Brett Grayson: Author of What Could Go Wrong?: My Mostly Comedic Journey Through Marriage, Parenting and Depression
What is your life’s purpose?
Sorry I have to cheat: 2 purposes.
1. To use my writing to destigmatize mental health and raise awareness for my son’s condition.
2. To raise my children to have a happier existence than I did.
Umra Omar, Founder of Safari Doctors
What is your life’s purpose?
To serve as the bridge that connects people, opportunities, and ideas to improve the standards of humanity in this journey called life.
How are you living your purpose?
On January 21st, 2016 at 3am, I walked out of my house carrying a mattress and a backpack with a few of my belongings. The journey had begun, the first Safari Doctors sail, along Kenya’s Lamu Archipelago. I sent my then one-year old son to my parents as our team of nurses and doctors set off to open clinics across several villages over a couple of days. Since that day, there is nowhere else that I would rather be and nothing else that I would rather do than be on a dhow, sailing into hope and the possibility of bringing a better tomorrow to those who need it most.
Robert Shetterly, Artist and Activist
What is your life’s purpose?
My life's mission has become to use my passion and my talent to increase, in whatever little way I can, the amount of peace, justice, responsibility, sanity, and compassion in the world.
How are you living your purpose?
For the past 16 years, I've been painting a series of portraits I call “Americans Who Tell the Truth.” They are portraits of some of the people who have struggled to close the gap between what we say as a country about our ideals and what we do. The portraits travel to schools, colleges, museums, libraries, and churches all over the US. I use them to teach history and citizenship. And I run an educational project for middle school students challenging them to get engaged is serious issues.
August Turak, Author of Brother John: A Monk, a Pilgrim, and the Purpose of Life
What is your life’s purpose?
I am committed to passing on to others all that I have been so graciously given by God and my teachers.
How are you living your purpose?
The most inspirational stories are invariably not stories of complacent self-indulgence but stories of heroic sacrifice. If we want to get inspired, to be consistently at our best, we need a higher purpose, a heroic mission worth sacrificing for. A mission that lifts us up and out of our petty selves and frees us from the bondage of merely our selfish motivations.
Sandra Ingerman, Helping Us Manifest Change
What is your life’s purpose?
My life’s purpose and passion are to help people grow, heal from their past traumas, to bring in the goodness of life, to be a presence of love and light, and to gather communities together to perform ceremonial work.
Lisa Daron Grossman: Teaching Connection Coast to Coast
What is your life’s purpose?
My passion is connection, conversation, and challenging people to engage in micro-moments of engagement not just with friends and family, but with strangers.
How are you living your purpose?
I recently gave up my apartment in NYC, put all my things into storage, bought a car, and hit the road. Right now I am attempting to travel to every state in the U.S hosting workshops that aim to help de-stigmatize loneliness and share the science and healing benefits of face-to-face connection. This project, the Connection Cure, is living and breathing, shifting and growing, in real time, and life on the road is a new experience for me. I’m taking it day by day, hosting as many events as I can, and opening myself up to conversations with strangers whenever the opportunity presents itself.