#279: Living On Purpose: Unlocking Your Full Potential with Amy Wong

Themes: Self-Worth, Self Discovery, Happiness, Limiting Beliefs, Authenticity, Belonging, Self-Love, Transformation, Purpose

Summary: 

Today, I’m jamming with Amy Wong, the founder of Always On Purpose®. Amy is an executive leadership coach, author, speaker, and facilitator working with organizations such as Airbnb, Salesforce, Roku, LinkedIn and more. She offers transformative leadership development and cutting-edge communication strategies to executives and corporate teams around the world, as well as institutions including Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley.

In this episode, we break down her latest book, Living on Purpose. Join us as we discuss the true benefit behind knowing your self-worth and value, and how you can make small but profound shifts in your thoughts, actions, and words to live a life completely aligned with your purpose. If you’re someone who is always worried about what other people think about you, this episode is one you won’t want to miss!

Discover:

How resisting doing what you hate turns you away from what you truly want to do

Learning the skill to be more in-tune with your feelings

How our personal stance affects how we communicate 

How to organically shift the focal point of conversations to be more present and aligned with others

The truth about rejection and the physical form it takes in our body

Why you need to stop trying to prove your worth to others 

00:00 Intro 

01:03 What does living on purpose mean?

02:49 Choice at the state of perception

07:08 Making choices that align with the concept of thriving

12:13 Ways to make decisions that will truly make you happy

24:27 Your feelings about things is what matters the most

27:29 What we focus on determines everything

33:43 Being positional actually create more disconnection

36:06 What happens when we always try to make it about ourselves?

40:02 What rejection does to our body 

45:54 Getting stuck in the paradigm of constant validation

51:37 Shifting from believing to knowing who we are

54:56 The ultimate paradox: from belief, to knowing

56:42 Transpersonal psychology 

Links:

Website: https://www.alwaysonpurpose.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Purpose-Deliberate-Choices-Fulfillment/dp/1956072020/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1635792712&sr=8-1

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyelizawong/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amyelizawong/

Free Workshop: Buy Amy's book and send the receipt to [email protected] to receive a promo code to attend her virtual Conversational Intelligence workshop for free ($150 value)!

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