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EP 18: When Tragedy Births Purpose, The #Sparked Life Podcast

May 22, 2020July 27, 2020 Dena Wiggins

When the unthinkable happens, we are built to respond in fight, flight, or freeze. Our bodies are wired to slow down, conserve energy, and limit our view to what is right in front of us. Remarkably, when tragedy happens, there are some Purpose Peeps who shift to evolve tragedy into some of the most purposeful action. Somehow they shift to see possibility in the middle of impossible grief.

As we are months into the world’s response to the COVID19 pandemic, many of us are experiencing the extreme stressors of the attack on human life as well as the painful requirements to reduce its impact. During this time, the ailments of our time are revealed in full view as the capacity of the world is too full and stretched to cover them.

During the last weeks, the world mourned with the family of Ahmaud Arbery as we watched the video of his murder amongst intense public outcry. Let me ask the question that is the elephant in the room, does the sparked life matter and exist within such difficult and challenging times? While the world is in survival mode, is thriving an option?

Thanks to a friend sharing his heartbreak about Ahmaud’s murder, I was reminded of a part of my purpose story, my family history, that is so painful I locked it away. Locked away with that pain and trauma is also the story of a family hero who in the face of indescribable pain, weaved an amazing story of love, purpose, and social advocacy.

I am thrilled that The #Sparked Life Podcast’s first interview format features a painfully complex and beautiful purpose story that will help us answer some of the big questions many have during this challenging time of history. Please open your hearts and hear a story of a tragedy that birthed purpose and societal change with Mr. Kenneth Barnes, Sr., Community Leader, Purpose Prize Fellow, Founder of Reaching Out to Others Together (ROOT Inc.) and father. Here how the unthinkable allowed him to coin the term, Chronic Traumatic Stress Disorder™ (CTSD) that built a platform for change in how we view and treat youth who are repeatedly traumatized by gun violence.

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Dena Wiggins is a Transformational Author, Consultant, Certified Purpose Coach & MBA. She takes an unwavering stand for your purpose. Dena unlocks purpose in sparked Purpose Peeps facilitating businesses and organizations to transform into lighthouses that shine solutions into the marketplace, no matter what. As a Purposed Resultant, she combines her experiences and passion for spark, purpose, and strategy to create impactful solutions that deliver your results that matter. Learn more about her Unlock The Keys To Your Success And Turn Them Into Results® programs and A Life of Purpose® Products that shift your sparks (or ahas) into action at www.denawiggins.com.

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What’s Going On From A Personal Purpose Perspective?

May 21, 2020May 22, 2020 Dena Wiggins

As we tune in around the world during this unprecedented time, let’s tune in to what’s going on with us individually as Purpose Peeps. Purpose Peeps enjoy living lives of intention and meaning, but what happens during a large amount of change when we are connecting the dots of our life to survive a major life event? Let’s have a real talk moment and unpack a lens or perspective into what is going on intimately within us.

There’s no shortage of impact and if-then scenarios given a spectrum of considerations–health, relationships, finances, community, basic needs, family–you name it, there is something to consider. From a purpose perspective, what is your assignment at this time?

The lens I offer is one focusing on being rather than what action to take. If in the middle of all the balls we are juggling, we can ground ourselves in what’s up for us, it may allow more capacity to respond rather than react.

In my small group, we had a What’s Going On mastermind and unlocked four types of purpose assignments based on what type of purpose clarity you are experiencing. Just focusing on the basics of inner and outer purpose clarity allows a window into what this event is revealing to you about you and your placement in the world beyond you.

Is your purpose assignment:

Cocooning
Reconnecting
Rebuilding
Guiding (First Responder)/Second Responder

This is a framework, a facilitation tool that allows you to organize your life experience in a way to manage the change and partner with it. This will not tell you the answer to what shifted but rather what type of shift you are experiencing. We have to travel the journey but at least we know what type of into me I see journey you are experiencing.

Check out the presentation below. Bookmark my COVID19 Support page or connect with me on social media @DenaForYourPurpose as we will continue to unlock more about the type of purpose assignment is available for you during this time. Let’s graduate together.

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EP: 17 Survival Is Not The Enemy, The #Sparked Life Podcast

April 14, 2020 Dena Wiggins

Purpose Peep,

Have you heard statements that pit surviving against thriving? Some sound like, “go from surviving to thriving.” I went so far in one of my tag lines to say, “end survival as a lifestyle to thrive in your life of purpose.” During my exploration of yes/and strategies, I heard the divide and could see another possibility.

Surviving and thriving are not at war with one another or at opposite ends of a spectrum. We are wired to kick into survival mode when needed and to return to our homestate when the danger is no longer present. The issue lies in staying in survival mode in a defensive posture, which can be problematic to thriving in life, which requires being open, vulnerable and available to our path to purpose journey and experiences.

I realized my desired outcome for myself and clients is not to end survival as a lifestyle but to transform survival as a lifestyle by letting it be just what it is–a temporary strategy. We are all living through temporary survival strategies as our response to the COVID19 pandemic. Life will shift as we live and heal through this experience.

I believe that as we co-create our new normal, what we learn and cultivate during this time will become the bedrock, the strong foundation, for what will come. In this episode, let’s unlock and face our survival patterns of old and hold them up to the light of now and who we are becoming as Purpose Peeps.

Listen here.

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Announcing The COVID19 Support Page

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Dena Wiggins

Being a light in the storm of major, transformational change is rooted in who we are as Purpose Peeps. Allow the storm to reveal our inner gifts and new ways to cooperate in times of complex considerations. Be a demonstration of possibility for those who will read the stories of our responses for years to come. For many who seek legacy, this is it. We are cocreating it now.

When reflecting on what is in my hands, my inner and physical resources that hold the most value and relevance, a blank web page with a purpose perspective is a powerful combination. Given my understanding of transformational change, with the level of disruption and the concerns, we hold as compassionate human beings who know every number is a person, our capacity to absorb is limited.

We actually increase in capacity by release. Release can mean:

Letting go of our plans and accepting what is,
Stop fighting what we can not control and embracing our new spheres of impact, and influence, and/or
Being vulnerable enough to admit what we do not know.

Release also happens when we let the masks fall. You know, the masks that allow us to blend and gain a level of acceptance. Masks take energy to keep up and energy and capacity are optimal inner resources to tap into creativity, ingenuity and resolve.

On this resource page, you will find free resources to support you, your family and circles of Purpose Peeps. We are in a unique time when we are collectively experiencing the same driver of change and call to action–as many Purpose Peeps coming through this viral experience (blog for another time) with their higher wisdom and inner resources to rebuild our lives. Consider:

Using the S/Hero’s Journey to unlock our journey to the rewards that we will bring to our rebuild (youth & adults),
Unlocking Being a Helper At This Time (younger Purpose Peeps),
Creative Resources to help us calm, regroup and express ourselves,
Thought leadership, resources, and conversations with members of the Global Purpose Leaders community
Wall of Inspiration

and more, which is updated continually.

Here’s a message from my heart!

Visit the COVID19 Support Page, bookmark it, check back, and share with other Purpose Peeps!

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EP 16: The #Sparked Life Podcast – The Elephant In The Room Of Your Sparked Life

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 Dena Wiggins

Purpose Peeps,

Many of us are experiencing an uninvited guest in our sparked life–it’s an elephant in the room! The more we try to ignore it, bypass it, positive think it, optimism it, or try to jump on its back and drive it out; it looks at us and enters another room in our lives.

COVID-19 is the Divine storm and its disruption is the elephant moving through the rooms of our lives. Daily we see rooms we thought were off-limits being entered. That signals the depth of shifts and changes required to weather this storm.

So how do we still live our sparked lives, now, while also being present to the Divine storm that brought the elephant in our rooms? We are learning our way through and being present for answers that are bubbling up. This episode shares a few that are popping up in our no BS zone!

Let’s unlock:

The nature of Divine storms
The purpose of elephants in our rooms
What Divine storms reveal
The importance of putting on our safety vests
How to tap into our sustaining factor
How our faith muscle is being strengthened

Purpose Peeps, no homework this time. We are all doing the work in adjusting our lives, hearts, and perspective as we weather this storm–together. What’s bubbling up for you? What sacred truths are you living out loud through this experience? How is your faith muscle being strengthened? Check out the episode on iTunes and other mediums.