Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

Reclaiming Your Agency After Trauma: The Critical Thinking Shift That Changed Everything in SurvivalThere comes a point in healing when the goal is no longer just surviving what happened—it's learning how to think beyond it. Trauma has a way of narrowing our thinking. In moments of fear, uncertainty, or overwhelm, we're simply doing the best we can with the information and capacity we have...

How Critical Thinking and Emotional Insight Drive Healthier Choices When Used TogetherIn this video, I dive into how critical thinking and emotional insight work hand-in-hand to guide us toward better wellness choices. By honouring both our rational mind and our emotional wisdom, we can make decisions that nurture both our mental and physical well-being. Join me as I explore practical steps to bal...

How Critical Thinking Shapes Your Adaptability: A VUCA Framework Guide Worth LearningThe digital era is a world defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). This makes critical thinking the foundation that allows us to adapt and thrive. In this video, I break down the VUCA framework and show how sharpening your critical thinking skills can help you navigate uncertainty, ma...

From Compliance to Critical Thinking - Owning Your Learning & Development Journey What schooling does well, is provide the baseline skills to transition into the job market. This means schools focus on teaching you what to think, rather than the more involved and more complex insight in how to think. We finish highschool having a good sense on how to perform, which means how to excel in predic...

Different Ways to Protect Yourself from Danger and Find Safety in Unsafe Circumstances We are continuing the conversation on ways to create and establish situational awareness. Why? Because if there are experiences that we can help prevent each other from happening, then we ought to share those experiences with one another. So many of us "wish we knew better" than what we did at the time...

What Would You Do to Protect Yourself from Danger? Part I - Small shifts that could save your life I don't understand why this question feels uncomfortable... but it does. None of us want to see ourselves as living realities that involve needing to safeguard ourselves from harm. But statistics don't lie, and while the degree by which you are exposed to violence can be dependent on several...

Why it Pays Off to Be Patient When Life Makes You to Wait Things Out One thing that I can say that feels better than instant gratification is the feeling of accomplishment for a goal that was hard won. Whether it's personal or professional, if it involves challenge, if you find yourself needing to be resilient, adaptive, and responsive to be able to keep the needle moving on progress... no win...

From Chaos to Clarity - Getting Clear About Life Choices that Matter Most in Your Life We are quick to underrate the value of clarity in our lives. We call reckless decisions adventure and champion those who, "Go with the Flow." That said, much of sound judgment involves thinking critically. Thinking critically involves seeking clarity. We'll never fully have all of the information a...

Protect Your Calm: 3 Surprising Daily Habits for Lasting Peace I think we’ve gotten so much better at recognizing the power of who we are and the choices that affirm our identity. Ours is the generation that’s unapologetic about crafting daily habits that reflect who we want to be. In this video, I share 3 unconventional habits that have helped me protect my peace by staying true to my sense of se...

Why Mentally Strong People Think Differently 3 Values that Tough People Adopt Growing up teaches each of us what matters and what doesn't. Some of the hardest lessons we learn are around who and what should matter, and who shouldn't. For those of us who are managing varying degrees of people pleasing tendencies, this lesson is the most hard hitting. Learning the lesson is necessary in many...

Stop Being Reactive and Master the Art of Being Responsive when Dealing with Modern Day Triggers It's hard not to react to the things that really get under our skin. While the immediate urge might be to lash out and give in to the impulse your emotions are pushing you towards, often what will serve you in the long term is responsiveness. When you give yourself the space to master your emotions...

How to Get Clear on What You Should Be Doing Next and Not Let Anxiety Cripple YouI used to grow up hearing, "If you don't know what to do, do nothing."I have to say I entirely disagree with this philosophy. I think the best thing that you can do forever if you aren't sure what you should be doing is finding clarity. Figuring out, at the very least, what next steps you should be t...

If You Do These 3 Things you Have a Growth Mindset and May Not Even Know ItLately, I feel like saying that you have a "Growth Mindset" seems to be quite the trend. Everyone wants to talk the talk, but what does it mean to walk that walk? I believe there are a few fundamentals in establishing yourself as someone who says that they value growth over static thinking. It means shedding a lot...

What to do When There's No Way to Be Certain - Choosing the Best with What You Know and AdaptingUncertainty is no one's friend. I have never met anyone who considers uncertainty with excitement and anticipation. At best, you learn to embrace it and roll with the punches. Developing the skills required to be responsive, adaptive, and to rise above, regardless. At worst, it completely beats...

Embracing Uncertainty as a Constant and Resisting the Urge to Self-Sabotage in the ProcessMany of us can be open and honest about how much we dislike uncertainty. Knowing often feels better than not knowing. Waiting for an answer to arrive, without knowing when, where, why, how, or what can be an agonizing experience. Despite the emotional disruption that we can feel at times, uncertainty is a nec...

How the People You Know Inform Your Sense of Becoming But You Choose if it's for Better or WorseEverything and everyone that you meet during the course of your life informs your sense of becoming. While you get to decide if whether their influence is a positive or a negative one, I don't believe any encounter is accidental. More specifically, I think there are four profiles of individuals...

How Visualization can Enhance Your Life and Enable You to Make Your Dreams a RealityMuch of the experiences we indulge in and the routines that we have normalized didn't exist if we think two or three decades ago. Many people discount the power of following your dreams, and bringing your imagination to life... Yet much of life is a byproduct of other people doing exactly that. Whether it's...

A Plan is Not a Strategy - Still, a Good Place to Get Started on Building Your DreamsHaving a plan can be the simplest way to create clarity, find alignment, and execute with precision on the goals that mean the most to you. Plans are not static. They interact with the shifts and changes in our personal lives and in the larger socio-political dynamics that we find ourselves in. This means that pla...

Dealing with Disappointment While Continuously Pursuing Your Dreams & GoalsIf you have ever pursued a big dream, the kind that requires planning, training, sacrifice, and shifts... then you've already become well acquainted with disappointment. When we focus on the challenges that stretch us beyond our current capacity, we give ourselves the opportunity to awaken dormant talents, skills, a...

How to Deal with Intense Emotions - What Everyone Should Know About Dealing with LossLoss happens to all of us. While it can be true that your experience with loss might be unique to you, know that grief in all its stages is something that we are all figuring out. How we cope with loss is a huge indicator in whether we enable ourselves to address and accept those loses for what they are, while sti...

Learning to Value the Feedback in Failure and Taking the Insights to GrowMany of us were raised with a fear of failing, myself included. But when you dare to try you have to be prepared to fail sometimes. What's equally important is that while we may fail at the things we were hoping to achieve, there is a gain in every life experience. I firmly believe that failure is feedback. Not the feedba...

Disliking Someone Does Not Give You the Right to Disrespect Them No Matter the SituationThere is nothing wrong with recognizing that you don't like someone. Maybe your justification could use some work, but let's be real, we don't always need to justify how we feel. That said, no matter how much someone grinds your gears or disdain they generate within you, that does not give you the r...

The Truth About Personal Agency and How Your Choices Shape Everything Around YouDeveloping the critical thinking that fosters sounds decision-making is too fundamental a building block to hope that the school curriculum covers it. Much of the free programs made available in our communities focalize on skills that increase cooperation without highlighting what key factors creates high-impact and hi...

Evaluating Your Relationships and Cutting Out the Frenemies in Your Life for GoodWhat's the quality of your closest friendships? It's a question we forget to ask ourselves, which leads to normalizing behaviours that would be otherwise deemed harmful, toxic, or completely out of bounds. As everything in life, there are stages and phases that impact the relationships around us. Sometimes the...

How to Change Our Relationship with Fear and Step outside of Our Comfort ZoneContrary to what some people believe, fear has great utility in life. Much of the decisions we make have an element of fear that fuelled the course of action we have chosen. Whether it's fear of the unknown, or fear of something tangible in your space, it's the kind of motivator that keeps you moving, pushing, and...