You're better at your job than you are at describing it.
Penny is a career coach that helps you find the words for what you actually do well, then put them to work. You get one document with a full summary of your skills and strengths, along with the moments that prove it. Use it for interviews, applications, and every conversation about how you matter.
See what you get →The document everything else is built from.
Every line names a skill and the moment it came from: your own experiences, professionally articulated by Penny. It runs long on purpose and keeps going for as much as you are willing to share and learn about yourself. This is why nothing is generic. An authentic reflection of who you are.
See what you get →Crisis communication When the migration was falling over and three teams had stopped speaking to each other, you were the one moving information between them. Six weeks of it. Nobody assigned you that.
Holding a team steady You absorbed the pressure your team could not control, and told them the truth about what you could and could not change. That is why they stayed.
Cross-functional program delivery You ran a live platform migration across three engineering teams without formal authority over any of them.
Resilience under pressure You worked for a year under a manager whose mood set the weather. You did not harden. You got better at reading a room.
Steady in the middle You keep people working together when pressure pulls them apart. It shows up in the migration, in the restructure and in how you hold your own team.
This is a short extract. A real summary runs far longer — it keeps going for as much of your life as you walk through with her.
You know what it costs when nobody is holding the middle. You have spent your career making sure somebody is.
Crisis communication
Holding a team steady
Cross-functional program delivery
Resilience under pressure
Steady in the middle
An example. Yours would be built from your own experience.
There are strengths beneath every story line. Waiting to be seen and understood by you.
Penny walks you through your lived experiences, professional and personal, and names the strengths underneath them — usually in the chapters you would never have put on a resume.
“The migration nobody wanted to own so I handled it for 6 weeks while holding 3 teams together that had stopped speaking to each other.”
Crisis communication · Cross-functional coordination · Initiative
“The racism I grew up with, before I had a word for it, helped me support my colleagues today who are treated blatantly different.”
Situational, cultural, & self awareness · Kindness
“The restructure. Supporting the team's anxiety & stress while my own job was under review.”
Composure · Compassion · Empathetic leadership
Examples. Yours would be your own.
The correlation can be difficult on your own.
Adversity can be filed as damage rather than evidence.
Shame keeps the worst chapters close.
The place holding the clearest proof of what you're good at is the last place you would look.
Where you are right now.
I need to find something, and soon.
Penny helps you build a resume that lands.
I want out, quietly.
Penny identifies several role types that suit you.
I want to know where I'm at my best.
An honest read on whether the answer is a move, a conversation, or staying put.
It can be hard to describe what you're good at.
You did the work. Articulating is a separate skill that was never taught.
Advice is everywhere. None of it is tuned to you as an individual — to the strengths you actually have, or to the career, the field and the role that would genuinely fit them.
It's never the right week. Either you're too busy to think about it, or you're job-hunting so hard there's no room left to think at all.
Penny will articulate it for you.
She is acutely specific about your strengths and your professional constraints, and she's there whenever you can fit in a task this big.
Hi, I'm Penny.
I'm not a person — I'm software. This gives you a coach at 11pm on a Sunday who never tires of your third and fourth drafts.
My job is to walk you through what you've actually done, in a psychologically safe way.
- Grounded in positive psychology and organizational behavioral psychology
- Available whenever the doubt turns up, which is rarely office hours
- Built by Yen, who founded Sirius Stuff and developed the framework from her master's thesis in spirituality and psychology at Columbia University.
Penny is not a substitute for a career coach. She is what you bring to one — or to an interview, or to the conversation you have been putting off.
What makes Penny different →
Yen, founder of Sirius Stuff, Inc.
Yen founded Sirius Stuff with one premise in mind — for everyone to see the best version of themselves, in order to operate in flow.
She struggled with this most of her adult life. It was only at forty, entering her master's program in Spirituality and Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, that she discovered her own strengths and soft skills by unearthing her lived experience. It was as if she connected the dots to herself. When she operates from that place, her sense of self, dignity and purpose shine like the brightest star — Sirius.
About Sirius Stuff →Where you see scattered moments, Penny sees a pattern.
Everything a good coach would do, on your schedule.
Strengths profile
Not a personality quiz. A picture of what you do well, built from what you have actually done.
CV, resume, and LinkedIn language
Written with you, in your unique voice, for the kinds of roles you're going after. Nothing about this is generic.
Practice before it counts
Practice the answer you keep fumbling, as many times as you need, without burning a favor.
As often as you need
Come back the night before an interview, or three weeks later. Every conversation starts fresh — you bring the summary, and it picks up from there.
Skills you never thought to name
Soft skills and technical skills you have been using for years without a word for them. Penny names them, and tells you which ones are rarer than you assume.
Evidence, not adjectives
Every strength is tied to the experience that produced it, so you can back it up in a room rather than simply claim it.
It starts with being able to say what you're good at.
Start with one conversation. If it isn't useful, cancel before you're charged again.