Journey to Purpose

About Journey to Purpose

Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives. Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living. Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week. If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe. If you really like what you hear, consider joining our membership group for $15/month — where you can continue your self-development journey with weekly hypnotherapy and coaching sessions, tailored courses and much more!

Publisher

Philippa Bagley

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Aug 2024

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

117 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   The Beast You Can't Control: Working With the Media During a Crisis | Sophie Wilson

   When a crisis puts your story in the media's hands, the people who come through it intact are the ones who've picked one spokesperson, agreed their key messages in advance, and accepted that once the story is out, they don't control it anymore. PR founder Sophie Wilson learned this the hard way in 2015, when her close friend Gareth went missing while travelling in Malaysia. Within hours she'd become the public face of a campaign that reached Robert De Niro, Downing Street and the front of Sky News — and, eventually, a body that had to be identified. "The media always needs an angle and it is a beast," she says of what the experience taught her. It's a lesson she's carried into her agency work ever since: "Stories are what move people and people create impact." The conversation moves from the practical mechanics of a breaking news campaign (why you need one spokesperson, how fast a story can be seized and twisted by a single journalist's guess) to the much harder question of what happens when the cameras move on — grief, guilt, and the year-long wait before Gareth's funeral. It closes with Sophie's second brush with the public spotlight: going public with her own long Covid diagnosis, an article that went to number one on Apple News and led to a BBC radio documentary. Sophie Wilson is the founder and CEO of Tuesday Media, a storytelling and PR agency representing positive changemakers, innovators and entrepreneurs. She chairs the industry body the PRCA and is a vocal advocate for flexible working in the PR industry. Find her at tuesday-media.com. Connect with Sophie Wilson: 🌐 tuesday-media.com Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives. Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living. Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week. If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe

2. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Comfort Is The Enemy: Cost of Transformation | Scott Lackey

   Real transformation isn't inspirational, it's expensive. Army veteran, entrepreneur and author Scott Lackey argues that every transformation has a cost most people never admit to, and the discomfort you're avoiding right now is usually the exact price of the life you say you want. Scott puts it plainly: "The thing that you're going to have to sacrifice, Scott, is yourself. You're going to have to be vulnerable, authentic, transparent." That cost isn't abstract for him. A private equity firm once invested $3 million in a product he invented, the Childhood Health Passport, only for him to be fired from his own company six months later. He rebuilt, taking a second business from $2.8 million to $20 million in four years through acquisitions, before losing control of that one too, to his own investors this time. The conversation moves from comfort as "the enemy of progress" through Scott's framework of the warrior, the poet, and the shepherd, to the difference between ownership and stewardship, and why Scott stripped every trophy and plaque off his office walls to test whether people could see who he actually was without them. Pippa and Scott dig into authenticity versus the performance of social media, the maths behind why most content never gets seen anyway, and what it actually takes to come forward and be vulnerable in public. Scott Lackey is a US Army veteran (Desert Shield and Desert Storm), Chief Sales Officer for a global manufacturer, Ironman athlete, and the author of Wake Up to Die Again, a #1 new release and #2 bestseller on Amazon. He also works as an independent turnaround consultant, brought in by banks, law firms and boards to assess companies in crisis. Find him at scottlackey.com. Connect with Scott Lackey: 🌐 scottlackey.com Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives. Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living. Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week. If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe Note: no LinkedIn, book purchase link, or other appearance link was given in the episode beyond scottlackey.com — I've only included what he actually named rather than guessing at a LinkedIn URL or Amazon link.

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   72 Is Only A Number: Reinventing Yourself After 60 | Norman Calvo

   Reinventing yourself after 60 doesn't take one dramatic leap. It takes saying yes to the next small thing, over and over, until a whole new life adds up. "72 is only a number," says Norman Calvo, who spent 44 years in mortgage banking in New York before retiring in his early 70s and building a second life around curiosity instead of career. He didn't take his first singing lesson until he was 62. By his 70s, he'd sold out two one-man cabaret shows in Times Square, with a third, Beyond the Norm, booked at Don't Tell Mama for 18 October 2026. In this conversation with Pippa, Norman talks about what actually changed in his early 60s: joining a choir almost by accident, training for his first marathon, and slowly turning "extracurricular activities" into the centre of his life rather than the edges of it. He explains how he kept a full-time mortgage career going alongside two sold-out cabaret shows, what shifted when a guest on his own podcast asked him whether he'd lived the life he was meant to live, and how he and his wife have learned to travel on different terms rather than always together. It's a candid conversation about choosing joy over achievement, and refusing to let age decide what comes next. Norman Calvo spent 44 years in mortgage banking in New York, eventually selling his own company to a bank. Since taking his first singing lesson at 62, he's run the New York City Marathon, practised handstands, and built a cabaret career that's led to two sold-out one-man shows at Don't Tell Mama in Times Square. His third show, Beyond the Norm, plays 18 October 2026. He writes about ageing with curiosity rather than caution on his Substack. Connect with Norman Calvo: 🌐 againstthenorm.net 🌐 normancalvo.substack.com Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives. Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living. Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week. If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe

Who has been a guest on Journey to Purpose

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• Theresa Thomas
• Felicia Flinders
• Jake Ostler
• Dr Tulay Massey
• Faith Sage

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

99

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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