What is your soul’s purpose? How well do you know yourself? In this episode of Wisdom of Ages, host Ayn Cates Sullivan and guest Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith talk about the meaning of finding your soul’s purpose in this world. Dr. Rebekah thought that being in academe was where she was genuinely meant to be; however, she found herself being pulled to pursue the film industry. Tune in and discover why by taking a pause and tapping into yourself to identify what you are most drawn to is significant in finding purpose and what you are born to do.

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Welcome friends and mystical travelers. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, host of Wisdom of the Ages where we invite the sacred into modern-day reality. So let me tell you why you’re be excited about this episode. This is about finding your soul purpose and in this day and age, it can also be about reinventing yourself and rediscovering your soul purpose. So we’re going to be discussing this.

I’m just going to do a little story before I introduce my guest here. I had a friend come to visit me last week and she is working on her doctorate in psychology. I think people have a lot of questions about education these days and whether or not it’s important.

She was asking me why I thought it was important to get a doctorate for my particular soul purpose. I had to think about it for a little while because it’s not the sole purpose of everyone. Everyone’s got a different soul purpose, and as I thought about it, I was like, “Well, I knew from the time I was eight, that I was here to be a writer.” I knew that.

What going through the academic hoops, which is what really the exercise is jumping hoops, really helped me do was find external structures that I could rely on that supported me such as learning how to research well and learning how to be an editor, and then internalizing those.

I learned how to take a lot of information and a lot of material, integrate it, make it simple, and put it back out in the world. So that for me, completing my doctorate was really, really an important step in my process. I think education for certain people can be useful. Anyway, she thanked me for that, and hopefully, she’ll finish up her thesis now because it’s definitely not easy.

I think it’s for me finding what was both poetic and truthful was really, really important. Anyway, it led me into what I’m doing now, which is an author, bestselling author, and also the president of Infinite Light Publishing and Media where we share messages for evolving humanity.

This fits beautifully with the message my guest today is sharing about expressing her soul purpose. Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith is an entrepreneur calling her calling a passion, enthusiasm, and specialized knowledge, her Ph.D. is in filmmaking. And now she’s a film festival doctor.

So I want to know more about these independent films. I think that’s where the real films are these days. So I really feel we need films with real messages. So she’s written a book called Born To Do It Becoming the Leader of A Business Niche Using Powerful Spiritual Techniques. It’s a good book. I just read it, really enjoyed doing the exercises in the book. So Dr. Louisa Smith, welcome to Wisdom of the Ages.

So that’s the key thing to think about. I’ll give you an example, which is my soul purpose. I thought that I should be doing academia full-time. As people said, I’m good at it. I should keep doing it. I was like, “Okay. And then I think then I actually remembered when I was … Sorry, when I was co-producing a horror film festival in Aberystwyth and Wales Western while pursuing my Ph.D.

I realized I began to like film festivals and the film industry more than academia and I was being more pulled and I felt more myself. I began to really enjoy working in the film festival area, the film industry. And from then on, it was just like, “Yeah, this is what I need to keep doing full time. This is what I’m supposed to be doing. And I could make a big difference in the industry doing this.”

And you know, 10 years later, I never looked back. I changed my career from academia to the film industry. So you just have that deep knowing that this is what I love to do and make a business out of it. I’m born to do it.

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

That’s really beautiful. And I think when you have the opportunity to be able to spend a certain amount of time at university, you get this space to really tune in to really feel your way into your next step. I think that’s where we have some grace when we have the time to do that.

Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith:

Exactly. Completely agree. Completely agree.

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So let me take a quick ad break. Where can people find you? Your website?

Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith:

The website is Rebekahlouisasmith.com. 

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Okay. So let’s take a quick ad break. And when we come back, we’ll talk more about your soul’s purpose. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.

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