Designing Purpose with Brooke Cretz

It's easy to think that once we discover and commit to our purpose, that we'll be doing the same things in the same ways for the remainder of our career. However, the expression of your purpose can and most likely will over time, which is a wonderful and freeing state of being. In this episode, we will explore how your purpose expression may evolve over time based on your priorities, learnings, an...

We are not meant to pursue our purposeful career alone. However, many people can find it difficult to explain and justify their purposeful career journey, particularly for those who may be risk-averse or unfamiliar with your new industry or business idea. This episode walks you through step-by-step how to build an effective purpose support team by illustrating the journey that Brooke and her husba...

Once we decide on the role or business venture we desire, the inevitable question becomes: "Where are my people?" Where are those people who will not only hire or pay me, but who I'm overjoyed to be working with. There is so much noise around social media, networking, and other aggressive strategies that make people dread the idea of making connections, when in reality you can form high-quality co...

The biggest barrier to starting a new business? Thinking you have to have all the pieces figured out before you can even begin. The longer we delay trying things out, inviting people in for feedback, and choosing one small thing to focus on at a time, the farther away we get from seeing what the busines could be. In this episode, we compare two examples of how experimentation can bring fresh inspi...

It's easy to chalk up your bad mood at work to a busy period, a stressful deadline, or an unhelpful co-worker, but how do you know when your frustration or unhappiness at work is actually a symptom of your misalignment with what you were meant to do? This episode explores the telltale signs of deeper purpose disconnection at work through my personal stories on how I felt, coped, and imagined when...

Discovering our purpose is simple, but so often we get stuck in what seem like insurmountable barriers that it feels easier to give up or not even try. This episode talks about the four main sticking points when pursuing your purpose: Money, Pleasing, Perfectionism, and Self-Doubt, as well as powerful strategies to overcome these that will make you unstoppable.

What we were meant for has always been within us, but it sometimes feels masked and hidden because we may have experienced woundedness, hurt, sadness, or anger that made us doubt or dismiss who we are. This episode provides the definitive three-step process to Identify, Interpret, and Integrate all of your passions, strengths, motivations, and values into the career you were meant for while releas...

Have you ever gotten out of a job that made you miserable, thought you found the perfect fit, and then ended up right back to feeling frustrated and resentful? When we are changing jobs or starting a business, so many of us are apt to copy/paste our previous ways of working and only changing the WHAT-that is the content of the job itself. In this episode, Brooke illustrates how the true way to exp...

When it comes to discovering our purpose, we truly deeply want it to be three things: fast, neat, linear. We want safe step-by-step guarantees that show us EXACTLY where we're going. But the more we try to force our journey to purpose to be these things, the longer we stay stuck right where we are. In this episode, Brooke uses her decade of coaching experience to illustrate the actual guidelines f...

The age-old question still plagues many of us today in our jobs: "Should I stay or should I go now?" However, this decision is anything but straightforward, especially when it can be so easy to find just as many if not more reasons to stay, even when you find yourself frustrated, drained, or dreading going to work on a regular basis. So in this episode, I will explore the ONLY question you need to...

From a young age, we are taught how to "win" at work. How to overdeliver, please our bosses, take on things that weren't ours, and prove to everyone how much we deserve to be there. We're told this will lead to the affirmation and praise that will fill us up and validate our choices, but when we are in the wrong jobs for us, it can actually lead to exhaustion, frustration, resentment, and burn out...

So you might KNOW you're not in the right place for you. You might have even considered quitting before. But something always seems to pull you back in before making a change. It's not the right time, you don't think it would be different anywhere else, you need to go back to school; sometimes the list seems overwhelming keeping you right where you are: safe but dissatisfied and unfulfilled. This...

It's easy to chalk up your bad mood at work to a busy period, a stressful deadline, or an unhelpful co-worker, but how do you know when your frustration or unhappiness at work is actually a symptom of your misalignment with what you were meant to do? This episode explores the telltale signs of deeper purpose disconnection at work through my personal stories on how I felt, coped, and imagined when...