Bradley Wright, Life Purpose Lab
In-depth exploration into purpose in life. What is purpose? How does it change lives? How do we find more of it? Interviews include researchers who study it, practitioners who guide people to it, and people who have experienced it. New episode every Wednesday morning.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
#60: Finding Work in Middle Age Stirs Your Soul: Rehabilitation Aide Burt Fleischner
How does purpose intrude into our everyday life? Even in middle age, can we turn our careers into something profoundly purposeful?
Burton Fleischner has a successful career as the manager of a large …
#59: The Power of Reprogramming Your Mindset into Purpose: Coach and Author Joey Drolshagen
This week's guest explores this topic with his work. Joey Drolshagen helps people overcom…
#58: How Does Man's Quest for Purpose Align with God's Path? Author Dustan Christensen
If you're a person of faith, how do you connect what you're doing in life with what God wants for you?
This is a big, meaty question that this week's guest, Dustan Christensen, unpacks for us. He iden…
#57: Creating Life Stories of Purpose: Life Coach, Author, and Caregiver Robert Pardi
What is the story of your life? Are you willing to give yourself over to it fully?
Robert Pardi lives a beautiful, meaningful life. He got there through living out stories. His wife died at a tragical…
#56. Mentoring Boys with Purpose: Teacher, Author, and Mentor Kenneth Joyner
What does a young person need to find purpose in their lives? What are the skills, abilities, and experiences that will push them into a life that matters?
As a fifth grade teacher, Kenneth Joyner saw…
#55. The Purpose in Life is Serving Others. The Only Question is How. College President Steven Lavine
Do you need to be qualified to do what you find most purposeful? Probably not.
Steven Lavine was the president of the California Institute of the Arts for 29 years. He had a very successful tenure, de…
#54. Meaning is Everywhere. Here's How to Find It: "Dr. Meaning" Alex Pattakos
What, exactly, is meaning? How can we continually find it in our physical and spiritual world?
Alex Pattakos is one of the world's leading experts in the study of meaning. He founded the Global Meani…
#53: A Cumulative Journey into Purpose: Executive Turned Mandolin Maker Steve Sorensen
What is it like to being willing to go wherever your sense of purpose takes you?
Steve Sorensen has been wine grower, film maker, executive, and, now, a highly successful mandolin maker. He's been wi…
#52: Purpose at the End of Life: Founder of Purpose Equation Anna Hall
When we talk about finding purpose, our minds often go to young people who are just starting out or maybe people in the middle of life who want to make a course correction. Anna Hall makes a compelli…
#51: How Taking Action Leads to Purpose: Entrepreneur, Lawyer, and Life Coach Wayne Gill
It's easy to think that we need to find our purpose before we act on it. But, maybe it's the other way around. We act on what we think is purposeful--however little we understand it--and we then get …
#50: How to Create a Mission Driven Organization-Leadership Experts Jeff Ikler and Kirsten Richert
Purpose is usually thought about in individual terms-"What is the purpose of my life?" But, organizations can have a sense of purpose as well. It's their mission. Having a sense of mission benefits o…
#49: Busyness as a Barrier to Purpose (Mini-Lesson)
What prevents us from finding purpose? Knowing this guides us in arranging our lives so that we are able to find purpose. A major barrier to purpose is being overly busy. Busyness diminishes our capa…
#48: Ikigai is Not a Venn Diagram. Founder of Ikigai Tribe Nick Kemp
Have you seen that Venn diagram about purpose that's popular online these days? It has four circles, and in the middle is the word ikigai. We're told this is a Japanese word for purpose.
Well, it turn…
#47: Is Purpose Relevant for the Poor? (Mini-Lesson)
A commonly expressed reservation about discovering purpose is that it's limited to the well-to-do. This mini-lesson explores how purpose is relevant to the poor and how poverty affects the attainment…
#46: Finding Purpose in the C-Suite-Business Executive and Performance Expert Berta Aldrich
How do you find purpose amid great power and privilege? By using it to help others.
Berta Aldrich entered the corporate world with a good heart and more than a little naïveté. She thought people woul…
#45: What, Exactly, is Purpose? (Mini-Lesson)
Knowing what purpose is, and how to define it, makes it easier to discover it. This mini-lesson identifies the five characteristics of purpose found in most definitions of it. It also contrasts purpo…
#44: Finding Purpose on the Prison Yard-Former Gang Member, Altruist, and Author Quan Huynh
Can we find purpose in terrible situations that we can't change? If so, how?
Have you ever been sentenced to life in prison for murder? Me neither. But Quan Huynh was at age 23. In prison, he only wan…
#43: Adolescent's Pathways into Purpose (Mini-Lesson)
Adolescence is a time of exploring the options that life gives us. This mini-lesson reviews research on how high-purpose adolescents found their way into deeply meaningful activities. It identifies t…
#42: The Four Key Elements of Purpose-Millennial Expert and Purpose Author Gabrielle Bosche
Would you like to have more clarity about your purpose in life? Would you like to better understand the process of finding purpose?
Gabrielle Bosche is an expert on purpose. She has studied it. She ha…
#41: Creating Purpose Sparks in Children (Mini-Lesson)
How do we prepare children for a lifetime of purposeful living? Before adolescence, they are too young to think deeply about and plan their purpose in life. However, we can encourage them to find act…