believes building a successful career shouldn't require making work your entire life.
I've spent nearly a decade working in the tech industry, building programs, leading cross-functional teams, and figuring out how to navigate corporate life without relying on hustle as a strategy. Along the way, I earned my MBA, became a mom, moved into senior leadership, and got increasingly interested in one question: How can we make work work better for us?
I share practical systems for using AI, working smarter, making your accomplishments more visible, navigating corporate life, and building a career that continues to grow even when your time and attention are limited. Because you shouldn't need unlimited time, perfect productivity, or a five-year master plan to build a career you're proud of.
Let's build careers that compound.
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A corporate career, an ambitious life, and limited extra time
I'm a senior cybersecurity product and program manager at Microsoft, where I've spent nine years building specialized expertise, leading complex cross-functional work, and learning how careers actually grow inside a large company.
I'm also a working mom. My workday has a real stopping point because daycare pickup does not care how many meetings were added to my calendar. That has made me much more interested in leverage: better systems, clearer communication, useful AI workflows, and career habits that keep working when life is full.
Goodley Living is where I share the practical parts of that experience without pretending anyone needs another elaborate productivity routine.
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Practical AI workflows
Prompts and systems for meetings, updates, planning, writing, and documenting your work. The goal is useful leverage, not using AI for the sake of it.
Career systems
Visibility, managing up, performance evidence, influence, and the unwritten parts of building strong career options over time.
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Working-woman real life
Work-from-home tools, meeting-heavy days, desk comforts, daycare logistics, and small systems that make ambition more sustainable.
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Why the site still has recipes
Goodley Living started as a place for practical recipes, cookbook reviews, and simpler home life. I'm keeping that work available because people still use it. You can find it in the recipe archive, while the main focus of the site moves forward with AI, career strategy, and working life.