091: The Surprising Ways You're Already Doing Your Work | Katie MacDonald

Reframe to Create

Your work is not your job or career. Your work is what you create.

You get this.

But what if you're still searching for the thing that’s yours which you create?

Or if you’ve stumbled upon it, what if that thing isn’t like everyone else’s?

While everyone else is creating tangible things that people can taste and touch, yours can’t be.

What then?

I want you to know you’re not alone in this.

Creating isn’t always tangible.

Some people do create tangible things.

But many more create intangible experiences.

And that’s great news.

It means the world of creating is much bigger and wider than you might have thought.

My guest on today’s episode can tell you all about this because Katie MacDonald has done something truly remarkable.

She’s taken what she’s heard here on Reframe to Create and done the deep work of integrating it into her understanding of herself and her work. She’s let it give her a reframe and the result has been a powerful discovery of what she uniquely brings to the table.

And her unique contribution might be like yours--something intangible.

Learning this has changed not just how she shows up on her job but how she shows up in all of her life.

We also talk about how your unique work doesn’t require that you go on a long journey to find it because you’re already doing it in some way today.

Listen in because you might discover that you’ve already been doing the thing you’ve been searching to find.

About my guest:

Katie MacDonald is a public health professional, passionate about improving lives through increased access to quality health products and services. She has worked in health markets around the world to introduce new health commodities, promote policy change and build public private partnerships. Katie discovered her love for public health as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali and since then has lived and worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Bangladesh. Katie enjoys making connections with people around the world and in her own neighborhood of Columbia Heights in Washington, DC through scuba diving, cooking, reading and running.

Katie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-macdonald-mph/

Reference Episodes

Reframe to Create Episode 57 - Build and Diversify Your Work Portfolio

Reframe to Create Episode 56 - Liberate Your Work | Sawida Kamara

Reframe to Create Episode 86 - Don’t Let Your Job Get in the Way of Your Work

About: The Reframe to Create podcast is hosted by Joy Spencer, an Executive Leadership and Storytelling Coach, Speaker, and Organizational Development Consultant working with professionals and leaders at all levels within organizations. Joy leverages over 17 years of experience she gained while working to champion change in social justice movements, including those related to global access to essential medicines and consumer advocacy for online privacy. This work required a dogged commitment to not merely challenging the status quo, but to reimagining and working towards creating an ideal future. It is this commitment to creating that has shaped Joy’s coaching philosophy and approach today. Using her signature C.R.E.A.T.E. framework, Joy guides her clients through a process to become incomparable in work so they can get paid to be themselves.

Follow Joy on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-spencer/