The Purpose Filter

The Purpose Filter

By Dr. Kathy ZhangEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Purpose Filter episodes

  • Lessons From Costa Rica Part 2: Embracing the Pura Vida Lifestyle at Home
    Have you ever returned from a trip and thought, "WOW, what a spectacular experience we just had!" Well, this week the podcast is back with part 2 of the lessons learned from traveling through Costa Rica and how we can immediately apply those lessons to radically improve our quality of life NOW This episode discusses: what is pura vida and why is everyone so obsessed with it? how to incorporate more of the pura vida mindset and lifestyle into our daily lives 1 simple an...
    29 min
  • Mindset Shift: How is Life Happening FOR You Rather Than TO You? Lessons From Costa Rica
    A few years ago, this concept mentioned in the title would have driven me up a wall and totally turned me off. “What do you mean life is happening FOR me?! Clearly things are not going my way, how is this beneficial for me in any way, shape or form?” Ever since leaving that mentality behind, life just feels SO MUCH more fun, free, exhilarating and peaceful. Trust me when I say life is WAY better when you embrace this idea rather than the other way around. This episode teaches y...
    29 min
  • Protect Your Peace: How to Create and Maintain Healthy Boundaries
    You've heard of that cute little phrase: "You Have the Power to Protect Your Peace" If you've ever read that quote and thought "ok, that's nice and all, but HOW do I actually do that??" Then this week's episode is a MUST listen, as it's all about how to CREATE and more importantly, MAINTAIN healthy boundaries After listening to this week's episode, you'll learn: how boundaries can help foster healthier interpersonal relationshipswhy maintaining boundaries is so much harder th...
    26 min
  • Palliative Care Pearl: Ask This Simple Question to Instantly Uplevel Your Communication Skills
    Here's a simple communication tip that will immediately uplevel your conversation with ANYONE, and it's only 6 words long: "What does that mean to you?" "What does ______ mean to you?" In this episode, I bring back another palliative care pearl and discuss: the importance of clarifying and diving deeper into why people say the things they sayhow our own internal implicit and explicit biases play a role in communicationwhy intentional connection through better discussions can hel...
    13 min
  • From Humble Beginnings to a $200M Real Estate Portfolio: Rewriting Your Life Story with Dr. Elaine Stageberg
    Our guest today grew up in a family that encountered substance abuse, incarceration, unstable housing, food insecurity and more before she was emancipated at the young age of 15. Nowadays, Elaine Stageberg, MD, MHA is a psychiatrist, mother of 4, & Owner of Black Swan Real Estate. She owns & manages a portfolio of >$200 million in assets under management. It took her 10 years before she realized that she is precisely the person she is today because of her prior challenges, rath...
    1 hr 5 min
  • How a Mindful Dance & Movement Practice Creates Confidence and a Strong Sense of Self with Wendy Ng
    You know the feeling when I ask you to picture yourself lounging on the couch and bingeing on your favorite Netflix show. And I bet you also know the feeling when the music is blasting and you should be so exhausted but you're dancing the night away as if you're 19 years old again. What's the difference between those 2 versions of you? Wendy Ng, a dance and movement coach, mom of 3 and occupational therapist, has an answer to that question that might surprise you. We chat about da...
    37 min
  • How Finding Clarity, Purpose and Fulfillment Helped a Burned Out Physician Become a Thriving Entrepreneur with Dr. Sharon McLaughlin
    Can women be great entrepreneurs? Can they build and manage a thriving business while juggling families and significant others, oh, and burnout too? Dr. Sharon McLaughlin certainly thinks so, and we discuss those topics along with focus, fulfillment and much more in this week's episode! Dr. McLaughlin is board certified plastic surgeon and the founder of Mind Lull, which helps small business owners slow down by providing tools and journals to improve focus and generate more fulf...
    33 min
  • F*ck Your Comfort Zone
    Are you sick of playing safe? Do you ever feel like there’s an invisible force field holding you back from the life you dream about? From the person you truly want to be? News flash: that’s called your comfort zone. And on this week, we’re saying “F*CK THAT!” I won’t lie, this episode is a little spicier than usual, as my alter ego, “Brooklyn KZ”, makes an appearance to help keep it real about how to get out of our own way so we can start living in alignment with who...
    19 min
  • Conquering Chaos Part 2: The 3 Things You DO Have Control Over & How To Immediately Feel More In Control of Any Situation
    Last episode we established the concept that the only thing we can truly control is ourselves. Not our families, not our partners, not kids or colleagues or the world around us. It's just US. This week I delve into what those things are: your focusyour bodyyour response This episode gets into self-awareness, the interplay between choice and control, the mind-body connection and gives specific tools to help us take action and feel like we're more in control immediately. ...
    24 min
  • Conquering Chaos: How to Cope When You've Lost Control
    Are you a high-achieving, type A go-getter? On one hand, you're action-oriented, achieving big goals and taking names while you're at it. But what happens when things go awry? How do you deal with uncertainty? How do you cope with *gasp* not being in control? It's no joke when I tell you that relinquishing my deep need for control has changed my ENTIRE life. Do you get stressed and overwhelmed because you're constantly trying to make things happen according to plan and nothing seems to ...
    21 min

About The Purpose Filter

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As someone who cares for sick and dying patients, hospice and palliative care physician Dr. Luyi Kathy Zhang has learned a thing or two about living. 

The good news is you don’t have to…