Core to our mission is helping our audience and community reach their full potential and the most important part of reaching your full potential is starting to find your purpose. Below, we’ve shared stories and insights from the community around how various folks found their purpose and we hope it helps you in your journey.

Cheryl Gross

I found my purpose by realizing that I have a unique vision. It’s a calling if you will. This realization, brought me to the development of my style which continues to grow. It’s an exercise in experimentation, but not without restrictions. The restrictions are purely design and esthetic applications I use to allow my audience to engage in the work. Read More>>

Rebecca Slome

I don’t believe you go out and chase a purpose. I think purpose reveals itself through the people you’re meant to serve. For me, it didn’t come from a business plan—it came from fifteen years of working hands-on with women during the most tender transitions: fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and now menopause. Over time, I realized something consistent. Read More>>

Crystal Amon

I found my purpose the moment I realized that what I do naturally — encouraging, creating, and uplifting others — wasn’t just a talent. It was a calling. God used my experiences, my healing, and my voice to guide me into the work I do now. Writing devotionals, inspiring others, and building platforms of hope didn’t happen by accident. Read More>>

Emily Berning

I did not find my purpose by writing a five year plan. I found it by following the doors God opened and learning to say ‘yes’ when He placed a need in front of me. Growing up, even before I understood much about the Bible, I sensed that God cares deeply for people who are vulnerable. I was drawn to serve anyone who needed help. Read More>>

Taylor Smith

From an early age, I knew I wanted to be a professional musician. I come from a musical family, people in my family have toured professionally at a high level. Being around that as a kid made it feel like more of a calling than a choice. Read More>>

Scott Buss

You didn’t grow up with advantages, connections, or a safety net. Everything you built came from starting at zero—working through setbacks, failed partnerships, and seasons when you had to carry everything on your own shoulders. But that’s where your discipline and drive were forged. Read More>>

Stephen Hemmert

I think I found early on that my purpose was to be creative in some form or another. As a young kid I fell in love with watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. I thought how great would that be to write, sing, and play songs in front of a screaming audience? Read More>>

Amy and Nancy Harrington

We had a long journey to finding our purpose. There was no lightning bolt, no dramatic awakening. It was more like following a long breadcrumb trail of tiny clues, conversations, missteps, obsessions, and quiet callings that kept nudging us forward even when we weren’t sure where we were going. Read More>>

Jesse Miller

I loved the idea of creating—taking raw materials and shaping them into something that exists purely for the joy of making it and sharing it with others. Over the years I’ve worked with ceramics and oils, but for the past thirty years my main focus has been on watercolor paintings. Read More>>

Angels Near Death LLC

Angels Near Death LLC was founded by filmmaker Hungyu Kuo with a clear purpose. Originally, it was a motion picture production company created to produce Kuo’s debut feature, Angels Near Death. As the project developed, the company’s identity became more distinct. Angels Near Death LLC exists to support films rooted in imagination, emotional honesty, and creative risk-taking. Read More>>

Mario Barhma

I’ve been a huge fan of music since my early teens, one day I happened to get introduced to EDM and I stumbled across a video of a producer I liked who showed the process behind making music, that the point where I truly wanted to create music myself, sharing my music online and seeing all the interactions with it just gave me joy that I can’t describe in words. That’s just kinda how I found my purpose, Read More>>

Cece Teneal

I didn’t just wake up one day and discover purpose, I grew into it like roots breaking through hard soil. At first I believed singing was simply a gift, something I offered to the world. Over time, through prayer and quiet conversations with God, I realized it was more than a talent, more than a job. Read More>>

Dina Kleiman

I found my purpose the moment I started doing intuitive readings. It was the first thing in my life that came completely naturally to me. I’ve been good at many things, but they always took effort and left me tired afterward. Reading people’s energy was the opposite—easy, effortless, and deeply nourishing. Instead of draining me, it filled me. Read More>>

William Rhodes

When thinking about my personal journey and finding purpose in community art. I other think of back on how I got here. Finding my purpose was not an easy journey. My early life was influenced by the challenges of growing up in an urban environment, and as a small child, I was often bullied. Read More>>

Jeannine Kennedy

For women especially, I think we may have different purposes based on the season of life we are in. When our children are small, they may be our purpose and our businesses are our passion. Ideally one fuels the other and vice versa. Read More>>

Carla Macapinlac

My purpose wasn’t something I had to search for, and it certainly wasn’t a dramatic revelation. It was more about finally acknowledging what had quietly shaped me since childhood. Two passions were with me from the beginning: writing and psychology; although for me, psychology wasn’t only about understanding people. Read More>>

Ashley Chitwood

My sense of purpose has been shaped by a lifetime of challenges, miracles, and moments that forced me to grow. In many ways, my purpose began before I even understood the world around me. When I was only 18 months old, I survived open heart surgery to repair three holes in my heart. Read More>>

Alex AnGelo C. Alasgarov

Throughout the years I was following my soul’s purpose just like my latest grandmother did .And I believe that continuing her path is the best life purpose i could ever have .Since I was born in a family which followed the spirituality gave a great chance to express myself and also contribute to helping the ones in need  Read More>>

M Rosario Moore

I found my purpose the moment I realized that everything I had lived, every challenge, every reinvention, every classroom I stepped into, and every story I created, was shaping me to serve others. I didn’t find my purpose in a moment of clarity… I found it in a moment of brokenness. Read More>>

Angie Kelley

I found my purpose in the summer of 2024, when I realized how deeply fulfilled I felt working with flowers. Arranging them, learning about their characteristics, and seeing how they could transform someone’s mood or brighten a day, it all felt magical to me. The more I explored the floral world, the more I believed I could turn this love into a business. Read More>>

 Julie Navickas

I found my purpose the way most obsessions start—early and often. As a kid, I loved telling stories to anyone who’d listen; as I grew up, I kept shaping them, first on stage and then on the page. The more I practiced—performing, writing, revising—the clearer it became that storytelling wasn’t just something I did well; it was the way I made sense of the world. Somewhere between a spotlight and a blank document, I realized: this is what I’m meant to do. Read More>>

Rashid Matthews-Hall

I’ve been involved in various communities throughout my entire life. During the early stages of my childhood I was really interested in being an aerospace engineer despite having deficiencies in my math skills. When I was in middle school I had dreams of owning my own business, but I definitely was unsure of the details and my specific path.  Read More>>

Miranda Garcia

This is such an interesting question to me. I spent most of my childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood searching for my “purpose”. I knew from an early age that I wanted to help people. I knew that I wanted to serve my community in some way.  Read More>>

Bree West

I was in a small town in Goa, India, getting my certification to become a yoga teacher when I realized my purpose. I had been questioning my purpose since before I had quit my corporate job to travel the world, but I didn’t slow down enough to hear the answer until I was in India. I was sober, with limited phone service, and spending most of my time alone in between hours of mediating, chanting, and moving my body every day. Read More>>

Sam Forouzan

Growing up in San Diego, I watched immigrant families live blocks away from hospitals they didn’t know how to use and schools they were afraid to enter. The resources were right there. But being close to something and being able to reach it are two completely different things. I kept seeing the same pattern. A kid would show up to school sick, Read More>>

Alicia Vaz

Purpose is at the core of what I do, my reason for being, the “why” beyond fame or fortune that gets me up every day and keeps me persisting. It focuses my efforts and guides my decisions. But I truly discovered it in the silence. Read More>>

Trish Korte

Marc and I found that a lot of the products we used on our bodies were filled with unnecessary ingredients and chemicals that would also react negatively with our skin. We wanted to create products that were made with natural and quality ingredients.  Read More>>

Sarah Puskas

Honestly, I think my purpose found me. I’ve always been a creative. Growing up, I knew I wanted to be an artist. That dream took me to the Art Institute of Phoenix, in Arizona, where I studied graphic and web design. In 2016, I graduated with my BA and “Best Portfolio” in my class and was quickly recruited by a billion-dollar software development company, called KUBRA, as an in-house graphic designer on their marketing team.  Read More>>

Angela Lowell-Schade

When I really stop to think about it, my purpose has always had the quiet persistence of a heartbeat, constant, steady, and sometimes surprising. I made & sold my first line of jewelry at the age of twelve and felt something shift. There was a certain magic in creating something with my hands that someone else could treasure. Read More>>

Morgan Gover

When I opened the doors to this practice, it wasn’t just about providing treatments—it was about creating a dedicated sanctuary. My commitment to this safe space was cemented after the devastating loss of my sister to suicide in 2019. Read More>>

Asha Spacek-Hobbs

I found my purpose by finally surrendering! To surrender my full thinking that I was in control of my own life and path, and that all my timelines, goals, and holds/disappointments of others, life lessons AND myself- how I was living my life, needed to be based around that purpose. That has become my daily go to- my reason for rising with more confidence! Read More>>

Erica Faye

For a long time, I searched for my “why.” I wore many hats; woman, mother, creative, and believer. It wasn’t until I faced some of life’s hardest moments that everything came into focus. Read More>>

 Krystal Lambert

When I was young, I always felt most alive whenever I was engaging in some form of the arts. Whether it was acting out scenes from my favorite movies and books, writing stories in my journal, or taking my paint set out on the lawn to capture nature on my canvas, the arts always engaged my heart and soul in the deepest way possible. Read More>>

Auni

I come from a family of musicians – both by love and by trade – but there was no automatic expectation that I’d be one myself. My grandmother thought I would be an architect; my teachers thought I would be a mathematician or philosophy professor; Read More>>

Jill Nadine Clements

I found the purpose of my company is to make people feel better, put a smile on their faces. When wearing Nadina’s Cremes you have better skin and smell good, completes are endless! Nadina’s Cremes is an avenue to educate for environmental cause through the purchase of Nadina’s Cremes. By traveling and sharing Nadina’s Cremes mission helps encourage younger people to believe in their Dreams! Knowing the environment needs help that creates purpose to create a company that could help in many ways. Read More>>

Alexandra Halthen

The journey of finding my purpose began at a young age the moment I realized that being happy mattered more than doing everything “right.” That single shift of placing fulfillment above achievement became the compass that has guided every chapter of my life. It is the same compass I now help women reconnect with as they build lives and businesses that feel deeply fulfilling. Read More>>

Tynika Smith

It was easy for me to Identify what I loved to do and what made me happy, alot of people said its my calling, its my purpose. I noticed that I like to spend alot of my time talking about the homeless, seeing what I can do next, crownfunding for items they could use to survive as well as important topics. Read More>>

 Sherita Moham

I found my purpose from many years of taking care of my mother, who had Alzheimer’s. The daily challenges that we faced led me to want to help others that have mental health issues. It would be so heartbreaking the way people treated her sometimes. Read More>>

 Keith Powell

I have always loved the ocean, and grew up on the beach in Southern California. So I was set in my mind to be the next Jacques Cousteau and have a life of diving around the world’s oceans discovering the most undiscovered parts of our planet. When my mother unexpectedly died right after my 18th birthday I decided to leave California and move to Florida where I had planned to attend FIU and study marine biology. Little did I know life had other plans for me.  Read More>>

Jigna Patel

I didn’t find my purpose in a single moment of clarity. It arrived slowly, revealed through one of the darkest chapters of my life — a period that stripped away everything familiar and asked me to meet myself in a completely new way. Read More>>

Petra Persolja

I’ve always believed that purpose isn’t something you stumble upon. It’s something you uncover by taking action, reflecting, and daring to step into the unknown. For me, the piano was the first signpost. From the age of six, it wasn’t just an instrument, it was a voice, a way to express what words often couldn’t. But purpose became truly clear when I left Slovenia to study in the U.S.  Read More>>