My life story has been one of great adversity. When others ask how I got through it, I always tell them that living a purpose driven life-doing what I could to help people and the planet-was the course that lifted me out of many painful experiences and led to my resilience. Over the years while living my life and work on purpose, I met so many other incredible purpose driven people with great stories, I wanted to create a show that shined a spotlight on them and inspired others to recognize theirs.

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Accomplishing any goals or dreams in life can be challenging enough, but imagine an unexpected and rare medical affliction paralyzing you at the age of 15, changing the course of those goals and dreams forever. David Cooks-Speaker, Educator, Coach, and Author of Getting Undressed: From Paralysis to Purpose, shares his compelling story of how becoming a T-6 paraplegic didn't derail his life goals or dreams, but in fact propelled him to accomplish more and enact his life's purpose.

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James Bidwell is co-founder of Re_Set, a leading next generation strategy consultancy for innovation and sustainability whose mission is to ensure its clients thrive in a disrupted world. Re_Set empowers and equips businesses and governments to make a positive global impact and create a new vision of success. He is also the owner and Chair of Springwise, the world’s largest source of global innovations.

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What happens when an early passion for purpose intersects with a skilled career in tech? You get a genius innovator that creates one of the largest social media platforms focused on social impact by mobilizing communities to take purpose driven action. Bart Myers, founder and CEO of Countable & Causes.com shares how his upbringing combined with an early life work project ignited his desire to become a purpose-driven entrepreneur.

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Indy “Rishi” Singh, wellbeing engineer, lateral thinker, healer, teacher, and the world’s first neuroplastician, faced racism and culture shock while being raised by Indian immigrant parents in America. As a child, he had loads of energy, but felt that it was often energy unserved. Growing up with Sikh philosophy, Rishi trained to be both a physical and emotional warrior. These shared experiences fashion Rishi’s pivotal belief that humans have the ability to change neural networks in the brain through growth and reorganization. Hear how Rishi is helping individuals accomplish this magnificent feat.

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Dr. Nancy O’Reilly, Author, Philanthropist, Founder of Women Connect 4 Good and trailblazer for women’s empowerment, had an epiphany as a little girl that “boys had more fun!” Nancy’s early realization about the obvious inequities between genders sparked a deep knowing that her life purpose was to empower women and girls. Learn how Nancy steered her career as a licensed therapist and her growing wealth over her lifetime towards empowering women and bridging that deep disparity between the sexes.

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Physical trauma oftentimes nudges us in the direction of purpose. Laurie Mackenzie, Development Director for Canadian based NGO RAVEN Trust, shares how a head injury coupled with a family member's lineage to her indigenous heritage, instilled a massive desire to do more for First Nations and help protect the environment help dear. She also shares how these experiences led to her personal project of creating a program to change the hamster wheel of stress, anger and fear into enlightenment & positivity.

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In the late 90’s Sam Pardue, Co-Founder & CEO of Indow Windows, had an awakening. On a shared commute to work at Intel with environmental scientists, essentially climate crisis early adopters, discussions formed his views on climate & later became the motivation for creating a product that is part of the solution. Hear his powerful tale as well as his unique leadership supporting the hiring of refugees in the U.S. & Indow Window's Covid19 safety protocols adopted by over 500 companies in the U.S.

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John Stix is co-founder of Fibernetics, Canada’s top award winning workplace culture company & telecommunications innovator. He tells his story of hitting the wall, having built his dream company then finding he didn’t want to be there. A set of circumstances changed his life and inspired his journey to transform his company & himself into a workplace innovation giant. Hear how he creates a safe place for his employees to realize their dreams & the added benefit of providing deep personal fulfillment.

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Though Laura-Doss Hertz & David Hertz, founders of Skysource.org, had their own individual paths to purpose through careers in advertising, photography & architecture, they both shared a passion for protecting water and the belief that it is human kind's most precious resource. This belief resulted in a life changing idea that fueled the innovation of the self-contained, sustainable energy-water generator called WEDEW to solve water scarcity. This also granted them the prestigious XPrize award in 2018.

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Closing out 2020 on this New Year holiday week, A World On Purpose takes a hiatus from guest content to deliver instead the best clips from the terrific guest interviews in 2021.

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Avary Kent, Co-Founder of Conveners.org & ImpactAlpha, explores what it means to achieve the most leverage in life by aligning with others, guided by purpose at its core, & how often we stand in our own way because we decide something is impossible. She reveals the value in understanding frameworks as a key step toward building partnerships & creating the vision of the world we want to live in and shares about the positive impact alternative parenting had had for her child, family and career.

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Founder Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, wise and loving founder of The Birthing Project now in 30 countries, shares her story of being a young girl at the epicenter of the civil rights movement and how that shaped the principles of her powerful organization. As she says, "We rest on the shoulders of those who have come before us." She also reflects on life lessons The Birthing Project gave her --the the gift of learning how to dwell in the light & the unexpected power in making the choice to minister to oneself.

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Mahdis Keshavarz, founder of Make Agency, a PR agency focused on social justice, shares how being an Iranian immigrant in the U.S. inspired the inception of her unique, but much needed PR agency, and discusses how to maintain a social justice perspective in a chaotic PR world. She also shares how in order to make effective global change we need to look in your own backyard, just as she does, by leveraging her global work & her area of expertise to fuel results for causes close to her heart and her home.

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Abbey Wimmeo, Co-founder and Co-CEO of EssuRents.com, shares an impressionable memory of how his mother’s inability to get a simple bank account was due to lack of financial identity-- a problem that affects millions in the world. Hear how this inspired his brilliant platform solution designed to leverage one's rent, enabling and empowering one to buy a first home.Hear too how Esusu addresses the affordable housing shortage with their Rental Relief Fund created to support those affected by Covis19.

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As the grandson and grand-daughter-in-law of legendary Jacques Cousteau, Philippe and Ashlan Cousteau are not only carrying out the family legacy of ocean advocacy. They are also successful ocean explorers, activists, authors, & flimmakers in their own right. Listen as they share how a purpose driven life motivates their ocean saving initiatives, such as their youth strategy devised to empower youth through their family NGO Earth Echo International, & an oceans survival tool kit collabed with Oceans Unite.

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Successful social entrepreneur and philanthropist Doug Pitt shares how best business practices are key to creating philanthropic powerhouses. He also describes how issues around the lack of accessible, clean water globally spoke to his soul and was a big first step into his passion for social impact. Hear too how Doug is taking another #pivot2purpose putting his hidden filmmaking talents to use on a project intended to spark dialogue around social justice, another issue that deeply speaks to his soul.

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Kate Williams, CEO of global NGO 1% for the Planet, reveals how her #pivot2purpose came on an outdoor adventure gone awry, yet ended with victory and guided her to the purpose path she leads today. She describes how the significant pledge 1% FTP brands have made over the last 15 years totaling roughly 250 million dollars has translated to tangible impact on environmental causes and the NGO's that champion the planet. Hear too how 1% made a pivot from in an person network to digital in a pandemic world.

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