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What does it mean to truly belong? In this solo episode of Purpose For Life, Suzanne Roberts explores why we sometimes lose ourselves trying to find acceptance outside of us—and what becomes possible when we begin by belonging to ourselves first.

Through the powerful image of a healthy forest, Suzanne invites us to reconsider diversity, inclusion, and the shared roots that nourish the whole. What if our communities, teams, and organizations were places where every person mattered, every presence was welcomed, and everyone had the space to reach for the sun?

Belonging begins with reconnecting to our deepest selves: our values, our vision, and our purpose. From that place, we can become a contribution to something larger than ourselves and help create a more inclusive, connected, and life-giving world.

In this episode:

00:00 – What Does It Mean to Belong?
01:00 – Belonging to Yourself First
03:00 – The Wisdom of a Healthy Forest
05:00 – Creating Cultures of Inclusion
07:00 – Belonging to the Whole of Life
08:00 – Your Mission Statement for Belonging

Your invitation: Take a moment to write your own mission statement for belonging. What does it mean to belong to yourself, and how can that belonging become a contribution to others?

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In this episode of Purpose For Life, Suzanne Roberts sits down with entrepreneur and digital advertising strategist Crystal Johnson for a deeply honest conversation about betting on yourself, redefining success, and remembering why you started in the first place.

Crystal shares the story behind building her business after becoming a new mom, beginning with a desire to work remotely and eventually taking the frightening leap into entrepreneurship. She talks openly about the years that didn't look successful from the outside—including making $20,000 in her first two years, becoming a single mom for a period of time, and moving into her parents' basement with her son.

But Suzanne helps Crystal uncover something deeper: success wasn't one big moment. It was every decision along the way to keep believing in herself. Crystal's story becomes an invitation to stop measuring your life by someone else's timeline and to ask, What if I believed that this was possible for me, too?

The conversation then moves into motherhood, homeschooling, entrepreneurship, family, legacy, and what happens when the “why” behind our goals begins to evolve. Crystal shares why she is learning to build a business around the life she actually wants—not build a life around the business.

At the heart of this conversation is a powerful reminder: your dream may change, your path may change, and your definition of success may change—but you can keep coming back to what matters most.

Timestamps

00:00 – Crystal's Entrepreneurial Beginning
03:00 – Betting on Yourself
07:00 – When Success Doesn't Happen Overnight
11:00 – Why Not Me?
15:00 – Redefining What Success Really Means
19:00 – When Life Gives You a Different Perspective
23:00 – Realigning With Your Why
27:00 – Motherhood, Homeschooling & Purpose
31:00 – Building a Rich Life
34:00 – The Purpose For Life

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Crystal Johnson
Entrepreneur | Digital Advertising Strategist | Mother | Future Author
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In this month’s Wisdom Drop, Suzanne Roberts sits down with her dear friend Anne Santilli to explore a simple but profound invitation: you are already whole and holy.

Drawing from the Wisdom Deck connected to It’s Deeper Than That and The Great Reconnection, Suzanne and Anne explore what it means to return to the deeper self beneath the experiences, trauma, stories, and identities that can cause us to feel disconnected from who we truly are.

Anne shares how trauma and difficulty can create distance between who we are and who we believe we need to be, while Suzanne explores the deeper current of wholeness and holiness that is always within us. Together, they talk about meditation, writing, curiosity, trust, and the willingness to slow down enough to discover what has been there all along.

This conversation is not about becoming someone new. It is about discovering what is already within you—and learning to trust that it is safe to open the gift.

Let this Wisdom Drop wash over you, and ask yourself: What might I discover if I took the time to arrive inside myself?

Timestamps

00:00 – Welcome to the Wisdom Drop
01:15 – You Are Already Whole and Holy
03:00 – How Trauma Can Disconnect Us From Ourselves
05:15 – The Deeper Current Within
07:15 – Making Inner Discovery a Priority
09:30 – Learning to Trust Your Wholeness
12:00 – Wholeness as a Lifelong Journey
14:00 – Knowing It Within & Living It in the World
15:30 – Returning to Yourself

In This Wisdom Drop

• The meaning of being “whole and holy”
• Returning to yourself and your own belonging
• How trauma can create distance from our authentic selves
• Reconnecting with the innocence, curiosity, and playfulness we carried as children
• The deeper current of life within us
• Making inner discovery a priority
• Meditation and writing as practices for self-discovery
• Learning to trust our own wholeness
• Why healing and reconnection are lifelong processes
• Moving from knowing our deeper self internally to actually living from it
• Testing, experiencing, and discovering that our inner radiance is safe to explore

A Question for Reflection

What might you discover if you gave yourself permission to slow down, arrive inside yourself, and explore what is already whole within you?

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In this episode of Purpose For Life, Suzanne Roberts sits down with author and personal development expert Steve Linton to explore the powerful relationship between frequency, self-image, the subconscious mind, and the results we create in our lives.

Steve shares his journey from becoming homeless after college to discovering personal development and completely changing the way he thought about himself and his future. He explains why changing what's happening on the outside often begins with changing what's happening within.

Suzanne and Steve explore how our childhood programming can shape our self-image, why we have to honestly acknowledge where we are before we can get where we want to go, and how visualization, stillness, and intentional action can help us create a new internal reality.

Steve also shares a powerful lesson from nearly 30 years of skydiving: sometimes the thing we are most afraid of is nothing like the story we created in our minds.

At the heart of this conversation is an invitation to become more honest with ourselves, quiet the noise, and ask: What else could I do if I stopped believing the story that says I can't?

Timestamps:
00:00 – What Is the Frequency of Success?
03:00 – From Homelessness to Personal Development
05:30 – Self-Image & the Subconscious Mind
09:00 – Knowing Where You Are Before You Change
13:00 – Stillness & Reprogramming the Mind
17:00 – Why We Need More Stillness
21:00 – Fear, Flying & Skydiving
25:00 – The Stories We Create in Our Minds
27:00 – The Purpose for Life

Steve's Personal Story
Steve shares how he experienced homelessness after college when he couldn't find work as a pilot. His introduction to personal development changed the way he viewed himself and his circumstances, eventually leading him to explore how subconscious beliefs and self-image influence the results we experience.

The Skydiving Lesson
After nearly 30 years and more than 17,000 jumps, Steve uses skydiving as a metaphor for fear. People often create a story about what an experience will be like before they've ever experienced it. Once they actually take the leap, they discover that reality can be very different from the story in their mind.

A Question to Sit With
Where are you right now—and what story are you telling yourself about where you can go next?

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Author | Personal Development Speaker | Pilot | Professional Skydiver
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In this episode of Purpose For Life, Suzanne Roberts sits down with entrepreneur and author Vincent van den Broek for an extraordinary conversation about mindset, resilience, authenticity, action, and living without regret.

After being hit by a car in 2024 and spending weeks in a coma followed by months of rehabilitation, Vincent was told the odds were against him. But instead of allowing predictions about his recovery to define his future, he focused on what he could control: his actions. He began rebuilding the skills he had before the accident, one step at a time, and walked out of rehab far sooner than expected.

Vincent shares why “everything feels impossible until it’s done,” why we don't have to win every game to win the season, and how taking consistent action creates possibilities we cannot see yet. Suzanne and Vincent also explore authenticity, complacency, and the importance of leaving everything on the court—because the goal isn't necessarily to win every time, but to know you gave everything you had.

At the heart of this conversation is a powerful question: When you reach the end of your life, will you be able to say you did everything you wanted to do and said everything you wanted to say?

Timestamps
00:00 – Vincent’s Miracle
03:00 – From Coma to Recovery
05:30 – Mindset & Taking Action
08:00 – Everything Feels Impossible Until It’s Done
12:00 – The Power of Consistent Action
15:00 – Living Without Regret
18:00 – What Authenticity Really Means
21:00 – Leave Everything on the Court
24:00 – You Don’t Have to Win Every Game
27:00 – The Purpose for Life

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Vincent van den Broek
Entrepreneur | Author | Content Creator

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In this episode of Purpose For Life, Suzanne Roberts sits down with Dawn Elgin, founder of Practical Spiritualism, for a profound conversation about healing, surrender, safety, and coming home to the truth of who we are.

Dawn shares her extraordinary journey from a successful corporate career through multiple traumatic brain injuries and a seven-year process of recovery that ultimately led her toward coaching and practical spirituality. Together, Suzanne and Dawn explore why safety begins within ourselves, how presence can change the way we respond to life, and why the things we carry from our past can keep us from seeing our own potential.

Dawn introduces her powerful metaphor of the “room within”—the space we fill with experiences, beliefs, wounds, and stories until we begin to believe we are the room. The work, she says, is learning to release what no longer serves us so we can reconnect with the wholeness that was there all along.

At the heart of this conversation is a beautiful question: Who are you beneath your story?

Timestamps

00:00 – Welcome & Dawn’s Journey
03:49 – Trauma, Brain Injury & Surrender
06:45 – Discovering Practical Spiritualism
10:00 – What Does Spirituality Really Mean?
13:00 – Healing Begins With Safety
15:30 – The Breath & the Power of Presence
19:00 – The 12 Laws of Co-Creation
22:00 – Releasing What We Carry
24:00 – The Room Within You
27:30 – Discovering Your Pure Potential
28:30 – The Three Purposes for Life
29:00 – Closing

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Dawn Elgin
Founder of Practical Spiritualism
Creator of Field and Form: The 12 Laws of Co-Creation
Host of The Aligned Human Project

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In This Episode

• Dawn’s transition from the corporate world into coaching
• How multiple brain injuries changed the trajectory of her life
• Learning to surrender instead of control
• What “practical spiritualism” means
• Spirituality as a return to our own essence
• Why safety is essential to healing
• Radical self-responsibility
• Using the breath to return to presence
• The difference between vigilance and awareness
• Field and Form: The 12 Laws of Co-Creation
• Why “pause equals power”
• The weight of grudges, pain, and old stories
• Forgiving without forgetting
• Dawn’s journey through domestic violence and trauma
• The metaphor of “the room within”
• Releasing the experiences that obscure our potential
• The power of stillness
• Knowing, embodying, and helping others discover who they are

A Question to Sit With:
Who are you beneath your thoughts, emotions, experiences, and story?

Dawn’s answer to Suzanne’s purpose-for-life question offers three powerful invitations:

Know thyself.
Embody your truth.
Help others do the same.

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In this episode of Purpose For Life, Suzanne Roberts sits down with transformational coach Tongela Clark for a powerful conversation about the inner game, forgiveness, purpose, and discovering the champion within.

Tongela shares her remarkable journey from growing up in her great-grandmother's hair salon to building successful businesses and becoming a transformational coach working with athletes, entertainers, and leaders. She explains how her own "broken lines"—including shame around not having a college degree, family wounds, and unforgiveness—ultimately became the very places where she discovered her greatest strength.

Suzanne and Tongela explore why we can become so focused on our external performance that we lose connection with what's happening inside, how forgiveness can release the things holding us back, and why our pain doesn't have to define us. Instead, it can become a source of purpose, power, and transformation.

At the heart of the conversation is a simple but powerful invitation: do the inner work, forgive yourself, and don't be afraid to live the life you were called to live.

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Tongela Clark
Transformational Coach | Inner Game Coach
Email: pause@thesailorlifestyle.com
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