Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Patricia O’Connell interviews Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting, about passion and purpose. They discuss how passions express purpose, the ten archetypes of passion, and about learning your top three passion archetypes. They explore how to link an organization to a meaningful purpose.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in to learn more about your passions and purpose and how to express them in your life and career.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /></span></p> <h1><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[:22] Patricia O’Connell introduces Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting, and her message of following passion with purpose, for individuals, companies, and teams.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[1:15] Patricia welcomes Alaina Love to CEO Stories on</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">This is Capitalism.</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[1:26] Alaina explores what it means for an individual to have purpose and passion. She begins by sharing her experience of walking away from an executive opportunity at a large organization where she had been climbing the ladder of success.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[3:58] Alaina had to ponder to discover why being successful and being rewarded for the work she was doing was not enough for her. She didn’t want to spend the next 85,000 work hours doing work she didn’t see as deeply purposeful. Alaina began to realize that purpose and passion are connected.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:07] Alaina has interviewed people for 20 years about finding purpose in work. Most people spend their lives trying to find out exactly what their purpose is. Most people believe they will be satisfied sometime in the future, after finding their purpose.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[6:26] Alain found that people who have figured out how to weave who they are into their roles