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What happens when a storyteller who's lived on five continents realizes reinvention is a skill, not something that happens to you? In episode 269, Laura G. Patac joins Stephanie to unpack how our own stories and unconscious strengths quietly shape the ceilings we hit in life. For Laura, the answer isn't more credentials, but recognizing your patterns and repositioning what you already have.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(00:12) Welcome to Joy Found Here and Meeting Laura G. Patac(06:15) Life Across Five Continents: Home Between Romania and Dubai(08:54) Reinvention as a Deliberate Practice, Not Something That Just Happens(12:50) From Teenage Poetry to a Storytelling-Driven Corporate Career(17:29) The Two Stories Everyone Carries: Self-Talk and Your Origin Story(23:46) Discovering Your Natural Talents Through CliftonStrengths(26:31) Laura's Top Five Strengths and the "Strength Traps" Hiding Inside Them(38:45) Living by Values: Freedom, Purpose, and Bold Career Decisions(45:21) Real Growth Comes From Using What You Already Have(51:35) Inside Whole, Not Perfect: Poetry, Story, and Self-DiscoveryLaura G. Patac is a storyteller, speaker, and Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® coach with over 25 years of global leadership experience across five continents. Based between her native Romania and Dubai, she is the author of Stories With Purpose and Whole, Not Perfect, a 2025 Reader Views Literary Award finalist, and co-founder of EdgeCraft™ and creator of the Strengths Velocity Lab™, helping mid-career leaders turn lived experience into strategic career advantage.In this episode, Laura shared how her life across five continents shaped her belief that reinvention is a deliberate skill built on reflection and reframing. She traced her storytelling roots to teenage poetry, carried into 25-plus years of corporate leadership, and introduced the idea that everyone carries two essential stories: the one we tell ourselves daily, and the one that brought us here. Walking through her top five CliftonStrengths, she showed how each becomes a "strength trap" when overused, from analysis paralysis to being an indispensable "fixer," tying this to her own near-burnout. She closed on strategic positioning: aligning story, strengths, values, and purpose to build visibility and influence.Connect with Laura G. Patac: WebsiteLinkedInInstagramBook: Laura G. Patac - Whole, Not PerfectLet's Connect:WebsiteInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Laura G. Patac is a storyteller, leadership speaker, and Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® coach with 25 years of leadership experience across FMCG, telecom, and financial services on five continents. After a defining corporate exit, she transformed her own story into a mission: helping others turn lived experiences and strengths into strategic advantage. As author of Stories With Purpose (2025), Whole, Not Perfect ( 2025) co-founder of EdgeCraft™, and creator of the Strengths Velocity Lab™, she delivers keynotes and workshops that blend storytelling and strengths science to inspire clarity, resilience, and future-focused leadership.The free download for Stories with Purpose - https://www.storiesholdpurpose.com/bookThe Amazon.com Kindle and paperback edition: Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1965480306 eBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXFBLMTNConnect and tag me at:https://www.instagram.com/realangelabradford/You can subscribe to my YouTube Channel herehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDU9L55higX03TQgq1IT_qQFeel free to leave a review on all major platforms to help get the word out and change more lives!

The seductive pull of the 36 plots. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations ------------------- The Stories Mean Business podcast is the first draft of what I'm thinking. One Idea A Day, Every Day. Thanks for listening, Nick. Get deeper into business storytelling: https://storiesmeanbusiness.com/storybusiness/ https://storiesmeanbusiness.com/podcast

Thanks for listening! That's a wrap on this podcast for now. The podcast may be ending, but EdgeCraft is not! Continue to interact on social media to enjoy the artwork, for general inspiration, and to be in touch about new products. If you'd like to learn paper quilling, you can sign up for workshops and get smaller tips and tricks on YouTube and the blog. Here are the links for all those opportunities: https://www.edgecraftatx.com/links --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/craftswithanedge/message

Can you feel lonely in your family? Carolyn Edge grew up in a loving family home, with three brothers and memories of playing with the neighbourhood kids, spending summers at the pool and some great fun times. But by the time Carolyn hit the teen years, life became confusing. When there is no deep connection with anyone in your family, when you feel that no-one will hear you and when your feelings are not acknowledged, who do you turn to for connection? Who do you rely on to help you get through the difficult times of growing up? We don't need to come from a completely dysfunctional home to feel that we are alone and Carolyn has so many things to share about her life that demonstrate how disconnected we can become with the people who are meant to support us the most. Please go and check out EdgeCraft, Carolyn's gorgeous paper quilling art at https://www.edgecraftatx.com and Instagram.com/EdgeCraftATX and Facebook.com/EdgeCraftATX If you have a story to share for this podcast please connect with me at www.instagram.com/mybigloveproject or send an email to bigloveproject@iinet.net.au. I would love to connect with you.

Carolyn Edge, founder of EdgeCraft, discusses her path from post-college burn out, to traveling the world, to launching her on-edge paper quilling business from her home in Austin, TX. Through her personal experience and time spent working with youth programs, Carolyn's developed a mission to embrace whatever life sends our way and integrate the experience through art. Connect with us: Join the Creative Journeys Community: www.facebook.com/groups/creativejourneyscommunity/ Connect with Victoria Hines on Instagram @thevictoriahines or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/victoriahinescoaching Connect with Carolyn Edge by following her Instagram and Facebook or visiting her website and online shop: https://www.edgecraftatx.com/shop

Chad plays Edgecraft, a map that brings Mirror's Edge into Minecraft. Host: Chad (OMGchad) Johnson For additional show notes, including links to everything covered, visit http://OMGcraft.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OMGcraftShow Email us at mail@omgcraft.com Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show.

Chad plays Edgecraft, a map that brings Mirror's Edge into Minecraft. Host: Chad (OMGchad) Johnson For additional show notes, including links to everything covered, visit http://OMGcraft.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OMGcraftShow Email us at mail@omgcraft.com Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show.

Chad plays Edgecraft, a map that brings Mirror's Edge into Minecraft. Host: Chad (OMGchad) Johnson For additional show notes, including links to everything covered, visit http://OMGcraft.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OMGcraftShow Email us at mail@omgcraft.com Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show.

Chad plays Edgecraft, a map that brings Mirror's Edge into Minecraft. Host: Chad (OMGchad) Johnson For additional show notes, including links to everything covered, visit http://OMGcraft.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OMGcraftShow Email us at mail@omgcraft.com Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show.