Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

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...

Developing your Emotional Quotient | How to Grow Your Emotional Intelligence & Lead a Grounded Life If you want to be happier, healthier, more centred and more balanced, the key is to grow your emotional intelligence (EQ). While nature may have played a role in how much EQ we started off with, it's a tool that we can each develop. When it comes to monitoring and managing our emotions, it&#...

The Difference Between Thinking Deeply & Thinking Critically | When Higher Quantity = Higher Quality The quality of our contribution often depends on the quantity of information we are leveraging, prior to joining the discussion. In the digital era where knowledge is currency, we will be evaluated on the quality of our contribution. How do we set ourselves up for success to engage and maintain...

History is in the Making & For the Taking | There's Always More to Know Than Wait We Know, So Learn! Since primary school we've been taught that it is our responsibility to know our history so that we can hold ourselves accountable to not repeat it. But what defines the scope of the history that we should be aware of? In what ways do our personal, societal, and global histories interco...

Why Reset & Level Set? | Making Space for New, in Letting Go of the Energy that No Longer Serves You Our overall state of wellness is the sum of the habits and rituals that we partake in. From how we sleep, to what we eat, to how we treat our bodies... every choice counts ✅ Often, we are so caught up in the grind of doing and expending energy, we forget the activities that restore our energy...

To Live & Let Live | How Allowing Others to be Themselves Helps You Embrace Your Own Individuality Similarity is overrated. If each of us lost the unique aspects of ourselves, that no one else has, the world would feel a little greyer. Knowing this, that the variety among us is often what brings colour to our lives, why not be less particular about the differences we embrace? More specifically...

Finding Safety in Self-Disclosure | Guiding Others in Learning How to Treat Our Sharing with Caring Taking about significant experiences can be daunting. Whether it's a high or a low, we never know how people might respond. Many of us have stopped taking the opportunity to be vulnerable because we've been burned. In that, we chose to self-disclosure and rather than be met with empathy and...

Choosing to go No Contact | Remove the Social Taboo When Exercising Personal Agency in Cutting Ties Some of us are born in toxic dynamics. Though we recognize and articulate that these relationships are not good for us - many feel a sense of obligation to maintaining familial ties. Specifically, maintaining abusive relationships simply because we share a family tree. We know this is true, because...

Removing Public Opinion when Exercising Personal Agency | Maintaining Inner Alignment in Controversy Not everyone is going to agree with the decisions you make in your life. You may even find yourself dealing with vehement disagreement in how you choose to exercise your personal agency. Make no apologies. While everyone is allowed their personal opinions, it is entirely overstepping a boundary whe...

Having the Confidence to do Things Alone | How to Cultivate a Sense of Self-Efficacy & Inner-Belief How many of us hold off, or hold back, on the things we want because we're afraid to do it alone? Or despite how much, or how strongly, we desire to do something we fear to do it at all? Much of this sense of angst and self-doubt comes from not developing your self-efficacy muscle. The muscl...

Nurturing Our Curious Minds | Developing the Muscle of Self-Directedness & Blazing Your Own Path 🔆🔅 Developing the drive to pursue what interests you: 1) When it's hard 2) When you feel tired, and 3) When the only person you risk letting down is you... that's a challenge. Many of us are accustomed with letting ourselves down. Whether it's short-term, mid-term, or long-term goals....

Harnessing the Power in Curiosity | How Asking Questions (Unapologetically), Ignites Your Creativity There is power in asking, "Why?" While for many of us, it can feel risky to make our lack of knowledge in a given area known. Whether we feel like we are competing, being evaluated for our know how, it's hard to see the end justifying the means in asking the question, "Why?"...

Why Time Management Requires an Energy Strategy | Playing to the Natural Ebbs and Flows of Each Day Getting the most out of your day is less about time you have and more about the energy you dedicate to each task. Time is static. We will always have the same hours in a day to do with what we will. Energy, depends on so many different factors. How much energy you have is the strongest indicator tha...