Purpose Lab Resources

The moment I realized that I'd found my purpose was interesting because it was so simple how it happened. I realized suddenly one day when I was doing an interview with somebody, the thought occurred to me, "goodness, this is just the best job in the world." And that was it, I have created this situation where I am allowed to do what I love to do and actually bring it out to the world and get paid for it. Finding your purpose does not have to be some drawn out event or a slow realization, it can happen in a flash. So be prepared to receive that when it happens.

Also when I was four, I apparently said to my mum, "I'm going to be a writer." I don't know how a child of four knows that they're going to be a writer, but I knew that was what I wanted to do. I was an early reader. I remember I was writing stories as soon as I could pick up the pencil and I set my sights on that as a career. Because it felt right. And that is exactly what I did. I left school, I went straight into work on a magazine, nobody told me about that. That was something that was living inside of me. I think that we all have a purpose. Our soul knows what we came here to do, and we just have to dig a little bit and go back in time to find out what happens. I think we all innately know, deep down, that we have a purpose, and we may even know what it is, but we just don't think that we're allowed to do that. And I think if you go back to childhood and you know what made your heart sing, what excited you? Just think about it. What were the things that you absolutely loved doi...

I believe that before we come here, we have agreements that we make about what we are going to do. I think the long chain of lives that we've all led have given us a number of skills and tools and they move forward with us.

I am a seeker of truth. I cannot stop looking for research. In reading everything that's out there, all the physicists, the cosmologists, the scientists. I want to know the truth about life, who we are, why we're here, what our purpose is, etc. I consider myself to be a shameless sharer. So, keeping that in mind, it was just intuitive to me that I built my career around being able to have reason to find that information. I interview people, physicists, authors, speakers and teachers that have all of this incredible information and research. I do it in a way so that the audiences and listeners really really have a chance to grasp that information, because that's what brings me joy.

I think it's great to demonstrate to people that you can do what you love. You can live your passion and you can make it work for you and live in it if that's what you really want to do. Part of me helping people was that I realized my voice wouldn't be enough for most people tuning into my podcasts and radio shows, even though I thought these concepts and topics on spirituality and the like were really important to share. The climate nowadays is people are afraid to take chances on new blood. So, for example, I've come across a number of authors who have got incredible information to share that they can't get published because they don't have a platform. That becomes a vicious circle, so I don't tell new authors or people who aren't well known, "no you can't come on my show". I think social status has very little to do with whether you've come across good information or not. I will support people that I think have information. I will help them get their books published. I will show...

I remember some time during the pursuit of my goals, having become an interviewer and having helped lots of people though already, I was getting a bit fed up with being asked to do shows all the time on information that I thought just wasn't substantive enough. I just said to the universe out loud, "I'm sick of doing this! How can we make it different? How can we start giving people the information that they really need to have?" And suddenly I had this complete download. I'm not somebody who gets downloads frequently. So on the very odd occasions that I've had them, I pay attention. And it was as if somebody unfurled a poster in front of me and there was the complete vision for what later became the know As the No BS Spiritual Book Club. And I instantly got what it was all about. And I thought, "What a great idea, but I'm not doing that. That's far too much hard work." And I put it to one side. But the idea would not go away and I kept kind of looking at it out of the corner of my ...

I think what stops most people from believing that they can actually pursue a dream, has to do with the fact that we live in a world where we are so conditioned from the moment we're born, the teachers, the preachers, everybody is telling us what we can and can't do. I remember my mother telling me, "No, you can't be a writer. You've got to go to work, be a typist" or something ridiculous. We have to learn to say no to that, because if we can follow that passion, not only do we make ourselves happy, but within that we are bringing something valuable to the world. I really do believe that we all come in with a purpose and our job is to find out what that purpose is and then live it.

The journey that led me to my purpose wasn't immediate. My initial start in the world was journalism. I've always been looking at information and talking to people, but journalism in the science and spirituality arena was a whole different ball game. When I realized that there was a need for the information I wanted to share it, spiritual teachings and new theories etc. I had to surrender to that and let this path take me wherever it was going to lead. You have got to meet people where they're at so that they can internalize it, and then you can gradually move them to where you are. So once I realized that I could lead people forward through interviews with people, I sought other ways that I could do even more of it. And then I realized that I could actually change my career and completely do nothing but interviews.