Your Pursuit Is Your Purpose | Episode 247: Miss USA Olivia Jordan

In this episode

In this episode I sit down with Olivia Jordan — actress, model, former Miss USA, speaker, and mom — for a conversation that gets right to the question so many of us carry: what if I've been pursuing something for years and it still hasn't "arrived"? Olivia gave herself five years in the entertainment industry. It's been fifteen. And what she's learned along the way is the heart of her upcoming TEDx Talk: your pursuit is your purpose.

We talk about how she checks in with her own inner voice instead of the outside noise, why every year of the pursuit has grown her into a more confident and assertive version of herself, and how coaching actors in Tulsa at Cody Mayo Studios opened a whole new avenue she never planned for. There's a wonderfully small-world moment where Olivia found her way back to Cody through an article she read at the dentist's office. I love that.

We also get into raising her daughter Lola with room for big feelings, the free tools any of us can use — meditation, deep breathing, affirmations — and giving ourselves (and every mom) grace. Olivia is raw and honest about the disempowering side of waiting to be chosen, and how she's taking her power back by creating her own work. If you've been wondering whether you're on the right path, I think you'll walk away encouraged to keep going.