Turning Pain into Purpose with Sophie McLean
Sophie McLean was born in Algeria, educated in Morocco and France, and with a professional career in the USA and UK. Sophie has led an eventful life. She has been a helicopter pilot, a teacher, a designer, a relief worker, a war refugee, a CEO, and served as the United Nations representative on the commission on the status of the women's hunger project. She has been shot at, shipwrecked and widowed. She has lived on a farm, a boat, a penthouse, and in an ashram as a wisdom teacher. Sophie has spent decades leading transformational seminars for over 80,000 people around the world of all ethnicities, ages, religions, and social backgrounds. All engaged with the universal existential questions of who and what am I, and what is life all about?
We discuss:
- The tragedies in Sophie's life led to her enlightenment and understanding of her purpose and life
- The insights about the life she discovered at just 12 years old
- Her struggle with suicide and how she overcame it by "saying yes to life" and traveling around the world
- How to re-frame the bad things that happen in life
- Your thoughts create your reality
- A powerful question to ask yourself when you've hit rock bottom
- You are a soul having a human experience
Links from this Episode:
- Learn more about Sophie McLean: https://www.sophiemclean.com/sophie-s-story
- Instagram: @sophiemclean.accesstoawareness
- Website: https://www.sophiemclean.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smc.mclean
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Quotes:
- "One needs to be open. I call it a "yes to life." It's as if the Universe is asking you to dance with the moment in front of you. And some of those moments are really fun and great, and some are horrible. Still, you need to dance."