You may be seeking a new job, hoping a new situation will make you happier and more fulfilled. Most people think the grass will greener with another employer. But greener grass is a myth. Without self-awareness, job seekers move from job to job only to find themselves trapped in the rat race, unfulfilled again and again. In this episode, career expert and Purpose Promise founder John McCarthy explores the root causes of this myth and describes how the greener grass myth was instrumental to the founding of the The Purpose Promise. Then, leadership development professional Dan Link describes how the myth of greener grass affected his career journey.
What is wealth and how does the obtaining of it guide your career path? In this episode, The Purpose Promise founder John McCarthy interviews Pastor Isaiah McKinney. Coming from different cultural backgrounds, John and Isaiah explore the four components of wealth: material wealth, relational wealth, motivational wealth, and spiritual wealth.
Is your definition of success rooted in the world’s complexities or your own unique complexity?
This episode features a conversation with Purpose Promise Founder John McCarthy and Rob Keefer CTO at the tech firm POMIET and author of Harmonics Way. This wide-ranging conversation explores the myth of career stability and how embracing the complexity in our leadership and our relationships leads to a deeper sense of career satisfaction.
Is your view of success prescribed or uniquely described?
This episode features a conversation with The Purpose Promise Founder John McCarthy and Kendra Ramirez, Executive Coach and Founder of the Kendra Ramirez Digital Agency. Kendra discovered that her career valleys, the times she veered off the prescribed path, actually led to the mountaintops of her most important seasons of growth.
Is your approach to dreaming about the future wise?
In this episode, career expert and The Purpose Promise founder John McCarthy outlines the common traps of “comparisonitis” and “FOMO” that can cause career-seekers to go off track. He’s then joined by Jake Thomas who faced a career crossroads and discovered, by going through The Purpose Promise process, a new approach to move into his future with purpose.
What type of assets are you concerned about accumulating for your ideal future?
In this episode, career expert and The Purpose Promise founder John McCarthy describes a more comprehensive way to view the assets you acquire throughout your career.
He’s joined by John Jordan, who after a long career, chose not to retire, but instead to “re-fire” to pursue fulfillment in the fourth phase of his career journey.
Is the desire to be in your comfort zone negating your impact?
In this episode, we unpack Trishia Ralston’s winding journey from Hurricane Katrina, to missions in Africa, to motherhood, to photography.
Trishia describes how those stirrings – some voluntary and some involuntary – took her out of her comfort zone and allowed her to understand that our sense of purpose changes in different life seasons.
What motivates you in this season of your career?
In Season 2 of this Podcast, career expert and The Purpose Promise founder, John McCarthy digs deeper into the success myths through in-depth conversations with people in The Purpose Promise movement. In this episode, certified Purpose Guide Laura Jackson joins John to discuss the importance of identifying whether you are being intrinsically or extrinsically motivated.
Are you living for today or tomorrow’s legacy?
In Season 2 of this podcast, career expert and The Purpose Promise Founder, John McCarthy digs deeper into the success myths through in-depth conversations with people in The Purpose Promise movement.
In this episode, he is joined by Paul Spencer, the owner of Second Nature. They discuss Paul’s powerful vision for a “family charter” that intentionally draws out career wisdom across multiple generations.
Are you confined by declared or undeclared expectations?
In Season 2 of this Podcast, career expert and Purpose Promise founder, John McCarthy digs deeper into the success myths through in-depth conversations with people in the Purpose Promise movement.
In this episode, he is joined by Nate Krugman of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Nate has a powerful story of wrestling with the declared career expectations he felt from his father and the undeclared career expectations he felt from society – and how an expected medical diagnosis forged a new path to his purposeful career.
Do you have what it takes to be you?
In Season 2 of this Podcast, career expert and The Purpose Promise founder John McCarthy digs deeper into the success myths through in-depth conversations with people in the Purpose movement.
In this episode, he is joined by Tom Busch, the founder of Tom Busch Coaching and a Purpose Promise Guide. Tom is a deep thinker whose transition from business owner to business coach required brave introspection and new habits.
John had a front row seat to this transformation and shares his insights into how Tom’s journey illustrates the habits you need to cultivate to forge a career truly aligned with your purpose.
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