Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

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...

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...