Welcome to the Awake with Jake Show.

I'm your host Jake Woodard and it is my mission to help you break through mental barriers,

gain clarity and awaken your heart so you can live more free and fulfilled.

My intention for this show is to create a safe container so you can heal, awaken, and transform your life.

What's going on, my soul family? Welcome back to another episode of the Awake with Jake show.

On today's episode, I'm going to be dropping in and sharing with you how to discover your life's purpose.

Now, the first thing I want to talk to you about is actually an interesting paradox because I

believe there's a huge cultural myth around having a life's purpose. And it puts a lot of

pressure on people to be a certain way, to discover your life's purpose.

And if you haven't discovered your life's purpose yet, then you're pretty much a failure.

Now, what I believed when I first started out in this work was totally different than what I believe now.

I had this idea that in order to be successful,

in order to help people, I had to be a millionaire. I had to have a huge social media following.

I had to be physically ripped. I had to have an amazing relationship and all these different things.

But my truth has evolved since then.

And I believe that our life's purpose comes through the healing and the awakening of ourselves.

When you start to truly embody your authentic self, your purpose discovers you. And I believe that we can have many

purposes throughout this life. And I believe also that our purpose is forever evolving. Because as we

expand our consciousness, as our soul continues to awaken, our purpose deepens, our sacred

mission deepens. And there's so much pressure in the spiritual community and in life to be

successful, to really be a somebody. And a lot of people spend pretty much their entire

lives developing their ego, overdeveloping their ego. And the reason why people overdeveloped

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