John R. Miles

we often overlook them.

A question, a compliment, a thank you, a conversation with a stranger, a little more social.

And maybe that's the deeper lesson.

Connection isn't accidental.

It's designed one micro choice at a time.

Because every time we choose curiosity over withdrawal, warmth over hesitation, connection over silence, we aren't just changing a moment, we're shaping a life.

And perhaps even more than that, we're reminding another person that they matter.

And that insight leads directly into the final conversation in our Purpose by Design series.

Because if today was about how we design connection with others, our next episode asks, how do we design alignment within ourselves?

This Thursday, I'm joined by Deepika Chopra.

And it's a beautiful way to close out this series because across this month, we've explored purpose through meaning, through identity, through mattering, through systems, through wise effort.

and today through connection.

And with Topeka, we bring it all inward into intention, into self-trust, into becoming.

It's a powerful closing conversation and you won't want to miss it.

We've lived through, right now you have lived

and gotten through all of your hardest days in X amount of decades of being here on this planet.

And that in itself is the fabric and makeup of what, you know, how we increase and cultivate more optimism to help us with our journey and navigating through the other struggles that might come our way or what we can expect for the hope that things will get better or go well.

And

Optimism is so rooted in that idea of anticipation and expectation.

And again, rooted in your personal historical resiliency story.