The Purpose of Success

Ellis Ever After

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What is your purpose? Can you say with certainty what you are here to do? Without talking about your career or what makes you money? The Ellises and the crew talk purpose, passion and living well in this episode. Dead Ass.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.1	This is going to sound crazy, but there's no amount of money in the world you can make that will fulfill the purpose that God gave you.
0:12.8	Dead ass.
0:13.9	And I think as I get older, I realize now that my success is not indicative upon my career success.
0:23.3	Mm, that ass.
0:24.1	One, two, three.
0:26.1	It all started with real talk, unfiltered, honest, and straight from the heart.
0:30.3	Since then, we've gone on to become Webby Award-winning podcasters in New York Times, best-selling authors.
0:35.2	Dead ass was more than a podcast for us.
0:37.4	It was about our growth.
0:39.1	A place where we could be vulnerable, be raw.
0:41.6	Forge.
0:42.4	But most importantly, be us.
0:44.0	But as we know, life keeps evolving and so do we.
0:47.1	And through it all, one thing has never changed.
0:50.4	This is Ellis Ever After.
0:52.4	Dead ass.
0:53.3	Because we got a lot to talk about.
0:55.6	Storytime.
0:56.5	I'm going to take y'all back to a moment that 2015, 2015, I was a mentor, a football coach, a dad, a husband.
1:08.8	I was so many things.
1:10.0	I was also 31 at the time. I had booked national commercials.
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