Is it time to do work that really matters to you?
Do you need clarity on your natural talents?
Are you trying to figure out where to even start?
If you've followed all the "rules" of traditional career advice just to end up in another soul-sucking job,
you need a different approach.
Discover What You Were Born To Do®
will help you uncover your hidden genius and
transform your relationship with work.
What you're really investing in when you join is
how you're going to feel
every day - for the rest of your life.
"I've been helping people find their authentic path for over a decade and I'm positive I can help you find yours." - Shannon L. Post
"I think that, most likely, I would've given up on my dream career had it not been for the work we did."
– Aspenyarrow | Singer-Songwriter
Before we begin,
I want you to know two things...
#1 You Aren't Alone
Finding the Right Path feels Confusing for everyone
(Regardless of what their Instagram says)
#2 You Can Figure This Out
everyone is capable of finding their true path
(No matter what "the experts" tell you)
You are not a failure.
You are not broken.
You simply live in a society that values conformity, and doesn’t teach you to listen and to trust yourself.
I promise you that no matter how lost you feel, how disconnected you are from your own desires, you can discover what you really want.
I’m here to help you listen to that voice.
"Your personality is so warm and supportive. It was the perfect environment for me to ask questions and express personal doubts. It was also the perfect way to turn my Kolbe results into actionable changes."
– Dr. Candice Blacknall, MD | Founder of GABA Inc.
Here's What We'll Unpack
Module 1
Your Affective
Strengths
Desires, preferences, dreams + how they affect into your long-term plans.
Module 3
Your Learned
Strengths
Trends + the education that can forcast your ideal career paths.
Module 5
Personal
Leadership
You're in the driver's seat now. Take control of your career, yourself, your life.
Module 7
Who is Leading?
You or Human Nature
Understand how human biology influences your decision-making.
Module 9
Choosing Your Path
Learn how to feel confident that you're making the right decision.
Module 11
Committing to
Your Vision
How to commit to yourself & your plan, even if commitment scares you.
Module 2
Your Innate
Strengths
The Kolbe A™ Index reveals your natural, inborn strengths.
Module 4
Your Core
Strengths
Your core, stacked strengths. See where you can be a superstar.
Module 6
Your Innate Navigational System
Understand the natural decision-making tools innate in all humans.
Module 8
Who is Leading? You or Your Social Programming
Understand how culture & childhood influence
your decision-making.
Module 10
Troubleshooting Your Decisions
Adjust your plan, recover from mistakes and prevent them in the future.
Module 12
Making Your Dreams Inevitable
How to ensure your dreams actually come into your day-to-day reality.
What We Won't Cover
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Resumes & cover letters (I can point you to amazing experts)
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Interview skills (but I will send you a bonus how-to guide)
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Magic pills, instant fixes, and winning lottery ticket strategies
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Old school, stuffy, blue suit & tie "professionalism" (also, if you're highly offended by the word "darn," or worse, we aren't a fit). However, the elements of modern professionalism — authenticity, integrity, respect, kindness, inclusion, openness and trustworthiness - will come up.
"What you helped me to see through the Kolbe test was extremely enlightening. It really helped me to understand myself and how my personality intimately coincides with the services I provide. I think for any entrepreneur this knowledge is an incredible asset to having a higher level of achievement than they could have ever imagined to themselves, prior to having this kind of wisdom."
– Corey Gumbs | Podcast Strategy Expert,
Founder of The Black Podcasters Association & Black Label Media LLC
What's Included
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12 modules delivered once a week via email
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Video, audio and transcript delivery to align with your learning preference
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Weekly exercises ensure you have a place to work through the concepts
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Email access to ensure you have personalized support
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Lifetime course content access
The Extra Bonuses You'll Receive
Bonus #1
30-Day Access to Journey Mentorship Community
You need other people.
Once you discover your authentic career path, the work of bringing your idea to life begins. You'll need to develop new skills and habits to get you there. But trying to do all this alone is S-L-O-W. So slow you may never get there by yourself. Journey is a community of people on the same path who will help you prove the naysayers wrong, and help you make your big dream a reality.
Bonus #2
Discover Course Podcast
Transform your career on-the-go
All 12 weeks of audio content in a premium private podcast so you can take it with you. You need to find fulfilling work, but your schedule is full. This lets you do both.
Bonus #3
Interview Secrets Guide
Land your dream job without compromising who you are.
Get insights from my years on the other side of the hiring desk to support your interview process and help you find fulfilling work.
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Discover What You Were Born To Do®
97$Every monthThis subscription model gives you as little or as much time as you need to finish the material.
"This work has made me braver in putting myself out into the world as a yoga teacher. It’s helped me work more directly with my personal strengths and weaknesses. Even though I know myself fairly well, I didn’t see how I was holding myself back."
– Diane Ziegner | Yoga Teacher & Owner at Studio Z Yoga
This is for you if:
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You don't like your job, but you don't know what else to do.
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You have no idea, what you want to do.
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You have a dream, but you don't know how to make it happen, or if it's even possible.
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You followed all the rules, just to end up in a job and a life you hate.
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You feel like you have a gap in your understanding about how to choose the right career.
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You've been told that you need to figure out who you are to find your dreams, but you don't know how.
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You have the time and willingness to commit to working on your future.
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You are open to new perspectives and willing to try new approaches.
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You're willing to handle the set backs and disappointments that are a normal part of the creative process.
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You take responsibility for the things you can control and are open to figuring out a way to help yourself solve the problems you can.
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You're able to ask for help when you need it.
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You have a growth mindset (vs. a fixed) mindset.
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You agree with the terms of this agreement.
This is NOT for you if:
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You need a quick fix.
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You are overcommitted and don't have time to work on your future plans.
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You know everything.
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You quit at the first sign of adversity.
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You blame others for things that are your responsibility or within your control.
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You have a fixed mindset (vs. a growth mindset.)
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You want someone to solve everything for you. Not a judgement, sometimes we need that. This program just isn't what that is. Think of this as a DIY course.
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You need a lot of individual support. Zero judgement here, I'm often this person, so I have a solution for you. If you need a high-level of support consider purchasing this course and private coaching with me. This was how I taught this material originally so it works really well. I recommend 12-14 sessions to get the full benefit. The subscription packages are the best value.
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If this course isn't right for you or it's not the right time I want you to trust yourself. If you want my support, see if these resources are a better fit instead:
ABOUT
Hey there, I'm Shannon. And I want you to know that if you hate your job right now, it isn’t your fault. We live in a culture that depends on people believing work is supposed to suck. The good news is you have the power to change that.
This is a skill you can learn.
And I can tell you that you're not alone. I searched for the work I was meant to do for well over a decade. I’ve had crappy minimum wage jobs and what on paper were “dream jobs.”
None of the jobs felt right (spoiler... it wasn't the jobs).
The reason I wasn't fulfilled was because I wasn’t fully using my natural talents (mostly because I didn’t understand what they were) and I wasn’t making the kind of positive impact I wanted to make in the world.
I’d tried to find the perfect career so many times I thought something was seriously wrong with me. Like maybe having a career I loved and felt passionate about wasn't in the cards for me, or maybe having a career I was naturally good at was just a fantasy.
If you can relate, you need to know that it’s not you.
Fulfilling work exists that will fit you like a glove. And I want to help you find it.
My work is informed by my own experience building careers in vastly different industries, over twenty years supervising, managing, leading, and mentoring employees. As well as my own mentors, continuing education, and my studies at the University of Montana, the University of Virginia, and Stanford University.
But the most compelling evidence I have, aside from my clients, is that I walk the walk. Despite many barriers and hardships, the life I have now is the dream I had long ago. Alaska. Talkeetna. Denali and the Alaska Range. When I took off to create a life in Alaska, I wanted the ability to make an impact in people’s lives, improve the world around me, and live out my own dreams. I am indebted to the Denaʼina & Ahtna people and their traditional territory for the opportunity I have to live and work in such a breathtaking and transformative place.
I’m an INFP and my Kolbe A™ Index is 3-2-10-4. So I’m an introverted, empathic, innovative, disruptor focused on personal transformation. I’ve been certified as a coach by Kathy Kolbe, a leading authority on human instinct, and Dr. Martha Beck, a Harvard-educated sociologist specializing in human behavior.
I had a boss who said my results always broke the barriers of what he thought was possible.
Now I want to help you break down the barriers you face so you can improve your career, your world, and the world of everyone around you.
Peter House
President & CEO of Deeptree
I've had the pleasure of working with Shannon for a number of years now. We initially started working together shortly after I started a new business. This was a substantial shift in terms of lifestyle and demands upon my mental, physical, and spiritual health. As a former IT manager and software developer who decided to go into business, and having never done so before, what lay before me was a vast blue ocean and I had a vague idea of where I wanted to go, and an even vaguer notion of how I would get there.
Throughout our time together, Shannon and I have worked together to tackle the strategic, the tactical, and the personal elements of running a new business. Everything from business strategy to time management to critical feedback on management issues, Shannon has been a vital ally and coach in sorting through the many challenges that presented themselves before me. In doing so, I was able to develop and use many of the tools of the trade needed to move forward in the direction of my dreams. Navigating the vast ocean has become less daunting.
The time commitment for working with Shannon has been easy to fit into my busy schedule. The weekly phone calls provide a welcome moment to unpack my mind and let the bigger ideas unfold. The work in between sessions is easy, just remembering to do a small thing here or there. In this way, like with many things, small things bring about significant change. Details matter.
Prior to working with Shannon, my time horizon was limited and my work habits reflected that brevity. Now, as I make decisions with where I spend my time, I'm able to see a much bigger picture with a broader sense of impact. Being able to telescope in and out of details is something that has been enhanced in my time working with Shannon.
For me, the consistency of the weekly sessions with Shannon has helped yield greater impact with less effort than had I worked with her on an as needed basis. Many times, when a problem arises to the point that it needs to be addressed, the myriad opportunities to catch it before the arrival of untoward consequences has passed. I appreciate having someone help me catch things before they swallow up time and energy.
By following this consistent approach, during the sleepy, easy times and the chaotic, turbulent times alike, I've been able to solve a wide variety of problems from the strategic direction of the business to how I work with others. Even figuring out what work is right for me on a daily basis. Building a business, a new life, isn't easy. It takes focus and effort. And coaching. Someone who is impartial and yet gentle enough to make facing the truth a welcome prospect.
I've worked with Shannon for some time now and I don't hesitate to renew each year. The investment has been both a prudent business and personal decision. There's quantitative impact I can trace from the sessions to the balance sheet the impact. Our double digit growth is, in part, due to the work Shannon and I have done together. I remember a couple of vital, creative sessions where we batted around a few ideas. Those ideas grew into lines of business and a stronger vision for the future company. I remember the sheer joy of putting those ideas to strategic documents, to contracts, and to business processes like it was yesterday. The creative spirit was flourishing.
There's a qualitative element as well. I am a stronger, more confident, and more balanced individual. I understand myself, what motivates me, and what my pitfalls are in a gentle, caring way. I have moved from a place of try-hard striving to one of more confident action.
As I pilot this vessel across the broad, blue ocean of a new life, Shannon is a welcome and exceedingly competent navigator.
Aspenyarrow
Singer-Songwriter
Before I worked with Shannon, I didn’t think what I wanted to do was possible. I was restraining myself and not allowing myself to tune in to what I wanted. The world felt small to me. I wasn’t allowing myself to figure out what I wanted because I didn’t think I could have it. I had a belief I couldn’t go after what I wanted. I thought I had to wait for things to fall into my lap and I didn’t know that I was allowed to decide.
What I first noticed about myself changing as a result of working with Shannon was that I started learning how to listen to and trust myself. I gained confidence that I didn’t have before both in myself and that I could actually have what I wanted. I realized that I can just go do things to get what I want. I don’t have to wait for someone to invite me to be in a band; I can start a band and invite other people. I found a sense of empowerment that I had not known before.
I now have a belief that anything is possible and that it’s very important to figure out what you truly want. That would not have happened without Shannon. I also learned that what I truly want can change as I grow and change. Now I have the skills to recognize and identify it, let go of my picture of how things should go and do the ongoing work of identifying what I truly want.
Shannon made it safe for me to explore the world. I knew that, no matter what happens, I have this person who can help me figure out what to do with this shitty mess I just made. If something I try doesn't go well, it’s okay. I have this person I can talk it over with. I felt like I could connect with my inner child and that was so good for me because I really needed to connect with that part of me to figure out what I really wanted. I did not feel embarrassed when we did visualization exercises and something “weird” came up. I felt safe to find myself.
Shannon is a calming presence and really creative, relational. She’s more creative than she realizes she is because it’s just how she is. And that is her message for everyone: you don’t know just how awesome you are because your gifts feel like breathing to you.
Dr. Marilyn McCoy
Professor, Author & Mahler Historian
Imagine an opportunity to take an object, perhaps glass that will be refired, perhaps a building that will be redesigned, and stepping into a co-creative process and asking the question, "What does this object really want to be?" A glass bowl? A fire station?
But instead of a finite object with surface area, volume, and a finite number of uses the work being performed is on the infinite space of one's own life. Imagine peeling back the layers of the prison of the mind, imagine freeing up space to do exactly what you want, and understanding what it is exactly that you want.
Refiring, redesigning, this is what is done.
Still Reading?
Is something calling out inside of you?
Life can be more than waiting for the weekend, living out someone else's dream. You're capable of finding and achieving your own dreams. But you may need help to break out of the mold.
This change will affect how you're going to feel every day - for the rest of your life.
If you're on the fence, ask yourself these 3 questions:
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What would you accomplish if you weren't in a job that drained you?
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What is your "good job" really costing you?
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How much time and money do you spend coping, recovering, complaining, escaping, numbing out, and wasting your precious hours and talents?
There's never going to be a perfect time.
"Shannon will illuminate the power and the potential you forgot you had. She will help you grasp the bigger possibilities that are within your reach. She won’t let you hide in your stuff and you will love it."
– Wendy Battino | CoFounder THRIVE Nation
Have Questions? Let's hop on a call.
