STARterKits
Welcome to our STARterKit Course! This course is designed to help map out and navigate your path to meaningful work in a No-Shame Zone.
If you have found your way here, it’s probably because you’re encountering a life transition. Maybe you’re pondering what you’d like to contribute to this world or which fork in the road you should take. Perhaps you need to find paid work immediately but feel wholly unqualified to start searching because you’ve never worked, don’t have a degree, or have a degree from decades earlier. Maybe your old identities are being stripped away, and you feel like a rudderless boat. We become attached to our identities, which carry us for years or decades. We are praised and lauded for them. Because of them, people seek us out for help and guidance. Like Annie Oakley or General Waverly from the film White Christmas (see class 1), we wear them proudly like medals. If you have found your way here, it’s probably because you’re encountering a life transition. Maybe you’re pondering what you’d like to contribute to this world or which fork in the road you should take. Perhaps you need to find paid work immediately but feel wholly unqualified to start searching because you’ve never worked, don’t have a degree, or have a degree from decades earlier. Maybe your old identities are being stripped away, and you feel like a rudderless boat.
We become attached to our identities, which carry us for years or decades. We are praised and lauded for them. Because of them, people seek us out for help and guidance. Like Annie Oakley or General Waverly from the film White Christmas (see class 1), we wear them proudly like medals.
But then, life happens. We find ourselves in uncharted territory, afraid and embarrassed that we may not be armed adequately to manage the new terrain. We’re unsure how to utilize those medals and the accomplishments they signify. If we’re honest with ourselves, we sheepishly admit that we feel like the only ones who don’t understand how life works. We worry that people will find out we’re impostors.
We’re here to say that we--all of us!--really do have more than adequate tools to thrive! We have the ability to forge ahead confidently IF we recognize the challenges in front of us and know our individual stories well enough to utilize them effectively. Not only that, but the gifts you bring to the world are ones that ONLY YOU can offer. Don’t deprive the planet of those gifts, talents, and skills. We need them. We need YOU.
Class 1 Wicked Problem Class 2 Fear, Resistance, and Impostor Syndrome Class 3 Understanding and Leveraging Your Gifts and Skills
Class 4 Rube Goldberg Machine Class 5 Networking Class 6 Sales: Make Lee Iacocca Proud
Class 7 From Flintstone to Jetson Class 8 Money, Money, Money Class 9 There’s Something About the Woods