Being A Multi-Passionate Person Who Doesn’t Fit a Job Title

Here is one for the multi-passionate person who doesn’t fit a job title. You are beautifully made.

When people ask me what I do, I usually pause and say something like, “Oh… lots of things.”
Cue the puzzled look.

So I rattle off a few things I’m currently working on and that usually makes them more confused.

Then comes the follow-up: “No, but what do you do?”

Ah. Translation: How do you make money?

Well, that’s a different question entirely. And still, not a single answer.

I’m a multi-passionate person and in today’s world, that can feel like both a gift and a curse.

There’s no standard job title that quite covers my life.

Coach? Choreographer? Writer? Homesteader? Hostess? Teacher of things not often taught?

I do all of the above, sometimes on the same day. But to answer the what do you do question with just one of those feels incomplete.

Some of those fall under my professional identity, others are just part of my personal creative projects. And all of them are part of my calling. All of them (and more) encompass the things that I do with my time.

What Does It Mean to Be Multi-Passionate?

Being multi-passionate means having a wide range of interests across different industries, often with seemingly unrelated things that still make sense in your unique mix.

It means learning new tools and skills, pursuing different passions, and not feeling confined to a traditional career path or the corporate world.

It means your creative energy doesn’t live in a box, it flows.

You’re likely someone who’s dabbled in different fields, started a few side projects, maybe even launched your own business or five (like me!).

And while that can be invigorating, it can also be confusing, especially in a world that tells us the best way to succeed is to specialize.

The Struggle With Specialists

If you’ve ever had a hard time answering the “So what do you do?” question, you’re not alone.

Some of us aren’t wired to pick one line of work and stick with it for the rest of our life.
We’re creative grasshoppers, moving from one idea to the next, not because we’re flaky, but because we’re fueled by curiosity and discovery. I love learning new skills, exploring different interests, and coming up with new ideas. It’s how I am wired. 

Multi-passionate creatives and multi-passionate entrepreneurs are the ones with twenty tabs open in our brains.

The ones who start a new project before finishing the last one.

The ones with to-do lists that read like:

• Write blog post
• Finish choreography
• Start online training course
• Learn how to make goat cheese
• Outline a book
• Create a retreat
• Look up how to propagate fig trees
• ​Forage acorns for baking project

You know, just a typical Tuesday.

There are many people out there who say the riches are in the niches and I do believe there is some validity to that. But niching down isn’t meant for everyone. It can feel boring, stuck, unimaginative.

Anytime I’ve gone through a transition phase in life, I’ve wrestled with the pressure to figure out the one thing I’ll focus on next. And almost every time, that search leads me straight into anxiety and frustration. This happens because I’m asking myself to be something I’m not.

Some people move easily in a straight line. They have a clear plan, a defined path, and their next step makes perfect sense. It’s linear.

But I move in circles. I flow, I shift, I evolve, and often, I find myself drifting back to where I began, but with new eyes.

Circular, Not Linear

I started teaching dance at 18 because I loved dancing, plain and simple (oh, and I needed a job!). I loved teaching dance. So much so that over the years, I explored dance in nearly every form, choreography, directing a professional company, performing, producing. I poured myself into it, and eventually, I burned out.

But in that exhaustion, and thanks to the pandemic, I got quiet enough to listen. I realized the thing I had loved from the beginning wasn’t just dance, it was teaching. It was watching students grow, seeing the lightbulb moments, and nurturing transformation.

So I circled back. I let go of the rest, returned to the studio, and felt a deep sense of satisfaction and alignment I hadn’t felt in years. That full-circle moment, in turn, became the seed that grew into coaching, something I never would’ve seen coming if I hadn’t followed the winding path of teaching.

Mono-Passionate vs. Multi-Passionate

I was recently at a permaculture meetup (as one does when you’re into creative ways of living), and the topic of monocropping came up.

In farming, when you plant the same crop over and over again, the soil becomes depleted. The land gets tired. Diversity is lost.

I believe that’s what happens when we force ourselves to be only one thing.
One crop. One identity. One job. One box.

Multi-passionate people are polyculture people.

We thrive in diversity. We’re enriched by working on different things. We grow when we allow room for all of who we are to show up in our lives and our work. 

Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just a painter, he was an inventor, scientist, musician, engineer, philosopher. A true Renaissance person. The world needed him to be all of it.

So maybe the world needs you to be all of it, too.

It’s Not a Flaw, It’s a Calling

We live in a time when career coaches, algorithms, and social media are trying to help us “niche down,” clarify our personal brand, and find our one thing.

And while clarity is beautiful, sometimes it comes from recognizing the common thread between the many things, rather than picking just one.

For me, that thread is this:
I create spaces where people can breathe, belong, and step into a freer, more aligned way of living.

Sometimes that looks like dancing.
Other times it looks like sourdough.
Sometimes it’s a coaching session.
Other times it’s pulling weeds with someone and talking about God’s timing.

It doesn’t all fall under one job description, but it does fall under a body of work that I believe I was made to carry.

If This Is You Too…

Feeling the shame over your zigzag path or your too many interests?
Have you been told to just pick one, when your soul whispered, But I love them all?
Ever wondered if anyone would ever hire or understand a multi-passionate individual like you?

Let me say it plainly: You are not broken. You are brilliantly designed.
And there are right people out there who need the exact mix you bring to the table.

To all the creative entrepreneurs, multi-passionate artists, career rebels, you are allowed to love different topics, work in different ways, and light up when you discover a new passion. You’re not lost, you’re layered.

The Next Time Someone Asks…

So the next time someone asks me the dreaded, “What do you do?” question, maybe I’ll smile and say…

“I build a life that honors my gifts, fuels my joy, and blesses others.”

For the multi-passionate person who doesn’t fit a job title, I see you. You don’t need permission, but if you’re looking for a nudge in the right direction:

Keep being all of you.

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