How to Make a Big Difference, In a Sustainable Way.

You want to make a big impact, not just on a bottom-line, but in your community, your family, and society. You want to show up and devote yourself to a cause that is deeply aligned with your values and what makes you come alive. But what if your drive to fully-express who you are and what matters most to you doesn’t easily sync with the conventional ways of showing up at work, or pursuing your own path??

Today's featured guest on the SPARKED podcast, Claire, just hit pause on her decade-long stint in career advising and HR. She’s stepping into a newly elected government position, and exploring a new career path as a coach — one that allows her to make the most significant impact in her work while still getting paid what's she's worth. She also has strong values around simplicity and community.

How can she affect the greatest change in her community, in her family's lives, in her own life? What decisions and models might help her figure out what to say yes and no to in a way that makes a real difference and is also sustainable just on a personal level? And as someone who isn't too keen on the transactional side of coaching or consulting and wants to place a focus more on trust and authentic relationship-building, she poses the questions:?

Is there another workable model that weighs the value of my work and still ensures that I can pay rent? Could I have an offer that allows people to pay what they can, pay it forward, or pay what they feel my contribution is worth to them??

On deck with me this week from the SPARKED Braintrust is Karen Wright, founder of the coaching company Parachute Executive Coaching, acclaimed executive coach advisor to senior leaders for more than two decades, and author of two great books, The Accidental Alpha Woman and The Complete Executive. Together, we dive into the potential blindspot of trading time for money, share our own strategies for reshaping your offer to make the biggest impact, and more in this episode.?

Listen to this week's episode now by hitting play on the player below or find it on your favorite podcast app.

And, remember, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive: your Sparketype?. When you discover yours, everything - your entire work-life journey and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begin to make sense, and you feel better equipped to find, do, or create work that (finally) sparks you!

To learn your Sparketype, check out the free Sparketype? Assessment.

AND - if you’d like to submit your own questions for consideration for a future episode of SPARKED, you can do it here now.