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.
Renee Linell, Author of The Burn Zone
What is your life’s purpose?
My life’s purpose it to be a living, breathing, walking manifestation of love.
How are you living your purpose?
By writing and publishing my life story, and by taking such good care of myself that I go out into the world filled up and able to offer love. I believe the key to freedom and joy is living authentically, as the truest versions of ourselves. Only when we truly accept ourselves can we accept others; and only when we truly stop judging and criticizing ourselves will we stop judging and criticizing others.
Jonni Pollard: Bringing Meditation to the Mainstream
What is your life’s purpose?
To remind humanity of our innate power to serve the greater good and realize this to the gateway to our highest level of fulfillment.
How are you living your purpose?
I am a meditation teacher and Co-Founder of 1 Giant Mind, an organization that teaches people from all around the world how to meditate. We also train passionate meditators through our academy to become teachers and bring meditation into their local communities, schools and workplaces. I'm an author, speaker and personal consultant to high performing individuals. I also travel the world facilitating mass meditation experiences at summits, festivals and conferences.
Sharon Prentice, Author of Becoming Starlight: A Shared Death Journey from Darkness to Light
What is your life’s purpose?
Embracing life—running to it, not from it; feeling all things intensely, living every moment in the knowledge and awareness that we are one—with God and with each other; ripping off the labels that keep us separated one from the other and doing no harm to any living being; realizing that we are here to recognize the joy, the laughter, the wild abandon, the gifts that we were Blessed with by the Divine; entering the underbelly of the Soul and finding our true nature. All these are the gifts I seek to live freely out in the open air. I strive, every day, to live within the God-given knowledge—that quiet certainty—that all is well with my Soul.
Simplifying the Complex World of Money: Brian Portnoy, Author of The Geometry of Wealth
What is your life’s purpose?
I love to learn, share, empower, and enjoy.
How are you living your purpose?
I find my “flow” in indulging my curiosity, sharing what I’ve learned with others, and in turn learning from others. In some ways, I think of humanity as one great conversation, stretching across place and time. I can “talk” with Epictetus and Cormac McCarthy as easily I can my wife or my neighbor, though the rhythm of these conversations varies, obviously. I love being part of the conversation. I love knowing it takes courage to participate and I love knowing muscling up the courage is part of the journey.
Jon Kolko, Partner, Modernist Studio
What is your life’s purpose?
My life doesn't have a succinct purpose or a noble end-game; I'm simply here to experience, to work, to produce, and to teach.
How are you living your purpose?
The human experience is one of emotion, achievement, failure, and—most importantly—production. Making things offers the most fulfilling and valuable path of contribution and self-discovery possible. I'm living that experience. I make things and I teach others to make things. These are physical things, like ceramic pots and wooden vessels. They are digital things, like mobile phone applications and websites. And, they are conceptual things, like design strategies and organizational structures.
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