Career Insights Blog

People often search for guidance on how to find a perfect path, but what they really need is a better understanding of how careers naturally evolve. At Brilliant Person Career Coaching, I help clients in Calgary and beyond let go of this outdated belief and move toward something far more practical: alignment.

We each live within a kingdom: the space where our choices, values, and purpose shape the world around us. Yet in the clash between our will and God’s, we often rediscover what truly matters. This reflection invites you to build a kingdom rooted in love, growth, and faith, where career and calling align with the legacy you’re meant to leave behind.

There are moments in our career journey when we question if we are truly enough. These thoughts often surface during times of change or uncertainty, when the path forward feels unclear, and our confidence begins to waver. Yet, it is in these very moments that we have the opportunity to grow.

Transitioning into retirement is not the end of your career story; it is the beginning of a new one. Discover how work-life strategies help you build a life of purpose, peace, discipline, and pleasure in harmony.

Redefining success through purpose helps you align your career with faith, growth, and life seasons for clarity, confidence, and lasting fulfillment. It begins by understanding that success is not fixed. It shifts and matures with each season. What once looked like achievement may later look like peace, family, or legacy. When we learn to define success based on purpose rather than pressure, our direction becomes clearer and our work becomes meaningful.

The Brilliant Move is more than a book. It’s a self-guided coaching experience designed to help you rediscover your values, build a career around your strengths, and move forward with sustainable clarity and confidence. Written by Yules Chan, a Certified Work-Life & Career Strategist and founder of Brilliant Person Career Coaching, this book shares the tools, mindset, and planning framework that have helped hundreds of clients align their work with who they are, not just wha

We live in a world that praises highlight reels. You scroll through someone’s “success,” their dream job, their ideal lifestyle, and it’s easy to feel like you’ll never measure up. Social media conditions us to seek external validation and chase an impossible standard of greatness. As a certified Work-Life & Career Strategist based in Calgary (and offering coaching online across Canada), I help individuals build careers that reflect who they are, not who they think they need

We live in a world that celebrates freedom: freedom of time, freedom to travel, freedom to pursue your passion. But behind every truly free life is one thing: discipline. As a career coach based in Calgary, Alberta, I help clients in-person or online to build careers that are not only flexible and fulfilling, but also rooted in structure and purpose. In my Harmony Career Mastery Framework, I guide clients through four pillars: Discipline, Purpose, Pleasure, and Peace. These

In our modern hustle culture, rest is often mistaken for laziness, and productivity is worn like a badge of honor. But Scripture tells a different story. In Genesis 2:1–3, after six days of creative, intentional work, “God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done.” Rest was not an afterthought, it was part of the divine design. Learn more in how rest can help you align to your career journey.

At some point in our lives, many of us hit a wall, emotionally, professionally, or spiritually. The question beneath it all is: “Is this career really right for me." We wake up, head into work, and feel the dull ache of a deeper question bubbling beneath the surface: Is this it?  The Brilliant Move podcast was created to help you navigate through this moment of pause. To avoid a leap into the unknown and instead, a leap into a purposeful step toward career clarity and fulfill