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How to find your purpose with author and professor Suzy Welch

Author of “Becoming You” and NYU Stern Professor Suzy Welch breaks down her guide to help us find purpose with CNN's Michael Smerconish. She explains how she had been working on her methodology in a lot of different ways for about 15 years, and then started to test it on herself to figure out her own next step. She says that led her to the classroom, which ended up being the place where she says she felt "exquisitely alive," which is exactly how we feel when we're living our purpose.

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