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.

Hey there, Melissa here. So I am so excited that you are tuning in to the very first episode of Pursuit with Purpose. Now, I'm going to tell you

all about why I started this podcast, where the direction is going to go with the amazing guests that I

have lined up for you, and what I think this podcast is going to bring to your life.

But before we get into all of that, I want to share a story about really why I started

pursuit with purpose and where this idea stemmed from.

So to give you a little background about myself, I started my blog,

which at the time was called the Nexor Collective in 2013. Now, I also started a web design business

around the same time, and both of these things quickly took off. So I had my web design business

for a couple years. I had a lot of clients, was making good money.

But after a while, I decided that I wanted to pivot to something different. I wasn't feeling

excited about graphic design anymore. So I started teaching online courses. I'd been getting a

lot of questions from people who wanted to learn how to start their own business and coming from a teaching background

myself, it felt like a perfect fit. So in 2015, I started offering online courses for sale,

and those also began to take off. Now in 2016, so this is three years after starting my business

and about a year and a half after releasing my first online

course, we had our first million dollar year in sales. So things on the outside were looking good.

Our sales were growing. Our audience and tribe was increasing every day. And while all of the

success was unfolding, I realized that I felt out of alignment with my

true purpose. And I started chasing this rat race over my own identity. So I felt like I was

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