Recovery Career Compass · A Brick by Brick Platform
Navigate your path. Build your future.
Start free with Readiness Assessment and Skills Explorer. Unlock the full Compass when you're ready to turn that snapshot into a guided work plan.
Clarity
Know where you stand.
Direction
Set a clear destination.
Execution
Take action. Build momentum.
Growth
Create impact. Change lives.
This is the platform where the doing happens. The book teaches the framework. The Compass is where you do the work the framework points at. The tools are structured, named, and scoped. Not endless features. Just what a person in recovery actually needs to act on what the book has you looking at.
Here’s how access works:
- Starter access — Readiness Assessment and Skills Explorer are free after sign-in, so you can see where you stand and name the skills you already carry.
- Full Compass — $79/year unlocks Mission, WOOP, Show Up Whole, Career Story, Job Search, First 90 Days, Resilience, Weekly Planner, Action Plan, and the premium artifact flow.
- Book buyers — purchase the book and receive a reader code for $30 off the first year. Year one becomes $49; renewal is the regular $79/year rate.
- IHC program participants — free annual access via codes distributed by Invest Hamilton County program staff.
What follows is the full set of tools live at launch. Additional tools are in development; they’ll ship as they’re ready.
What unlocks
Two tools free. Full Compass $79/year.
Free gets someone oriented. Paid gives them the guided system: decisions, interviews, job search, onboarding, resilience, weekly planning, and a final action plan they can actually use.
The tools.
Readiness Assessment
Free starterChapter 2 — Going Back vs. Starting Over
A clear-eyed read on where you actually are right now — the practical side, your skills and credentials, your mindset and motivation, and the job market. Surfaces gaps; never gatekeeps.
You get: Personalized readiness snapshot with recommendations
Mission Statement Builder
Full CompassChapter 2 — Going Back vs. Starting Over
Draft a one-paragraph personal mission statement. Not a personality test. The door is not the test; the mission is the test.
You get: One-paragraph mission statement (PDF)
WOOP Goal Builder
Full CompassChapter 10 — Goals and Gratitude
Wish · Outcome · Obstacle · Plan. The strongest evidence-based goal-setting method available, made usable for one career-related goal at a time. Includes a five-minute pre-flow that surfaces the real goal underneath the one you first name.
You get: WOOP plan with if-then implementation intention (PDF)
Show Up Whole
Full CompassCompanion to Chapter 6 — The Interview (platform-original)
An evidence-based methodology for describing yourself as a whole person in interviews — values, hobbies, responsibilities, passions — in a way that helps the interviewer see how you'll work. Four-part frame: Mirror · Bridge · Story · Boundary. You are not your resume.
You get: Personal values map + three drafted whole-person answers (PDF)
Disclosure Templates
Full CompassChapter 6 — The Interview
Three templates that scaffold the disclosure conversation — boss conversation, cover letter narrative, resume gap framing. Acknowledge → Accountability → Forward-Pivot, the three-move mechanic from Chapter 6.
You get: Three filled disclosure templates (PDF)
Active Job Search Builder
Full CompassChapter 5 + Chapter 6
Five-session walkthrough of the active job search over ~5 weeks. Target list, application tailoring, outreach, interview rehearsal, setback recovery.
You get: Personal Job-Search Plan (PDF)
First 90 Days Companion
Full CompassChapter 8 — Doing MY Job
Three-phase guided journal: orientation (days 1–14), integration (15–45), consolidation (46–90). Protect recovery practice while learning the work.
You get: Personal First-90 Plan (PDF)
Career Story Builder
Full CompassChapter 2 + Chapter 5
Narrative tool. The redemption-script work applied to career — who I was at work, who I am becoming. Forward-pairs with mission; backward-integrates the past.
You get: One-page Career Story (PDF)
Skills Explorer
Free starterChapter 5 — Jobs vs. Careers (platform-original)
Find what you're actually good at — and a couple of directions worth opening. A skills inventory that turns your whole work history (jobs, side work, recovery service, caregiving) into transferable skills, then names a few directions worth exploring. Self-awareness and skills only — not occupation-matching.
You get: Skills & Directions snapshot (PDF)
Three Tests
Full CompassChapter 5 — Jobs vs. Careers (platform-original)
Weighing a specific move? Run it through the three tests from the book — Does it use what I have? Does it keep the floor under us? Does it move me toward who I'm becoming? A decision discipline for a work move; run it again to compare options.
You get: Three-Tests read (PDF)
Compare Directions
Full CompassChapter 5 — Jobs vs. Careers (platform-original)
Weighing two or three directions? Hold them side by side against the same three tests — does it keep the floor, use what you have, move you toward who you're becoming — and make the call. The decide step the book's arc points at.
You get: Your decision + the next step (PDF)
Workplace Resilience Companion
Full CompassChapter 4 + Chapter 8
Six workplace situations recovery-population workers find disproportionately destabilizing — and a 3-minute desk practice for each. Not stress-reduction therapy. Recovery principles applied to the eight hours.
You get: Personal Resilience Notebook (PDF)
Weekly Practice Planner
Full CompassChapter 10 — Goals and Gratitude
Sunday-night planning view + daily morning view + Friday-evening review. Decompose your WOOP into the cadence the work actually lives at.
You get: Weekly Practice Plan (PDF)
Action Plan Builder
Full CompassAll chapters
End-of-book exercise. Pulls your work across the other apps into one 1–3 page plan you take to someone you trust — a mentor, friend, counselor, or coach.
You get: Personal Action Plan (PDF)
Privacy posture.
The platform’s default is zero-retention beyond what you save. Free-text responses live in your account; nothing is shared with employers, insurers, courts, or any other organization without your explicit choice. The save-artifact flow generates a PDF you download to your device.
No tracking pixels. No ad networks. No third-party cookies. Cookieless analytics (Plausible) only. The audience is in recovery; the privacy floor reflects that.