endorphasMIC
Join Erica each week as she delves deep into all things wellness, fitness, nutrition, entertainment, entrepreneurship, and spirituality. These intimate, deep, and often intense conversations go beyond the traditional podcast. They are designed to provoke, educate, inspire, and empower you to discover, uncover, unlock, and unleash your best, most authentic self.
To live. To feel alive. Because I can. Because I’m human. Because my humanity demands it! Movement. We weren’t wired this way by accident. Our physical and mental health is by design, dependent on movement. We are designed to feel good when we move because survival depends on movement. This was an obvious truth when hunting, gathering, and farming; our existence depended on our ability and desire to do survival tasks, so our bodies are chemically and hormonally designed to make us feel good when doing them. It is a much less obvious truth in modern society, but no less relevant. The endorphasm is the moment during movement you feel anything is possible. Clarity. This podcast is the exploration of movement as the foundation for a productive, fulfilling, rewarding, most excellent life.
endorphasMIC
Living a purpose-driven life
What does it mean to live an authentic life? Join me, Erica Porter, as I guide you through "Endorphasmic," a podcast dedicated to uncovering the essence of living boldly and embracing your true purpose. In this episode, I share personal stories and insights that challenge conventional thinking. We reflect on the inevitability of life's ups and downs and how they shape our journey, often revealing unexpected blessings. By examining the cycles of life—birth, maintenance, and death—we uncover the profound impact these stages have on our approach to living authentically. Prepare to be inspired to define success on your own terms and engage with life more fully.
Are you chasing temporary gratification or striving for true fulfillment? This episode emphasizes the importance of aligning your goals with your core values and prioritizing your character over popularity. We delve into the critical task of identifying your authentic goals and ensuring they resonate with your true self. It's time to be brave and pursue your true aspirations, not just what seems appealing in the moment. Tune in to discover practical strategies for living a purpose-driven life, filled with intention and meaning. Let's embark on this introspective journey together and take actionable steps toward becoming the best version of ourselves.
Welcome to Endorphasmic, where we talk about all things. Endorphasm. I am your hostess, erica Porter. Are you living your most authentic life? Are you embracing your purpose or avoiding it? Is this the story you want your future self to tell or do you long for something more? Welcome to this podcast. If you are just joining this, joining joining this, if you're just joining this podcast or joining us or listening to it for the first time. It's a podcast where I share stories, insights and philosophies that can be objectively understood and, if you choose, subjectively adopted, either by changing your reality or changing how you see it.
Speaker 1:I believe that this is a playbook based on my life adventures significant, enlightening, often humorous experiences, sometimes intentional, but mostly unintentional. I'm an optimist by nature and humor has been one of my greatest teachers. It has helped me cope with the complexities of humanity and life. I'm not perfect. I stumble often and recognize it when I do. I've just learned how to scrape off the mess and move forward, and we all stumble from time to time. We hit roadblocks, we make mistakes, we face setbacks, we get sick, miss out on what we want and encounter countless could-have-done-better moments and wish-that-I-hadn't-that-didn't-happen, that that didn't happen moments. Stumbling is inevitable, so let's either see it as a kind of good luck thing or figure out how to stumble less often.
Speaker 1:I've spent nearly 50 years navigating this life and I've experienced great success and epic failures and everything in between everything in between. But I've always taken the time to marvel, laugh and definitely learn. And, most importantly, I've learned how to have fun, achieve my goals and find meaning in life and, most importantly, with all of that, while being what I think is my authentic self, I believe that everything we do in life is part of a plan. Sometimes the plan unfolds as intended and sometimes it doesn't, and that's still part of the plan. There are no mistakes. There are no mistakes.
Speaker 1:The problems that we face today often turn into the blessings when viewed in hindsight. Hindsight is a teacher. If we allow it to be. Yesterday's failures, troubles and mistakes can lead to tomorrow's successes and victories. Destruction eventually leads to construction. Death leads to birth, pain leads to pleasure, in this life or the next. Whatever you believe, what goes down will in fact come up, and it all depends on how we perceive and engage with the challenges before us. Whether we persist, pivot or concede. The choice is always ours, every single time. That is a choice, and the sooner we shift from being awed by our life and accomplishments, career and relationships to actively engaging with them, the sooner we can achieve excellence. And part of that is just.
Speaker 1:I think that's why social media makes me kind of so angry sometimes. I love to utilize it and to catch up with people and communicate and obviously it makes running a business a lot easier, a business a lot easier. But I think that we have to really actively live our life and we have to aim higher than mere satisfaction with our circumstances. The truth is always around us, but often we miss it because we're not in the right mindset to recognize, understand it or embrace it. And the complexities of life encompass the end, which is death, the struggle to maintain, which are the crisis that we face in the beginning.
Speaker 1:Birth, whether it's a new baby, a new pet or any new chapter. These events profoundly shake our foundation, bringing clarity, reminding us of our mortality and, ultimately inspiring us to live, live, live. Remember we get an opportunity to live every single day. We only die once. So ultimately inspiring us to live more boldly and authentically. They prompt us to ask what matters and realize hopefully it all does.
Speaker 1:In the inevitable cycles of death and birth. We recognize our dual nature as both human and divine. We come to understand that our choices hold significance and that everything we do has purpose and meaning. It all matters and we all want to succeed. But we have to ask ourselves what does success mean to us? Is it more money, a healthy family, a happy marriage, helping others? Is it fame? Is it spiritual fulfillment? Is it expressing ourselves? Is it expressing ourselves creating art, living the world, living, leaving the world? Maybe living the world better than we found it?
Speaker 1:So we have to ask ourselves, ask yourself what is success to you? And keep reflecting on that question. And how do you measure prosperity? What defines your relevance? And your answers may very well change over time, and that's okay. But do yourself a favor Never choose a path that jeopardizes your soul. Prioritize who you are and who you want to be. Avoid anything that compromises your character. Don't get caught up in the allure of temporary gratification. It might be popular and sweet now, but I promise you it will cost you later. Life is not a popularity contest. You have to be brave and pursue your goals, but first you really have to identify what those goals truly are. So, with that, love, health and happiness, and always much respect.
