Welcome to Dots Connect!
Where Your Past, Present, and Future Find Meaning
Do you ever feel like you're collecting experiences, knowledge, and skills without seeing how they fit together? Like you're standing so close to your own life that you can't make out the full picture?
Dots Connect is a space where we celebrate the beautiful, messy, and abstract images our lives create. It's where we explore how our unique talents, lived experiences, and relationships shape not just who we are, but where we're going and how we'll get there.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." –Steve Jobs
It’s a promise and a prompt
Dots Connect is a promise — that all those seemingly random moments, decisions, skills, interests, and relationships in your life do connect in meaningful ways. They always have, even when the pattern wasn't immediately visible.
And it's a prompt — an invitation to explore your unique constellation of dots with intention. To recognize your natural talents, celebrate your lived experiences, and forge meaningful connections that move you forward.
Let's Connect the Dots Together
Whether you're trying to make sense of where you've been, ground yourself in where you are, or navigate intentionally toward where you want to go, I invite you to join this journey of dot-connecting.
The beautiful thing about dots is that they're yours to create and connect — no matter if you're building a business, crafting a career, or designing a life that reflects who you truly are.
What You'll Find Here
💫 Discover Your Unique Blueprint
Explore frameworks like CliftonStrengths and Sparketypes to understand your natural talents and the work that makes you come alive. I'll guide you through seeing yourself clearly and working from your zone of genius rather than constantly fighting against your nature.
🧭 Navigate Life's Transitions with Grace
Our lives are constantly evolving landscapes. Whether subtle shifts or dramatic changes, planned moves (I'm currently preparing for a relocation to Europe!) or unexpected redirections, we'll explore approaches to navigate change with both intention and adaptability. We'll examine how to find your footing when the ground beneath you transforms.
📚 The Maven's Corner
As a natural learner, I'm constantly connecting dots between books, podcasts, conversations, and observations. I'll share curated insights that might spark your own connections.
⏱️ Productivity with Purpose
Work intentionally, not frantically. We'll explore approaches to productivity that honor your natural rhythms and create space for what truly matters in your life and work. You'll also find me talking about this over at Productive Flourishing, where many of these conversations continue and expand.
🔄 Creating Dots to Connect
Sometimes the magic is in laying down new dots with intention, trusting they'll connect in ways you can't yet imagine. We'll explore how to take meaningful action without needing to see the entire path.
About Me
I'm Maghan (pronounced MAY-gan – courtesy of my mom Marge's creative spelling), a coach and connector of invisible threads.
Throughout my 20+ year career in marketing and advertising, I helped brands position themselves to showcase their best attributes. Now I help people do the same — co-creating pathways to develop their innate talents, turn them into superpowers, and grow from where they are. I particularly enjoy working with solopreneurs and micropreneurs looking to build ventures as unique as they are.
As a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and Certified Sparketype Advisor, I help people identify, understand, and celebrate their unique talents and see how they fit into the bigger picture of the world around them.
My own Top 10 CliftonStrengths (Learner, Empathy, Connectedness, Context, Responsibility, Individualization, Achiever, Relator, Intellection, Developer) and Sparketype profile (Nurturer/Maven) inform how I see and move through the world — always seeking to understand the connections between ideas, people, and experiences.
I'm also: Book nerd. Crafter. Crochet addict. Lover of potatoes. Off-the-beaten-path sightseer. Introvert on the edge of ambivert. Recipe follower. Hopeless cook. Meticulous yet messy. Equal parts serious and silly. And infinitely curious about the dots that connect us all.
