Finding Your Why

Not knowing why you are going wherever it is that you are going sounds silly, but so often folks live life without thinking about their purpose. We believe that thinking about your purpose and trying to identify what it might be is one of the most impactful things you can do to level up your life, career, and general level of happiness and fulfillment. Having a sense of what your why is will help you become a better decision maker which inevitably will improve your life. Below, you’ll find some interesting discussions, stories and perspectives around find your purpose.

Alexis Johnson

Finding my purpose in life has been a journey of self-discovery and exploration. It began with a deep reflection on my passions, values, and experiences. I took the time to understand what truly mattered to me and what activities brought me the greatest sense of fulfillment. Through this process, I discovered that I am most energized when I’m able to help upcoming entrepreneurs or just helping in general. Read more>>

Dr. Zakiya Renae

First, thank you so much to the Voyage team for connecting with me–always appreciative of an opportunity to shine light on by brand. To be honest, when I think of the word “purpose” –purpose is divine; I feel like my purpose found me. I wholeheartedly believe that we were all born with gifts, some of those gifts being spiritual and the good book states in 1 Corinthians 12:7, A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.  Read more>>

Njideka Olatunde

As a child having the desire to be a healer, as seeing how our family doctor made us feeling better when we were sick. Little did I know that achieving health and wellness would become my life passion. Upon enrolling in college to learn everything I could to become a doctor my bubble was immediately busted. The training to become doctor was not about healing and lead me to immediately change my career goal to social work.  Read more>>

Stefanie Schöninger

Before I start my story, I feel there are many topics suitable and I would love for you to read and choose the most relevant for your article. It’s been quite a ride with lots of ups and downs. What has kept me going is my passion and purpose to create wearable art for people of character. Read more>>

Rebecca Johnson

I grew up in a small town with a small-town mindset. I never thought I would be anything more than a small-town girl. I would probably work in a restaurant or factory my entire life, get married, have kids, and recycle this way of life for all generations to come. This is exactly what happened, and I had a very mediocre life until my husband Tom died. Read more>>

Jordan Swint

Growing up, I always knew I wanted to be an artist. I fell in love with cartoons, comics, anime, and manga as a kid, and knew I wanted to create my own someday. So much so that I went to an art college to study 2D animation, focusing on character design and illustration.  Read more>>

Kyra Turner Morgan McLean

Discovering our purpose at Blossom Haven and Co was a journey rooted in the want to cultivate connection and community. As founders, Kyra and Morgan, we embarked on this venture with the intention of creating spaces that apply the power of experiences and celebrations through human connection. Our decade-long friendship has been filled with both milestones and hardships, and this shared history has strengthened our belief in the profound impact of genuine connections. Read more>>

Dawn Gaden

It was 1989, freshman year in college and I was faced with choosing either success or failure. I found myself riddled with anxiety and insomnia. I was in the front row of one of my first university lecture halls and experienced my first panic attacks. Trying to be invisible as I dragged myself from the front row to the bathroom, knees shaking, hands sweaty, fear pulsing through my veins. Read more>>

Chima Lubin

I was introduced to my purpose in my relationship with the one who made me, God. In my relationship with him, I discovered what I was created and sent on the earth to fulfill and accomplish. I continue to discover the specifics of my purpose as I continue in my relationship with him. Read more>>

Lauren Nychay

One client I have, she was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis in 2022, and her daughter reached out to me to see if I could help. This past year for Thanksgiving, I was with her family, as her daughter and I are good friends. When we went around the table saying what we were thankful for, she said she was thankful for me, and that I saved her life.  Read more>>

Kevin Harper

I don’t like to say I’ve necessarily found my purpose. Don’t get me wrong, I love doing what I do in almost every aspect of my life, but I believe it goes beyond finding one sole reason behind my decisions, my actions, or my thought processes. In regards to officiating weddings, celebrating the joy and happiness of an occasion on a couple’s biggest day gives me a sense of fulfillment like no other. Read more>>

Rahkal Roberson

In 2009, while working part-time as a mentor and tutor at a low-performing high school on Chicago’s south side, I first realized what my purpose was. I was just a few months away from turning 25 and had recently graduated from undergraduate and was in graduate school. Approaching 25, I was nervously adding lots of self-imposed pressure to have things figured out, thus causing unnecessary anxiety and a premature and early midlife crisis. Read more>>

Katie Tjosvold

Finding purpose has been an interesting process for me. I thought that motherhood would offer all the purpose I would need in life, but it turns out I was wrong. I love (love) being a mother, but I realized about two years ago that something was missing in my life. Being a stay at home mom was a privilege I realize, but it lacked a creative outlet that I was craving. Read more>>

Keem Gris

I found my purpose in life when i realized it was nothing in this world that could stop me, no matter what was throwing at me i still fought to overcome. I couldn’t allow myself to quit , to give up, or to sit in misery. I held my head high even when i wanted to put it down, i motivated others even when i was full of frowns, i was backstabbed multiple times & wanted revenge but those thoughts never lasted, i have a relationship with god that people don’t seem to realize so everytime something was there to drag me down i didn’t allow it i wouldn’t sit around. Read more>>

Louise Royer

My purpose in my work is to spread joy and convey meaningful messages through engaging content creation, such as social media posts and Extended Reality experiences. My inspiration stems from my frequent travels and the desire to bring smiles to my loved ones across different continents. One recent project I’m proud of is Ocean Run, an Augmented Reality game aimed at raising awareness about plastic pollution.  Read more>>

Colleen Pressley

I found my purpose by watching close friends crying over the fact that they couldn’t find a minister to marry them because they are a same sex couple. Knoxville, Tennessee is not an area of the country that has the most progressive views on homosexuality, especially when it came to marriage. We are in the bible bet after all. Read more>>

Kalsie Jo

I didn’t find it, it actually found me! Thanks to being in the beauty community for 13 years now, I have found my purpose in uplifting, embracing, and empowering anyone that I meet and have the pleasure of working with. Just having open ears, being open minded, and having an open heart is really what it takes for me to help those around me find their confidence and be comfortable in my presence.  Read more>>

Jennifer P. Jackson

I didn’t find it, it found me. For most of my life, I was fixated on just music. I was trying to make something happen with the music, and I learned just about everything there is to know about it. I already knew the basics of video production for the sake of music videos, but being a Filmmaker never crossed my mind. Read more>>

Irina Mihaela

I found my purpose through a spiritual epiphany that catapulted me from Nuclear Engineer to Entrepreneur Enlightener. In 2010, my life took a dramatic turn. It started with a spiritual epiphany while volunteering at the Hay House, I CAN DO IT conference in Toronto. I got assigned to the room where Denise Linn was leading a past life regression. Read more>>

Leah Pegram

In an instant—everything changed.⁣ ⁣ It was in the mountains of Virginia, at a women’s retreat. I found myself sitting in my first women’s circle. Wounded by relationships with women in the past and having wounded many relationships with women myself…I truly didn’t think authentic sisterhood was possible. But there I was, in circle, experiencing it. Read more>>

Kourt Passero

This question comes just at the right time! I have been talking about believing in your vision/purpose in all of my yoga classes and speaking engagements this week. I have been on a very deep healing and spiritual journey for the past three years. This journey has taught me two main things… how to love myself and how to truly be my authentic self. Read more>>

Abby Bange

Even before there was instagram there was female body insecurity. People in my life felt they had a right to comment on my body as I grew, as I changed, when I was pregnant, breast feeding-it always seemed as thought other people had a right to my body and to have an opinion on it. This made me feel like it was a thing to control and improve and this lead me to my own struggle I had in college with an eating disorder. Read more>>

Kenton Rivas

Prayed a lot. I knew whatever I was going to do for a living had to have a sense of fulfillment. Working for the man for a salary wasn’t going to cut it. I prayed everyday while living stoically out of a station wagon traveling around Australia. One day I thought it would be the greatest to do something for the planet something that’s really necessary. Read more>>

Kristen VanFosson

Let me start by saying that finding my purpose has not been an easy task. The idea of pursuing a purpose didn’t really occupy my thoughts for most of my life. I often played it safe, making choices that kept me on the expected path, the one of least resistance. I tended to concentrate on my limiting beliefs, fixating on what I thought I couldn’t do rather than on what I could achieve. Read more>>

Alexandra Adlawan

Prior to being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at the age of fifteen, I always felt that I was in my own socially awkward world. I just did not fit in and retreated in my world of story writing and drawing. Everywhere I went, I either had a sketchbook or composition notebook by my side. To this day, I still have some of them handy for inspiration.  Read more>>

Lis Best

I feel like I had several “aha” moments that led me to where I am today. The first was as an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara, where I first learned about the climate crisis. I remember sitting in the first lecture of a climate change course, looking at a graph of historic greenhouse gas emissions, and not understanding how every single person alive wasn’t working to address this in some capacity. Read more>>

King Dawidalle

I found my purpose and passion for music at a young age. When I was a baby in the crib watching my dad play music with his friends. I watched Michael Jackson, Busta Rhymes, and Chris Brown on tv and thought to myself, that is what I want to do. Ever since then I never stopped pursuing a career in music and making it my reality. Read more>>

Tevin McCleary

This question gets asked a lot. I found my purpose by embracing the journey to my purpose. I’ve been through some tough times in my life but I overcame them. My purpose I believe is to help others. I get a fulfilling feeling when I help others. There were times were all I needed was a little help and could not get it.  Read more>>

Arien Simone

Time. I believe with the help of time, patience, and the opportunity to explore other possible interests, my purpose, in fact, found me- or shall I say, made its way back. I’m a writer, and for as long as I can remember I’ve always been quite good at it. Read more>>

Mike Frausto

Finding my purpose was something that happened by accident, and something that I am very fortunate to have found. I’ve loved martial arts for years, jiu jitsu in particular, but never had any interest in teaching. I was encouraged by an old mentor of mine to start showing techniques in class and eventually running full classes myself.  Read more>>

Tiffany Skidmore

Deeper meaning or purpose has been the fuel of most of my decisions in my adult life. It’s also been the source of my deepest discomfort when I don’t feel connected to it. When I feel lost or in the “in-between” of what was and what will be, I rely on three things. Read more>>

Deb Barclay

My purpose in life came to me in 1994 when I was 20 years old. I had dropped out of college a year earlier, not knowing what I wanted in life. I was waiting tables at a local restaurant when I found out I was pregnant. I was living with the father and in a physically and emotionally abusive relationship. I did not believe an abortion was the right choice for me, and I had released a child for adoption when I was in high school, so that was something that was not an option for me either. Read more>>

Kevin Michael Murphy

I’ve been making music as long as I can remember. As a small child, I’d plunk out the melody to Billy Joel songs on a toy keyboard I had received as a gift. I took piano lessons and obsessed over the music to Les Miserables. I played trumpet in the school Jazz band. At the age of 13, I started to sing and quickly came the dreams of performing on Broadway. Read more>>

Monica McDowell

I think it’s something that has been with me for my entire life, and I didn’t realize it until I got into doing cosplay. I’ve always been loved art. My earliest memories were of tracing pictures out of my coloring books as a child, and eventually just developing the ability to draw whatever I was looking at. At the point that I fell into cosplay, I had gotten out of a long term relationship, and I was going out with friends, and doing things to try to keep myself occupied. Read more>>

Linda Glick

I think singing, acting (using my voice) and speaking up for others started when I was quite young, in Elementary School. I got leads in school and camp productions, was voted President of my Jr. HS…but was actually very shy inside. I had loving and protective, but very fearful parents. Read more>>