Something in you knows.
Maybe it begins quietly.
A book that wants to be written. A creative life set aside in service of the practical one. Another way of serving that hasn't yet found its form. Something that has been patient — but is growing less so.
Or it arrives as disruption.
A role dissolves. A long-held structure falls away. You realize how much of your identity was resting on something that is no longer there.
Either way, something in you recognizes the moment.
The life you've built has carried you this far. And now something beneath it is asking to emerge.
You sense that something may need to be released for that to happen. You may not know what yet.
Only that the way forward moves through this moment — not around it.
That's the work I help people navigate.
Brody Hartman
I help people remember the unique image at the center of their lives — and step into it.
After three decades as a creative agency leader, strategist, and partner — working with organizations such as Whole Foods, Ben & Jerry's, Traditional Medicinals, and the International Museum of Women — I crossed a threshold of my own.
It was not my first. I came to this work having already lost things that matter — and having found, in those losses, a particular capacity for depth and presence. Those experiences became the ground of everything that followed.
A deeper question had begun to insist itself: What remains when the structures that once defined you are no longer enough?
I trained extensively as a Purpose Guide through the Purpose Guides Institute, where I later served as faculty, curriculum developer, and mentor. Alongside that work I developed a documentary photography practice centered on human dignity — work that has appeared in The Sun Magazine and was included in Dodho's Best Photography of 2025.
Both practices emerge from the same essential capacity: helping people and communities be truly seen.
Much of my work is with leaders, creatives, and thoughtful practitioners who sense that something in their lives is shifting — and who want to meet that moment with honesty and depth.
I bring to each engagement strategic insight, creative inquiry, and a practice shaped by decades of guiding and by the full arc of a life lived at threshold.
I work from a blueberry farm in Downeast Maine and remotely worldwide.
"We have what we need to meet this precarious moment of accelerated change — deep imagination, a unique soul calling, gifts attuned to this time, an intuitive compass of the heart, and each other." - Brody
What is longing to emerge in your life now?