Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

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...

Addressing Jealousy at its Root | Learning to Manage Feelings of Inadequacy & Admiration, Adaptively Jealousy is a human emotion. Feeling jealous, however frequently or infrequently, is not problematic in and of itself. It's the behaviours that we engage in because we feel jealous that create serious issues. For whatever reason, jealousy can override logical thinking, critical reasoning, a...

Learn to Dig Deeper | Understanding the Weight of Others' Intentions & Practicing Conscientiousness Kindness goes a long way. An act of kindness can be the spark of a new connection and it nourishes the soul. We give to ourselves with the acts of kindness we engage in with others, no harm no foul. But behaviour is driven by more than what we can perceive. While I wouldn't want to advoc...

In Addressing Our Fatal Flaws | Using Your Discretion When Receiving Feedback About Your Personality How people decide how they feel about you, is relative. Much of what informs someone's opinion about you has to do with how they see themselves. Whether it's personal or professional, people's perceptions are influenced by previous experiences, beliefs, thoughts, values, and desires tha...

Charting New Territory & Opportunities with Learning | When We Know Differently, We Do Differently 🤓 There is so much untapped potential on the other side of curiosity. Many of us discount the impact exploring our own unanswered questions can have on our entire life's trajectory - and that's no hyperbole. It all starts by giving yourself permission to ask questions - and taking owners...

Why Learning Should Align with Our Passions & Interests | The Importance of Avoiding the Career Trap Many of us find ourselves doing things we are very good at, but don't particularly like. This is what I personally like the consider the "misplaced duty" muscle. The muscle that some of us have developed, that enable us to pursue excellence in areas where we aren't particularl...

How to Challenge Thoughts of Inadequacy by Focusing on Adaptation | Being the Catalyst for Change ✅ Every day we step out into the world we make the choice to stand out or to blend in. If we are all being honest, most of us would choose to blend in and try to minimize any spotlight or attention, whatsoever. Totally understandable! Being the centre of attention can be intimidating and opens you up...

Developing Decisiveness | Tenaciously Maintaining the Path Least Travel if You Find Inner Alignment There's often so much to choose from, it's figuring out what choice to make that often trumps the quality of choice we end up making. Sometimes we feel like choosing something is better than choosing nothing at all. But that line of thought often leads to us over-compensating, over-investing...

3 Healthy Strategies to Counteract Feelings of Helplessness | Grow through What You're Going through A lot can happen in a day that we have no control over. This can be especially challenging when we ourselves are impacted by the outcome, and the outcome is largely outside our realm of control. With a focus on the end result we're looking for, and the miles that exist between where we want...

Knowing Where to Turn to in Difficulty | The Power of Social Participation in Eco-Systems of Support There's so much more to the world we live in, than the corner that our lives occupy. Oftentimes, we find ourselves so busy in the routines that we've established, we forget that there are other ways we can spend our time. There are eco-systems of different communities taking place around us...

Let Go of What Was Never in Your Realm of Control | Leveraging the Power Inherent In Your Reactions Extreme situations will teach you that not a lot is within your control. Often times we nourish this sense of control, and reinforce the belief that we're in control, because much of life tends to go as planned. What if I told you the best thing you can do is to liberate yourself from that belie...

Learning to Sit in Uncomfortable Truths | Develop the Capacity to Hold Space for Traumatic Realities Many of us have had specific experiences, whether our own or of those that we know personally, that have shaken us to our core. Whether it was coming to terms with an illness, a violent occurrence, or a death -- proximity to these situations has the power to change our perceptions, permanently. Thi...

How the Culture (Status Quo) Sustains Environments that are not Conducive to Diversity & Inclusion With reference to the blog that I shared earlier this week, I want to take a moment to talk about the influence of culture. Many of us make choices as to where we spend our time when we feel that the spoken culture aligns with our inherent values and beliefs. How any company or school markets its...

How I Discovered I was Being Stalked and Managed to Stay a Few Steps Ahead | Tips on Digital Hygiene It has been two weeks since I posted my first video. In these videos, I've been speaking up about being stalked for the last four years by my professor at UofT and senior leader at McKinsey & Co Canada, Scott Rutherford. By progress, I mean: 1) No one from the University of Toronto has reac...