Practically on Purpose

For high-achieving humans learning to release expectation and embrace cultivate deeper meaning and purpose. Through honest reflections and soulful conversations, we'll explore how to release the pressure to perform and remember who you truly are. It's time to stop chasing the success story and step into your life. alliecanton.substack.com

Practically on Purpose is a business podcast hosted by Allie Canton, with 35 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Allie Canton hosts Practically on Purpose, a business show with 35 episodes published.

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  The Resume Game vs. Real Life

  Feb 24, 202638 minS0

  <p>What does it actually cost to take the road less traveled — and what do you get back?</p><p>In this episode, I sit down with my Amherst classmate Blake Murphey: liberal arts kid, former finance intern, and US Navy intelligence officer of 13 years. Blake's career reads like something out of a novel — aircraft carrier Intel cells in the Persian Gulf, supporting a SEAL Team deployment in East Africa, NATO in Sicily (yes, on the slopes of Mount Etna), the Pentagon, and now working alongside the people who literally defuse bombs for a living.</p><p>But what strikes me m...

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  Law Is For Smart People Who Don't Know What Else To Do

  Feb 10, 202642 minS0

  <p>Jordan Nahmias didn’t grow up dreaming of being an entertainment lawyer. He wanted to be an artist. But a professor suggested he write the LSAT, he did well, and suddenly he was on a track.</p><p>Once you’re on the track, it’s easy to mistake momentum for destiny.</p><p>“It is a well-worn groove,” he told me. “Once you’ve made the choice… the blinders are on.” </p><p>He continued, “Law is the thing that smart people do when they don’t know what to do.” OOF</p><p>For Jordan, there wasn’t one clean “I’m done” mom...

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  Start Being Heard

  Jan 27, 202643 minS0

  <p>A Harvard Law grad, negotiation expert, and author of Unlearning Silence, Elaine has spent the last decade teaching people how to have difficult conversations. But it wasn’t until she confronted her own self-silencing that the real work began.</p><p>We talk about how silence gets rewarded, how it gets internalized, and what it really means to reclaim voice.</p><p>Bio</p><p>Elaine Lin Hering is a speaker, facilitator, and former Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. She has worked on...

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  Where Is My Mind?

  Jan 20, 202612 minS0

  <p>On motherhood, meditation, science, psychedelics and spirituality. My brain used to be a steel trap. I negotiated multi-million dollar deals and tracked complex legal roadmaps in my head.These days, I can’t remember if I’ve put coffee in the coffee maker.At first I thought I was just “losing it.”But the more I learn about matrescence, psychedelics and the default mode network, the more I wonder if I’m not losing my mind so much as losing the illusion that it was ever mine.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss...

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  Work Is a Prism (Not a Cage)

  Jan 13, 202634 minS0

  <p>What if your job were less a grind and more a mirror, one that reflects your strengths, triggers, and patterns so you can grow on purpose? In this conversation with Erin Hinkle Robertson (fractional Chief People Officer; culture builder), we explore work as a practice of becoming. Erin discusses when she first she saw that work is a prism for self-knowledge.</p><p>We also get honest about America’s ruthless work culture, the “cult of Steve Jobs,” and how easy it is to lose yourself when identity fuses with output. Then we talk about how to step off the ha...

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