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Career Insights Blog
Empowering You to Build a Fulfilling Career
Welcome to the Brilliant Person Career Coaching blog, where I share holistic insights and practical strategies to help you create a fulfilling and successful career and life.





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The Brilliant Move: A Career Coaching Book to Align Your Work with Who You Are
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
Yules Chan
Aug 83 min read


How You Stop Comparing Yourself and Build a Career that Feels Right
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
Yules Chan
Jul 34 min read


The Discipline Behind Freedom
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
Yules Chan
Jun 93 min read


The Productivity of Rest: Faith-Based Career Guidance for Christians
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.
Yules Chan
Jun 44 min read


The Brilliant Move Podcast: Your First Step Toward Career Clarity & Fulfillment
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
Yules Chan
Jun 33 min read


Finding Harmony: The Four Pillars of Career Fulfillment and Life
Success isn’t just about hard work, it’s about balance. Many professionals struggle with burnout, lack of direction, or feeling uninspired. That’s why I developed the Harmony Framework, a system that aligns Discipline, Purpose, Pleasure, and Peace to create long-term career satisfaction. Each pillar plays a vital role, and through the four phases of career growth, we can identify, build, and sustain them. As a Calgary-based career coach, I work with clients across Alberta and
Yules Chan
Jun 33 min read


Harmony Career Mastery Program: 5 Steps to Building a Profile of Success
Success isn’t just about setting goals, it’s about having a clear system to achieve them. The Harmony Career Mastery Program does just that!

Yules Chan
Mar 243 min read


Exploring Entrepreneurship for Artists: Building a Career That Reflects Your Creative Soul
A creative passion into a thriving business while staying true to your artistic soul. A guide to navigating entrepreneurship as an artist.
Yules Chan
Jan 293 min read


Career Guidance for Christians: Choosing Faith Over Fear in Career Decisions
Explore faith-based career guidance for Christians. Win the battle between fear and faith by trusting God's promise in aligning your career.
Yules Chan
Jan 224 min read


Leveling Up in Real Life: Personal Branding & Entrepreneurship as an RPG Gamer
Real-life entrepreneurship is not much different from crafting a character in your favorite RPG. Let's dive into finding out more!
Yules Chan
Oct 30, 20243 min read


Crafting Your Brand: The Entrepreneur's Playbook to Success
Explore why personal branding matters, how it aligns with the careerpreneurial mindset, and practical steps to crafting your unique brand.
Yules Chan
Oct 18, 20244 min read


Uncovering the Keys to Navigating Career Transitions
This guide explores career transition strategies to help you navigate the pivotal moments of today's world with confidence and clarity.
Yules Chan
Oct 15, 20242 min read


Career Development 101: How to Navigate through Uncertainty
7 tips on how to navigate through the uncertainty of life and engaging in career development through adopting a careerpreneurual mindset.
Yules Chan
Sep 27, 20243 min read


Resume Writing Guide 101: Career Coach Tips That Make or Break Your Resume
Let's talk resume. In this blog, I like to share my own resume insights, as well break some common resume myths I have heard over the years.
Yules Chan
Aug 28, 20244 min read


How to Reimagine The Dreadful Job Interviews?
You finally get that one call for a job interview you applied for. What might be the first thing that comes to mind? Here are some tips.
Yules Chan
May 23, 20242 min read


Career Coach, Counsellor, or Consultant?
It isn't surprising that people I come across throughout my career simply end up grouping the titles together. I will share the difference.
Yules Chan
Nov 11, 20233 min read


Am I the Right Coach In Finding Your Career Goals?
Selecting the right person for career coaching is paramount to whether or not your career goals will be captured and lived by.
Yules Chan
Apr 20, 20233 min read
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