Welcome to Pursuit with Purpose.

I'm your host, Melissa Griffin, and I know firsthand that it's way too easy to slip into

the rat race of competition and comparison.

This podcast is all about meaning and fulfillment and how to bring it to your life today

and every day.

So let's get into it.

Hello, Pursuit with Purpose Tribe. So I'm going to be real with you. When I first met today's guest, Lori Harder, I never have assumed or thought that she

had struggled to find real friends in her life. And that's because on the outside,

Lori's life is about as perfect as they come. She has a massively successful fitness and

personal development business. She sells out her 500 person conference every single year. She lives

in a gorgeous house in Santa Monica, has a great husband who I also know, and she basically

looks like a supermodel. So it's easy to peg her as someone who hasn't struggled a day in her

life. But as a listener of this podcast, you already know that's never the truth. Now, I am so

grateful for friends like Lori, people who grew up in abusive households, who felt like

they never fit in, and who spent much of their lives feeling worthless and unlovable, and yet

have transformed their pain into something beautiful and are now on a mission to heal others from

their own pain, too.

Now, in this interview, Lori and I chat about things like

what it was like for her growing up in a very restrictive religion, being teased for her weight

as a kid, and feeling misunderstood for the first few decades of her life. Now, we also

dive into the concepts of her new book, A tribe called Bliss, which is all about finding and creating

a deeply connected circle of friends. And this conversation is for anyone who wants to get rid of

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