Joy in Purpose

When you have done all you can.... do this! Listen to episode and be blessed! 

Do you think it is possible to have a dream career?

A dream career doesn’t mean the journey will be easy. It means you will have a career that matches your skills, interests, and potential. It will also provide you a financial reward that matches your expertise.

Questions to ask yourself to help identify your dream career

Who are you?

• Knowing who you are is essential to identify your strengths.
  
• Your race, background, environment, language, and culture can help you identify your dream career.
  
• Take a listen to the podcast- it will help you understand what I mean.

Life career themes

• “... life career themes are ideas, beliefs, attitudes, and values that people hold about themselves, others, and the world at large. These “I am,” “Others are,” and “Life is” statements have a lot to do with people’s behavior. By looking at behavior—both words and actions—you can infer or directly observe life career themes. Excerpt From: Gysbers, Norman C., Heppner, Mary J., Johnston, Joseph A. “Career Counseling.”
  
• What are you good at? What do you like about your previous work experiences?
  
• What subjects or courses did you like when you were in high school and college?
  
• If there were headlines about your life? What would it say?
  

Do you prefer working with data, ideas, things, and people? Or a combination of these things?

• Take a listen to the podcast to hear how answering these questions can lead you to identify your dream career.
  

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Christina Leeman is the author of the teen transformational booklet WORTH MORE THAN DIAMONDS. Discover your priceless value to God. You are made to shine! Her two passions are helping teen girls understand their worth to God and helping women to be free (and stay free) from what's holding them captive. She's worked in ministry with teen girls and women for ten years and counting. Christina is wife to Ethan and mom to two teen girls and many fur babies. She loves Jesus with all her heart, mind, and soul. She loves reading, hiking, laughing, and spending time with her family. Christina is launching the Raphah: Healed. Freed. Indeed experience for women soon.

Laura L. Padgett is a multi-published, multi-awarded author and dancer. Her two nonfiction books “Dolores, Like the River” and “Jesus in Shorts: Twenty-five Short Stories of Life-Changing Jesus Moments” are among her many published works. With a passion for helping others see their worth and value through the lens of Jesus, she shares stories of God’s love and lessons in her journey of over decades as a writer, dancer and teacher. 

Through her monthly blog, “Livin’ What You’re Given” found on her website at Lauralpadgett.com, she speaks with humor and authenticity into the truth that we are valuable and have purpose at every age and every stage. She also has been published in “Chicken Soup for the Soul” as well as many online Christian publications.

As she shares stories in written word and dance, she encourages others to find healing and inspiration for their life’s purpose in the Risen Christ. She is a wife,mother, grandmother, and proud native of Colorado who lives in Montrose, Co with husband Keith. She holds an MA in storytelling through creative movement from Regis University.

Questions discussed in this episode

• Where were you born, and tell us your favorite childhood memory?
• What was your favorite activity (passion) as a child?
• How was it like growing up with parents addicted to alcohol?
• As an adult, what were the effects of growing up with alcoholic parents?
• Any advice for anyone who did not receive the love they felt they deserved from their parents?
• Tell us about your journey with Christ? (Your meeting with Dolores)

Laura's Links:

FB: Laura L. Padgett, Author, Speaker, Dancer

Kareemah Emordi is a born-again, Holy Ghost-filled proud Jesus Girl, word addict, and intercessor. She is a former Muslim who converted to Christ later in life after God did a miracle and revealed Himself to her.

She is the co-Executive Producer and co-host of The Relevant Show, a revolutionary talk show created to disrupt the mainstream view of the relevancy, reality, and results of the Word of God. 

Co-hosted by a multigenerational team of radical Jesus Lovers. Relevant opens your eyes to the ability of God’s Word to provide answers to the difficult questions facing our world today!

Kareemah is recently married to Anthony the most amazing man she’s ever had the honor to know. She’s a mother to 2 amazing sons and 14 grandchildren.

Michelle Watson trains digital missionaries to optimize Kingdom messages for the virtual space through SEO, social, and design. The culture war goes two ways, and her goal is to hone the skills of Christian content creators so their message rings clear, with excellence, without all the overwhelm. She is the owner of Thirtyone25 Creative, a content and coaching firm, co-hosts The Pantry Podcast with her husband Shea Watson, and builds awesome block towers and pillow forts with their daughter, Calia.

Questions addressed in this episode:

• Michelle discussed in-depth about her role which includes helping Christian content creators optimize Kingdom messages.
• Can you share your journey dealing with low self-esteem and anxiety?
• How did you deal with the feelings of confusion, paranoia, and depression?
• Your advice for women dealing with low self-esteem?
• As a mother, what lessons would you like to instill in your children based on your experience?
• How would you like to encourage our listeners based on your life lessons?

Michelle Watson's Social Media Handle:

Isabella Boateng is the kingdom creative behind Truth By Bella. Truth By Bella is a lifestyle brand and podcast that discusses gems on life lessons, relationships, faith and entrepreneurship most importantly, connecting back to living a godly lifestyle by speaking the truth and the Word. Isabella enjoys helping and connecting with others via event coordinating, photography, networking and writing. Creativity and personality has really attracted people to wanting to hear the wisdom Isabella speaks about. 

Questions addressed in this episode:

• Where were you born, and tell us your favorite childhood memory?
• What was your favorite activity (passion) as a child?
• How did you learn to trust God in your single season?
• Did you ever feel disappointed about not getting married at a certain age?
• What is the biggest lesson you learned during your single season?
• How do you learn to be intentional with the waiting season?
• Please let us know your social media handles.
  

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Bad things sometimes happen, and the bad things can be good- Dr. April Jones. 

This is an inspirational episode. In this episode, Dr. Jones discusses her family's journey with dealing with her oldest son, who was diagnosed with cancer at almost age 2. Tyler is now a cancer survivor, amputee, adaptive internationally competitive athlete, and college student. Dr. Jones mentioned how facing hardship has encouraged her and her family to seize the day, have a grateful heart, and trust the will of God. This is a must-listen!  

Dr. April Jones is a speaker, author, and owner/co-founder of The Drifted Drum Company. As an Oncology Medical Director, she holds a B.S. in Chemistry, PharmD, and MBA.  Along with her many professional credentials, it's her personal journey that makes her an authority on transforming pain into purpose and struggles into strength. A mother of three boys, her oldest son, is a cancer survivor, amputee, and adaptive internationally competitive athlete. Through love, faith, hope, and inner discovery, Dr. Jones's story helps others heal while finding comfort and courage during the most difficult times. Dr. Jones discussed her journey with her faith during her son's cancer battle. She mentioned how isolating the pain can feel and how her supportive system rallied around her.  

This week on Joy in Purpose, Dr. Jones mentioned:

• Her favorite childhood memory? Playing with fireflies 
• Her favorite childhood memory which included reading as a child
• The small-town love story between her and her husband. 
• Her reaction to her son being diagnosed with cancer at almost age 2, your son. 
• She also discussed how Tyler's cancer diagnosis impacted her family. 
• The support system that rallied around her family during the challenging time of their lives. 
• How Tyler is doing now?
• We also discussed not serving God for the blessings but serving him for the love! 

First, I want to apologize for my lack of consistency with my podcast. I truly believe that being a podcaster is part of my purpose. I owe it to you and myself to be consistent with this journey.

The past few weeks have been discouraging. From buying a highly recommended microphone that I can't figure out how to get it to work with my computer. I am a technology person, but this one is throwing me for a loop. Also, I discuss dealing with discouragement by the low downloads. I am almost at 300 downloads, so I am not complaining. But, that with other issues have added to my discouragement. 

Additionally, navigating the editing. I am a techie person, but this has been discouraging as well.

I plan to be more consistent and I have 6 already pre-recorded purpose stories coming to you starting next week. I am  excited to share this journey with you all!

My Bio:

My name is Lola Sodunke. I am a doctoral student in a Psychology program. I believe that everyone, no matter the obstacle they face, can become a person of substance in life. On my podcast, Joy in Purpose, I discuss mental health and purpose. Sometimes, I invite guests to share their purpose stories.

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It does not work. When something bad happens to someone telling them that they didn't pray enough. They didn't visualize enough, it is OFFENSIVE!!!
Manifesting does not work!
Have you ever tried to manifest something and it didn't work? It might have worked sometimes, but it didn't work all the time.
Yes, that's proof that manifesting does not work!

Take a listen and message me on Instagram so that we can chat about it. LINK BELOW

This year has been tough. Many have lost their jobs. You might have been one of those individuals. In this episode, I discuss career transitions with my brother, Kenny Sodunke.  

Takeaways: 

• Your resume should tell a story. 
• Represent both your soft and hard skills on your resume. 
• Use Linkedin to connect with managers and employees in the companies you are applying to.  
• Be Confident. 
• Practice your interviewing skills with people that will provide you with constructive criticism. 

Kenny's Bio:

Kenny work as an Applications Analyst for Tyson Foods. He has been in the IT industry for almost three years now. He also runs a resume business on the side, which he started back in August 2020. He loves basketball, helping friends, making new adventures.

 Kenny's Info:

You are not alone. You are valuable, You are so valuable, and you are so loved. In this episode, Manyi Ebot shares her story of overcoming sexual abuse to becoming a Certified Trauma Recovery Coach. She shares how she changed her mindset and went from survivor to thrive.

Take a listen and enjoy the episode.

Manyi’s Bio:

Manyi Ebot is a servant of Jesus Christ, serving people and her purpose as a Wife, Mother of 4, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, Author of The Caged Giant: From victim through survivor to thriver.

Bukky Sodunke, a personal stylist discusses how developing a unique style can impact our mood and self-confidence.

Guest Bio:

In this episode, I will be sharing a story of a man who had a bright future, but his life took a different turn.

So, “Is Character more important than purpose?” This is a question you will have to answer for yourself. What are your weaknesses? What character flaws do you need to work on now so that it won’t become your “frailties” in the future.

I share John Edwards’s story not to mock him, but for us to learn a lesson from a portion of his life story. He has shared on other platforms how politics exposed his “frailties.”

If you already know his story, please still listen with an open mind because there are lessons I will point out from his story that might be new to you.

Your purpose can also expose your frailties if you don’t put it in the hands of God and work on it. I am not preaching about perfection. I am speaking about choosing to focus on your character as well as your purpose!