Careers with Purpose
It’s the time of year when people start to think about making New Year’s resolutions. But since 2020 was such a dumpster fire (someone literally invented an emoji for it), some of us are feeling the 2021 hope more than ever. The changing of the
I worked at a summer camp as a teenager. I was working in the kitchen one week for a family camp when an older woman, a camper in her 70s, picked up a broom, and started sweeping the dining room. I took the broom from
Updated Jan. 7, 2023 1:00 am. My thirtieth birthday. I sat on a balcony near Frankfurt, Germany. As luck would have it, I celebrated my birthday doing something I’d always wanted to do but was always too afraid. I moved abroad. It was the night
Updated Jan 17, 2023 This post was inspired by a career cliche, and to be honest, I just had to take it on. As a kid, I remember being told, “Follow your dreams.” In fact, it kind of feels like a bad bumper sticker or
I left for university on a sunny, August afternoon. I was at the wheel of my parents’ chevy Astro van. A wooden trailer swayed along behind us, overflowing with my worldly possessions held down by a blue tarp. We hadn’t gone more than ten minutes
Updated May 25, 2021 In dedication to finding your passion, if you want, if you believe in the sort of thing… no pressure. 5:30 am. I run to catch the huge coach bus into the city. Still dark as the bus pulls up on the
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
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 in our hometown had
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
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