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To Hell with Your Brain, Your Soul is Calling

Listen to Your Soul

The soul is undefeated in the battle of brain versus heart. As I got back into my old Jeep after the fateful encounter with the cab driver who’d convinced me to quit my first job out of college to find my purpose, I battled the traffic on the George Washington Parkway heading back to my … Read more

Hiking for Syria: How I Broke Free and Found Purpose

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This is a guest post written by Emily Macias, founder of Strides for Syria and a junior at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. Emily was a student in my workshop, Leading with Authentic Purpose this year. I broke free and found purpose. I consider myself a “go with the flow” kind of person. This is often seen … Read more

How College Kills Purpose, and How to Get It Back

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Indecisive liberal arts majors may be our future’s best hope. (Okay, I was one of those so maybe I am a bit biased.) But I can still hear the job-obsessed parents of eager, prospective college students choking on their morning coffee and feel the Engineering majors snickering. After a decade working in public higher education … Read more