When I was working full-time in Corporate America if anyone during my 21-year career there had approached me and said I would leave technology to become a motivational speaker and career coach one day - I would have fallen off my chair in tears laughing. I never considered myself a coach or trainer. I was a girl geek in tech. I knew how to come up with creative solutions to challenges leveraging technology, people and processes. That's it. Never say never, right?

The photo below was taken sometime in those twenty-one years. I really can't say when. It was taken in downtown Boston where I used to travel often for work. It was one of the many times I would jump up, grab a marker and write on a white board whenever I felt I wasn't being clear enough for my team to follow my line of thought. I would also use that white board if I wanted to write instead of speak, hoping a drawn picture would do the talking and I would fill in the gaps with questions. Today, it's a gutsy strategy I teach to students. How to master smart and simple to influence and lead a team that understands your WHY.

I share this photo with you because I didn't know what I didn't know back then. However, when I completed the exercises in this module I discovered for myself what was already there within me from the day I came into this world - that I was always a teacher, a trainer, a coach, a nurturer. I was someone that would light up with joy if I could share even the smallest nugget of information to support someone else in their life. I was and still am here to serve in this way.

Now at the time, I wasn't officially in the education industry. Does that matter? Not really because everyone by nature is an educator. You can basket weave for a living, at some point you will wake up with an A HA moment and realize it's time to teach basket weaving!

Being a technologist was my chosen path and how I first found my abilities to serve in this way. Later on I discovered coaching was my path to fully help others in a bigger way and make an impact.  Both fulfilled the same purpose, only in different careers.

When you walk through this module, have an open mind. I won't help you discover anything new in yourself. I will help you discover what is already there. The books that you've read in your life, the movies you love, the people you gravitate to, the places you've visited were not random. This module will help you find your roots that which has always been there since you arrived on this earth. Once you receive that clarity you will achieve a new sense of purpose and fulfillment which in turn will guide you to what your chosen vocation is. The definition of the root word "vocare" is to act on purpose. This module is meant for you to run everything you do in your life through what I like to call a filtration system. Any meeting, phone call, connection you make going forward should be aligned with your purpose. If it's not, then follow your gut and turn away and towards only those things that are.