Purpose found through real-life pivots.
Purpose follows long, conversational stories from entrepreneurs, performers, athletes, educators, and business people who have had to rethink the path they were on. The show is patient with the messy middle, where a job change, a hard season, or one question starts to reveal what matters.
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Purpose is a conversational interview show about the long road between adversity and useful clarity. It has the feel of a patient coffee meeting, where the first answer is rarely the final point and the story is allowed to take its natural shape. Guests come from business, sports, education, comedy, media, bookkeeping, and personal development. The common thread is not one industry. It is the moment when someone has to reconsider who they are, what they value, and what kind of work still feels worth doing. James Shippey’s episode follows a path from acting and screenwriting into radio and television news, with reinvention treated as something practical rather than glamorous. Scott Parker brings the language of improv into workplace culture, making laughter less of a performance trick and more of a way for people to reconnect. Elizabeth Bergen’s conversation begins with friendship, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and a childhood in a very small Columbia Gorge town. Scott Fox’s episode moves through athletes, coaches, emotional blocks, values, and service connected to Ukrainian citizens. The 100th episode slows down around purpose itself, using journaling, personal stories, feedback from trusted relationships, and a free purpose guide as ways to think more clearly about direction. The show is earnest. It can also be loose and funny. A question about career pivoting may drift into weight cutting, keto, family posts, or the small social details that make a guest feel real. That looseness is part of the appeal. Purpose does not sand every story into a neat business lesson. It lets guests remember, explain, double back, and find the point out loud. Listeners hear people connect personal trials to leadership, culture, courage, resilience, and service without turning those words into slogans. The result is reflective, approachable, and grounded in lived experience. It is best for people who like interviews that care about what happened, but care even more about what the person learned from it.
Made for: Purpose is for listeners who like reflective business and life-story interviews with entrepreneurs, athletes, educators, performers, and leaders. It especially suits people thinking through career direction, values, resilience, or meaningful work.
What sets it apart: The show gives guests room to tell the whole story, including side roads, small memories, and unfinished questions. Instead of compressing every episode into a tidy lesson, it lets practical insight emerge from conversation.
Purpose, hosted by Keith Sconiers of Catalyst Training + Development, is a podcast dedicated to real conversations about life, business, personal trials, and victories of entrepreneurs, athletes, and modern-day leaders from all walks of life and industries that are living their purpose.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Keith Sconiers connects career reinvention and leadership to the values, relationships, and emotional work behind professional decisions.
Purpose treats a career as a series of choices about values, relationships, and the work worth doing. Keith Sconiers uses guest conversations to connect professional change with the personal forces behind it, from James Shippy's move from acting and screenwriting into broadcast…
Keith Sconiers wants your next job interview to sound like your life, not a borrowed mission statement.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A plainspoken career-pivot story that treats reinvention as something earned, not packaged.
James Shippey’s pivot from acting and screenwriting into radio and TV news has a clear, lived-in quality. He starts during the pandemic as a producer at KXL-FM News, then moves into reporting and anchoring before landing at Coin6 as the morning breaking news anchor.
A grounded reminder that culture is often shaped by small, repeatable human moments.
Scott Parker reads as an educator, team-building facilitator, and award-winning comedy performer who helps workplaces find their rhythm again.
Purpose feels most useful here when it becomes a story you can actually use at work.
Purpose marks its 100th episode with a talk about how people turn values into a story they can actually use. The host and a business minded friend dig into what purpose means, how the stories that shape someone get gathered, and why they matter in interviews, client…
A calm, usable conversation about values, alignment, and service under strain.
The episode keeps its footing when it ties purpose to something plain and usable: values, honesty, alignment, and the question of what someone stands for.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Deshaun Fauntleroy, founder of ProForce Athletics, describes becoming "the coach that I didn't have" after failed athletic attempts and personal mistakes.
James Shippy calls it a pivot.
This episode features an interview with entrepreneur Elizabeth Bergen, exploring her background and journey to finding purpose through overcoming adversity.
Keith speaks with Scott Parker about purpose, improv, and how laughter can change a room.
The 100th episode opens with a warm, easy conversation about purpose.
Purpose opens with Scott Fox.