Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

Engaging in Conflict while Protecting Your Peace | Choosing to Neutralize the Drama and Walk AwayWhen it comes to conflict, many people live at opposite ends of the spectrum. They love it and never say no to a fight, or they avoid it at all costs. All to say, regardless of what each of our preferences are, life requires that we engage in conflict from time to time. But. We can choose how we engage...

3 Ways to Push Through Challenging Times | You're Always Stronger Than You Think & More Resilient One thing that we all will eventually have in common are the people, places, and situations that we survive. We are all going to face hardships at some point in our life, varying degrees, throughout the stages and phases we go through. A lot of us have a hard time finding our way back to ourse...

You're More Influential than You Think | 3 Ways to Measure How Much Influence You Have Potential ForThe majority of us underestimate our influence. Very few recognize that any given point in time, they're a role model, a mentor, a support, and someone someone else is emulating and looking up to. That's influence in a nutshell. If we could focus the attention we spend playing small to u...

Finding Your Voice: When Silence Isn't an Option Learn to Speak UpThere are people who are banking on our silence. It's really important to recognize that while sometimes we feel like someone else will speak up, in cases where you choose not to, that's not always guaranteed. While it can be uncomfortable and unsettling, speaking up when we see, hear, or feel like something is off can h...

How to Stand Up to Bullies and Stop Letting Other People Intimidate YouWe've all experienced that moment when we set a boundary and our desires were dismissed. For some of us, this may have ended there but for others it could have gotten worse. It's a problem when someone thinks that your agency and your basic human rights is a barrier to whatever they're hoping to access. We see how t...

Progress Requires a Daily Sacrifice | Embracing that Loss Comes with Growth and Self DiscoveryMany of us only learn in hindsight that pursuing our goals and aspirations is going to change something about your life, as it is right now. Not just the things we're focusing on changing. You'll realize that growth introduces a lot of unexpected goodbyes as well. Every new beginning is the ending...

When Life Hits Hard: Building Mental Toughness and Growing Through the Challenges that Can ComeFew people are strong solely by choice. Most people develop strength from surviving circumstance. By choosing to align to the adage, "Grow through what you go through."It's a choice that we are each at liberty to make. Choosing to be strong won't take away the pain, heaviness, or the ch...

Tough Love: A Better Way to Hold People Accountable while Preserving their DignityThe way we communicate our point, establishing when emotions are high... matters. People are more prone to remember how you made them feel, over what specific things you said. When it comes to holding someone accountable, preserving their sense of dignity is important. Sometimes when our anger is justified, we feel j...

Your Path to Rising Above Toxic Situations and Staying GroundedWe can hold people accountable and get our point across, without ripping each other into shreds. Rather than lose our cool, backpedal, and apologize... focus solely on calling out the actions that hurt you. Keep the conversation centred on cause and effect, leaving the person's humanity in talk. Truth is, we are all healing from so...

How Love Conquers Hate in Our Daily Choices and Actions | Medicine for the SoulIt's hard to feel gracious towards people who grind our gears. While it would be easy to meet people where they are, if that means lowering yourself to that level, then the only person you're dishonouring is yourself. Why give anyone that power or satisfaction? While it's challenging to rise above and respon...

Why Love Wins Even When Hate Feels Right when Dealing with Difficult Situations and PeopleIt feels like the negativity taking place around the world is amplifying. We don't have to travel far, technology makes it all available at our fingerprints. What's worse, we don't really have a reason to believe it's going to get any better -- not by the looks of things. But it always can get...

Transform Self-Doubt Into Unshakeable Confidence by Honing in on Your IntuitionMany of us have a vague idea of our intuition if any at all. While a lot of people can devalue the power of developing our "gut" instinct, there are a few of us who can speak from personal experience: It works really well. But this isn't by chance or luck - developing attunement and awareness to your intui...

Effectively Communicate Using the 4 Cs of Communication from an Institutional Communications MajorHere are some communication strategies used by professionals across all of the industries I have worked in: Insurance, HR Tech, Banking, Consulting, Mental Health Tech, IT Consulting, Consumer Goods, and Transport & Logistics - now you have the 4 Cs explainedBeing an effective communicator require...

Why Being Different Makes You Unstoppable | The Hidden Power of Being Uniquely YouMany of us are still figuring out how to accept ourselves for who we are. If we think about the things that we do, the people that we are connected with, and the ways that we show up, a lot of it is rehearsed, polished, and fuelled by the fear of rejection and abandonment. Rather than fight against the norms, dogmas,...

How to Find Clarity When it Matters the Most | Building a Lifestyle that Helps Feel Decisive & ClearWe each have been at a crossroads, where we had to make a call. If your focus is on making the right choice for you, irrespective if whether it's the popular choice, the resented choice, or the disruptive choice, then finding clarity matters. Equipping ourselves to get clear and tap into cla...

3 Way to Recharge | Why Making Time for Restoration is Critical to Lead a Healthy & Balanced Life ✅Sometimes it is the simplest of acts, that have the most powerful impact. Making restoration a priority is one of those acts. While many people might scoff and reference the million and one things that they need to do that keep them from recharging, these are the same few that are battling with...

Learning to Value Difference | Small Steps You Can Take to Celebrate Your Sense of IndividualityInner alignment and being comfortable with who you are, is uncommon. Many people have anxiety at the thought of someone unmasking them, gripped by their own sense of imposter syndrome. Carefully curating the versions of ourselves that we share in public, while allowing shame to fester around the parts o...

Staying Clear from Ugly Compromises | Differentiating Between Concessions that Help and Hurt 😢 Not all compromises should be made. It isn't always the case that your willingness to compromise makes you the good guy. A lot of times the exact opposite is true. If it feels like you're selling out, you're better off not making the concession and walking away. If no one took the time to te...

3 Easy Ways to Stay Grounded | Learning How to Ground Yourself as a Practice and not a State of MindWhat does feeling grounded bring out in you? Feeling grounded is the first step to feeling creative, capable and finding clarity on how you want to approach the things that matter the most to you. A lot of people recognize the state of feeling grounded when it happens, but few of us recognize that w...

Giving Yourself Permission to Express Yourself, Emotionally | Finding Alignment in Self-ExpressionA large percentage of us were not raised in environments where we felt psychologically safe enough to express ourselves emotionally. For many of us, the only way to survive was to adapt. By adapt I mean to repress and suppress our emotional expression, to accommodate the people around us who, took iss...

Think Before You Act. How Strategic Thinking Helps You to Ask for Forgiveness and not for PermissionMost decisions do not need to be made on the fly. Many of us manufacture the time-sensitivity to our decision-making. Don't believe me? Take into consideration all of the times you had to take your foot out of your mouth, backpedal, or apologize. All of those instances could have been avoided if...

3 Healthy Habits to Help You Manage and Navigate Conflict | Develop the Toolkit to Lead a Happy LifeWhatever your attitudes or beliefs are around conflict - they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Experiencing differences in opinion is a natural part of life, where we are all free to think, speak, and choose as we please. So, it's important to develop the tools to manage the conflicts and day-to-...

Learning to Make the Right Call | Navigating Health & Wellness and Building a Network of ExpertiseThere is not a lot that compares with the intimidation we feel, when we find ourselves confronted with how little we know about our own health. This is especially the case when we have an issue with our health and while we want better and to do better, it's hard to know which experts to lean o...

Learning to Think Critically | Understand the Prerequisites to Thinking Expansively & IndependentlyThinking critically requires a few corresponding characteristics. It would be hard to think critically, if you've limited your decisions to what others have told you, or if your personal set of beliefs limit you. It's equally hard to think critically if you find that you are easily fright...

3 Things that Steal Your Peace | Getting Rid of the Habit of Being Stressed and Feeling Anxious 😌🔆You are going to come across people, places, and things that are simply not going to be worth your time. That, is not something most people would argue or contest. Sometimes the hardest things to detect are the habits that we ourselves indulge in, that steal away from our sense of peace. It's im...