Sara Roccisano

Sara Roccisano | Author, Speaker, World Traveler, and Founder of Embolden Adventures

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Sara left a 20+ year career in Wall Street and corporate America to follow a path of purpose, courage, travel, writing, and spiritual awakening.

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Sara shares how a breaking point in her Manhattan apartment became the moment she chose herself. Without a perfect plan, she left her old life, sold her apartment, walked away from the career that looked impressive on paper, and began writing the book that would become part of her larger Embolden Adventures series.

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✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦

🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/purpose

🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz

📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map

📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose

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In this conversation, Sara speaks about burnout, surrender, leaving New York City, returning to nature, and learning to stop asking the outside world for permission.

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Her work through Embolden Adventures is for the seeker who knows something has to change and is ready to rise after the breakdown. Sara’s upcoming book, Stone Temple Passport: Awake and Radiate with Mama Ayahuasca, begins a larger series exploring surrender, adventure, healing, and personal awakening.

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At the heart of this episode is a simple but fierce message: you have to want your life back. No one else can choose it for you.

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Sara talks about listening to the inner voice, trusting higher power, working with plant medicine, grounding in nature, and learning to see life as a hero’s journey. She also shares why living your purpose can ripple outward simply by standing in your truth.

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This episode is about courage, self-trust, travel, surrender, spiritual awakening, and choosing yourself before life forces the choice for you.

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✦ About Sara Roccisano ✦

Sara Roccisano is an author, speaker, world traveler, and founder of Embolden Adventures, a platform created to encourage personal, professional, and spiritual growth through story, adventure, and courageous self-discovery.

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After more than two decades in Wall Street and corporate America, Sara walked away from the life that no longer fit and began writing, traveling, healing, and helping others take the bet on themselves.

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✦ Guest Links ✦

NEW BOOK: https://emboldenadventures.com/book

🌐 Website: https://www.EmboldenAdventures.com

📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/EmboldenAdventures

🌐 Sara Roccisano: https://sararoccisano.com

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✦ Interviewer ✦

Sharon Clark is a cancer life coach, purpose guide, and LightNet contributor devoted to helping people navigate life’s threshold moments with courage, clarity, and heart.

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🌐 Sharon Clark: https://www.yourtransformationcoach.ca/

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✦ Time Codes ✦

00:00 Purpose is discovered over time

01:13 Meet Sharon Clark and Sara Roccisano

02:15 Sara’s purpose as a way shower and world traveler

03:20 Life is lived forward, understood backward

03:57 The 2022 breaking point in Manhattan

04:18 Quitting without a plan

05:17 Discovering herself through letting go

06:10 Leaving Wall Street and corporate pressure

07:34 Family support and coming home

08:08 Walking a spiritual path others may not understand

09:27 The boiling point from 2020 to 2022

10:43 Work stress, heartbreak, shutdowns, and city noise

11:29 The conference call that broke the camel’s back

12:38 “I quit. I’m choosing me.”

13:59 Stop seeking outside permission

14:47 Following the calling against the grain

15:32 The challenge of surrender and trust

16:17 Meeting her higher power

17:05 Higher power with binoculars and a walkie-talkie

18:23 Nature, plant medicine, and subtle guidance

20:01 You have to want your purpose

21:17 Holding your light

22:59 A world where people stop wearing masks

24:00 Purpose Lab closing reflection

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✦ Connect & Support ✦

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Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all.

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The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and more than 100 interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose.

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🎙️ Listen to the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast:

🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4

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