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S2 Ep6: Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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The Gift of Purpose

I was thinking a lot this week about purpose and how one of the gifts of purpose individual or collective purpose is that it helps us set the standards of satisfaction for our own lives. It's so easy to be influenced by other people's standards for life but when you're grounded in your purpose you're like oh these are the things that satisfy me. We can reclaim our agency in defining what it what it means to be to succeed Like for me that's very different and I've had to reckon with that and decolonize or re-indigenize my understanding of what a good life means as opposed to what the capitalist voice tells me a good life is.

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