Make Challenge Your Path to Purpose with Trina Limpert [37]

03/22/21 • 30 min

Our biggest challenges often lead to finding a deeply purposeful way to serve others. That’s definitely true for my guest, my very own sister Trina Limpert. She’s achieved a remarkable 25-year career in tech while being a working mom, getting through a divorce, navigating a new marriage and blended family – oh, and throw in a recession and major health scare, too! Now she helps women transition into valuable tech careers through a journey of self-discovery. You’ll love hearing Trina’s inspiring experience discovering her life mission. You can read more in her bio below. [Purpose series 4]

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RizeNext website
Instagram:
@rizenext
@trinaceleste

Show notes:

Trina's bio:
Trina Limpert is Senior Director, CX Consulting at Oracle. In her prior role as President of Women@eBay, Trina lead diversity and inclusion
initiatives across eBay. She received the Women Tech Council Impact Award in 2015, finalist Women Tech Council awards 2017, recognized by National Women in IT awards for RizeNext as finalist for “Diversity Program of the Year”, and recently selected as one of Utah Business Magazine’s “30 Women to Watch.”

In 2018 Trina founded RizeNext, a technical and professional development company to consult companies on how to best engage their diverse workforce in order to deliver growth & profitability success. Her personal mission for the last twenty-five years has been to create
awareness of the benefits for women in technology careers. In 2020 the Tech-Moms program launched in Utah in partnerships with Utah Valley University and Weber State University to assist women in re-entering the workforce or transitioning their careers into higher paying and
flexible technology roles.

Her career spans 25 years in high tech in Utah, including time as a Network Engineer at Novell, Technical Sales at Oracle and Senior Product & Technology Management at eBay and as Senior Director of CX Consulting at Oracle. Trina currently serves on the Women’s Success Center Board of Advisors at Utah Valley University, Board of Advisors for Weber State University School of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology, and National Advisory Committee for Weber State University.

Trina holds an Associates of Science in Computer Science from Weber State University, Bachelors in Business and Information Systems from the University of Phoenix, Executive MBA from the University of Utah and Certificate in Driving Corporate Performance from Harvard
University.

Trina is an active outdoors woman and enjoys her time dirt biking, weight lifting, snowboarding and hiking. She loves traveling and spending time doing all these things with her incredible husband Andrew and their eight children.

Links:

RizeNext website
Instagram:
@rizenext
@trinaceleste

Show notes:

Previous Episode

7 Questions to Tie Up Loose Ends and Finish Feeling Fulfilled [36]

What feels incomplete, unfinished and unfulfilled to you? Let’s talk about those open loops in your life and how to be sure you close them up! When you integrate all the parts of your life with your purpose, you’ll be ready to steer away from regret and toward satisfaction and pride in a life well-lived. When loose ends make you feel unfinished and incomplete ... tie them up with intentional action. [Purpose series 3]

In this episode:

7 Questions

How could I complete or make progress on things I started but haven’t finished yet?
How could I experience some things I feel like I’ve missed out on?
How could I develop a personal quality that I haven’t mastered yet?
How could I learn a skill that I don’t know yet?
How could I heal a relationship that is weak or broken?
How could I deepen my spiritual life where it feels shallow?
How could I integrate all the different pieces of my life experience so far and bring them into a powerful purpose?

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4 Reassuring Rules for Parenting Adult Children - Part 1 Love and Influence [38]

If you’re a parent, then caring for your kids has been an important and sometimes consuming purpose in your life. Once they've reached the status of adults, our challenge is to figure out that paradox of how to be connected and supportive and at the same time let go of judgment and control. In part 1 of this discussion, learn what unconditional love is, and why we can offer influence - but not impose it. When you’re wondering how to support your grown up kids ... taking a step back can be just what they need.

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