Want to know the hardest thing about reinvention? The shame. I spent most of my youth and all of my adulthood until I was in my mid twenties as an evangelical. It wasn’t something I ever wanted to leave. Unlike most kids, I didn’t question
Updated Jan. 17, 2023 In my first year of college, I moved in with my band. Yeah, that’s right. I was actually planning to be a rock star, but agreed to get an education as my “backup.” You know how rock stars be 😉 Someone
Have you ever googled this question? “What degree makes the most money?: Each year, new lists come out of the highest-paying degree fields for that year. Sometimes, we see the list for the lowest-paid too. These types of lists create one of the dumbest phenomena
How can you do what you love? I watched an interview once with an entrepreneur. She loved what she did so much that she couldn’t wait to get up in the morning. She told the interviewer that she woke up at 5:30 am without an
Updated Feb, 15, 2021 Can telling your story help you find your purpose in life? We love to tell stories. In fact, stories are so powerful that they come to define our realities. Our ancestors sat around the fire and told stories. The stories had
Where do you see yourself in five years? The first time I was ever asked this question in an interview, I had no clue how to answer. I’d never thought about it before. Yeah, it’s a fairly routine interview question. But I didn’t know how
Be creative in how you apply your skills in the marketplace. For the love of God we were not taught to be creative when I was a kid. We thought about careers as a series of boxes. You had to fit into a certain career-box.
Updated Dec 11, 2022 I once held the hand of a stranger who had just found out she was about to die. She was in her late 60s, diagnosed suddenly with terminal cancer and weeks to live. I was an awkward young seminarian, training to
Updated February 1, 2023 When I got to Ottawa, I found that everyone had ideas about how to be successful. Friends told me that I should get a job as a policy advisor in a cabinet minister’s office or for a politician. In some ways,
I was having lunch with a fellow PhD working outside of academia the other day, and I articulated something I’ve been thinking but didn’t quite know how to say. I don’t regret my PhD. I really don’t, even though I’m cynical about academia. It’s a
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