The Purpose Day Podcast is a soulful exploration of what it means to live with intention.
Curated by LaBrandon Dates, each episode is inspired by themes from his book Purpose Day — blending reflection, storytelling, and conversations with people navigating their own purpose journeys.
Some episodes unpack ideas from the book, while others spotlight the stories, voices, and moments that move LaBrandon most. Together, they create a mosaic of meaning — an ongoing conversation about clarity, calling, and the courage to live your why.
Life can be good and still feel hard. On this episode of the Purpose Day Podcast, I’m sharing how I’m resetting my mindset during a season of resistance across work, relationships, and building my personal brand.
From renewing my mind through faith and being intentional about what I consume to finding encouragement in community and making room for rest, these four practices are helping me move forward. Plus, a brunch conversation that reminded me to stop calling my book, podcast, and purpose work “little.”
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed or discouraged, join me for an honest conversation about caring for yourself while continuing the work you feel called to do.
✨ Purpose Day by LaBrandon Dates is available now at LaBrandonDates.com.
📲 Follow LaBrandon on Instagram: @labrandondates
4 Oct 2026
Mama Dates: A Life of Care, Purpose, and Perseverance
LaBrandon sits down with his mother, Shirley “Mama Dates” Dates, to trace her journey from a childhood in Gadsden, Alabama to a long medical career and a recent cancer fight she is overcoming.
This intimate conversation explores Shirley’s lifelong calling to help others—her EMT training, work as a medical assistant and insurance specialist, caregiving for family and community, and how motherhood and faith shaped her sense of purpose.
✨ Purpose Day by LaBrandon Dates is available now at LaBrandonDates.com.
📲 Follow LaBrandon on Instagram: @labrandondates
14 Aug 2026
The Purpose of Slowness
Speed is not the same as purpose.
LaBrandon opens Season 2 of the Purpose Day Podcast with a personal reflection on why slowing down might be one of the most powerful things you can do for your creativity, faith, and sense of direction.
Inspired by a Solange interview, a sermon from Dr. Anita Phillips, and Hebrews 6:12, LaBrandon explores the pressure to constantly produce, post, and perform—and what happens when we give ourselves permission to move differently. He reflects on creating from gratitude instead of pressure, learning to trust God’s timing, and recognizing that while the vehicle for our purpose may change, our deeper calling can remain the same.
If you’ve been feeling behind, creatively rushed, burned out, or uncertain about what comes next, this episode is an invitation to stop measuring your life by momentum. To read longer. Walk without your phone. Create without an audience. And trust that becoming doesn’t always have to be loud.
Because sometimes purpose isn’t asking you to move faster.
It’s asking you to slow down enough to hear it.
✨ Purpose Day by LaBrandon Dates is available now at LaBrandonDates.com (https://www.labrandondates.com/purpose-day).
📲 Follow LaBrandon on Instagram: @labrandondates (http://instagram.com/labrandondates)
31 Jul 2026
Season 2: A New Pace
Last season, we explored what purpose is.
This season, we're exploring the pace of purpose and what it feels like to live it.
Through personal conversations with inspiring guests, LaBrandon examines creativity, career pivots, faith, identity, and the everyday moments that shape a meaningful life.
Because purpose isn't just something you discover.
It's something you practice.
✨ Purpose Day by LaBrandon Dates is available now. Purchase the book at www.labrandondates.com (http://www.labrandondates.com/).
📲 Follow LaBrandon on Instagram: @labrandondates (http://instagram.com/labrandondates)
14 Feb 2026
Offline to Inspired: Notes from Grace Coddington
What Grace Coddington’s life taught LaBrandon about creative purpose, renewal, and falling back in love with creating.
20 Jan 2026
André Leon Talley: A Cape and a Calling
In this episode, Tiffany tells the story of André Leon Talley — a man who wore his purpose boldly and changed culture through fashion. His life invites us to ask: what if your difference is your destiny?
31 Dec 2025
You’re Not Behind. You’re Evolving.
Purpose isn’t always about arrival — sometimes it’s about becoming. In this episode, Maya explores purpose through growth and self-discovery, reminding us that curiosity, pivots, and evolution are often the path. Purpose Day by LaBrandon Dates is available now at labrandondates.com ✨
13 Dec 2025
Whispers of Calling: Finding Spiritual Purpose
On this episode of the Purpose Day Podcast, Maya explores what it means to discover purpose through spirituality. Drawing from Chapter Four of Purpose Day, she reflects on faith, intuition, divine alignment, and the quiet ways purpose often reveals itself—through prayer, obedience, community, and listening for the whisper rather than the shout.
This episode invites you to consider purpose not as something to manufacture, but as something to align with—already written, already present, waiting to be lived out.
✨ Purpose Day by LaBrandon Dates is available now. Purchase the book at www.labrandondates.com.
📲 Follow LaBrandon on Instagram: @labrandondates
Tune in, reflect, and take one step closer to your Purpose Day.
21 Nov 2025
Purpose Through Contribution: Small Acts, Big Impact
In this episode Maya explores the chapter "Purpose Through Contribution to Society," reframing purpose as a relational gift you offer to your community rather than a solo achievement.
The conversation highlights indigenous and communal traditions, practical examples of simple acts of service, and a clear framework for identifying your contribution by asking what people naturally come to you for and where skill, value, and pride intersect.
Listeners are invited to a brief purpose practice—reflecting on meaningful compliments, moments of usefulness, and effortless giving—to notice how purpose may already be present in everyday life.
Purpose Day is out now — learn more at LaBrandonDates.com/purpose-day or order your copy now on Amazon.
29 Oct 2025
Why Fulfillment Matters More Than Metrics
Fulfillment over validation. 🎧 Maya dives into how artists like Doja Cat, Daniel Caesar, and Beyoncé are redefining purpose in a numbers-obsessed world. Purpose Day — the book — drops November 11 at LaBrandonDates.com.
21 Oct 2025
Purpose Day: The Moment That Changes Everything
Welcome to the Purpose Day Podcast, curated by LaBrandon Dates. Host Maya and LaBrandon explore the clarity moments — from an Oprah story to an energy session in Chicago — that inspired LaBrandon to write Purpose Day to help others discover their own purpose through four lenses: contribution, fulfillment, spirituality, and self-discovery. Learn more at www.labrandondates.com.
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