#230: Paula Faris—Three Keys to Uncovering Your Purpose and Finding Meaning in Life
The StoryBrand Podcast
StoryBrand.com
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Have you ever found yourself feeling a bit...meh.. about your career trajectory? You're proud of what you've accomplished, and you should be. But you just can't shake the fact that you feel unfulfilled and that there's got to be more to life...
It wasn't too long ago when Good Morning America news anchor, Paula Faris, found herself in the same rut. So she decided to change things. She quit her job and completely re-engineered her life to discover her true purpose. What some might have thought was a drastic move, Paula knew was right. On this week's episode, she shares her journey of finding a career that aligned with her purpose and offers practical tools to help you clear out the clutter and find meaning in life.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Before we get started I want to say something very controversial and that is that there is a number floating above your head. |
| 0:07.6 | Right now there is a number floating above your head. |
| 0:10.8 | It's a representation of what you are worth as a professional on the |
| 0:14.6 | open market. Isn't that an offensive thing to say that you have an economic value on the |
| 0:19.9 | open market but you know what I believe it? now I don't believe that God sees you as |
| 0:24.3 | anything but priceless I certainly don't see you as anything but priceless your |
| 0:27.5 | parents don't your kids don't your spouse see you as priceless but the market |
| 0:32.2 | puts a value on you. If you are able to drop some french fries into some |
| 0:36.1 | grease for three minutes and pull them out and you have no other skill set, you're worth |
| 0:38.8 | about 12 bucks an hour. But if you can actually lead and manage a team, you worth about 25 bucks an hour if you can create a sales funnel |
| 0:46.0 | You're worth about 40 or 50 bucks an hour if you understand how a business really works and know how to keep it profitable and keep it from crashing. |
| 0:53.6 | You know how each piece of the business interacts with each other piece? |
| 0:57.1 | You actually have the skill set of a CEO. |
| 0:59.0 | You might be worth hundreds of not thousands of dollars an hour. Here's the big paradigm shift. That number that really if not |
| 1:03.4 | thousands of dollars an hour. Here's the big paradigm shift. That number that really is floating above your head. You can change it. You can actually make it grow. You can become worth much more tomorrow than you are today. |
| 1:13.0 | And it's not by going back to college. |
| 1:15.0 | The reality is, when you went to business school, |
| 1:17.0 | you actually didn't learn a whole lot that made you more valuable. |
| 1:21.0 | And if you did learn something, you likely don't remember it because you were |
| 1:24.2 | macro learning, you were sitting in lectures for hours and then reading entire books, and you |
| 1:29.6 | were not applying that |
| 1:35.0 | day to day. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from StoryBrand.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of StoryBrand.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.