Rare On Purpose is a leadership podcast for people who refuse to drift through their careers and lives on autopilot.
Hosted by leadership coach and author Jay Floyd, the show explores what it means to build a life, career, and identity with intention. In a world obsessed with trends, influence, and external validation, Rare On Purpose challenges listeners to slow down, reflect, and take the driver’s seat of their own growth.
Each episode blends leadership insight, personal reflection, culture, and real coaching lessons to help managers, aspiring leaders, and thoughtful professionals develop clarity, confidence, and purpose in how they lead and live.
This isn’t about chasing titles or copying someone else’s blueprint.
It’s about becoming the kind of leader who understands who they are, what they stand for, and how they move through the world.
Because the goal was never to blend in.
The goal is to be Rare On Purpose.
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Most people think they’re burned out.
They’re not.
They’re misaligned.
In this episode, Jay Floyd breaks down how database concepts like indexing and query optimization map directly to your strengths, your energy, and how you design your life.
If everything feels harder than it should, this will explain why.
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2 Apr 2026
Nobody’s Handing You Clarity
A lot of leaders are frustrated by vague managers, moving targets, weak one-on-ones, and unstable expectations. The mistake is thinking clarity is something a good boss is supposed to hand you. It is not. In this episode, Jay Floyd breaks down why strong leaders stop waiting to be managed perfectly, how to create clarity in the middle of fog, and why your one-on-one should be used to reduce ambiguity, sharpen alignment, and make your value more legible. If your work is strong but your leadership signal is inconsistent, this episode is for you.
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26 Mar 2026
A Polished Life Can Still Be a Borrowed One
In this episode of The Rare On Purpose Podcast, Jay Floyd breaks down a tension a lot of capable people are living with but rarely name: a life that looks strong, stable, and successful on the outside while feeling disconnected on the inside.
This conversation is about what happens when adaptation starts masquerading as identity. When being useful, impressive, dependable, sharp, or high-performing gets rewarded for so long that you stop asking whether that version of you is actually rooted. Jay explores how borrowed identity forms, why it often gets mistaken for maturity, and how it quietly shapes leadership, peace, decision-making, and self-trust.
Inside this episode:
Why a borrowed life usually begins with adaptation, not deception
Why the most dangerous misalignment is often the kind that still gets compliments
How borrowed identity shows up in leadership through overexplaining, approval-seeking, overfunctioning, and unstable presence
Why performance can produce results but never produce rootedness
What honest inventory looks like when it is time to stop managing the performance of a life
If you have ever felt strangely absent from your own success, this episode will give language to that tension and challenge you to confront what is polished but not rooted.
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