About me
Hi, I’m Brandi, the creator of Purposecore. I create spaces where curiosity is honored, complexity is welcome, and purpose is something we weave, not impose.
My journey began in a tightly knit faith community where obedience and certainty were treated as virtues. Even as a kid, I was asking “why?” Why this rule? Why that structure? Why not another way? I’ve always needed purpose to make sense, not just for myself, but for the communities I’m part of.
That curiosity carried me from my small community to Portland State, where questioning was encouraged rather than constrained, and where studying feminism, mythology, and social justice opened new ways of making meaning.
From there, my path took me to work with houseless youth, live in Nepal as part of the Peace Corps, and teach English in Thailand. After Thailand, I attended graduate school at The New School, earning a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management. There, I learned alongside fellow Peace Corps volunteers and from adjunct professors who were actively leading in their chosen professions, grounding theory in lived experience and real-world practice. I later went on to support school leaders primarily in New York, California, and Oregon continuing to question and refine what meaningful leadership and shared purpose truly look like.
Today, my greatest privilege is walking alongside my daughter as she grows, and supporting a community of learners and families at Village Home as they take ownership of their educational journeys.
Through it all, I’ve learned that purpose isn’t something you’re given. It’s something you co-create.
Purposecore is my offering to those who want to create with care and weave with wonder. It’s for people who see through savior culture and hustle myths, who reject simple answers and make room for lived contradictions. It’s for those building new paths, not to dominate, but to belong.
I don’t believe in one right philosophy. I believe in living the questions, building communities that can hold complexity, and protecting what’s precious along the way.
Come curious. Stay grounded. Let’s build what matters, together.
“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”