Pushkin.

What's your life purpose?

That is a very big sounding question, which honestly is why most of us shy away from talking

about it. Your life's purpose

feels like it needs to be important. Curing a disease, saving an endangered species, or founding a

billion-dollar company. It's supposed to be something big, right? Wrong. Because as we'll hear

in this episode, purpose can be found in something as simple as collecting baseball cards and hanging

out with others who share your passion.

That's an example taken directly from the life of my guest for this episode.

Hi, I'm Jordan Grummet. I'm a hospice physician, personal finance podcaster and author of the book, The Purpose Code.

Jordan's career has taken many detours. At times, he's found himself facing some big dead ends in his lifelong quest for purpose.

But today, he's pretty happy where things ended up, which makes him an excellent guide for this

concluding episode of our how-to season, where we'll discuss how to find your purpose.

Jordan began yearning for purpose at a particularly young age, but set off to find it in a

direction that he later realized was a mistake. It all began with an unexpected bereavement.

It pretty much affected everything. I was seven years old, and my father was this prominent oncologist,

this cancer doctor that everyone looked up to, and he had a brain aneurysm,

which meant he was literally rounding at the hospital, got a severe headache, collapsed,

went into a coma, and died within a day or two. Back then, you know, there was no talk of these

extraordinary measures. The neurosurgeon came in and said, look, he's pretty much brain dead,

and they removed life support.

And I was seven years old. And as most seven year olds are, I looked at the world through a very

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