It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day, but it’s important to stop ask: what’s the end goal? Knowing where you are trying to go is step one in getting there and so we’ve asked some folks we admire to tell us their end goal and where they want to be by the end of their careers.

Joseph Panico | Metal Artist

A lot of people look forward to retirement so they can travel and do the things they have always wanted to do. I watched so many of my family members play it safe. Working a job waiting to retirement only to find at the end they were tired, and in some cases health issues stopping them from doing the things they wanted to do. Read more>>

Jessica Ross | Certified Sex Therapist & Clinical Director

The end goal is to have not only influenced but to have changed the way mental health is viewed in medicine and in the public. Mental health is not separate from the other parts of a person. It both influences and is impacted by other parts. It cannot be treated in isolation. If a chain in the link is broken, the entire chain is impacted. Read more>>

Cynthia Long | End of Life and Grief coach

The Wind in My Sail How do you put the wind back in your sail after a tragic event? I lost my best friend, husband, and father of my children December 30, 2008. He had been battling illness for over 28 years and finally ended the struggle that day at 920 a.m. on a very gloomy, grey morning. Read more>>