I Am Wiser Podcast with Dr. Laura Purdy

I Am Wiser Podcast with Dr. Laura Purdy I Am Wiser: Prismatic wisdom on ambition, identity, and the cost of carrying a lot. Follow along. You’re not behind. You’re becoming.

Welcome to I Am Wiser — a show about ambition, identity, and the quiet cost of carrying a lot. Here you’ll find **Prismatic wisdom**: clear, honest conversations that don’t just sound good — they *help*. We pull out the real lesson beneath the moment: the decision you’ve been avoiding, the boundary you need, the story you’re living inside, and the next step that actually moves you forward. This page is for builders, leaders, caretakers, and anyone in a season of reinvention — the people who keep going, even when it’s heavy. On this page you can expect:

* Episode drops + clips
* Short reflections you can apply the same day
* Questions that help you name what’s true
* Behind-the-scenes notes from the making of the show

If there’s a piece of wisdom you’re craving right now, **DM it** — and if you know someone whose story carries medicine, **send them our way**.

08/25/2026

Richard Kaufman calls it the three most important words:

Today I decide.

You may not control what happened yesterday. But you get a say in how you show up today.

Victim or victor? The choice is yours.

This is one of the reasons I care so much about telling the real story underneath achievement. People can be performing ...
08/24/2026

This is one of the reasons I care so much about telling the real story underneath achievement. People can be performing beautifully and still be breaking privately. We need to stop confusing function with wholeness, especially in the people who have learned how to keep going no matter what.

I think about the younger version of me often. She was not weak. She was not dramatic. She was grieving inside a system ...
08/21/2026

I think about the younger version of me often. She was not weak. She was not dramatic. She was grieving inside a system that measured readiness with a stopwatch. I am wiser because I learned to notice what people are carrying, even when they are still technically passing.

There are losses that split your life in half, and somehow the institutions around you still ask for proof that you can ...
08/18/2026

There are losses that split your life in half, and somehow the institutions around you still ask for proof that you can function. I did function. I kept going. But now I understand that endurance is not the same as support, and performing through grief does not mean the grief was light.

One of the themes I want I Am Wiser to carry is the ability to hold complexity. Not every hard thing is only bad. Not ev...
08/15/2026

One of the themes I want I Am Wiser to carry is the ability to hold complexity. Not every hard thing is only bad. Not every opportunity is only good. Some chapters give you a future while asking for pieces of you in return. Wisdom is being honest enough to name both.

08/14/2026

Riley James shared a piece of wisdom that really stayed with me:

You have to give yourself grace for the things you didn't know.

Looking back, it's easy to judge the choices we made when we were younger. But we didn't have the perspective we have now.

That doesn't mean excusing our mistakes. It means learning from them, forgiving ourselves, and giving ourselves permission to grow.

Sometimes wisdom is simply realizing: "you've always been okay."

🎙️ Full episode out now.

I do not tell this story to make myself sound fearless. I was not fearless. I was trying to move toward a future that ma...
08/10/2026

I do not tell this story to make myself sound fearless. I was not fearless. I was trying to move toward a future that mattered while carrying the weight of what it might cost. That kind of courage deserves honesty, not mythology.

This is something I wish more people understood about big life decisions. You do not always get to choose from easy opti...
08/07/2026

This is something I wish more people understood about big life decisions. You do not always get to choose from easy options. Sometimes you choose the hard road because the other roads are hard too. Wisdom is learning to honor the courage of that younger self without pretending the road was simple.

08/06/2026

Sharon Fekete shared one of the simplest leadership lessons I've heard, and one of the hardest to practice.

Asking someone, "How are you?" isn't leadership.

Listening to the answer is.

Not to fix.
Not to compare.
Not to make it about you.

Just to understand.

Sometimes the most powerful thing a leader can do is create enough space for someone to feel heard.

🎙️ Full episode out now.

I have no interest in telling a flat story about service, medicine, or sacrifice. Life is rarely that simple. The milita...
08/04/2026

I have no interest in telling a flat story about service, medicine, or sacrifice. Life is rarely that simple. The military opened a door for me, and it also built pressure into almost every room I entered afterward. I am wiser because I can hold gratitude and grief in the same hand.

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