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Spotlight On: Margaret Rode
Margaret Rode owns Web Sites for Good, a web design and management company which specializes in nonprofits, social change organizations, and other people trying to do good in the world.
I still remember sitting on an airplane, flying home from Syracuse, New York, my forehead pressed against the plexiglass window and thinking to myself: I just can't do this any more. On the surface all looked great: I was the Director of Information for an advertising network, and so traveled extensively during the year, made a good salary, and had an office with a mountain view in a company managed by good, thoughtful people. What was there to complain about?
Just the most important thing of all: I wasn't happy. My work days were full but my heart was empty, and my physical and mental health gradually started to suffer. I knew that I was meant for something different, something that involved more than running for planes, answering faxes, and watching the monthly statements from my company retirement plan. But what was it?
Tama helped me to find out. Through a series of coaching sessions, she gently helped me to identify my true gifts, to think through scary "what if" scenarios, and to craft a vision of my life that was in line with what I felt I'd been set down on this earth to do. It wasn't an easy process -- I was afraid of the unknown, and very resistant to change -- but the infusion of love, courage, and wisdom that I received from Tama helped me to slowly, step-by-step, make the changes in my life that my heart had been crying out for.
These days, I own my own business and work from my home in the pine forests of the Rocky Mountain foothills. I am a freelance webmaster and writer specializing in nonprofits and other organizations who are trying to make a difference in the world, and as such I can now be a part of a thousand little global changes for the good every year. Rather than dreading another work day or business trip, I leap out of bed in the morning and can't wait to get my day underway. I remember Tama once promising me that this sort of life was possible, and recall staring at her in polite disbelief...but she was so very, very right.
I am doing what I love, for people I believe in, in a place that holds my heart. Life doesn't get much better than that.
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