A Forged Life
Welcome to A Forged Life, formerly The WorthPlace Collective Podcast.
This podcast is a space for those who spend their lives helping others — coaches, clergy, counselors, leaders, caregivers, and the many people who carry responsibility for the well-being of others.
I’m Kevin Parido, and through conversations, reflections, and stories, we’ll explore what it means to live a forged life — a life shaped with intention, purpose, and endurance. Drawing from both my coaching work and my work as a bladesmith, we’ll lean into the living metaphor of the forge: how we are heated, shaped, refined, strengthened, and sharpened over time.
Together, we’ll talk about burnout, purpose, leadership, resilience, calling, and the work of becoming who we are meant to be while helping others do the same.
I’m grateful you’re here, and I hope you’ll join me on this journey.
A Forged Life
Latest Episodes
Where You Invest Your Life
What we invest our love in ultimately becomes the life we live. In this episode, Kevin reflects on the Mumford & Sons lyric, “Where you invest your love, you invest your life,” and explores four questions: Who are you investing in? Where...
Respond Like the Person You Want to Be
Who we believe we are and how we actually behave aren’t always the same thing.In this episode of A Forged Life, Kevin explores the gap between identity and behavior—and what that gap can reveal about us. From the way we r...
The clues I have stumbled upon as I think about my identity...
I continue to explore identity. I invite you to do the same.Kevin