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Find Your Life’s Purpose
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- The Empowered Leader Podcast
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- May 30, 2026
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Summary
I want to ask you something before we begin. Where did you ever get the idea that you had to find it? Your purpose. Your calling. The thing you’re supposed to be doing with your life. Where did the word “ find” come from? Because the language is doing something to you. “Find,” suggests it’s lost. Hidden. Somewhere out there waiting to be discovered. Some women spend whole decades searching for the thing that has been with them the entire time. They die looking. And the looking is the tragedy, not the not-finding. This is Foresight. And today we’re going to do something different with the question of purpose. We’re going to stop looking. And start tracing. Your purpose has been leaving footprints in your life this whole time. The thread was always there. You just weren’t taught to read your own record. What You Were Told Somewhere along the way, you were sold a story about purpose. That it’s a singular destiny. That there is one right answer for your life, and your job is to find it before you run out of time. That successful people figured it out early, and if you haven’t figured yours out yet, you must be behind. That was not wisdom. That was marketing. Real purpose doesn’t announce itself with a thunderclap. It doesn’t arrive on a mountaintop. It doesn’t require a sabbatical, a vision quest, or a coach who charges you ten thousand dollars to ask you what your inner child wants. Your purpose is the pattern that’s been quietly repeating itself in your choices, your energy, your returns, your refusals for as long as you’ve been you. It has been showing up. You just haven’t been counting it. The Signals Let me draw the pattern for you. Because once you see how it shows up, you’ll never be able to unsee it in your own life. Your purpose is in the work you do when nobody’s…