I started my career in HR, which makes a lot more sense to me now than it probably did at the time. I loved the people part of the job: employee engagement, creating better experiences, and figuring out what helps people feel supported at work.

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Then came yoga. Then graduate school in holistic nutrition. Then health coaching. I taught yoga in corporate settings, facilitated wellbeing sessions, coached people through employee health benefits, and kept gravitating toward work that helped people make changes in their lives.

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The more experience I got, the less interested I became in handing people a list of things they should be doing. Most of us already have plenty of shoulds.

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I’m much more interested in what’s underneath all of that: What matters to you? What’s getting in the way? What have you already tried? What would make this feel more doable?

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Eventually it became pretty clear that all those different jobs and trainings weren’t as disconnected as they looked. They were all teaching me how to work with people, not just give them more information.