023 – Learn to stay and ask the questions – Jon DeWaal
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Jon is the executive director, life transition guide and learning facilitator at Liminal Space, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping others find the courage and means to navigate major life transition. He spends his days guiding 1×1 transition sessions, leading transition groups called PIER groups, and facilitating learning workshops that teach transition skills at The PIER Learning Center at Liminal Space. Jon is also the host of a weekly podcast called, Life Through Transitions.
Jon DeWaal’s mission is to help people create forward momentum by embracing their life’s most formative inflection points to create immense growth and transformation. He shares his career journey as a marketing consultant to a graduate degree in divinity to a painting contracting business, and then he fell off a roof. From there, he started to ask different questions and changed his story.
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In this episode we discuss:
How Jon moved out to Seattle to attend graduate school and thought he would follow a traditional path, but chose to follow a different path right after graduation.
His journey through a four-year transition where he was a contractor and started a family.
Jon’s injury that ended up shifting his myopic focus on earning money to thinking deeply about his purpose.
The tools and people who helped Jon see the beauty in transition.
The sacred discipline of transition and how humans can thrive during those seasons of change and growth.
All about Jon’s company, Liminal Space, and the Liminal Guide Certification Program that teaches people how to help others through transition.
Links
Life Through Transitions podcast.
Books mentioned in this episode:
“Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives” by Ron Carucci and Eric Hansen.
Other Resources:
Listen to my interview with Marie Incontrera.
Learn more about Ron Carucci.
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