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Practically on Purpose
by Allie Canton
For high-achieving humans learning to release expectation and embrace cultivate deeper meaning and purpose. Through honest reflections and soulful conversations, we'll explore how to release the pressure to perform and remember who you truly are. It's time to stop chasing the success story and step into your life. alliecanton.substack.com
Episodes
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The Resume Game vs. Real Life
What does it actually cost to take the road less traveled — and what do you get back? In this episode, I sit down with my Amherst classmate Blake Murphey: liberal arts kid, former finance intern, and US Navy intelligence officer of 13 years. Blake's career reads like something out of a novel —...
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Law Is For Smart People Who Don't Know What Else To Do
Jordan Nahmias didn’t grow up dreaming of being an entertainment lawyer. He wanted to be an artist. But a professor suggested he write the LSAT, he did well, and suddenly he was on a track. Once you’re on the track, it’s easy to mistake momentum for destiny. “It is a well-worn groove,” he told…
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Start Being Heard
A Harvard Law grad, negotiation expert, and author of Unlearning Silence, Elaine has spent the last decade teaching people how to have difficult conversations. But it wasn’t until she confronted her own self-silencing that the real work began. We talk about how silence gets rewarded, how it gets...
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Where Is My Mind?
On motherhood, meditation, science, psychedelics and spirituality. My brain used to be a steel trap. I negotiated multi-million dollar deals and tracked complex legal roadmaps in my head.These days, I can’t remember if I’ve put coffee in the coffee maker.At first I thought I was just “losing...
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Work Is a Prism (Not a Cage)
What if your job were less a grind and more a mirror, one that reflects your strengths, triggers, and patterns so you can grow on purpose? In this conversation with Erin Hinkle Robertson (fractional Chief People Officer; culture builder), we explore work as a practice of becoming. Erin discusses...
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From NYC Grind to Full-Body Freedom: Catherine Boyko’s Wake-Up Call
My next guest is someone who used to speed-walk through Manhattan like it was an Olympic sport, turn a six-month project around in twenty-eight days, and secretly love the chaos because it proved she could do the impossible. Sound familiar? Meet Catherine Boyko, a former executive producer at one...
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The Parable of the Pillow People
Guys, it finally happened. The sleep, I mean. Knock on wood, but I’m sleeping again. I was getting to the point where my brain resembled the crumbling ruins of some once-majestic estate, like whatever moldy manor was in Great Expectations or Wuthering Heights. I don’t actually remember much about...
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10-Minute Reiki Meditation to Receive & Release
Feeling wired, tense, or caught in a loop of overthinking? This 10-minute Reiki-infused meditation is designed to help you receive exactly what you need and release what you’re ready to let go of. In this gentle practice, we’ll: Take three grounding breaths to land in the present moment Tune into...
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Dance Out Your Demons
Now that we’re in the throes of the holiday season, I’ve been thinking about what it actually means to be festive. This contemplation started for me a few months ago when I was listening to The Emerald (a must-listen podcast on myth & meaning, btw). Josh Schrei was talking about festivals,...
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Illuminate & Release: Clear Mental Clutter in 26 Minutes (Guided Meditation)
Feeling mentally cluttered or stuck in rumination? This guided practice blends a soothing body scan with a simple “golden light” breath visualization to clear the fog fast.We’ll begin with a gentle body scan: softening your forehead, relaxing your shoulders, and inviting your whole body to…
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Stop Pretending to Care: How to Drop the Grind and Claim Your Own "Pathless Path" with Paul Millerd
Paul Millerd and his book the Pathless Path found me in a moment where I was deeply lost, professionally and personally. Through his writing, I went from believing that work had to be tedious misery on an established path to prestige (hence being a grindy lawyer) to viewing it as a series of...
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Revenge of the Pillow People
I’m able to provide my children with food, shelter, and clothing. So I consider myself lucky that the first hunger I noticed in my five-year-old son was material, not physical. He came home the other day asking if I’d buy him a Labubu. Naturally, I had no idea what that was. (If you’re living…
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Are the Dollars Really Worth the Days? – Kate Kruizenga on Measuring What Matters Most
Fractional CPO Kate Kruizenga joins me to swap 9:9:6 math for a more human ledger, one a mentor summed up as “dollars and days.” We trace her arc from Kaiser and Dropbox to startup whiplash, a deliberate pause, and the “recklessly generous” strategy that reoriented her business (and doubled her...
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The Direct Path to Happiness: Scott Britton on Turning Achievement into Spiritual Growth
Scott Britton did all the things our culture promises will deliver joy – Princeton athlete, hot-shot founder, splashy lists, big outcomes – and still found himself tightening, agitated, and wondering why the summit felt so empty. Scott became a consciousness explorer, first through a doorway of...
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Follow Your Side Quests: Errol King on Living with Infinite Purpose
In today’s episode, I sit down with a bona-fide modern Renaissance man: Errol King—ex-Google creative technologist, game designer, Tai Chi devotee, and co-founder of the world-building studio Innergalactic.xyz. We explore: * how growing up the son of a Bronx corrections officer turned him into an...
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Whole Body Listening in Nature: A 35 Minute Meditation
Sometimes all we need to do is take a pause and remember that we have bodies. This episode is a guided meditation practice, recorded live outside in the Hudson Valley with birdsong and natural sounds as your backdrop. We begin with three simple breaths, then move through a body scan to release...
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Build a Village Where You Live: Sami Packard on Designing Thriving Families
What happens when you bring design thinking, off-sites, sticky notes and strategy maps into your marriage and parenting life? Meet Sami Packard — designer, organizational change pro, and founder of Coupledom. Sami grew up without a roadmap for partnership. When she married in 2016 and became a...
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Melt Into Presence: a 37 Minute Grounding Meditation
This gentle, grounding meditation invites you to release tension, reconnect with your body, and rest in the awareness of being breathed. We begin with three deep breaths to soften the mind and melt away surface stress, then move slowly through a body scan. We’ll pause to notice and relax each…
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Leave Before You’re Ready: Sravanti Balaji on What Tech, Twins, and Protein Bars Teach About Purpose
What happens when you follow all the “right steps” — study hard, land your dream tech jobs at Uber and Loom, rise into leadership — and then realize the ladder you’re climbing starts to feel like a trap? That’s exactly where my guest today, Sravanti Balaji, found herself. She had done everything...
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The Statusless Life: Jordan Call on Fatherhood, Faith and Life Beyond Gold Stars
As a kid, Jordan Call wasn’t measuring himself against classmates, he was aiming at history. At ten, he was composing. By fourteen, he was semi-horrified he wasn’t already Mozart. He eventually pointed that restless ambition toward the law: University of Chicago Law School. Elite clerkships....
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Mothering Spirit
It’s 2 a.m. and the baby monitor crackles to life.Ugh. In the stillness of the night, I’m jerked out of sleep into the chaos of early motherhood: feeding, rocking, holding, breathing. Every moment is permeated with exhaustion, yet glows with something deeper; a love so vast it reshapes me. In…
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Rooted & Radiant: A 30 Min Meditation for Grounding & Expansion
This 30-minute guided meditation is part body scan, part visualization, and part energetic grounding ritual, all inspired by the beautiful physical environment and soundscape of the Hudson Valley. We’ll cultivate a gentle flow of energy that will help you: * Release tension from head to toe *...
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From Classified Intel to Cosmic Healing: Jessica Brodkin on Trusting Your Weird
Jessica’s life is a masterclass in breadcrumb-following: from MIT → CIA weapons of mass destruction analyst → stand-up comedy → full-time energy healer and Reiki teacher She shares how debilitating migraines ultimately pointed her toward Reiki, complex PTSD healing, mediumship, and a life guided…
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Bet on Yourself: Building a Values-Aligned Business with Laurice Rutledge Lambert
After making partner in Big Law, Laurice Rutledge Lambert found herself asking, “Is this it?” Laurice joins me for a conversation about leaving behind external markers of success to build a life, and a law firm, Aligned Health Law, grounded in people-first values. They explore the dark night of…
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Just Do Your Dang Job
A few years ago, I skipped a family funeral to attend a client pitch. I was a third-year associate at a BigLaw firm. Someone said my background was “indispensable” to the meeting. No one blinked when I said I couldn’t go. I told myself it was the right thing—important, even. But deep down, I knew...
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Off Script: Life Beyond the Default Path with Nneya Richards
In this episode, Nneya Richards joins me to talk about what it means to walk away from the “default path” and build a life that may not be “legible” (h/t Paul Millerd) but is deeply aligned, creatively, personally, and spiritually. Nneya is a writer, speaker, travel expert, and true…
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The High-Achiever’s Trap: Amanda on Burnout & Inner Peace
She did everything right. Harvard trained lawyer, federal prosecutor. But inside, Amanda was unraveling. Raised in a tight-knit Arab American immigrant community, she was taught that success meant stability. A job, a title, a marriage. But the path that promised security left her burnt out,...
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Reclaiming the Golden Rule (Video Version)
In this episode, Allie reads her recent essay "Reclaiming the Golden Rule" about why the Golden Rule isn't child's play but instead is an urgent message for our time. She also leads a 10 minute guided meditation practice based on the essay to help us cultivate an open heart. Many thanks to Mutual...
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Trust the Next Step
What if letting go of the five-year plan is the first step toward actually feeling like yourself? In this soul-forward conversation, I sit down with Catherine Pao, a former tech exec turned holistic leadership coach who helps high-functioning humans make friends with their intuition. She’s also…
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BLESSINGS ON THE WAY
An essay on learning to honor intuition. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit alliecanton.substack.com
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Falling Into Place
Episode Summary What happens when a top strategist at some of the world’s largest tech companies walks away from the known? In this reflective episode, Glenn DeVore joins Allie to talk about the slow unraveling of his corporate identity, the radical power of not knowing, and the healing that...
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Just Breathe: A 19-Minute Grounding Meditation
In this grounding meditation, Allie leads you through a gentle body scan and breath-focused practice designed to soothe your nervous system and reconnect you to the present moment. Whether you’re feeling scattered, tense, or simply want to re-center, this practice invites you to drop into the…
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Feeling Good Is the Foundation
What if the key to lasting wellness wasn’t about overhauling your entire life, but returning to simple truths? In this episode, Allie is joined by Rachel Johnson—lawyer, founder of J&O Law and Ah.mi Health, and mom of three—for an honest conversation about ambition, burnout, wellness, and…
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Start Here: Why I Created Practically on Purpose
Practically On Purpose is a podcast hosted by Allie Canton, aimed at high achievers seeking deeper meaning and purpose in their lives. Through honest reflections and soulful conversations, the podcast explores the journey of self-discovery, navigating transitions, and the importance of living...
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From Practicing Law to Practicing Peace
Welcome to my creativity origin story for this phase :) It's been just over a year since my professional high met my personal low. I left my job as Senior Exec and General Counsel of a healthcare startup, completely burnt out after decades of grinding, people-pleasing, and misadventures. My mind...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
For high-achieving humans learning to release expectation and embrace cultivate deeper meaning and purpose. Through honest reflections and soulful conversations, we'll explore how to release the pressure to perform and remember who you truly are. It's time to stop chasing the success story and step into your life.
alliecanton.substack.com
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For high-achieving humans learning to release expectation and embrace cultivate deeper meaning and purpose. Through honest reflections and soulful conversations, we'll explore how to release the pressure to perform and remember who you truly are. It's time to stop chasing the success story and step...
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