
Akello Stone, Self-Development Advocate
What is your life’s purpose? To move through life with a focus on self-examination and self-discovery, bringing forth onto others what I learn, sharing with them, empowering them, and encouraging them to seek out their own knowledge of self, in order to enhance the...

Dr. Helena Ndume, Namibian Ophthalmologist
What is your life’s purpose? To bring the gift of sight to vulnerable and disadvantaged people worldwide. How are you living your purpose? Every year, I perform sight-restoring surgeries on thousands of blind and sight-impaired men, women, and children, all...

Skip Prichard, Author of The Book of Mistakes
What is your life’s purpose? My mission statement: To help individuals and organizations aim higher so that they can achieve impossible breakthroughs. How are you living your purpose? I’m so incredibly blessed. As the CEO of OCLC, Inc., I have the opportunity to lead...

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. How are you living your purpose? This is...

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...

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...

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...

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. How are you living...

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,...

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...