
Lucy Buffett, Restaurateur and Cookbook Author
What is your life's purpose? My life's purpose has been to connect my physical life to a spiritual life that gives me meaning, comfort, and sustains me so that I can contribute positively to society. How are you living your purpose? I do what I call my "inner work."...

Hannah Templeton, Founder, Salai Clinics
What is your life’s purpose? To teach, heal, and learn. How are you living your purpose? Eighteen months ago, I started a non-profit organization called Salai Clinics. We offer free holistic medicine training and treatment in remote communities, where access to...

Jenn Junk, Co-Founder of Recovery on Water
What is your life’s purpose? Using the sport of rowing to change lives. How are you living your purpose? I run Recovery on Water (ROW) a rowing team for patients and survivors of breast cancer. I coach rowing but also fundraise for the organization so that this sport...

Susan Olesek, Enneagram Prison Project
What is your life’s purpose? Freeing myself and others from the prisons of our own making. How are you living your purpose? I am working to solve the problem of mass incarceration from the inside out. Historically in the U.S. our approach to correcting bad behavior...

Janie Rakow, International End of Life Doula Association
What is your life’s purpose? To help transform the way people die in our culture one person and one family at a time. How are you living your purpose? I am an End-of-Life Doula—someone who guides and companions people through the dying process by creating meaning,...

Kim Frank, Writer, Editor, Storyteller
What is your life purpose? To be wildly creative and deeply productive as a writer and editor, to be a dynamically positive role model and guiding support to my daughters, and to always cultivate the sensual, friendship-based, loving relationship I have with my...

Holly Carter, Founder and Executive Director of BYkids
What is your life’s purpose? My life mission is to revolutionize education by teaching empathy and cross-cultural understanding and giving voice to the otherwise voiceless through film. How are you living your purpose? In founding BYkids, we have built a creative...

Emeka Nnaka, Motivational Speaker
What is your life’s purpose? My mission is to use my life as a light to guide people through whatever dark times they may be facing or have faced. How are you living your purpose? I’m fulfilling my purpose in a macro way through my profession of motivational speaking...

Leah Missbach Day, Photographer and Co-Founder of World Bicycle Relief
What is your life’s purpose? With eyes and ears wide open, life’s path before me is dedicated as a conduit for unique voices—both mine and others’—to emerge. How are you living your purpose? Through the nonprofit I co-founded, World Bicycle Relief (WBR), I have a...

Ashok Malhotra, Founder of the Ninash Foundation
What is your life’s purpose? To spread literacy among female and minority children of India and the world by building schools for them. How are you living your purpose? I launched the Ninash Foundation, a 501(c)(3) Charity that has built seven schools in four remote...