
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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...