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What If Your Career Could Bring You Joy? With Jenny Zook
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- Capability Edge
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- Aug 21, 2026
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- 3318
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Summary
What if the career path you were taught to follow is not the only way to build a good life? In this episode, I sit down with Jenny Zook, a former middle school teacher turned entrepreneur, to talk about career changes, motherhood, entrepreneurship, finding purpose, and the work that brings us joy. Jenny spent more than 20 years in education before stepping away from the classroom and eventually building Style School, a business that brings together her love of personal style and her passion for teaching. But the interesting part of her story is not just the career change. It is how she figured out what she wanted her work to give her. Jenny talks honestly about the hard parts of entrepreneurship, including building something that initially failed, learning to listen to feedback, making expensive mistakes, and accepting that a business rarely becomes what you first imagined. We also talk about something I think we need to discuss much more when it comes to careers: Joy matters. But joy alone may not be enough. The bigger question is how we connect what brings us joy with what gives our lives purpose.Because there is no single career path that everyone needs to follow. You can work in corporate. You can teach. You can build a business. You can change direction halfway through your career. The goal is not to find the "perfect" career. It is to build a life and career that actually fit who you are. What you'll get from this episode: How Jenny went from teaching for more than 20 years to becoming an entrepreneur Why career paths do not have to follow a predictable formula The difference between finding something you enjoy and finding something that gives you purpose How motherhood changed the way Jenny thought about her career Why her first business idea failed and what she…