Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

3 Ways to Protect Your Peace | Making a Habit of Removing Unwanted Stress from our Daily Lives 👀✅Not every bid for your attention deserves your attention. Especially if it's going to cost you your peace. Many of us have normalized the stress that we experience. So much so that we fail to do an inventory of what stressors can go. Not every worry is worth the time and energy it demands. It&#39...

Understanding Self-Advocacy as Communicating a Boundary | Articulating Your Needs & Defending SelfAs we follow-up from our video last week, we pivot and focus on the topic of self-advocacy. Many of us do not understand what it means to advocate for our rights, wants, needs and desires. This is mostly because the trail that was blazed on our behalf was done so well, we never really needed to th...

3 Boundaries You Never Knew You Needed | Subtle Ways to Set the Tone for Respectful Communication 👀While it would be nice to think that baseline respect is a no brainer, for the majority of the conversations we entertain, that's not always the case. Sometimes it is the boundaries that we enforce, that represents the only limit to the amount of disrespect we will tolerate. It's easy to bru...

Learning to Minimize Energy Debt | How to Prioritize Energy Management as a Core Lifestyle Choice ✅Chronic burnout is a thing. Burnout can be easily avoided if you keep your energy management strategy top of mind. There's an art and science that enables equilibrium; between the energy we expend and the energy we get back. Many of us haven't found a happy medium. Here are a few points that...

Taking Radical Responsibility for our Growth | Being Intentional About the Person You are BecomingEvery choice bears its own consequence. While we typically equate consequences to external factors, we often overlook the weight of our decisions on ourselves. We discount the impact that our actions, behaviours, and thoughts have on our evolving sense of self. The impact our agency, or lack thereof,...

3 Conflict Habits to Knock Off | Removing Maladaptive Tools to Lead a Healthy & Happy Life | Part 2Not all conflict styles are created equal. There are ways of expressing our anger and frustration that will ultimately; helps us, as well as hurt us. It's important that we learn to appreciate the difference between the habits that serve us, and the habits that don't. Even when emotions a...

Live Well & Feel Well | The Pathway to Wellness is Paved with Daily Quick Wins that Pack a Punch! 😌When it comes to wellness, there is great impact in the smallest of indulgences. Whether it's enjoying a tea with a friend, going for a jog, doing yoga, or indulging in a sweet treat, there is something to be said about taking the time to feel good. When was the last time you went out of you...

Why You Should Master the Art of Indifference? Learning to Reserve Your Energy for What Serves YouYou care too much. Specifically, about putting your energy into the people, places, and situations that you already know don't serve you. And how do you know? Because you don't particularly like the people, places, or situations in question. Why ruminate and spend time thinking about, or expen...

Developing a Healthy Intolerance to Our Ignorance | Why You Should Challenge Any Uninformed OpinionsI fundamentally believe in freedom of speech. We all have the right, and in some cases, the responsibility to speak up and communicate our perspectives. Whether this be in the social-political arena or in our personal lives, our voice carries weight. It's important to leverage our voices where w...

Valuing Our Non-Shared Experiences | What We Survive Gives Us a Unique & Refreshing Point of ViewMuch of life up until we graduate from school prepares us for similar experiences. There are very few of us competing for the same role, or interested in the same opportunities who bring skills, competencies, and talents that are strikingly different from one another. As they say, "Birds of a...

4 Easy Habits to Start Honouring Yourself | Practical Tips to Live a Happier, Healthier Life 🔆👀How you treat yourself matters. Unfortunately, not many people believe that this is the case, or incorporate behaviours that honour themselves. More often than not, society seems to value self-deprecation and self-loathing in others, and consider acts of self-love and self-respect as indicators of arro...

Confronting Your Fears | Learning that Life is Best Lived On the Other Side of What Scares You 👀🔆✅Fear does not need to be crippling. For many of us it is. I consider myself as being fearful of many things. Many wouldn't be able to tell, because while I acknowledge the fears exist, I refuse to be a slave to anything that scares me. It's important when you have a fear, that you confront...

Coercive Communication is Maladaptive & Toxic | Establishing Boundaries in Response to IntimidationHow do you engage with someone who isn't used to hearing the word no? We often assume that the majority of people engage and interact with a baseline desire of being civil, but that isn't always the case. Sometimes, in conversation what you are up against is an individual who sees your pe...

Unchecked Bias Breeds Contempt | Your Inner Narratives Dictate How You Feel About Yourself & OthersLimiting beliefs are a double-edged sword in that you limit yourself just as much as you limit the people that you impose your beliefs and attitudes upon. Chances are, if you are comfortable with the biases that stereotypes that you have with others, you are limiting your own potential and growth...

Living Your Best Life, Requires that you Stay in Your Own Lane | Creating the Life of Your DreamsMany of us are living our best lives vicariously through someone else's IG reels or TikTok feeds. We glorify the lives of others based on a highlight reel. Always at the edge of our seats, ready to tune in, rather than focus our attention on the lives that should matter most to us: our own lives. W...

3 Values to Unlearn that Will Enable You to Protect Your Peace | Embrace Personal Growth and HealingSometimes it is the values that we carry, unchecked and unquestioned, that serve as the greatest deterrent in our search for peace. The adage is true, though we do not have the ability to exact control on others, we will always be able to control ourselves. Focusing on managing the key elements in o...

Ditch Feeling Self-Conscious | Learn the Benefits of Feeling Calm, Cool & Collected in Any SettingSelf-sabotage comes in many forms. One of the more discreet forms of self-sabotage is self-consciousness. We've all been in situations where we were so preoccupied with all the negative ways we thought we were being perceived. So much so that we missed out on the opportunity to connect, to com...

Dealing with Dishonour | 3 Patterns of Behaviour that Will Never Serve Others or You & What to Do ✅There was once upon a time where people would choose death before dishonour. Whether that was dishonour to themselves, their family, friends, or otherwise... they held themselves accountable to a standard of behaviour. Those days feel like they're long gone. People often give themselves lice...

How Developing Self-Love, Self-Respect & Self-Acceptance Require You to Learn How to Honour YourselfMany of us have no idea how to honour ourselves. We hear the word, but have a vague idea as to what it might mean in practice,Or maybe, we disregard the ways that we show up, or allow others to show up, that we recognize dishonour ourselves. In that, the behaviours and actions show disdain or di...

How to Benefit from Reserving Judgment | Gifting Yourself With Time & Space Before Making a DecisionNot all choices are created equal. That much is true. If you want to maximize your ability to make the right choice, give yourself the time and space to do so. Much of the urgency we place on decision-making is manufactured. Some decisions are time-sensitive, but most decisions give you the flex...

The Art & Science of Learning to Read the Room | How to Make Your Audience Feel Both Seen and Heard Much of what we desire, others desire as well. This is true about communication. As much as you want to feel seen and heard when discussing topics that matter to you, the same is true for the people who's attention you're vying to attract. How this truths work in tandem? If you give othe...

Embrace the 3 Ds of Authenticity | Learning to be Unapologetic about How You Show Up in the World 🔆 One of the hardest things you can do in this life is be yourself. It's a bitter truth, but living in authenticity is a challenge worthy of rising up to. There is so much untapped originality locked into our individuality. The less fearful we are about the changes and potential consequences of livin...

How to Set Yourself Up for Success | Gift Yourself the Time & Grace to Achieve Your Personal Goals There isn't a person on earth who wouldn't benefit from a little personal development. Establishing goals, pushing towards objectives, and accomplishing milestones are the stepping stones that enable us to self-actualize. It is in pursuit of what challenges us, however that might translate, that...

New Year, New You! 3 Routines that Will Help You to Make that a Reality | Simple Self Care Hacks ✅😌 There are some small adjustments that you can make to your routine, that translate as having a significant impact. Routines matter. The things we choose to invest our time and energy into can be why we feel better, and as a result of feeling better, we do better. I'd like to give 3 Self-Care Hacks...

3 Healthy Habits You Should Consider Integrating In How You Show Up in 2025 | Protecting Your Energy New Year, new rules of engagement. For yourself. Why? Because all of us can get better at protecting our energy. While we are great at thinking about self-betterment goals, it's important to also think about self-preservation goals, too. With a focus on how we shift from reacting to situations, to...