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Connect the dots so you can articulate your purpose and unlock a significantly successful life.

Meet Traci

Traci Schubert Barrett is a workplace and leadership expert. She is an international speaker, best-selling author of What If There’s More? Finding Significance Beyond Success, co-founder of HGTV: Home & Garden Television, and co-founder of Navigate the Journey, a business consulting firm.

As one of the founders of the popular television network HGTV, she enjoyed the amazing ride of taking a fledgling idea and turning it into a billion-dollar media empire. After decades in the media industry, Traci paved a new entrepreneurial path leading her to create the Strategic Life Map process.

With a Master's in Professional Psychology and over 30 years of business experience, Traci has a unique talent for driving meaningful change. Her keynotes like Make Your Work Matter, Make Your Leadership Matter, and Make Your Sales Matter offer practical, inspiring insights that reignite engagement and foster purpose-driven cultures.

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My journey…

  
				Joined HGTV Founding Team
				1994
			
As one of the founding members of the launch team for HGTV: Home & Garden Television, I enjoyed the exciting and amazing ride of taking an idea and turning it into a billion dollar media empire.

				Got Married
				1999
			
Married a handsome Irish immigrant who would become not only my life partner but my business partner!

				Received MA Professional Psychology
				2003
			
Completed a 50-credit hour master’s program on nights and weekends in an effort to become a better leader after a major promotion at HGTV. Becoming a trained, professional counselor with classes in counseling theory, child development, mental health dysfunction, cognitive assessments, personality theory, career counseling, and a full year of on-site clinical practicum.

				Became a Mother
				2005
			
Gave birth to my first of two daughters, the greatest gifts of my life, and joining the 18+ million working moms in the US juggling it all!

				Certified in Emotional Intelligence 2.0
				2013
			
completed a coaching certification in Emotional Intelligence 2.0. Certified to fully assess and coach using the MHS EQ2.0 assessment helping leaders to increase their ability to understand, use, and manage their emotions in a positive way in the workplace.

				Launched Navigate the Journey
				2013
			
I now walk alongside leaders and entrepreneurs to guide them on a path to discovering who they are, what they want out of their life and business, and how to realize their full potential.

				Bestselling Author
				2021
			
Took a leap of faith and signed a deal to write a book about my personal and professional journey wrestling with and answering those big questions we all come up against at the crossroads of midlife. The book will provide you with a framework to do the same for yourself.