Your Soul Purpose and How You Are Not Behind

If you've been asking "What am I meant to do with my life?" and secretly worrying you're late to the answer, this conversation is a reset. We're talking soul purpose in a grounded way: as your unique contribution, designed to be expressed through the specific gifts, experiences, and lessons you've lived. No vague destiny talk, just a clear framework for understanding why your life looks the way it does and how it becomes your greatest advantage.

We dig into the idea that nothing is random, including your obstacles. The hard seasons, the relationships that broke you open, the jobs that drained you, the "failed" attempts all become puzzle pieces that build your capacity to lead, heal, create, and serve. 

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Welcome And Core Premise

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Welcome to Make Sense of It, the podcast where we explore how the energetic and physical worlds come together to form the unique formula you need to create the life you want. I'm Brooke, an intuitive healer and coach. And for as long as I can remember, I have been obsessed with understanding how the world truly works. The universal laws, all things intuition, and neuroscience. Once you understand how it all truly works, you stop guessing. You realize that you are the actual key to the creation and life becomes limitless. Now I'm excited to share with you all the pieces that make a difference that you can actually use. Let's dive in. Hello and welcome back. I am so excited to be talking about this topic today. This has to be one of my all-time favorite things to discuss and talk about with people and clients. And I feel like I'm gonna say that everything's my favorite, but we'll just roll with it.

What Soul Path Really Means

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Okay, so today I want to talk about the soul purpose, what we refer to as soul path, soul pool. It has just been a topic that has fascinated me from day one. And I've spent hours and hours mastering the information and all there is to know about the soul path, soul pool, and how we are built, and how we all have these unique individual builds that are made up of our potentials and skill sets and all these things. And I found that by understanding how we are built and tapping into who we really are is like the ultimate fulfillment. Working with what you were given and to realizing that it is like your unique superpower has to be one of the coolest things. And today I really want to share all that information with you. So if you are somebody who, if you're listening to this, I'm gonna assume you are somebody who wants to be on their soul path, someone who really cares about their soul purpose and is truly ready to fulfill what you came here to do. So let's talk about the soul path soul pool in the eyes of source.

Your One Of One Contribution

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So you can actually understand what makes up the soul path and how it fits to your specific purpose. So your soul path soul pool is your unique contribution to this world. This contribution has never been done before and can only be achieved by you. That is pretty darn cool. You are the only person who can bring this into the world. It is your unique goal of how you are meant to be of service to other people or to the world. It is these promises and commitments that you are here to fulfill in this lifetime with the goal of changing lives and raising the frequency of the planet. So it's not just a hobby or a nice-to-have job, so to speak. It is what you are truly built to do. And your very clever higher self has it all planned out.

Higher Self Planning And Obstacles

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There's not a single detail that your higher self hasn't taken into consideration to keep you on this path. So before you came into the physical body, your higher self mapped out everything that was needed for you to be able to fulfill your purpose in this life. Now, to me, this is very, very comforting knowing that whatever I'm actually meant to do, higher self has my back. There's this plan outside of my ego, outside of my human that higher self has put into place so that I can achieve this purpose in this life. But going back to when I say everything has been planned, I mean it. Like your higher self had planned your physical body, your personality, your ambition, your mastery skill sets, the wants that you have, the programming that you have experienced, the limiting beliefs that you have picked up throughout your life, your parents and every single person that you come in contact with in your life, your obstacles, your struggles, every single part of your physical experience was chosen to shape who you are and the person you need to be to fulfill your purpose. This also includes all the knowledge and all the soul information that you need from past lives. So the information that you have collected from previous lives, your higher self will set up situations to unlock that information at the exact right time that you need it. And yes, your obstacles are very much factored into this because we learn and grow the fastest through our struggles. So if you're a person who has experienced a lot of chaos in your life, and I know there is a lot of you out there listening to this that you have been through these experiences where whether it's been like physical obstacles and just barriers after barriers, or it's the emotional barriers that and the emotional turmoil that you had to go through, those experiences and that journey that you've had to go on is a very big indicator that you have a huge purpose in this life and that your higher self was putting you through a lot of a lot of struggles and a lot of battles, so that you could unlock a lot of the past life information, the soul information that you need to be able to fulfill your purpose here. And if you are one of these people, I can guarantee you that you are very high conscious and you are here with a big purpose. So this is why I say every single part of your life counts. Every situation, every experience, even those terrible relationships that we feel like we should have known better. The tough conversations, the wins, the losses, everything. The things that worked, the things that didn't work. It was all perfectly designed for you to gain the knowledge and the skill sets, the experience, the memories, the tools, everything that you needed at the exact right time that you needed them.

Finding Purpose Without Getting Paralyzed

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I can hear a few of you thinking now, okay, great, but how do I work out what my actual purpose is? This has to be one of the most asked questions I get in sessions. I do work with a lot of people wanting to align and move forward on their soul path, soul pool. So I'm not surprised. But it's definitely the first thing people come to me for is asking this, what am I meant to do with my life? What is my unique purpose in this world that I am meant to put together and deliver and change lives with? And it often starts out with a lovely devastation moment. And not that I don't want to tell you what I see and how amazing your beautiful soul path soul pool looks and what you're able to do because it it honestly there is they're incredible. But what happens is when I compare a client's current life and what it looks like versus what it's going to look like when they're in a sh a really high alignment with their soul path soul pool, it tests around a 15 to 20% alignment. So it's not looking very similar. Hey, in my eyes, that's an incredible thing. Can you imagine if your life could get like an 80% upgrade? Because anything we do in alignment with the soul pass, soul pool is coming from a soul love place. So if you choose to look at the positive, which I do in that situation, there is, you know, you've got this big upgrade coming. But what I've learned to do is from working with so many clients on this, is I've learned to distill it down to the information or the vision that a client can actually work with without being overwhelmed or paralyzed. Okay. So if a client comes in and their current life is only at a 17% alignment with what the soul path looks like, and I go and just tell them what this big thing looks like for them, it easily can box them or paralyze them and stop them from moving forward because of the programming, because of the how the ego is currently functioning, many different reasons. Like, think of it this way: if you came in and I was, I just blurted out, you are meant to be a world-class public speaker. You are meant to stand in front of millions of people and talk. And you turned around and go, I can't even give a speech at a family birthday party in front of just my family and friends. That is instantly gonna create a hole in your life. That is really going to throw you off because you will become obsessed with that concept and you can't see past it. So we have to pick this carefully. Another really good example of this is it might be something like you are meant to be, I don't know, let's say a world-class pilot. Something to do with aeroplanes, but you need to be in the air. But you turn around and go, I'm a I've got a fear of heights. That's not gonna work. It's not gonna be the perfect information to share with you. So,

Mastery Skill Sets And The Scale

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what we tend to do in this space is we focus more on your mastery skill sets. This is one of the core components of your soul path, soul pool. It is a specific piece of how you are built. It is these skill sets that you were given that were chosen by your higher self when designed, who you were going to be in this life, that you will be, you will hold a genius level at these mastery skill sets. Developing these is, in my opinion, one of the most important things you can do to align with your soul path, soul pool, to align with what you have come here to do in this lifetime. Imagine developing the skill sets that you were built with and that you were the best at the world with. How much fun is that going to be? So, these skill sets, you have the potential. So every person will have four or five of these straight off the bat that are designed for your soul path, soul pool. They are going to be utilized at the highest level for your soul path soul pool. Now, there is, you do have more than just four or five, but these are the first ones we start with. These are the skill sets that you have the potential to be one of, or if not the best in the world at. And for it to be a mastery skill set, it needs to measure between a 95 and a 100. Let me just quickly break down that scale. So a 100 is we are looking for the person in the world who has the absolute highest level, highest capability with that specific skill set. And then we're measuring you towards that person, like towards the entire world, every person in the world. What is your ability with that specific skill set? And when it is over a 95, when you have a skill set that is above a 95 to a 100 versus the rest of the world, you will also hold a soul love for it, which means you will always want to be working with that tool. Now, our skill sets can be all sorts of things. These can be attributes, these can be intuition, problem solving, healing, leadership. It can be things like being able to see four steps ahead of everybody. It could be thriving in unknown situations, it could be leadership, it could be communication, it can be a variety of things. There is so many out there. And it is the combination of these skill sets with the other core components of your soul path, soul pool. So your experiences, your memories, your obstacles, your knowledge. This is what makes you completely unique. The two people might have the same skill sets, but no two people will have the same full combination at the same levels. That is what will make you able to do what you came here to do. I like to think of it this way: imagine a giant puzzle, and every piece of the puzzle represents new knowledge, new experience, a memory, a tool, a process, a skill set. Every situation you have been through has handed you a piece of that puzzle, and it's your job to collect them along the way. Then there will come a point where you start to see how they can fit together. You start working out how this can form this beautiful puzzle that is incredibly unique to you. That is when we start to see parts of the soul path, soul pool forming. And the more you learn, like the more you develop on this journey, your soul path, soul pool will evolve with you. And by developing these skill sets and really tapping into these potentials, you will naturally align more and more with your soul path. And this has really happened a lot for me over the last year, where I've really just focused on my skill sets and getting them to the highest level possible. And then I'm starting to see how this collection can fit together that makes what I do very unique because I add in this thought process, I add in this skill set. And it is actually really starting to show me how what we can bring to the world, even if we're doing something similar to someone else at the early stages of our soul path, soul pool, it is in our skill sets and in the way that we use the tool that makes us incredibly unique. The

Underusing Gifts And Feeling Behind

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other piece is a quick, a quick little backstory here. The other piece that I've learned very quickly about our mastery skill sets is we can be very much underutilizing our skills. So we as a person are being underutilized in the world if we're walking on our soul path. And I remember the very first time that I got my first skill set. So prior to knowing this, I've always been known as a person who is good with ideas. I love being able to find a different solution, a different idea, a different way of doing something. And so when my mentor told me for the first time that I have a very high skill set in problem solving, I was kind of like, oh yeah, that makes sense. Cool. I didn't really, wasn't really overly shocked by that specific one. But this is what shocked me. So I had an incredibly high skill set for it, but of the potential, of the capability that I could reach, I was only tapping into 41% of my abilities. So I was barely scratching the surface. And it just blew me away. What a humbling moment. But what more can I do with this now? But this does lead me into one of the most common things I see when working with clients who are getting in alignment with their soul pass, soul pool. And it's this feeling of being behind. This feeling of I should be further along by now, like I've wasted my time. And then comparison kicks in, and that's a whole nother story for another day. But I just want you to know, you you can't be behind. You're not behind, and it's not possible to be behind. And I'm going to explain why, but the brain does this funny thing. When we learn something new, the brain likes to think we've always known it, like we've always had that information. And that creates this feeling that we should be further along. The information that I just got was obvious, and I should have had it when I was born. That's not quite how it works. It's just the lovely brain and the ego getting in its way. But as I was saying earlier, the higher self has it all planned out, but you needed to go through every single situation. And it's definitely taken me a little while to get that full in-depth embodiment of this specific concept because my human brain does the exact same thing more often than I would like. You go through experiences of being like, damn, I should have done that. Now I've missed the opportunity, all these thoughts. But I've programmed my brain to now be able to look at it and go, okay, if I didn't do that or if I didn't go through that thing, I wouldn't be able to hit my soul path. I would miss things. So you need every single experience in your life to be able to fulfill what the higher self has planned for you. You can't skip a stage. You can't miss an obstacle. If you didn't experience the job that you hated or the relationship that felt like it completely broke you, the business that failed, you would not have the experiences, the information, the tools, the skills that you need for how you are meant to change the world. If you're experiencing those exact thoughts right now, you might actually be going through an experience that your higher self has put you in for you to realize that you have been given the wrong tools, for you to start asking the questions of what's a different way to do this, for you to start pushing back on society, pushing back on the tools that aren't right for you, so that you can find new information, new processes. So trust me when I say you're in the exact right place at the right time. And you're hearing this information right now because this is when you're meant to hear it. I actually want to give you a little challenge here. Go back through your past experiences, like careers and relationships and the moments that you felt like were a waste of time and find what you got out of that situation. What was the piece of knowledge or the tool that you now use in this part of your life? How do you change the way that you show up because you went through that experience? And how does that directly help you serve other people? How does that help you change other people's lives? I feel like it's no secret that doing what you came here to do is extremely rewarding. It has definitely become the most fulfilling experience in my life. And I think it's really important to understand that it is completely possible to do something that you absolutely love on a deep soul level every single day. It is completely possible to build something that is incredibly unique to you and how you are built. Tapping into the things that you were given, the gifts, the brilliance, the genius, it is just remarkable. And that is what we all should be aiming for on an everyday basis. But for many of us and for many people out there, when we first start this journey, we aren't as aligned as we would like to be. We are not familiar with our soul path, soul pull. So what stops people from getting to this place? Why do we fall out of alignment or why are we not in the highest alignment? The

Contagions That Pull You Off Track

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biggest reason that I see holding people up is contagions. It is the contagions of society, the world. We are consuming so much stuff outside of us these days. We are quick to listen to other people's thoughts, other people's opinions. We are seeking other people's opinions. Like we're giving away our power to other people. And we're not actually really listening to who we are, who our what our internal voice is. We are picking up information from outside of us, which isn't actually directly aligned with what we are built to do. We are seeing like we want these quick wins. So we see someone on social media showcase this success in a specific area, and you're like, well, I could probably do that. So then you get pulled into that area because your human is looking for some form of quick win, some kind of uh feeling, it's seeking some kind of dopamine here, and we get pulled into directions that are not truly what we want to experience. We, when we are working on the soul path, soul pull, we are doing things outside of the normal. We are pushing against what doesn't exist. And for a lot of people, a lot of people don't, you know, are still waking up to this information. So we are gonna be fighting things like negative intent and people's judgment and being caught into people's judgment is actually and not understanding the universal laws around that. Pull us out of alignment, you've then got people worrying about competition of others, which we've just said there is no such thing, we're all so unique, you know. And my favorite one that was said to me really early on in my career was just because you're good at it doesn't mean you should do it. This is a contagion thought. So these little phrases that you hear people say, like, you know, you have to hustle, or making money is hard, or um, spiritual people shouldn't make money. These are all contagion thoughts holding people back from their soul path. I still remember this conversation so clear that just because I'm good at it, I should doesn't mean I should have to do it. I remember being in a little bit of a pain point with one of my mastery skill sets. So I knew that I wasn't meant to just be good. I was meant to be great at it, but it was it was a bit of a challenge, you know. I was still learning all the different ways. I was seeing how how it didn't work and how it does work and all the kind of things going on. And then I had obviously limiting beliefs and programming holding me up a little bit from stepping into this skill set. But I remember hearing this and being like, ah, if I didn't know what I know now, if I didn't have intuition, all of these things, I could see how that would pull me off my soul path, how that would pull me back or, you know, shift my alignment. So just being aware of these phrases will stop you from falling into them. If you go, no, that's not really what I believe, that's your first clue. And the thing is, people think that just because it's my purpose, it should be easy and amazing all the time. No, this is where our genius comes from: the pressure and the trial and error, the struggles, you will hit obstacles, you will have moments where it does feel hard. And the difference is the soul love underneath. The soul love is what will carry you through. And having that 95% plus of a soul love is what will get you through the resistance. And by knowing what a soul love is, so we can push through these pain points because you have so much in you that the world genuinely needs. So,

Follow What You Love And Share Stories

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where do we start? If you don't have intuition or you don't have the skill set yet to pull this kind of information, start by surrounding yourself with things you love. What takes you down rabbit holes? What can you not get enough of? What do you find yourself researching for hours that you would do night and day, you think about way too much. No such thing. You would do without getting paid. What do people ask you for advice on? And you don't even think twice to share those points of views. Start following that vein. For me, I remember it was I was just looking for all different ways to improve my life. I was looking for answers, and I was always looking for like, why do I do this and why do I do that? And it definitely took me to places that I didn't expect. And I've definitely learned so much about myself just by asking these questions and not holding back and not being afraid to see what come from it. Then from there, look at your stories, look at your experiences. These are where the gold lies. You all have stories. If you are still listening, I can guarantee you right now, you are here to share your stories with the world. And the things that you have been through, the things that you have learned, acquired from the obstacles and the challenges and the chaos of your life, these are your stories and how you use the tools and knowledge that you have learned is what will differentiate you from the rest of the world. We can all learn the exact same skill sets. We can all learn the exact same tools, but our experiences that we put on top of them, the memories that we put on top of them, plus how we choose to use them is what makes us unique. No two people will use the same tool the same way. And that is where you get to stand out. These stories are what you can start now by sharing with people. These are what the world is waiting for. So think of it this way: every moment of your life is for you. Every moment is for your soul path, soul pool. You cannot be behind. You are exactly where you are meant to be, getting ready to fulfill the next part of your soul path. So you can change a life, you can change a hundred lives, you can even change the frequency of the planet. Okay, that was a fun one.

Free Webinars And Closing

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And I could definitely talk about Soul Path forever. And if you're wanting to know more or wanting to continue this conversation, you can head over to my website and register for the free webinars I have coming up. There will definitely be one on Soul Path and Soulpath Career coming up very soon. Until the next one, thank you so much for being here. Bye.