Brooke's Journey on The Big Exciting Life

From a young age, I always felt different.

I wanted to fully grab ahold of life, experiencing everything it had to offer. I wanted to create, celebrate, make people laugh, and most of all I wanted BIG THINGS.

Not big in the sense that I wanted a yacht and a Benz and a timeshare in Ibiza. Big in the sense that I wanted adventure, meaning, and to create something that would touch millions of lives.

The problem was—it seemed like not many people around me wanted the same thing. I frequently felt like an alien, misunderstood and limited by the expectations of people around me. If I was told I wanted to do something or go after a particular experience or job opportunity, instead of being met with enthusiasm or excitement, it was addressed with doubt, brushed off as unrealistic, or expressed with questions like, “You really think that YOU could get that?”

In spite of it all, I followed my instincts into the world of international development, serving in the Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa and then spending nine more years supporting entrepreneurship and community programs across the African subcontinent and India. I thought this path was finally my ticket to The Big Exciting Life where people, ideas, and trust were prioritized and celebrated.

Once again, I found quite the opposite to be true. Here we were theoretically supporting peoples’ rights to empowerment, fulfillment, and self-determination, but were often treating them and each other with fear, control, and general nastiness. Throughout my career, I continuously witnessed ideas that were scrutinized, processes without guaranteed impact that were scrapped, and team members who were repeatedly made to feel that no matter what they did, they weren’t good enough to be there.

The higher I rose in the system, the more I witnessed this fear. It was as if people had forgotten how to have fun, enjoy, experiment, or simply treat each other as human in service of pushing harder deadlines, raising expectations, and never admitting to personal fault.

By 2022, I was completely burned out and disillusioned. My sense of self-worth was completely shot after years of being told to be better, do better, don’t make jokes, this is serious work we are doing. Coupled with a global pandemic, a very difficult first pregnancy, and a monumental loss of identity, I had no idea who I was or what to do next. Where was this Big Exciting Life if not here?

When my son was born in March 2022, I knew I needed a change but had no idea what to do. With my four-week-old sitting in his bouncy chair at my side, I spent a total of 3 hours looking through LinkedIn jobs all variations on the theme of my hellish current job and declared: “Fuck it. I’m going out on my own.”

And I did. Because I couldn’t go back to conforming to the fears and anxieties of others. And more importantly: I couldn’t continue watching others do the same.

Two months after giving birth, I opened my coaching practice The Purposeful Purpose with a single objective: to get people out of jobs that no longer served them and into other roles or businesses that fueled what they were meant to do. No micro-managing boss, tired systems, or oppressive schedules holding them back from their full joyful potential.

And coach I did. For three years, I coached over 30 people into new roles AND several of them into launching the business ventures they were meant for. I witnessed the power of them suddenly:

Earning more than twice what they were in their previous role

Suddenly having $30K months

Working with dream colleagues and clients who lit them up

Having their ideas and creativity celebrated and paid for, rather than shot down and limited

Realizing their resourcefulness to earn even after leaving their jobs

Opening full physical office spaces six months after telling me they could never find the courage to leave their jobs

Hosting sold-out international retreats

& so much more

But through it all, I consistently found myself struggling to explain to people what I did. When people heard I was an entrepreneur coach, they would begin assuming I filed LLCs for clients or came up with robust financing plans and income generation models. I felt more and more like I had to “prove” myself even though I had a successful track record to date. The worst of all was when people would hear what I did and begin giving me excuses why they could never leave their jobs or start businesses.

I went through almost a year of feeling inauthentic and stuck in what I was doing. No matter how I tried to move forward, I kept getting in my own way and stalling.

It wasn’t until February 2025 when I was texting with a client about amazing mindset shifting success she was having as she opened her Astrology Coaching practice. I was asking her what realizations she was making when she wrote: “I’m seeing that this big exciting life is possible.”

AND THERE IT WAS. Suddenly, everything clicked into place. What I was doing was going so far beyond just helping people start businesses: it was giving them the keys to what I was always searching for: The Big Exciting Life.

The ability to choose trust in themselves and their paths over fear of conforming to other peoples’ expectations

The authentic joy that comes with effortlessly sharing their gifts with people who are dying to work with them instead of trying to “prove” how good they are to people who can’t see their potential

And the design of the life and business THEY want-not just what they could do or what they are technically good at but doesn’t light them up.

I’m still different. The difference is I’ve consciously chosen a path and people who benefit from and celebrate what I have to offer. Let me help you do the same.

Because Big Exciting Things are waiting for you when you do.