Carolyn Tate – The Purpose Project

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Carolyn Tate – The Purpose Project Carolyn Tate is an author, educator and community builder. She has written five books with her latest being The Purpose Project. (Her purpose is to write books that truly matter.) She is also an educator running workshops and speaking to groups about how to bring purpose to work and […]

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Carolyn Tate – The Purpose Project

Carolyn Tate is an author, educator and community builder. She has written five books with her latest being The Purpose Project. (Her purpose is to write books that truly matter.) She is also an educator running workshops and speaking to groups about how to bring purpose to work and at home as an antidote to some of the world’s woes. Carolyn Tate is also the founder of the Slow School of Business.

Ideas Architect Podcast

In this episode (#108) of the Ideas Architect Podcast, we talk with author Carolyn Tate about her journey from a corporate marketer, running her own marketing practice through her loss of faith in marketing. She then took a circuit breaker and a sojourn in France to work out her next move.

How to Write your Book

Carolyn Tate talks to us through her varied experience in writing her books and how each of her five books was written in very different ways. For one book she hibernated for four days in a country cabin, another was six weeks of slog each day, her third book was written a little bit each day over five months and her last two books were written in a mix of blitz and daily action.

The Importance of Purpose

Why is purpose such a hot topic right now? Carolyn suggests it because we can no longer rely on our leaders – corporate and political – to do what’s best for the majority of people. Thus we’re taking our own lives into our own hands and being responsible for what happens. It’s a message that is for individuals and organisations and a shift from profit and performance to meaning.

Are Passion and Purpose the same thing?

Carolyn shares her thoughts on Passion versus Purpose using a personal example. She suggests that purpose is that thing that we know we just have to do. For her, it’s writing her books. It’s the think you can not do and that’s always calling your name.

How do we find our Purpose?

The big question we all want to know is: How do we find our purpose? Carolyn suggests that we need curiosity to lead to our purpose. Too little curiosity turns us into a spectator in life. Whereas too much leaves us in danger of being a constant distraction and skimming the surface of many things. Ultimately, we need to be growing and learning to find our purpose

Podcast Show Notes
Contact Carolyn Tate

Carolyn Tate Website – Buy The Purpose Project Book
Slow School of Business

Resources We Mentioned

Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Todd Henry, Die Empty – blog post
Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning – Wikipedia

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Carolyn Tate and her books

Small Business, Big Brand
Marketing Your Small Business for Dummies
Unstuck in Provence
Conscious Marketing
The Purpose Project

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