How to Live a Purpose-Fueled, Contented Life as a Man — with Tim Jones | BlissTalk Podcast

What does it really mean to live a fulfilling life as a man in today's world?

In this powerful and heart-led episode of BlissTalk, we’re joined by international speaker, coach, and consultant Tim Jones, to explore how men can break free from outdated expectations and instead live a life defined by purpose, contentment, and positive impact.

Tim is known globally for helping people and organisations “grow good” — and in this conversation, he shares the personal and professional journey that led him to this mission. From building a successful business with global reach, to becoming an advocate for men’s mental health and wellbeing, Tim walks the talk when it comes to purpose-fueled performance.

Having worked with thousands across the world, Tim has seen firsthand the pressure many men face — to succeed, provide, push through, and never show weakness. But he also knows that fulfillment doesn’t come from hustle alone. It comes from alignment, meaning, and emotional honesty.

In this episode, Tim shares:

• His personal path to discovering purpose (and the roadblocks along the way)
• The unspoken mental health challenges many men face
• Why success without meaning often leads to burnout and emptiness
• How to redefine masculinity through values, vulnerability, and vision
• What a purpose-fueled life looks like — in business, relationships, and beyond
• How organisations can better support men’s wellbeing at work
• Daily habits that help men feel more connected, grounded, and alive

Whether you’re a man searching for more meaning, or someone who wants to better understand the men in your life, this conversation is a powerful guide to emotional health, purpose-driven success, and personal fulfillment.

“When men live in alignment with their purpose, they don’t just succeed — they thrive. And when they thrive, everyone around them benefits.” – Tim Jones

If you're ready to start living more intentionally — with clarity, courage, and connection — this episode offers both inspiration and actionable insight.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the blisspot podcast series, where we interview global wellbeing leaders to share ideas to invite more joy and happiness into your life. Hello everyone, and I'm absolutely delighted to be here today with Tim Jones. I had the pleasure of being introduced to Tim a few months ago, and I was totally inspired by his passion, his approach towards life, his journey, what he's been through. I might get you, Tim to just start a little bit about, you know, introducing yourself and what you've done, and the work that you do. And yeah, I'll start with an introduction from you. Excellent. Well, absolutely no pressure with your pre introduction there to have to be inspirational and all those other nice things you're talking about. Me, yes. So I'm Tim. I'm based in New Zealand, so over here, we would say kia ora. I'm partly Welsh, so in Wales, we'd say Shamai, but yeah, so I'm Tim, based here in Otahi, which is the Maori name for Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. And yeah, I guess everyone's on some form of journey. My journey seems to have been mildly intriguing over the last few years, I basically, yeah, based in based in New Zealand, we, I operate a global consulting firm called Grow Good, which was actually my wife's idea, because the companies sort of split around two parts. One is helping, helping companies that are already doing good to scale and do more good, but we also help people and organizations who want to start doing more good and don't know how to go and do that, get onto that journey. And that wasn't, I guess where, where I'd always been operating, or what I'd always been doing. So I spent a good 10 or so years of my sort of adult career selling medical devices, which people are, if you've been into an operating theater as a patient for an orthopedic procedure or a neurosurgical procedure, there's a or even a cardiac procedure or potentially optimal ophthalmology, ophthalmology, an eye procedure. It's very, very high possibility that there was someone like me standing in the corner of the operating theater as a medical rep, basically working with the surgical team to ensure that they get the best outcome for the patient. So that was my Yeah, that was sort of my main job for a good few years. And then the best summary of that experience is in a documentary. It should be on Netflix. Sometimes, I know, you know, they pull documentaries and swap them out, but it's called The Bleeding Edge, and it's an expose of the corruption and sort of malfeasance based in the medical device industry, pharmaceutical industry. You know, we kind of all know that pharmaceutical industry perhaps hasn't been the best corporate citizen over the years in terms of launching drugs and particularly in the US, but the medical device industry is kind of 100 times bigger but 1000 times less well known. So if you pretty much imagine anything in a hospital that's sold into it, there is anywhere between two and 20 companies trying to sell that product into the hospital, and it's worth quite a lot of money, Very expensive equipment, in some cases, I'd imagine, right? Yeah, yeah.