Episode 109 - Redefining Success to Meet Your Unique Function —with Zach Mercurio

A person’s life path isn’t any different to building a structure. You first need to know its specific function before you can successfully build. Yet, we work backwards and try to envision the form of a person’s life and skip over their unique function. How can there be a successful form (life) without first knowing the function? What if instead we first understood their unique purpose and where those gifts and strengths make a unique impact? Zach Mercurio is an author, researcher, and consultant specializing in purposeful leadership, meaningful work, mattering, and positive organizational development. Though, he didn’t always have this clear idea on purpose and success. His story started like many others —go to college and pursue something that makes money rather than what suits you. Zach’s journey started with working in advertising and it wasn’t until an experience with an inspiring cab driver when he decided to make a change. This change led him to pursue a life of service and meaning, starting in a masters in higher education, to speaking to employees, acquiring a phD, and now owning his own business where he helps cultivate purposeful leaders.On this episode of Success is Subjective, Zach joins Joanna to share his journey going from miserable in an unfulfilling job to now bringing clarity and unique perspective to people on how to avoid the route he was once on. Zack works to redefine peoples’ destructive definitions of success while providing them a sense of true meaning and purpose. Listen in for Zach’s perspectives on how you too can redefine success to meet your unique function (be prepared to be mind blown!). What You Will LearnWhat it was like growing up as the youngest of 3 brothersThe problem with tying success to achievement The wrong questions being asked in schoolsWhy Zach faked being interested in advertising The cab driver that changed Zach’s life and caused him to make a changeThe impact he made by helping students and employees unlearn destructive definitions of success. Start somewhere!The important shift from learning to value who you are now and where you are now rather than glorifying a certain destination aheadHow to create “mattering” through small acts and better questionsWhere Zach finds himself now as an author, researcher, consultant, and speakerSome of the most important questions you can ask to find your purpose and acquire the evidence that you matter nowConnect with Zach MercurioWebsite The Invisible Leader Book Twitter Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Connect with Joanna Lilley  Lilley ConsultingLilley Consulting on Instagram Lilley Consulting on Facebook Sponsored by: College Parent Survival NetworkEmail [email protected]