# The Quiet Pull: Aligning Your Purpose with Your Profession in the Age of AI with Florian Kemmerich

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Published: 2026-05-28T22:10:00+00:00
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We meditate. We journal. We notice our breath. We have done some of the inner work, or at least we have started it. And still, when Monday morning comes and we sit down at the desk, something does not feel like ours. The awareness is there. The alignment isn't. So what lives in that gap between knowing yourself and actually building a life that reflects what you know? In this episode of The Mindful Living, global impact investor and purpose strategist Florian Kemmerich joins Sana for a deeply human, gently confronting conversation about vocation, the inner child, and the moment most ambitious people quietly realise that fame, fortune, and power are nourishing the ego but not the self. Drawing from his own pivot out of corporate life at 33, his framework of vocating, and his work mobilising nearly a billion dollars toward purpose-driven enterprise, Florian invites us to stop being the absent subject of our own education and start building a life worth living, not merely a living. About the Guest: Florian Kemmerich is a global impact investor, purpose strategist, and author of On Vocation: How to Align Your Purpose with Your Profession (Routledge, 2025). Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he is Co-Founder of Human Planet (formerly KOIS Advisory) and Resilienture, founder of Vocating.ai, and serves on the boards of organisations including ForAfrika and the Green Digital Finance Alliance. Across his career, he has mobilised close to one billion USD in impact capital across global health, economic empowerment, and climate resilience. A former paratrooper and judo champion, he is a father of five, speaks five languages, and lives by the principle, Impact Lives, Share Profits . Key Takeaways: You are the absent subject of your own education. Society teaches us to make a living, no…

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