For more than twenty years, Tina Schaaf built her career in executive search, placing people at the highest levels of leadership across nearly every industry. Along the way, she kept hearing the same question underneath every placement, one the job description never asked. She built a practice around it called the Executives Agent, and a formula to walk people through it: clarify, claim, commit. In this episode of The Guidelight, Tina and I talk about what it means to stop achieving an identity and start receiving one. That is the tension at the center of this conversation. Most of us walk around wearing titles, CEO, father, mother, coach, and we let those titles do the work our identity was supposed to do. Somewhere between thirty five and fifty five, Tina says, almost everyone arrives at the same place: how did I get here, and is this all there is? Ephesians 2:10 calls us God's handiwork, His poema, made new in Christ for a purpose already prepared. Tina's own turning point came from a CEO who told her, in an unscheduled meeting she never saw coming, that she was enough exactly as she was. That is a kairos moment, God's time breaking into an ordinary Tuesday. This one may expose how much of your worth is still riding on your last result. Tune in to the full episode and ask where you have been trying to earn what God has already given you. Tina Schaaf is the CEO and founder of The Schaaf Group, a retained executive search and consulting firm she has led for more than twenty years, working with public and privately owned companies across nearly every industry. Out of that work she built the Executives Agent™, a practice for professionals who have stopped chasing success and started asking about significance. Her framework, clarify, claim, commit, has guided leaders through identifying the three pillars already present in who they are. Tina is the author of Disruption by Design™, a wife, a mother, and about to launch a podcast of her own. She leads The Schaaf Group alongside her husband, and her mission is to help leaders rise from truth, not title. Connect With Tina: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinaschaaf/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tsgschaaf/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/tina.schaaf Email: tina@theschaafgroup.com Jason Trent is the host of The Guidelight Podcast and the founder of Guidelight Legacy Advisors. The Guidelight is a discipleship platform for the awake heart, the man or woman in any seat, at any income, in any season whose soul has started asking questions their circumstances can't answer. Jason walks listeners through the Seven Guidelight Pathways, Purpose, Identity, Inner Battle, Wisdom, Covenant, Stewardship, Legacy, toward wholeness: shalom, nothing missing. He has lived on both sides of the fence, lack and abundance, and speaks to both without pandering to either. He lives with his wife Kellie and their youngest, Sadie, on a small homestead in Brevard, North Carolina. Acts 20:24 is the verse his life is built around. Grace and peace. Connect with Jason Trent: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trent-jason/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/guidelight-insurance/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Guidelight/61575862355860/ Stay Connected. Stay Inspired. Let’s build deeper, stronger relationships—one meaningful connection at a time. 👉 Explore all things JTrent Connect: linktr.ee/JTrentConnect
