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
#40: Purpose in Entrepreneurship-Serial Entrepreneur and Happiness Coach Mine Dedekoca
What does it look like to bring purpose into entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurship focuses on making money, but purpose is so much more.
Mine Dedekoca is a serial entrepreneur. It's her nature to start n…
#39: Creating a Question Board to Answer Our Life Questions (Mini-Lesson)
The answers that we get in life are related to the question that we ask. We want to be intentional about asking the best questions possible of ourselves. About a year ago, I created a question board …
#38: The Power of Mentorship for Finding Purpose-Speaker and Scholar Marcus Goodloe
Purpose isn't just an individual-level activity. Invariably, other people contribute to our development and enactment of purpose. This is especially true with mentoring relationships. Mentors commit …
#37: Three Pathways into Purpose (Mini-Lesson)
A well-known conceptual model identifies three general pathways into purpose. This mini-lesson reviews and expands this model.
#36: How to Interpret Your Dreams for Purpose-Spiritual Director and Dream Expert Pam Muller
The subconscious plays a surprisingly big role in our ability to find purpose. How can we cultivate it further? What can we do to better understand our subconscious' guidance.
Many years ago, Pam Mull…
#35: Create a Life that You Love-Author, Coach, and Consultant Brooke Erol
What should we do if we're stuck in a job that doesn't give us purpose? How do we find our way out?
Brooke Erol was a successful business executive years ago, but deep inside she knew that it wasn't t…
#34: The Pain, Distress, and Joy of Purpose Moments (Mini-Lesson)
What does it feel like when we moments of clarity with our purpose? It would be easy to assume that these moments are light and cheery, but in reality they often come amid distress. This mini-episode…
#33: Creating Purpose with Leadership-Executive and Career Coach Tony Martignetti
How does purpose play into leadership? What does it mean to be a purposeful leader?
Tony Martignetti is a former business executive who now coaches leaders in finding purpose in their own lives and le…
#32: The Relationship between Money and Purpose (Mini-Lesson)
What is the relationship between money and purpose? This week's mini-lesson reflects on whether money is necessary for purpose, if it's a by-product of purpose, or if it's a hinderance to purpose.
#31: Reinventing Yourself at 50+ -Career Coach and Branding Expert Wendy Marx
How do we intentionally reinvent our lives into something better? What does this look like when we're over 50?
Wendy Marx has had a peripatetic career. She's been a social worker, a journalist, marke…
#30: Forget Bucket Lists, Create a Casket List Instead (Mini-Lesson)
Do you have a bucket list? You might want to add something similar but far more powerful-a casket list. These are the most meaningful things that you want to bring forth in your life before you die.
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#29: How to Create Moments of Purpose-Award-Winning Photojournalist Mark Mirko
How can we find purpose in a given moment?
Mark Mirko is an award-winning photojournalist. He thinks deeply about his craft. His job is to enter situations and capture their essence in a rectangular, …
#28: Seeing Your Purpose in Other People's Lives (Mini-Lesson)
Purpose is an intensely individual experience. Yet, we sometimes find more of it by seeing it in others. This mini-lesson gives a simple exercise that takes advantage of the principle of gestalt. Usi…
#27: Fear, Service, and Purpose-Writer and Business Polymath Jeff Haden
How can we apply the pragmatic effectiveness of business strategy to the pursuit of purpose?
Jeff Haden thinks and he writes, and he does a lot of both. He has written millions of words and has had m…
#26: A Simple Exercise for Interpreting Your Dreams re: Purpose (Mini-Lesson)
Finding purpose happens at multiple levels of awareness. Sometimes rich guidance comes from our subconscious, and the subconscious can speak to us through our dreams. This mini-lesson gives a simple …
#25: Trust Your Gut in Finding Purpose-Intuition Expert Sunil Godse
How can we intuition to find more purpose in our lives?
Sunil Godse has made a career of studying intuition. He accurately refers to himself as an intuitionologist. With a background in engineering, S…
#24: The Four Categories of Purpose Messages (Mini-Lesson)
The pursuit of purpose is multifaceted. It incorporates not only different aspects of our life but also different ways of engaging knowledge. This mini-lesson reviews the four basic ways of learning …
#23: Write Your Own Story of Purpose-Tribute Writer and Adoption Advocate Paul Batura
What story will people tell about you after we're gone? Is it a beautiful, powerful, meaningful story?
Paul Batura writes tributes and biographies of people who have lived impactful lives. This includ…
#22: Finding Purpose is a Foggy Road, Not a Combination Lock (Mini-Lesson)
What we expect going into a search for purpose affects whether we actually find it. This mini-lesson identifies a common wrong expectation as well as a more helpful one.
#21: The Man Who Fell 100 Feet and Survived into Greater Purpose-Engineer and Outdoorsman Steve Nelson
Can a single event change the purpose in our life?
Steve Nelson has adventurous hobbies. Among them is rock climbing. One day, there was a mistake on the side of mountain, and Steve fell off a 100' cl…