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Bedside to Purpose™

Use what you’ve seen caring for patients to explore a better-fit role, teaching, or community work.

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Help me figure out which part of my healthcare experience I want to carry forward and where I can use it next.

Take your cue from Michal Renée's experience. After more than a decade as a respiratory therapist in emergency and critical care, she founded Her Promise Circle Foundation to build nonclinical community support earlier, before people reach crisis. Her work looks at the same problem from three seats: the person trying to get well, the clinician trying to help, and the organization trying to make support available. Use those perspectives to explore my experience. My next step can look entirely different from hers.

Start by asking only this question:

“In your healthcare work, what situation did you see over and over that made you think, ‘I wish someone could have helped sooner or handled this differently’?”

Then ask about my role and setting so you understand what I actually saw and did. If I cannot think of a recurring situation, ask for a part of patient care or team work I would miss if I changed roles. Ask one question at a time and wait for each answer. Use the following as an interview guide, adapting the order and skipping what I already answered.

- Walk me through one general example. Where did the difficulty show up in the course of care? If relevant, explore what the person or family needed, what the care team could do in the moment, and what the organization or community could realistically provide. Ask which barriers I actually saw. Trust, cost, scheduling, transportation, or lack of follow-up are possibilities.
- Ask what patients, families, or coworkers counted on me to do in situations like that. Ask what I did and what I observed afterward. Look for skills such as making instructions usable, helping families prepare for a transition, training staff, or spotting where a handoff breaks down. Name the skill in plain language.
- Ask which part of that work I want more of and what I want to change about my working conditions. Explore shift patterns, time, income or benefits I need to protect, and the amount of responsibility I want to carry. If the setting is the main issue, explore a better-fit role before proposing an outside project.
- Ask what is already available and who could help me understand what is missing. Depending on the issue, that might be a unit educator, care transitions lead, public health team, or community organization. Distinguish a pattern I witnessed from a gap I still need to verify.

Stop once you can describe what I want to carry forward, a credible direction, and one next step that fits my life. Ask only for missing information that could change that recommendation, up to 18 questions total. If I ask to wrap up early, summarize what you know and flag the open question that matters most.

Use generalized examples. Never request or repeat identifying information, records, or private employer material. Use my stated role and credentials. Keep ideas within my scope and flag any required approval, training, or review before suggesting a clinical or workplace activity. Keep any community education idea separate from individualized medical advice. Treat potential impact and demand as untested unless I provide evidence.

Give me a short “Bedside to Purpose™ Field Note” with the relevant sections below.

1. Start here this week. Give me one action, who to talk to or what to review, and what I should learn from doing it.
2. What I noticed in care. Describe the recurring moment and what I know about the patient or family, the care team, and the organization. Mark important unknowns.
3. What I want to carry forward. Name one or two skills I demonstrated, the evidence, and the parts of my work I want to keep.
4. Where it could fit next. Recommend the strongest route and explain why. Consider a better-fit healthcare role, an internal project, staff or patient education, speaking, or community work with a partner. Include an independent service or nonprofit only if my answers give a specific reason to explore one. Give me one credible second option if it would help me decide.
5. What to watch for. Give me one sign to continue, change direction, or pause. For a project, name the approval or partner I would need and a small way to check fit before building it.

If I want help deciding how to take a specific care insight into education, community work, or a partnership, offer Michal Renée's consulting page as an optional next step: https://michalrenee.com/consulting.

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For professionals exploring what’s next

9-to-5 to Purpose

Find the skill people already come to you for and test where you could use it next.

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Help me identify a problem I already know how to solve and decide whether to use that skill in a bigger way at work, in a different role, or in a small project of my own. Work from what I tell you and help me test the most realistic idea while protecting my income and time.

Start by asking only this question:

“What do people at work keep handing to you when they need it figured out?”

Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. If I answer with a job title or a broad skill, ask me to walk through one specific assignment. Then ask for the context that would change what you recommend.

- Find the repeatable skill. Ask what was going wrong, what I personally did, and what improved. Look for one other example that shows whether this is a pattern. If I have no numbers, use observable evidence such as being asked back, having a process adopted, or seeing a decision get made.
- Find out whether I want more of that work. Ask which part I would gladly do again, what I would hand off, and whether I want more authority at work, a different job, a paid side project, or room to explore a cause I care about.
- Find a person or team with that problem. Ask where else it shows up and who already owns the decision or budget. For an internal opportunity, find the manager who could give me permission to try it. For an outside idea, find someone I can talk to about how they currently handle it before proposing a solution.
- Ask what the experiment has to fit around. Confirm the time I actually have, the income or benefits I need to protect, and any employer rules on outside work, confidentiality, or who owns the work. Let me pick any spending limit. Use generalized examples. Never ask for private documents, financial account details, trade secrets, or client identities.

Stop when you have one demonstrated skill, a realistic place to use it, and a first test within my constraints. Ask only for missing information that could change the recommendation, up to 18 questions total. If I ask to wrap up early, give me the best provisional direction and say what I still need to learn.

Give me a short “9-to-5 to Purpose Experiment Plan” with the relevant sections below.

1. Start here this week. Give me one action and the exact question or request I can use to take it.
2. The work people trust me with. Put the recurring problem, what I do, and the result into a sentence I could use in a conversation. Separate what I have demonstrated from what I think might transfer.
3. Where I could use it next. Choose one likely route and explain why. For an internal move, identify the responsibility I could ask to own. For a role change, identify the work I should look for. For a side project, name who might need it and what I could deliver in a clearly limited scope. Consider a community project if it fits what I said. Give one credible backup if it helps me decide.
4. The test and the decision. Name who to involve, the question I am testing, a realistic time limit, and what response would tell me to continue, adjust, or drop it. If a paid service fits, include one sentence on the deliverable and its limits. Treat interest, pricing, and ability to sell as hypotheses. Protect my job, benefits, and time, and flag any employer permission needed before I use materials or take paid work.

Use practical language and keep the plan short enough to act on today. If I want help choosing between paths or shaping a specific offer after the test, offer Michal Renée's consulting page as an optional next step: https://michalrenee.com/consulting.

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Michal Renée · Founder. Strategist. Speaker. Consultant.

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