Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Laura DiBenedetto, number 1 bestselling author of The Six Habits, TEDx speaker, CEO at Vision Advertising, and life mastery coach who teaches how to create the life of your dreams without sacrificing what you love.

Laura teaches the profoundly powerful way that belief in oneself empowers you to achieve happiness. Though happiness is extremely subjective, people will always pursue what they think will make them happy.

What Laura shares is that what we think makes you happy is arguably not the correct path to achieve happiness. She explains that the societal norm of pursuing the markers of success is not the template for happiness.

She challenges listeners to dig deeper and dig some more to uncover their true motivations and to be kind to yourself in the process.

With self-belief, the fear of the unknown dies and you become free to pursue the things which were always left on the backburner and find yourself in a place of true happiness with the life you are living.

Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Elisabeth Kristof, Founder at Brain-Based Wellness LLC who uses applied neurology to move people out of pain, unwanted behavior, and stress response.

Elisabeth explains that human neurology is wired to always be vigilant with the intention of protecting itself. This manifests in the way people respond to societal changes, stress, trauma, and day-to-day interactions. She shares her own traumatic experiences and the way she was able to overcome the extreme stresses of her circumstances.

Elisabeth teaches that stress responses, when managed with intention, allow us to return from dysregulated states quicker to allow us to show up as our best selves despite overwhelming stresses.

Not only does this allow us to physically feel better and have more meaningful relationships, it even acts as a disease prevention mechanism as chronic stress is actually a primary cause for disease. Elisabeth also teaches that, by being regulated and listening to the body, our higher minds can guide our journey of finding our purpose.

Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Chris Kito, Professional Speaker and survivor of a near-death experience (NDE). The sheer experience of being at death's door changes a person in the most fundamental of ways. Chris shares the context behind his life when he almost died and the reality shift he underwent afterwards.

As a person living with an allergy to nuts, Chris was always mindful of what he ate. However, one mistake with a birthday cake would almost cost him his life. He shares the struggle he went through to bring himself to the hospital and the degradation of his physical health upon reaching the emergency room.

Chris shares how doctors were already giving up on him and the almost unexplainable experience he had meeting his deceased grandfathers. He explains, in as best as words can describe it, a reality which was no longer part of this physical realm and how he was simply told that it was not his time yet and much work had yet to be done.

Against all odds, Chris came back to life. The following weeks of recovery were painful and Chris had to learn how to reintegrate back to his old life. He shares that his NDE revealed a new set of principles and priorities to him. He has since searched for community to share in his experiences and now dedicates his time teaching others about reconnection as his pursuit of purpose.

Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Joseph Bogdan, Chief Master Sergeant with 20 years experience at the US Airforce, Adjunct Professor of Leadership Studies at Brandman University, and Co-Host of the Llama Lounge Podcast.

Joe’s motto in life is “better has no finish line.” Ever since he was young, Joe pursued opportunities which he deemed would create a better life for himself and his loved ones. This meant joining the service where he grew into leadership roles

He discovered that it is in serving others that he can lead others passionately and meaningfully. When servant leadership is at your core, ambition for the trappings of success takes a backseat.

Joe shares that being an effective leader requires self-awareness to distinguish between ethical dilemmas and ethical lapses and how he uses his faith as a guiding principle in his leadership journey.

Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Richard Shell, professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School, author of 5 books including the Business Book of the Year Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success and his best-seller Bargaining for Advantage.

Richard shares that being a person of conscience is what integrates your values into your work. He explains that people, especially leaders, can lose track of these values and not even realize that they have transitioned from being upstanding individuals to corrupt ones.

The influence of complicity can be so rampant but it is by no means unbeatable. For Richard, it is critical to fight alongside others who believe in goodness because corruption happens when you feel cornered and alone against a tide of influence and power.

He teaches that fighting a corrupt system begins with courageous, righteous thoughts and that violating your own conscience is a habit of rationalization. Richard also shares his own Buddhist meditations and the realizations he had of the impermanence of life. When you reconcile life and death, you are released to be of service to others.

Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Hana Dhanji, certified neuro linguistic programming expert, hypnotherapist, and Founder and CEO at Hana Dhanji Executive Coaching. Blazing the trail for success as a lawyer at the highest levels came at a price Hana did not fully realize at first.

The extreme stress that was literally killing her led Hana to seriously think about where her life was heading. She asked the deep philosophical questions about her identity and whether she was still her outside of being a lawyer. What she realized was that when your old world crumbles away, you are left with a blank canvas to recreate your world according to your values.

We make the choice on who we become every single day. Nobody is condemned to be who they were yesterday, simply repeating patterns and cycles. You can leave your toxic work environment, find yourself again, and pursue your true passions without sacrificing a career you can be proud of. Hana teaches that yes, you too can be truly happy.

Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Yermi Kurkus, author, founder of his own consulting firm which helps businesses become Irresistible, and founder of MORAL Entertainment.

Yermi's journey is unique in the gravity of trials he had to survive within a short span of time. From losing his mother to losing his wife and kids to losing his business, the future certainly looked bleak.

But with his experience in volunteering in prison, he learned that even the worst of the worst people can live extremely meaningful lives. This realization motivated Yermi to bring lessons of meaning and ethics directly to business, a space he felt meaning was lacking.

Living a moral life is the complete opposite of judging, something which is inextricably linked to most frames of morality today. To do good, one must have empathy, and to have empathy one must not judge others.

This is the second of a two-part series of the Purpose Highway Podcast featuring Hamed Murad, Wealth Manager at Wealth Stewards Inc. Hamed's journeys around the world brought him closer back to religion. He did not yet know what he was seeking, but he found the words of Ram Dass resonating.

As he moved to Canada, he would come face to face with Sufism and meet his teacher. This discovery would lead to a profound clarity of purpose and he decided to change the way business is done in the investment industry.

He would lose 95% of his clients, but with the law of attraction working, his business would flourish with new, like-minded clients who appreciate his ethics.

Hamed then explains the roots of Sufism, an Islamic Mysticism, and how it draws from other religions. He talks about Sufism as not being yet another label for religiosity, for the point of everything is love and it is all-accepting.

Joining Scott Mason in this two-part episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Hamed Murad, Wealth Manager at Wealth Stewards Inc. As a child, Hamed experienced the radical changes that Taliban rule brought to Afghanistan. He shares how life was before the Taliban arrived, the sweeping changes upon their rise to power, and how he eventually escaped this tyrannical rule.

To many, the plight of the Afghan people is alien and confined to the events seen in the daily news. Hamed provides a context to his people's struggles and bares the humanity that the Taliban robbed from him and his entire country. Hamed was one of the lucky ones. Not only was he one of the few to escape the country after 9/11, he was also afforded the rare opportunity of studying in the UK.

It is here that he experiences the meaning of freedom of religion. Even though his notion of religiosity is tainted by Taliban oppression, Hamed starts to entertain the idea of a higher intelligence.

Joining Scott Mason in this episode of the Purpose Highway Podcast is Casey Berman, Founder of Leave Law Behind. Becoming a lawyer offers a cookie-cutter template for success. However, what this profession lacked was feeling and emotion which was always overshadowed by thinking and logic.

Casey shares that breaking free from this narrow view of the world opened his aperture to entrepreneurship. He recalls the distinct feeling of regret that was creeping up to him until it reached a breaking point.

By heeding the signs, Casey strikes out on his own with a mission to coach lawyers and other seemingly successful individuals and free them from the unhappiness of traditional success. He believes that every person matters and that each individual should be allowed to live their best life according to their values.