S2 Episode 36 - Live with Less Stress and More Joy with Jessica Dugas

Purpose Highway®

HIGHLIGHTS

• Thinking about purpose and alienation
• Jessica as Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory
• Finding purpose and moments of loss and breakthrough
• Learnings from The Breakthrough Show
• What is an Intuitive Mentor
• Jessica on perception of adventure in life

QUOTES

Scott: “So much of who and what our essence is relates to the existence of memory. If we have Alzheimer's but lose our memory, what are we but just a shell? And that's the horror of it.”

Jessica: “They wouldn't know who they were, they wouldn't know who their family were when they came in. They wouldn't remember what they ate for lunch. It was just one of the most devastating things I've ever witnessed. But when you would play a song, and they would start to sing it as if no time had passed.”

Jessica: “I would make friends with these people that were older generation and their time would come and they would pass on. And so I would experience a lot of this loss. And I think, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it added to this sort of need that I've had to be alive and to push forward and to try because I had experienced so much loss.”

Jessica: “I've been on this planet all this time, and what am I actually doing? And then I started working on myself and all of that. And then, years later was when I had the opportunity to write in the book and after that was the birth of my show, which was completely on accident.”

Jessica: “We've all been through something and I think that the, I've asked I said, You know what makes you different though, how have you survived this? How have you continued to thrive? And not given up or not succumb to shoe addiction or any of these other things, suicide, any of these other things that we've dealt with. And it's never the same answer.”

Jessica: “I operate a lot from a place of just almost an innate knowing, an intuitive place. And that's something that, like I have shared before, that I came into touch with when my brother passed away, I didn't realize how powerful my own intuition was until I started using it. Go figure.”

Jessica: “I think, for me, I had to just just start connecting with myself in some kind of way. So I would contend through connecting with other people is how I ended up coming back and connecting with myself. So I opened myself up to going, Okay, I've got to meet other people, I've got to expand my horizons here.

Jessica: “I think adventure is perspective. I think anybody could either have an adventurous spirit or you don't. And it doesn't mean we have to kind of get out of our head that adventure means a certain thing, that it means you have to travel, you have to try new foods… we just have to get out of our heads that adventure is supposed to look a certain way.”

To find out more about Jessica, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jessica-dugas-847b6a152v
• Websites:
  • jessicadugas.com (Personal Website)
  • thebreakthroughshow.com (Company Website)
  • projectjoypodcast.com (Company Website)

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