On Purpose with Kirk Wayman Kirk Wayman
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Kirk Wayman is an executive coach with 10,000+ hours working with clients just like you. In this podcast he explores how he helps clients find meaning and purpose in work, life and relationships by discovering there is more to life than purpose.
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Gravity of story
Did you know stories have gravity? They build mass in the fabric of our minds pulling the circumstances of life into them. In this episode, Kirk explains this metaphor and will help you build gravity around better stories.
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Naming your story
We are all living stories in which we are the character and the author (listen to episode 2 for more on this). Only the author can name the story and only the author can rewrite stories that are not awesome. In this episode, Kirk helps you notice and name the stories you are telling. Because the stories that name you have power over you but the stories you name you have power over.
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Authoring your story
Our purpose is a story we tell. It's built with the facts of our life. Our purpose is the meaning we attach to those facts. It's a category of truth we often refer to as a belief.
In this episode, Kirk explores the dual role we carry in our life stories. We are both a character in them and the author of them. To find meaningful purpose we must recognize and take responsibility for authoring a story worth telling.
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The power of story
In this episode, Kirk unpacks the influence that stories have on our behavior. What if how we understand the sequence of events in our lives is wrong? What if there is a way to interrupt the chain of reaction and choose our response? Kirk shares how to examine how we take in events, and how we respond.
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There be dragons
In this episode, Kirk explains where dragons really live and why we stopped believing in them. It's a mythical tale of profound importance.
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Life is a journey
Life is a journey. This is not a metaphor, this is what life is. In this episode, Kirk introduces the 3 questions the help you locate where you are on the map of your life's journey.