Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

How to be Heard | Treating Communication as an Act of Service & Leveraging Values & Learning Styles Feeling heard feels good. It's the reward that you gain when you communicate your point of view, effectively. If you are struggling to get your point across, and these are points that matter to you, then let me help. Communication is a skill, there are some fundamentals that, once put into p...

When You're Struggling to Feel Heard | 3 Core Fundamentals of Persuasion for You to Keep Top of Mind Not feeling heard is an awful feeling. I'm not going to tip toe around it. When the people who matter most to you, fail to understand your point of view, or how you feel, it hurts. It can feel demoralizing and deflating. It's important to recognize what tools are at your disposal, and what skills y...

Why It's Important to Practice Stillness | The Art of Balance when Living A High Intensity Lifestyle Stress is a non-negotiable for the majority of us 🧐. It is difficult to get through the day, without dealing with the highs and lows that come with any variety of lifestyles. Whether you work a 9-5, or do something less conventional, whether you're a full-time or part-time parent, balancing multip...

3 Toxic Traits to Put on a Leash During the Holidays this Year | Knowing Better Means Doing Better! If ever there was a playbook on holiday etiquette that we could broadly distribute this time of year, I'd be all over it. But as it stands, most of us are steeling ourselves for the worst of it, while still excitedly preparing for the best that this season has to offer. We take the good with the bad...

Being Intentional And Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone | Self-Directing Your Growth & Evolution How predictable is your routine? As in, when was the last time you thought to switch things up? Not because you needed to per se, but because you were up for some change. You were looking to grow. Oftentimes, our sense of discontentment with the people, places, things and situations in our life...

3 Tips to Help You Achieve Your New Year Goals | Developing Discipline & Leading Life with Intention It's the most wonderful time of the year! 📆 Not only as we prepare for the holidays, however we feel inclined to celebrate them, but a New Year is a great opportunity for a fresh start ✅ The best way to maximize on a fresh start would be to establish some goals. Specifically, define objective...

The Aftermath of Trauma | How to Celebrate Your Survival Story & Make the Choice Not to be a Victim While we rarely had a say in the cases where we've been victimized, how we respond, is always our choice. It's a significant and an instrumental choice. We can choose the narrative by which we share the situations and circumstances we survived. Emphasis on survived. Many people have long since m...

Challenging the Expectations that Do Not Serve Us | 3 Social Norms We Are Better Off Abandoning 👀 ✅ Not all expectations are created equal. While the expectations that people have of us are often tied to the contexts we find ourselves in, most of these "rules of engagement" are hardcoded in our social norms. We can expect what people expect of us, because we're all equally proficient at enforcin...

Attention is Finite. Before Calling it ADHD How Much Energy Are You Expending Trying to be Engaged? Paying attention takes energy. Paying attention when the content isn't engaging, and the environment also requires you to self-regulate by sitting still and staying quiet is all the more challenging. Why? Because focus is a finite resource. We can keep the muscle flexed for long before it needs to t...

Win the War on Choice | How Developing Critical Thinking Enables You to Protect Your Personal Agency You don't need to look very far to find examples of people, institutions, and government bodies in society that take issue with personal agency. One of the greatest examples of democracy, the United States of America, has chosen a government that intends on stripping people of choices that we long...

Prioritizing Intellectual Stimulation | Learning is a Need that Extends Beyond a Classroom Setting We are all constantly learning and oftentimes when we don't realize it. Our brain is taking in information and making adjustments, often subconsciously, in the way we navigate in the world around us. Imagine focusing your attention on areas that bring you intellectual stimulation. Not just entertainm...

Protecting Your Agency | Dignity in Retaining Your Choice, Your Personal Power and Using Your Voice Your personal agency is a threat to others. While it blows my mind to recognize the extent with which this holds true, it's important that we recognize it. Your ability to blaze your own path and make your own choices, is a bitter pill to swallow for anyone who is deluded enough to believe they can...

From Chaos to Calm | The Benefits of Feeling Grounded, 3 Strategies that Will Help You Feel Centred A lot of us normalize feelings of stress and anxiety as normalized states of being. There is always something to be worried about. Giving in to that worry, can make doing normal daily tasks, feel like an insurmountable challenge. While we cannot control the life that happens around us, we always hav...

Picking Your Poison | How to Make the Best Choice, When You Only Have Lose-Lose Scenarios to Choose Not all choices are created equal. We will encounter moments in life where we need to choose, and none of the choices are favourable. So how do you move forward? How do you make decisions that enable you to honour yourself, and feel good about the path you're taking, and the consequences of that pat...

Change Requires a Change in Behaviour | Take Inventory of What Habits Help or Hinder You as You Grow Much of our growth can be highlighted in the behaviours and habits we take on, throughout the different stages and phases in life. Some of this habits are healthy, and become rooted in our behaviours and how we show up, while others are a bit more nuanced. There are some behaviours that we adopt, e...

What You Need to Know Matters | Prioritize the Learning that Aligns You to Your Passion & Purpose ✅ I'm a sucker for cliffhangers. I can tell myself I'm done binge-watching a series, but I know that the quality of the cliffhanger will decide whether the bing ends or continues. What can I say? I need to know! Luckily, the drive to fill the gap and understand isn't limited to Netflix TV shows....

3 Reasons Not to Hold a Grudge | Allow People to Be Who They Want & Choosing to Respond, Accordingly We all know that the "noble" thing to do is to let it go, yet why do most of us struggle to keep negative people, places, and circumstances skew our way of viewing the world. Oftentimes, it's the bitterness and resentment that stems from not letting things go, as in, holding our grudge that kee...

Lukewarm Friendships Do Not Serve You | Focusing on a Healthy Relationship with Self Brings Clarity No one really highlights the damage that can be caused by lukewarm friendships. The ones who are there for a good time, but are nowhere to be found when you experience a crisis, or are going through a challenge. Who sometimes are the ones who are indifferent and passive in witnessing your mistreatme...

Master the Art of Checking In with Self | 4 Steps to Support Your Emotions & Further Inner Discovery Many of us aren't living the lives that we want, because we are too afraid to fail. However we define failure, it feels like a such a crippling experiencing, we would rather play small and live life unsatisfied, then to deal with it head on. While I like to put the majority of the blame on the...

Setting Realistic Expectations & Establishing Realistic Timelines | Understanding Speed vs. Accuracy While desire can enable us to be motivated to push towards our goals, as excited as we are, our will has no influence on the time required to accomplish a desired objective. Whether you're setting aggressive or conservative timelines, the things we push towards take time to be accomplished. Did...

Embracing the Learning Curve | We Stumble Our Way to Proficiency & Inadequacy Comes Before Mastery When was the last time you learned something new? Specifically, something that took time, energy, and effort to fully understand? So much of the advice we receive is to play to our strengths. To focus on the areas we naturally excel, and to chart a path on that trajectory. In the same breath, we...

Master the Art of Checking In with Self | 4 Steps to Support Your Emotions & Further Inner Discovery When people tell you to check in with yourself, how does that look for you? Is it advice you take, is it something you do? Because it's important 🧐 Being able to hold space for your emotions, honouring and respecting your emotions enables you to make sense of how you're feeling. Further, It's...

That's Offensive ! 3 Coping Strategies that Enable You to Deal with Offence in a Way that Serves You Life is going to provide you with ample exposure to people, places, and situations that are bound to offend you - so how do you respond? 😒 How we respond when we take offence to something says a lot about where we are on our growth journey. In truth, not every offensive person, place, and thin...

Master the Art of Checking In with Self | 4 Steps to Support Your Emotions & Further Inner Discovery When people tell you to check in with yourself, how does that look for you? Is it advice you take, is it something you do? Because it's important 🧐 Being able to hold space for your emotions, honouring and respecting your emotions enables you to make sense of how you're feeling. Furthe...

On Matters of Healing & The Heart | Giving Yourself the Time and Compassion You Need to Bounce Back Anyone who has dealt with any form of loss knows that the journey to feeling whole is a soft science. While all of us have, or will, deal with grief at some point - no two people manage grief the same. Though there is research and suggestions on how best to recognize the cycle of grief, how we c...