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Welcome to destined for success. I'm your
Jennifer Takagi:host Jennifer Takagi and it's PATA Palooza, de I'm so excited
Jennifer Takagi:to meet so many people, I may not have had opportunities to
Jennifer Takagi:meet otherwise. And this guest is going to delight as well.
Jennifer Takagi:Grace Obon isn't from Canada. And Grace has several talk
Jennifer Takagi:titles. I believe she's going to talk to us about living on
Jennifer Takagi:purpose. Grace, welcome to the show. And tell us a little bit
Jennifer Takagi:about you.
Grace Oben:Well, thank you so much, Jennifer, for having me
Grace Oben:here. I am so trill it's such an honor to be here today to share
Grace Oben:a few thoughts with your audience. And yeah, poppers. I
Grace Oben:am just so in love with poppers because I believe that every one
Grace Oben:of us was born into this world for a purpose and with a
Grace Oben:purpose. You know, and I also assist I'm a strong believer
Grace Oben:that true fulfillment in life is when you find your purpose and
Grace Oben:start living your purpose. And your purpose you can find
Grace Oben:purpose in your job you can find purpose in your business, you
Grace Oben:can find purpose in your career, is that it's that one thing that
Grace Oben:when you find in whatever you do, or if it's completely
Grace Oben:separate from what you do, you find true fulfillment. And that
Grace Oben:is why I decided to be a purpose clarity coach. And the reason
Grace Oben:why is because I was just in pursuit of my own purpose,
Grace Oben:because haven't worked in the corporate world war in work in
Grace Oben:mental health and all these things. It got to a point in my
Grace Oben:life where I just want to define a who am I? And why am I here?
Grace Oben:On this earth? What am I doing here? And this triggered the
Grace Oben:desire for me to start searching and looking and asking
Grace Oben:questions. And in the process of all of these, I discovered my
Grace Oben:own purpose. I speak, I am a coach, I'm a speaker. I'm an
Grace Oben:author. And in my speaking in my talks, I help people find
Grace Oben:transformation. They find comfort, they find inspiration.
Grace Oben:They find success in whatever they choose to do. Because I
Grace Oben:help them with their mindset and all those things. That's my
Grace Oben:purpose, helping other people find their true self find,
Grace Oben:getting to know who they are, and why have a year in this
Grace Oben:world to begin with. You know, so that is how I began, I began
Grace Oben:doing what I'm doing, helping women, I decided to work more
Grace Oben:with women. Because as a woman myself, I understand this,
Grace Oben:everyday struggles that women go through. I understand those
Grace Oben:turns those stop lights, those speed bonds as a woman. So
Grace Oben:working with women gives me put me in that place where I'm just
Grace Oben:me, I'm just my true self. And I always say to people, life
Grace Oben:without purpose is just an experiment. It's just a game of
Grace Oben:trial and error.
Jennifer Takagi:I love that and experiment, a game of trial and
Jennifer Takagi:error. If you see me put my head down, it's because I'm taking
Jennifer Takagi:notes
Grace Oben:of that. So
Jennifer Takagi:how, like, I love this topic. And I you know,
Jennifer Takagi:we find our purpose we tweak it, we turn it how we live, our
Jennifer Takagi:purpose can change over time. And as we grow and evolve. How
Jennifer Takagi:do you work with people to get to this point? Is a group
Jennifer Takagi:experience a one on one experience? Like how do you how
Jennifer Takagi:do you do your magic?
Grace Oben:At this at this point, I do one on one, okay?
Grace Oben:Because that really gives me the opportunity to really be present
Grace Oben:for that person at that moment. Because, indeed, as individual
Grace Oben:we all have a completely different journey. My journey,
Grace Oben:Jennifer is not your journey. Right? My journey is not someone
Grace Oben:else's journey. So the one on one really gives me the
Grace Oben:opportunity to really get to know the person I'm working
Grace Oben:with, they get to really know me. And we really get to talk
Grace Oben:and work in a way that is all centered around them their need
Grace Oben:their journey, where they are at this current moment. At this
Grace Oben:present moment, and where the wants to go. So at this point, I
Grace Oben:do one on one, I love doing one on one.
Jennifer Takagi:I do too. I do some things in group, which I
Jennifer Takagi:enjoy a lot. But having that one on one conversation and diving a
Jennifer Takagi:little deeper and getting to that, to that next level, that
Jennifer Takagi:next piece of the puzzle that we need. So how did you like you
Jennifer Takagi:were in corporate, you said you were in corporate? I have you
Jennifer Takagi:left corporate altogether now.
Grace Oben:Not completely. Okay. Not. So I am still in
Grace Oben:corporate, because again, in that work, there is my purpose,
Grace Oben:I'm still carrying out my purpose there. Which is why I
Grace Oben:said, when most of the time people think, oh, to discover my
Grace Oben:purpose, I have to complete my purpose might be completely
Grace Oben:different from what I'm doing, it's possible. But there's also
Grace Oben:a chance that where you currently are, that is where
Grace Oben:your purpose is that onto you get to know that that career,
Grace Oben:that profession, that job is for a purpose, you will not really
Grace Oben:start doing that job with intention, you'll be there like
Grace Oben:I show up, I do my job, job by the end of the month, or the
Grace Oben:whatever the the payment period is, I get my paycheck, that's
Grace Oben:it, I'm good. The way you start working on purpose to living
Grace Oben:your purpose, even within your career, even within your
Grace Oben:business, then you will find a different joy and happiness and
Grace Oben:fulfillment, that you're not just, you know, I said, in
Grace Oben:pursuing purpose while creating abundance, you are still living
Grace Oben:a life in abundance, while fulfilling your purpose is not
Grace Oben:just a business, as usual, is a business with a purpose. And
Grace Oben:this is it's amazing how much difference that does to a
Grace Oben:person.
Jennifer Takagi:It really does. I had a conversation years ago
Jennifer Takagi:with somebody and I was using the term like values, which
Jennifer Takagi:values and purpose, you know, you can align those typically.
Jennifer Takagi:And I worked for the federal government and I said, I am a
Jennifer Takagi:giver. And I have like a servant heart. And so helping low income
Jennifer Takagi:people call to me, and it fulfilled a lot. And I wanted a
Jennifer Takagi:steady paycheck steady, you know, steady jobs, steady
Jennifer Takagi:paycheck. And so for me that just went very well together.
Jennifer Takagi:And I just remember this conversation so distinctly, my
Jennifer Takagi:friend said, Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't do any of that.
Jennifer Takagi:And at that time, he worked for a company and designed speakers.
Jennifer Takagi:He was an engineer, and design speakers for like big
Jennifer Takagi:auditoriums and like conference centers. And it was like, Oh, my
Jennifer Takagi:gosh, you impact so many lives with what you do. Because people
Jennifer Takagi:can hear the message. People can hear the music, like whatever,
Jennifer Takagi:whatever kind of event that there's any sound with. So it
Jennifer Takagi:was kind of interesting that it hit me at that point at that
Jennifer Takagi:time in that conversation, that people just put blinders on and
Jennifer Takagi:just go through the motions without finding why it's
Jennifer Takagi:important, or why they get any joy, or I don't know, sense of
Jennifer Takagi:purpose out of what they do. Like I know, in my 30 year
Jennifer Takagi:career in housing, I impacted hundreds if not 1000s of lives,
Jennifer Takagi:it could have been hundreds of 1000s given some special
Jennifer Takagi:projects I was on. And I liked that I liked that feeling. I
Jennifer Takagi:liked that. That sense of accomplishment and that I made a
Jennifer Takagi:difference in that area in my life. So I love that. Yeah,
Jennifer Takagi:you're still in your corporate world. But yeah, you're also
Jennifer Takagi:helping people outside of that and probably within it also.
Grace Oben:Absolutely. Because the difference between the
Grace Oben:person who finds purpose in what they do, and the person who
Grace Oben:doesn't, is how they show up every day. Right, it's how they
Grace Oben:show up. That's that's what makes the difference. So which
Grace Oben:is why it's so important that we really find that purpose in what
Grace Oben:we do. Because then it's gonna show up in the way we show up
Grace Oben:and we serve the people we serve the people. Another person's
Grace Oben:purpose might be speaking like I speak, when I speak, I call as
Grace Oben:speaking or the stage is my playground. Yes, it's like it's
Grace Oben:like you play your your most favourite game in the most
Grace Oben:favorite, a playground, but another person getting on that
Grace Oben:stage is a nightmare or I just need to get in and do my talk
Grace Oben:and get off and cash my check and leave. You see the
Grace Oben:difference between the best
Jennifer Takagi:both today actually on odd PATA palooza? I
Jennifer Takagi:was fortunate enough to grab a speaker spot. And I talked to
Jennifer Takagi:him for this morning and I said, Yeah, or yesterday, actually, I
Jennifer Takagi:said, Yeah, I'm tied up all day tomorrow because I'm going to be
Jennifer Takagi:on PATA palooza. I've got to give a talk. And I'm
Jennifer Takagi:interviewing people. So don't call me I'm busy. And she was
Jennifer Takagi:like, Oh, you have to give a talk. Because it ready? Are you
Jennifer Takagi:okay? Like she was freaking out for me. And I'm like, I'm with
Jennifer Takagi:you know, it's a playground. It was like, oh, no, I'm sure it
Jennifer Takagi:will be fun. What feels good to plan does not feel good to
Jennifer Takagi:another. Yeah,
Grace Oben:I can be on stage from morning till night. And I
Grace Oben:will like, every time I get on that stage, my energy just keep
Grace Oben:going up. Because that's my purpose.
Jennifer Takagi:So right now, other than I had a client call,
Jennifer Takagi:so I hopped off for 30 minutes to have actually a one on one
Jennifer Takagi:call with somebody. But what right now I've been on for eight
Jennifer Takagi:hours and 10 minutes, and we've got like an hour and 20 minutes
Jennifer Takagi:to go. At least, that's when the wrap up starts is an hour and 20
Jennifer Takagi:minutes. So not everybody can This is not for everyone. But
Jennifer Takagi:there are a lot of things we don't enjoy doing that other
Jennifer Takagi:people are like, please sign me up.
Grace Oben:Absolutely. But me somewhere to collect data as a
Grace Oben:just because I would like you to do, what are you doing to me,
Grace Oben:but put me on this page to make a difference in people's life.
Grace Oben:Put me with their client one on one, to coach them on their
Grace Oben:journey in pursuit of their purpose. Put me in a room packed
Grace Oben:of packed with women having a workshop on how they can find a
Grace Oben:gift, their potential, how they can tell them who they are, and
Grace Oben:how much the wall needs them. Because they are a complete
Grace Oben:package. I can do that. From morning to night, seven days a
Grace Oben:week without drinking water. And I'll be just fine.
Jennifer Takagi:And you're totally fed inside now. So can
Jennifer Takagi:you I mean, this is a lot of great information. I'm super
Jennifer Takagi:excitable about all of this. Can you share with the audience, one
Jennifer Takagi:thing they can do to see if they're living their purpose or
Jennifer Takagi:to tap into it? Because I have found with people in my life.
Jennifer Takagi:They were doing a job they liked but at some point, it became
Jennifer Takagi:mundane. And I think that's because they didn't see the
Jennifer Takagi:purpose in it. Do you have any tips or tricks or strategies for
Jennifer Takagi:someone to identify that purpose?
Grace Oben:I always I always say to people like what are your
Grace Oben:talents? What lights you up? What is that thing that if you
Grace Oben:were to do your entire life, you wake up every day refreshed,
Grace Oben:rejuvenated, looking forward to the next day. What is the thing
Grace Oben:that gives you so much joy? Is it just standing in front of
Grace Oben:Walmart and greet every customer that comes in and goes out and
Grace Oben:say Have a great day? What is that thing? Is it creating a
Grace Oben:women's group and spending time with women? What is that thing
Grace Oben:that when you think of it that if I were to be doing this
Grace Oben:thing, gosh, I just want to do it nonstop. What is that thing
Grace Oben:if you can find that thing because it has to come from the
Grace Oben:inside, not from the outside outside, if you can find that
Grace Oben:thing and it could be multiple things. But if you can find that
Grace Oben:pain, there you are on your way to really finding out what your
Grace Oben:purpose truly is. And if it is in your job one aspect of your
Grace Oben:job that you so enjoy do it or you can just stop doing it that
Grace Oben:will make you sometimes neglect the other responsibilities or
Grace Oben:duties because that just that might just be what you just need
Grace Oben:to do. that may just be where your purposes. And if what
Grace Oben:you're doing others just absolutely nothing that really
Grace Oben:excites you that you just show up because you need that
Grace Oben:paycheck, you just want that paycheck, then my question to
Grace Oben:you is, how long are you going to live like that? How long, you
Grace Oben:know, people say, life is too short to be doing what you don't
Grace Oben:love doing, or what you don't enjoy doing. I say, life is too
Grace Oben:long to be doing something that you don't love doing. Because
Grace Oben:then one day is like a month to you. So that's where I always
Grace Oben:encourage people to start. And if what you're doing, you don't
Grace Oben:find any of these, maybe you have to start creating a time
Grace Oben:where you just spend time alone, to just search within you really
Grace Oben:start searching from the inside and start asking yourself some
Grace Oben:questions. Because it's there, Jennifer, it's right there.
Grace Oben:Every one of us have it. Not one person came into this world
Grace Oben:without a purpose. And for no purpose. It's there that we need
Grace Oben:to search. And once we start searching, we will definitely
Grace Oben:find it.
Jennifer Takagi:I love that. And I have coached with people
Jennifer Takagi:and they might have had that job that they were just doing for a
Jennifer Takagi:paycheck. And sometimes it becomes I need the paycheck, I
Jennifer Takagi:need the benefits because I have flexibility with my children.
Jennifer Takagi:And I need the vacation time, the insurance, all the things
Jennifer Takagi:and I'm paid really well. Well, that can fulfill some of your
Jennifer Takagi:values to provide for your family, right. But then you
Jennifer Takagi:better be doing something on the side, on the nights and the
Jennifer Takagi:weekends that really light you up. Because I'm with you. It's
Jennifer Takagi:not sustainable. If you're doing it Monday through Friday, eight
Jennifer Takagi:to five, and you get no joy out of it. So you better be getting
Jennifer Takagi:some benefits that make it worthwhile. And you better
Jennifer Takagi:solidly something on the slide.
Grace Oben:That fills. Absolutely. And the question is,
Grace Oben:yeah, it takes care of all those other things. But how does that
Grace Oben:come out? When your child does something that annoys you? How
Grace Oben:do you react? Because it show comes out somehow or
Grace Oben:unconsciously it shows it shows up. However, pursuing purpose is
Grace Oben:by no way sacrificing abundance, there is abundance in purpose.
Grace Oben:It's like a mango seed. There is the mango tree in that mango
Grace Oben:seed. And there are mango fruit in that mango tree or that seed.
Grace Oben:It's all in there. Now you look at it. It's like a seed, it's
Grace Oben:nothing What would this do, but put it in the ground. You're
Grace Oben:going to have a tree that is going to be fruits upon fruits
Grace Oben:of mangoes. So when people think of pop was a thing, I'm going to
Grace Oben:sacrifice all of these to pursue this. In that purpose. There is
Grace Oben:joy, there is happiness, there is revitalized health, there is
Grace Oben:peace, there is fame, there's affluence and influence. There
Grace Oben:is abundance, there is wealth, there is riches, there is limit,
Grace Oben:there's beauty, there's good slip, there's laughter, there's
Grace Oben:fun, everything. It's a seed that comes with all its
Grace Oben:provision. Everything is in there.
Jennifer Takagi:And I think one of the best ways to get to what
Jennifer Takagi:your purpose is, is to take time to be still.
Grace Oben:Absolutely, absolutely shut out all the
Grace Oben:noise of everything and just the still. I love a long time taking
Grace Oben:time all by myself and just reflect and have that
Grace Oben:conversation with myself. It's one of the things that I don't
Grace Oben:give it up for any thing else. Everything has its place,
Grace Oben:hanging out with my friends, having that party hanging out
Grace Oben:with my husband doing stuff with my daughter. Everything has it
Grace Oben:plays that from time to time we need to step back and have that
Grace Oben:time alone. And just to that have that self reflection that
Grace Oben:have that conversation session with ourself. It's so important.
Jennifer Takagi:It's what we have to do. So if someone wants
Jennifer Takagi:to get ahold of you to find out more about your one on one
Jennifer Takagi:coaching, how would they reach out to you?
Grace Oben:So they just need to go to WWE dot Providence
Grace Oben:guide.com Providence guide.com
Jennifer Takagi:I love that. So I will have that in the show
Jennifer Takagi:notes so people can reach out to you because I think you have a
Jennifer Takagi:really magical sense about you and commitment to this whole
Jennifer Takagi:idea of purpose and living out our purpose. I appreciate you so
Jennifer Takagi:much.
Grace Oben:Absolutely. Just reach out to me and let's begin
Grace Oben:the treasure second together.
Jennifer Takagi:Oh, the treasure seeking. I love that.
Jennifer Takagi:Let's go to treasure hunt. Thank you, Grace. I appreciate your
Jennifer Takagi:time today.
Grace Oben:Absolutely. Thanks, Jennifer. It was an honor. It's
Grace Oben:a pleasure.
Jennifer Takagi:I'm Jennifer Takagi and I look forward to
Jennifer Takagi:connecting with you soon.
