Details
- Release
- Spring 2027
- Edition
- Non-faith
- Publisher
- Dream Big Publish / Ohana Style Publishing
- Format
- Trade paperback, e-book, audiobook (planned)
- Companion
- Workbook included
The 15-step Brave Purpose Framework in three movements, voiced without the faith framing. The companion faith edition is Brave Purpose with God.
The golden thread
“There is a golden thread of bringing restoration, healing, and encouragement to the heart. If you don’t believe that you are valuable, you will not believe that the dreams in your heart are valuable. I make a case for knowing your value, and throughout pretty much everything that I do, there is that golden thread of bringing restoration, healing, and encouragement to people’s hearts.”
In Brave Purpose the thread becomes a map. Michele treats the pains a reader carries as clues rather than dead ends, and the dreams they buried as treasure worth digging for. The restoration is the method here: a person has to recover their own worth before they can build anything on top of it.
The story behind the story
Welcome to a great adventure.
The journey of dreaming big is a path I have walked for decades, and beautifully, it is the very road that has led me to you. As I have navigated the hills and valleys of discovering my true north, pursuing the dreams rooted within me with intention and openness, I have been left with a gratitude deeper than words can express. It has been a journey of personal transformation, profound healing, and experiencing the miraculous potential of life. This journey has gifted me with the kind of freedom that only comes from being willing to explore and learn what is in my own heart and to take steps to live with purpose.
Every milestone I have reached, from the hard-won victories to the quiet shifts of the soul, has led me to this desire: to see you embrace the power and richness of your own story. My passion and mission are to help you clear the path for you to realize the potential you carry and to dream with boldness. My heart is to help you navigate your way out of any shadows of self-doubt and the boundaries of external limitations so you can walk in the greater fullness of your true self.
There is a profound spark within you that is a quiet, persistent voice of potential that is far more than just a fleeting wish. It is an inner calling, a blueprint of what you are truly capable of.
You were meant to thrive, to live unhindered, vibrant, and deeply aligned with a sense of meaning. The dreams planted in your heart aren’t accidental; they are there because you have something uniquely positive to offer this world. Together, let’s unlock that treasure and watch as your life transforms into the masterpiece you were always meant to be.
May the brilliance of your true potential be witnessed and experienced through you, and through the impact of your dreams.
Michele’s preface, quoted in full.
Imagine, for a moment, that you are standing barefoot on a smooth, sun-warmed rock in the middle of a flowing river. The cool water swirls ankle-deep around you, and you can feel the gentle, persistent tug of flowing waters. It is inviting you to let go, to drift downstream into territory unknown, into a great adventure.
Yet, there is something comforting about the safety of the rock. It feels stable. It is familiar. It is known. It is like the somewhat predictable life you have created, and you know every inch of its surface.
But deeper than the comfort of where you stand, you feel it. A subtle, magnetic pull of a current toward something more. It is the call to experience deeper fulfillment, more radiant joy that makes your soul feel alive. And still, you may hesitate. It is uncomfortable, perhaps even frightening, to risk stepping off the solid ground of the “known” and into the flow of what could be.
This winding river journey is, at its heart, a pursuit of the hidden treasure chest of dreams planted within you. That is the voice calling out to you from the water.
The opening of Michele’s introduction, “A Profound Invitation.”
“You may feel like you aren’t ready, but everything you need to begin is already within you.”
What the book is
Brave Purposeis a practical guide in three movements. Discovering the Dreamer Within is a reckoning of a reader’s worth, dismantling the limiting beliefs that kept them small and naming the dreams at the center of their own experience. From Dreamer to Builder trades the shovel for drafting tools, using imagination as a blueprint and teaching the discipline of managing the three T’s already in hand: Time, Treasure, and Talents. Achieving and Living Your Dream builds the resilience to protect a vision when the temptation to quit is loudest, and helps a reader find the community that will champion their purpose when they cannot champion it themselves.
Explorer’s Notes and Treasure Summaries run through the book so the reading turns into real steps, paced as a marathon of discovery rather than a sprint. Michele writes it for the young adult in the season of the first breath, the mid-life reader on the sustained trek, and the senior stepping into a golden legacy, and she widens what “big” is allowed to mean along the way: dreaming bigger sometimes means dreaming deeper rather than wider.
Same 15-step Brave Purpose Framework as the faith edition, with a companion workbook.
Endorsements
Early praise
“Brave Purpose is a wonderful resource in the midst of all this, helping us reflect on our identity, our potential, and our direction. The intent is for us to find our true purpose and meaning, and to live the unique life we were inherently designed for.”
“Brave Purpose is not simply a book, it is a sacred invitation. From the first page, you feel gently yet firmly called out of hiding and into the courageous work of becoming who you were always meant to be. This is the kind of book you don’t just read, you experience.”
Launch information
Brave Purpose releases in Spring 2027 from Dream Big Publish / Ohana Style Publishing, in trade paperback and e-book with an audiobook planned, alongside a companion workbook.
Contact Michele for release updates
Launch email list coming soon.
Also see
Elsewhere in Michele’s story
Where the thread leads
“The golden thread is like the spine. It runs through everything I do and teach and coach and speak on. And it culminates in embracing your brave purpose. And living it out.”
If you are ready to walk this out yourself, Michele coaches authors through the Brave Purpose Author Method.
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