Episode 248

Dr. Jessica Rimmer is the CEO of Solomon Strategic Advisors, an executive coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of The Purpose Formula: Learn to be Fully Alive. She is also the co-director of 4word OKC, the faith and work community for women in Oklahoma City that I have come to love, and where I get to speak on September 8.

We talk about purpose anxiety, that question so many of us carry around: why am I here, and does it even matter? Jessica walks through the three elements of her purpose formula, design, desires, and disappointments, and why comparing yourself to other women turns design features into design flaws. She explains the Japanese repair art of kintsugi and how the hardest seasons of our lives become the strongest, most useful parts of our purpose. She answers my most asked question, what is the first step for a woman who has no idea what her purpose is, and she tells the story of a stranger at a snowy-day event whose life changed when he heard that purpose can be ordinary.

We also talk about whether your purpose changes over time, how Jana Gridley built 4word OKC to 130 women a month, and a rapid fire with a dream Jessica just took the first step toward.

Find Jessica at solomonsa.com and on Instagram at @jlrimmer. Her book, The Purpose Formula: Learn to be Fully Alive, is available now.

If you are in Oklahoma City, come to the 4word OKC luncheon on Tuesday, September 8, where I will be the guest speaker. Details and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1995973831460

Today's sponsor: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa).
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Chapters:
0:00 Coming up
0:31 Sharing Passion and Purpose
0:48 Welcome: meet Dr. Jessica Rimmer
2:32 4word OKC and the September 8 luncheon
2:58 Why she wrote The Purpose Formula
4:51 Design, desires, and disappointments
6:27 Design flaws or design features?
6:57 Desires and participatory joy
7:47 Disappointments and kintsugi
9:18 The first step to finding your purpose
11:20 Autopilot, routine, and disrupting it
13:17 What alignment with your assignment feels like
14:52 A stranger's LinkedIn post: purpose can be ordinary
17:55 A word from our sponsor
18:49 Does your purpose change over time?
20:34 4word OKC: the group Jana Gridley needed
24:53 Rapid fire
28:10 If you were a season
29:20 To be continued
29:49 Until next time

ABOUT NANCY
Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself.

ABOUT DR. JESSICA RIMMER
Dr. Jessica Rimmer is the CEO of Solomon Strategic Advisors, an executive coach and keynote speaker. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma and is the author of The Purpose Formula: Learn to be Fully Alive. She co-directs 4word OKC, a faith and work community of women in Oklahoma City, alongside its founder Jana Gridley.
Website: https://solomonsa.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jlrimmer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-rimmer-ph-d-916b4354

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