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Why Purpose Matters More Than Titles – Exclusive Interview With Prof. Dr. Parin Somani

Prof. Dr. Parin Somani has built her work around a belief that achievement carries its greatest value when it creates opportunities for others. Across education, leadership, humanitarian initiatives, and global skills development, her focus remains firmly rooted in contribution and meaningful impact.


This conversation explores the thinking behind that mission, from the role of self-belief and purpose-driven leadership to the lessons that come from working across cultures and communities. It also looks ahead, examining how education, human skills, and the London Organisation of Skills Development are responding to a changing world of work and preparing people not simply to succeed but to create lasting impact.

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How Chasing Rejection Could Change Your Life

What if the thing you’re most afraid of hearing could become the thing that changes your life? Do you ever hold yourself back from pursuing something you want to do because you’re scared? Maybe it is the fear...

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Why You Keep Losing Your Flow State – 9 Ways to Find Your Way Back

You know the feeling. The work moves through you, time disappears, and everything you touch seems to click. Then a notification lands, a doubt creeps in, or the day simply gets loud, and the feeling...

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Is Your Manager Toxic, or Is It Your Workplace?

Workplace conflict is not always as simple as identifying one difficult manager. Sometimes the behavior employees experience is shaped by deeper organizational pressures, unclear structures...

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Why You Hold Yourself Back and 7 Steps to Speak Up and Be Seen

You write a post, then delete it. You have something to say in a meeting but wait until the conversation moves on. Someone praises your work, and you reply, “It was nothing.” You may want to grow while feeling...

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Why Are Women So Exhausted? The Hidden Mental Load of Being Everything to Everyone

You can have a full night’s sleep and still wake up exhausted. Not because you didn’t sleep. Because your brain never really clocked out. You’re thinking about the meeting at 10, the groceries you...

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Don’t Ask a Survival Brain to Make Life-Changing Decisions

Some of the biggest decisions of our lives can arrive at precisely the moment we feel least equipped to make them. After betrayal, trauma, or sudden life disruption, there can be enormous...

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"A soulful wellness business still needs to be a sustainable business. Purpose and profitability were never meant to be enemies."

When Your Values No Longer Fit and What Misalignment Can Reveal

Values alignment at work is easy to talk about when things are going well. It becomes much more revealing when what matters to you begins to conflict with what you experience around you. In this...

Staying One Step Ahead of AI

I asked a student this while coaching him through a research paper. Like many students, he had taken key points straight from AI without questioning them. My question stopped him and prompted a...

The Loneliness of Being Easy to Love

You are sitting opposite someone who genuinely cares about you. They ask how you are. You say you're good. You listen to their stories, laugh at the right moments, offer reassurance, make space for whatever...

Why Wait Until Forty to Heal What We Could Prevent and the Case for Emotional Immunity in Childhood

Almost every therapy session, a familiar scene plays out. A high-achieving woman in her forties sits across from me. She has a respected career, a beautiful home, and every external marker of...

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The Marriage Ended. Their Business Didn't - Brainz Podcast with Susan Griffin-Black and Brad Black

Susan Griffin-Black and Brad Black, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of EO Products, join the Brainz Magazine podcast to share how they continued to lead their business and raise a family together after their divorce.

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