Awaken Your Purpose

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This podcast is dedicated to helping you find your purpose and passion.  We have interviewed over 100 inspiring people and asked them to share the methods and tips that helped them find their calling -- and you can too! Join us every Monday morning to ignite your spark. To visit our Purpose Lab head over to www.holomovement.net/purpose

  1. 4d ago

    AYP 115: What if Beyond-Verbal Autistic Children are Here To Teach US? - Melissa Jolly Graves

    Melissa Jolly Graves | Environmental Scientist, Telepathic Communicator, Consciousness Researcher, and Founder of Euphoric Source What if beyond-verbal autistic children are not waiting for us to teach them, but are here to teach us? In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Zenka Caro speaks with Melissa Jolly Graves, a consciousness researcher, telepathic communicator, spiritual ambassador, environmental advocate and founder of Euphoric Source. Graves explores the places where science, spirituality, nature & human consciousness collide. She shares her work communicating with beyond-verbal autistic children, collaborating with water researchers and developing an experimental mushroom-based approach designed to remove oil from water. This conversation questions almost everything we assume about intelligence, communication and healing. What if water carries information? What if nature already holds technologies we have not learned to understand? What if the children we once believed could not communicate are offering insights that scientists need to hear? Graves shares her scientific research with fungi and crystals that eat oil in water. And she does not stop there. She is bringing through music with the beyond verbal autistic communities. As @Rebbel Prophet on TikTok, she even seriously challenges our serious spiritual mania over crystals.   ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦ Purpose is not something reserved for the lucky few. Through more than two years of research and over 100 interviews, the Holomovement Purpose Lab has identified patterns, tools and a seven-stage process that can help people move from searching to living their purpose. ✦ Enter the Lab ✦ 📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose 🔎 Search the Awaken Your Purpose archives: https://www.holomovement.net/awakenyourpurposepodcast 🧭 Take the quiz + discover your purpose stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz 🧪 Found your purpose? Add your experience to the research: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map ✦ About Our Guest ✦ Melissa Jolly Graves is a Spiritual Ambassador, consciousness researcher, telepathic communicator, faith healer, documentarian, speaker, minister and podcast host. After beginning her professional life as a Licensed Practical Nurse, Melissa trained in more than 24 healing modalities and founded Euphoric Source, a healing sanctuary and experimental research center exploring consciousness, biology, emotion, energy and human potential. She is the creator and host of Let’s Bee Telepathy, where she explores communication beyond spoken language with beyond-verbal communicators, families, educators and researchers. Melissa is also developing Mycovescroleum, an experimental environmental restoration project investigating how fungi may assist with oil and water remediation. ✦ Guest Links ✦ Euphoric Source: https://www.euphoricsource.com About Melissa: https://www.euphoricsource.com/about-5 ✦ Interviewer & Host ✦ Zenka Caro is the founder of LightNet and the Holomovement Purpose Lab. Her work explores how people move beyond perceived limitations, identify their purpose and make the impossible possible. ✦Host Links ✦ Zenka Caro https://www.zenka.org LightNet https://www.zenka.org ✦ Time Codes ✦ 00:00 The spiritual cost of mining crystals 00:56 Welcome to Awaken Your Purpose 01:14 Building laboratories, healing centers and schools 02:26 Beyond-verbal children as teachers 03:21 Scientists begin listening differently 04:25 A song created through telepathic communication 07:19 Learning to move forward by listening 09:16 The water-remediation invention 10:16 The mushroom designed to eat oil 11:18 Turning captured oil into crystal 12:01 Why the safety testing takes seven years 14:26 The moment Melissa decided to become herself 15:45 Bringing her intuitive abilities into nursing 18:55 The greatest struggle she faced 19:16 The danger of incomplete spiritual and scientific stories 20:42 Does your healing crystal want to go home? 24:27 Finding purpose through anger and passion 26:12 Why most of what we worry about does not matter 27:21 Turning problems into building blocks 28:48 Gratitude, worth and finding your purpose 29:16 What if your career is simply living? 30:24 Giving others permission to be themselves 32:11 A world where more people live their purpose 33:57 You are the impossible 35:17 Closing and Purpose Lab research ✦ Connect & Support ✦ Subscribe to the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast and share this episode with someone who is questioning what intelligence, communication or purpose can look like. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1695997073 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0saoBq5b4ZgCcsK4NzWqjS Thank you for joining us today. It is our goal to give you the courage to begin identifying your passion and living your purpose, for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all. Over the course of this multi-year collaboration and research project, we have identified patterns and a seven-stage process that many people move through on their way to living their purpose. Awaken Your Purpose is a collaboration between the Holomovement, LightNet and incredible people like you.

    AYP 115: What if Beyond-Verbal Autistic Children are Here To Teach US? - Melissa Jolly Graves

  2. Jul 6

    AYP 114: Every Human Has an Incredible Story - Jill Robison

    Jill Robinson | Editor, Journalist - Holomovement Most people think purpose is something you find once you have the perfect plan.   Jill Robinson’s story says something sharper: sometimes your purpose is the thing you keep circling back to, even when the safe path looks more acceptable.   In this episode of Awaken Your Purpose, Jill Robinson, writer and journalist for the Holomovement, shares how writing became the thread running through her life. From childhood journals and stories, to leaving her college degree in elementary education for journalism.   We talk about why stories stick more than statistics, why the “wrong” path may still teach you what you need, and why the world may need more artists, writers, singers, painters, and places where people can gather again.   This is a conversation about purpose, story, courage, creativity, and the kind of life that keeps calling you back. ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab Starting in September ✦ Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/awakenyourpurposepodcast Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map ✦ About Our Guest Jill Robinson ✦ Jill Robinson is a writer, journalist, and storyteller for the Holomovement. She helps gather and share stories that reveal the good work already happening in the world and remind us what becomes possible when people connect through purpose. Jill has helped weave together the co-edited anthology Holomovement: Embracing Our Collective Purpose to Unite Humanity and the Holomovement Effect magazine. https://www.holomovement.net/media Her work brings consciousness out of abstraction and into the heart through human stories, art, nature, curiosity, and the written word. At the center of Jill’s purpose is a simple but powerful practice: slowing down, paying attention, and helping people inspire the world. ✦ Guest Links ✦ Jill Robinson on SubStack: https://staringoutwindows.substack.com   Holomovement: Embracing Our Collective Purpose to Unite Humanity Book and Holomovement Effect Magazine:  https://www.holomovement.net/media ✦ Interviewer & Host ✦ Zenka Caro is the founder of LightNet and the Holomovement Purpose Lab. Her purpose is to make the impossible possible. LightNet: https://www.lightnet.org/ or Zenka Caro https://www.zenkacaro.com Timestamps: 00:00 — What the world could look like if more people lived their purpose 00:55 — Welcome to Awaken Your Purpose 01:07 — Meet Jill Robinson 02:05 — Jill’s purpose: telling stories of good work in the world 03:02 — Why stories stay with us more than statistics 04:06 — The childhood seed: journals, diaries, and her mother’s writing 05:43 — “Every story doesn’t have to begin with once upon a time” 07:20 — Choosing the safe road, then leaving it 08:16 — Walking across campus into journalism 09:03 — The lost years, travel, bartending, and money fear 10:09 — Getting back to writing by making her own clips 12:06 — Why so many people don’t know their purpose 13:44 — Purpose as something you awaken, not something you hunt for 15:44 — Why the “wrong” path may still matter 17:16 — Advice for people who haven’t found what they love yet 19:01 — How listening to people’s stories changes them 21:12 — Everyone has a story worth hearing 22:15 — A slower, gentler, more creative world 23:25 — AI, artists, print, cafes, and third spaces 24:56 — Gratitude for Jill’s role in the community 25:37 — Closing message and resources   ✦ Connect & Support ✦ Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all. The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and more than 100 interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose. Listen to the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4

    AYP 114: Every Human Has an Incredible Story - Jill Robison

  3. Jun 29

    Ep 113: Becoming Intimate With the Void - Cristiana Rocha

    Cristiana Rocha | Guide, Energy Practitioner, and Keeper of the Sacred Void Interviewed by Sharon Clark for the Holomovement Purpose Lab What if your purpose begins when you stop running from emptiness? In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Sharon Clark speaks with Cristiana Rocha about presence, loss, source, and the mysterious doorway that opens when we become intimate with the void. Cristiana shares that she was never really looking for her purpose. For her, the highest purpose is to be here, to live this life fully, and to experience the gift of existence with presence. Instead of treating confusion, emptiness, or feeling lost as problems to escape, she began to see them as sacred openings into something deeper. ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦ 🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/purpose 🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz 📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map 📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose ✦ ✦ ✦ In this conversation, Cristiana explores what it means to become present to what is alive in the moment, even when what is alive feels like grief, uncertainty, loss, or the unknown. She speaks about becoming intimate with the void: the space before words, before purpose, before form. For Cristiana, this void is not empty. It is origin. Womb. Source. A place where something deeper can begin to speak. She also shares a deeply personal experience connected to reconnecting with her axial tonal lines, the energetic grid of the body, the Earth, and planetary life force. This moment changed something within her and became part of how she now understands purpose, embodiment, and the collective field. This is a short but potent conversation about surrender, mystery, presence, and the sacred intelligence that can emerge when life removes what we thought we needed. ✦ About Cristiana Rocha ✦ Cristiana Rocha is a guide and energy practitioner whose work explores presence, embodiment, energetic alignment, and the deeper intelligence that lives beneath language. Her reflections invite us to stop treating emptiness as failure and begin listening to it as a doorway. Through her work, Cristiana helps open space for people to reconnect with the body, the Earth, and the source field that exists before words, before identity, and before the mind tries to name our purpose. 🌐 Cristiana Rocha : https://www.instagram.com/cristiana_rocha_me_be_we/ ✦ Interviewer ✦ Sharon Clark is a cancer life coach, purpose guide, and LightNet contributor devoted to helping people navigate life’s threshold moments with courage, clarity, and heart. Through her interviews for the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Sharon creates space for honest conversations about healing, purpose, and the deeper intelligence that can emerge through challenge. 🌐 Sharon Clark: https://www.yourtransformationcoach.ca/ ✦ Time Codes ✦ 00:00 Purpose as being fully here 00:40 Emptiness, confusion, and feeling lost 01:10 Exploring the deeper truth beneath the void 01:36 Becoming intimate with what is alive now 01:50 The space before words, purpose, and form 02:10 The void as womb, origin, and source 02:30 How loss opens a deeper exploration 03:00 A personal moment that changed everything 03:35 Axial tonal lines, Earth grid, and planetary life force 04:14 Purpose Lab closing reflection ✦ ✦ ✦ Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all. The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose. ✦ ✦ ✦ 🎙️ Listen to the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast: 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4

    Ep 113: Becoming Intimate With the Void - Cristiana Rocha

  4. Jun 22

    Ep. 112: The Day Time Stopped - James Bolden

    James Bolden | Founder of Iris Cocreative, Creative Process Facilitator & Conscious Design Strategist What if your mind is not telling you the truth, but protecting the version of reality you have already outgrown? In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Zenka Caro sits down with James Bolden, founder of Iris Cocreative, a creative process facilitator working with conscious businesses, purpose-driven organizations, and emerging communities around the world. James lives in the fertile in-between: design, philosophy, technology, evolution, consciousness, creativity, architecture, village building, flow, and intersubjective awareness. His work is about creating tools, systems, and design solutions that help communities see themselves, find each other, and build what wants to emerge. This conversation moves from conscious technology and community mapping into something much deeper: identity, death, time, purpose, and liberation. James shares how a near-death experience in 2012 changed his relationship with time, surrender, and what it means to be available to something larger than the self. Together, Zenka and James explore the mind’s strange little monarchy: how limiting narratives, inertia, and identity can masquerade as truth. They also explore the “we-space,” the intelligence between people, and what becomes possible when technology stops performing and starts serving connection. ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦ Stop guessing what you’re here to do. The Holomovement Purpose Lab turns 100+ Awaken Your Purpose interviews into a 7-stage map for discovering and living your purpose. Through research, reflection, Teams of 8-12, and real human practice, it helps people move from “What am I here to do?” into courage, clarity, and aligned action. 🧭 Take the quiz + find your purpose path: https://www.ourlightnet.org/purposequiz 🌐 Learn more about Purpose Lab: https://www.ourlightnet.org/purpose 🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/awakenyourpurposepodcast ✦ About our Guest James Bolden ✦ James Bolden facilitates creative processes for conscious businesses and purpose-driven organizations. He loves operating in the interstitium between design, philosophy, technology, evolution, consciousness, creativity, architecture, village building, flow, and intersubjective awareness. His company, Iris Cocreative, exists to create tools and design solutions for emerging communities around the world. James is also part of the creative force behind Hollows, the Holomovement’s emerging community platform, designed to help people connect through values, needs, offerings, location, and shared purpose. ✦ Guest Links ✦ James Bolden: https://james.today Iris Cocreative: https://www.iriscocreative.com Hollows: https://hollows.holomovement.net ✦ Interviewer & Host ✦ Zenka Caro is the founder of LightNet, host of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, and creator of the Holomovement Purpose Lab. Her work explores consciousness, purpose, human potential, future culture, and what happens when people stop waiting for permission to live what they came here to do. ✦ Time Codes ✦ 00:00 – Technology That Gets Out of the Way 01:01 – Welcome James Bolden 02:11 – Designing Beyond the Box 03:05 – The Hollows Matchmaking System 05:55 – Why Iris Cocreative Exists 06:25 – Intuitive, Relational & Intersubjective Design 08:45 – James’s Early Work & Consciousness Communities 10:26 – What Is James’s Purpose? 10:58 – Liberation From Limiting Narratives 12:28 – Why Death Is Alive in James’s Inquiry 15:40 – Surrender, No Time & the Eternal 17:23 – James’s Near-Death Experience 18:33 – Falling From the Swing 22:01 – Time Completely Slows and Stops 23:20 – Why Worry Fell Away 24:20 – Returning to the Body 29:44 – The Struggle of Living a Purposeful Life 33:27 – Advice for People Just Starting Out 35:56 – Giving Yourself Permission to Be Who You Are 38:17 – What If Most People Lived Their Purpose? 41:34 – Hollows, Purpose Lab & the Future of Community 44:35 – James.today and Closing Reflections ✦ Connect & Support ✦ Thank you for joining us today. The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet, emerging from multi-year research and 100+ interviews on purpose, consciousness, healing, and human potential. Subscribe, share, and explore more episodes wherever you listen.

    Ep. 112: The Day Time Stopped - James Bolden

  5. Jun 15

    Ep. 111: The Biggest Lie in Self Help - Adham Chalabi

    Adham Chalabi | Master Coach, Researcher, Thought Leader, and Philosophy Nerd Turned Life Coach ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦ What if your purpose is not what feels good, but what tells the truth? In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Sharon Clark sits down with Adham Chalabi, a philosophy nerd turned life coach who spent years in kitchens before learning how to help people sort out their minds instead of their menus. Adham is a master coach, researcher, and thought leader dedicated to uncovering the deeper structures of the human psyche, guiding people to set their hearts ablaze, push past their limits, and get honest enough to meet the person underneath the mask. This conversation goes straight for the nerve. Adham challenges the idea that purpose is simply about following your bliss. Instead, he points to the places we avoid: the burnout, the breakup, the disruption, the crack in the old self. According to Adham, purpose is the ultimate expression of who you are authentically, and sometimes the doorway is not pleasure. Sometimes it is discomfort with a flashlight. Together, Sharon and Adham explore truth, responsibility, skepticism, community, personality, procrastination, and the strange courage it takes to stop lying to yourself. This is not fluffy purpose talk. It is purpose with teeth, humor, shadow, chaos, order, and a very honest look at what happens when you finally decide to live from the real thing. ✦ Enter the Lab ✦ 📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose 🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/awakenyourpurposepodcast 🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz 📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map ✦ Guest Bio ✦ Adham Chalabi is a master coach, researcher, thought leader, and philosophy nerd turned life coach. After years spent in kitchens, he now helps people sort out the inner architecture of their minds, identities, patterns, and purpose. Adham describes himself as certified in lots, allergic to fluff, and powered by humor. His work explores authenticity, personality, truth, responsibility, and what it means to live from the deepest expression of who you are. ✦ Guest Links ✦ Adham Chalabi: https://www.instagram.com/captain_adham/ ✦ Interviewed by Sharon Clark ✦ Sharon Clark is a cancer life coach, bookkeeper, radio host, podcaster, and core member of the LightNet team. As a cancer life coach, Sharon helps people navigate diagnosis, treatment, and life after cancer with clarity, strength, and a belief in their power to shape their future. Sharon also co-hosts Holy Shiftballs with Bethany Shelton, a podcast built on expansion and learning through laughter. Together, they interview people about the “Holy Shiftball” moments that changed their lives and led them to living their purpose. Sharon Clark: https://www.yourtransformationcoach.ca/ ✦ Time Codes ✦ 00:00 Sharon introduces the Purpose Lab and Adham Chalabi 01:54 Purpose as the expression of your authentic self 03:09 The modern-day explorer 04:14 Does your purpose change over time? 05:53 The expression of purpose versus the underlying thread 06:11 Why Adham does not simply “follow your bliss” 08:30 Disruption as the break of the old self 09:28 Why numbing pain wastes the lesson 10:05 Deep listening on the other side of the crack 11:00 Challenges as opportunities to learn who you are 11:50 How relationships change when you live more honestly 13:28 Why authentic community gives sanity signals 14:45 Asking for honest feedback 16:31 Skepticism as a creative destructive force 18:42 Getting out of your own way 20:08 Personality, procrastination, and building systems 21:36 Falling to the level of your personality 22:55 Speak the truth or at least do not lie 23:54 Paying attention to the truth inside your words 26:53 Honesty as a pathway to purpose 27:58 What happens when people become more truthful 29:45 Speaking truth with kindness 31:54 Responsibility, meaning, and purpose 33:31 The call to adventure and why we reject it 35:35 The shadow side of responsibility 36:31 Chaos, order, and the birth of something new 37:36 Closing reflections ✦ Our Mission ✦ Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all. The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose. ✦ Listen to the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast ✦ 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4

    Ep. 111: The Biggest Lie in Self Help - Adham Chalabi

  6. Jun 8

    Ep. 110: Stop Looking for Your Purpose - Rachel Astarte, LMFT

    Rachel Astarte, LMFT | Holistic Psychotherapist, Author, Educator, and Host of Self Talk with Rachel Astarte   ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦ What if your purpose is not something you chase, but something you remember? In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Sharon Clark sits down with Rachel Astarte, holistic psychotherapist, transformational coach, author of Celebrating Solitude: How to Discover and Honor Your Highest Self, and host of Self Talk with Rachel Astarte. Rachel shares how her purpose began as a childhood knowing that she was here for a reason, then grew into a lifelong devotion to helping others understand what it means to be fully human and infinite at the same time. From staring into the endless sky as a child to learning how to make big spiritual ideas accessible, Rachel brings language to the strange, sacred terrain where personal healing meets collective evolution. This conversation explores purpose, intuition, ego, non-duality, grief, community, and the body’s inner knowing. Rachel speaks about the underdeveloped ego, the developed ego as a container for spirit, and why purpose is not always a career, achievement, or grand public mission. Sometimes it is rescuing dogs. Sometimes it is tending a garden. Sometimes it is being kind to a shopkeeper. Purpose may be less about becoming someone new and more about putting down the heavy bags and remembering who you already are.   ✦ Enter the Lab ✦ 📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose 🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/awakenyourpurposepodcast 🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz 📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map ✦ Guest Bio ✦ Rachel Astarte is a holistic psychotherapist, transformational coach, author, and educator. Her work bridges ancient wisdom and modern science to illuminate the sacred thread connecting personal healing with collective evolution. Rachel is the author of Celebrating Solitude: How to Discover and Honor Your Highest Self and the host of the podcast Self Talk with Rachel Astarte. ✦ Guest Links ✦ Rachel Astarte: https://bit.ly/m/rachelastartetherapy ✦ Interviewed by Sharon Clark ✦ Sharon Clark is a cancer life coach, bookkeeper, radio host, podcaster, and core member of the LightNet team. As a cancer life coach, Sharon helps people navigate diagnosis, treatment, and life after cancer with clarity, strength, and a belief in their power to shape their future. Sharon also co-hosts Holy Shiftballs with Bethany Shelton, a podcast built on expansion and learning through laughter. Together, they interview people about the “Holy Shiftball” moments that changed their lives and led them to living their purpose. Sharon Clark: https://yourtransformationcoach.ca ✦ Time Codes ✦ 00:00 The underdeveloped ego and imposter syndrome 02:16 Welcome to Awaken Your Purpose 03:46 Rachel shares what she discovered her purpose to be 05:48 Fully human and infinite at the same time 06:57 Childhood wonder and making big ideas accessible 09:31 Relationships, skepticism, and walking your own path 12:02 How awakening changes friendships 14:03 Following the inner wind of purpose 14:43 When the safe path is not your calling 16:27 There is no failure, only evolution 17:18 Finding community through the Holomovement 18:12 The underdeveloped ego versus the developed ego 19:31 The ego as a container for spirit 20:01 Your life as an ambassador of source 20:42 What happens when we return to the field? 21:52 Turning up the volume on this life 22:18 Rachel’s advice: stop looking for your purpose 23:38 Purpose is already there 24:33 Rescuing dogs, gardening, and hidden purpose 27:13 Ambition, tunnel vision, and the eternal self 28:26 Putting down the heavy bags 30:03 What if everyone lived their purpose? 32:35 Pure consciousness experiencing itself 33:28 Enjoying the dance of being human 34:03 Rachel’s final message   ✦ Our Mission ✦ Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all.   The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose.   ✦ 🎙️ Listen to the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast ✦ 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4

    Ep. 110: Stop Looking for Your Purpose - Rachel Astarte, LMFT

  7. Jun 1

    Ep: 109: Purpose Is a Feeling, Not a Project - Dan Spinner

    Dan Spinner | Founder of Biofield Awareness, executive coach, author, and former CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation What if your purpose is not something you think your way into, but something your body already knows? In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Zenka Caro speaks with Dan Spinner, founder of Biofield Awareness, executive and life coach, author, former CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation, and senior advisor to the Esalen Institute. Dan shares how his understanding of purpose began not as a career plan, but as a feeling. As a child, he found comfort, love, and support in trees, nature, and the living field around him. Later, through Zen, Aikido, meditation, coaching, and decades of work with organizations and leaders, he began to recognize that purpose was not only an idea. It was a somatic signal. A coherence. A quiet North Star in the body. ✦ Guest Links ✦ 🌐 Biofield Awareness: https://www.biofieldawareness.com/founder ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦ 🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/purpose 🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz 📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map 📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose 🌊 Join us at the Holomovement Wave in Portugal: https://www.holomovement.net/wave ✦ ✦ ✦ In this conversation, Dan explores purpose as an embodied experience: the feeling of flow, renewal, connection, and deep knowing that tells us when we are aligned. He describes how forcing, pushing, and ignoring the body’s wisdom leads to exhaustion, while surrendering into what is truly calling us can bring unexpected energy and renewal. Dan also speaks about Biofield Awareness, coherence, the energetic ripple effect of who we are, and why the tone of our being may matter even more than our words. He shares stories from childhood, his years studying Aikido, his work with nature, and his decision in his 70s to only follow what genuinely called him. This episode is a beautiful invitation to trust your own experience, listen beneath the noise, return to stillness, and discover purpose not as pressure, but as a living current. ✦ About Dan Spinner ✦ Dan Spinner is the founder of Biofield Awareness and an executive and life coach working with clients across three continents. He has served as a senior executive with universities, hospitals, and NGOs, helped raise more than $300 million for charities and businesses, and served as CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation and senior advisor to the Esalen Institute. His work bridges coaching, leadership, wellbeing, emotional intelligence, community building, and the emerging understanding of the biofield. Dan is a black belt in Aikido, a certified teacher in Light Body Meditation, and co-author of Wake Up Curious, the first book in the Wake Up Trilogy. He is also a co-founder of Mirabai Inc., creator of The Nursing Way wellness platform. ✦ Time Codes ✦ 00:00 Purpose as a feeling, not an idea 01:47 Talking to trees as a child 03:40 Zen, Jesus, nature, and the beginning of a spiritual path 05:00 Aikido, life force energy, and learning to follow flow 06:20 How the body reveals what is on purpose 07:23 Riding the wave of flow 08:30 Renewal versus exhaustion 09:38 Purpose as inexhaustible energy 10:33 Choosing only what calls you 11:42 The challenges of following purpose 14:54 Longing as a doorway to self-trust 16:00 Finding the still place beyond words 17:12 The ripple effect of our energetic field 18:48 Biofield Awareness and the energy behind what we create 19:35 Science, ancient wisdom, and the shared biofield 21:16 A world where people live their purpose 22:01 Love as coherence and the path forward ✦ ✦ ✦ Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all. The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose. ✦ ✦ ✦ 🎙️ Listen to the “Awaken Your Purpose” Podcast: 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4

    Ep: 109: Purpose Is a Feeling, Not a Project - Dan Spinner

  8. May 25

    Ep. 108 - What If We Stopped Playing Monopoly With the Future? - Kara Stonehouse

    Kara Stonehouse | Founder of Love Organized, graphic recorder, strategic facilitator, and visionary systems thinker What if the problem isn’t that humanity is failing at the game, but that we are playing by the wrong rules? In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Zenka Caro speaks with Kara Stonehouse, creator of Love Organized, a bold vision for redesigning community, money, governance, and culture around care for the whole. Kara describes our current economic system as a giant game of Monopoly, one that ends the same way every time because the rules are built to concentrate wealth, reward extraction, and exhaust the people trying to build a better future. Her invitation is simple and radical: flip the board. Create a new game. Build systems where cooperation, regeneration, purpose, and care become the foundation. ✦ Guest Links ✦ 🌐 Love Organized: www.loveorganized.com 🎥 Kara’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejjjeruh7hE ✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦ 🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/purpose 🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz 📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map 📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose 🌊 Join us at the Holomovement Wave in Portugal: https://www.holomovement.net/wave ✦ ✦ ✦ In this conversation, Kara shares how Love Organized imagines communities 50 years into the future, asking: How do we live together? How do we finance what matters? How do we support the people doing systems-change work before they burn out? How do we create economies where care, purpose, and contribution are valued? She also speaks about three major shifts: governance designed to care for the health of the whole, culture that helps people develop from the inside out, and money created through commitments to care for each other and the Earth. Kara’s own purpose emerged through visioning, community spaces, mentorship, and the moment someone reflected back the power of what she was carrying. Today, Love Organized is becoming her legacy project: a living invitation to build regenerative community pods, support conscious co-creators, and create new systems of care that can scale beyond the eco-village into cities, neighborhoods, and global networks. This is a conversation about courage, new economies, community, purpose, and the strange magic that happens when people stop asking permission to build the world they came here to create. ✦ About Kara Stonehouse ✦ Kara Stonehouse is an Evolutionary Leader, TEDx speaker, ceremonialist, poet, artist, and meshworker with The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence. She brings experience in strategic leadership, facilitation, graphic recording, design thinking, and sustainability work across government and social impact projects. She initiated and led the Ottawa Energy Collective Impact project from 2016–2019, bringing municipal, nonprofit, academic, and business leaders together around carbon reduction. Today, she contributes to World Unity Week and Peace Weekend, where she paints “ONE World” into form through live visual harvests. Inspired by her global study of eco-villages, Kara created Love Organized to help people and organizations move from systems of separation into new models of care, unity, and life-centered collaboration. She is Canadian and now lives in France with her husband and two children. ✦ Time Codes ✦ 00:00 Introduction to Kara Stonehouse and Love Organized 01:18 Making the invisible visible 01:52 Why the current system needs a root-level shift 02:20 The Monopoly metaphor and flipping the board 03:41 Three shifts: governance, culture, and money 05:53 Purpose-led culture and redefining education 06:28 What if money was created through care? 08:28 How Kara discovered Love Organized as her purpose 09:30 The role of mentorship and being seen 11:08 Why systems-change leaders are burning out 12:00 Creating a regenerative economy of support 13:29 Why many people do not follow their passion 14:20 Community pods for purpose and belonging 15:10 Courage and the field of possibility 16:03 The ripple effect of living your purpose 17:19 Following the tingle and what brings you alive 19:03 A world where care work is valued 19:55 A brand new game of love ✦ ✦ ✦ Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all. The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose. ✦ ✦ ✦ 🎙️ Listen to the “Awaken Your Purpose” Podcast: 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4

    Ep. 108 - What If We Stopped Playing Monopoly With the Future? - Kara Stonehouse
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