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How we Connect to our Highest Purpose | Ruby Maddox | TEDxSpringfield

1,855 views · Published 21 December 2018 · 11:53 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Connecting to our purpose is about manifesting the highest version of our self and moving it out into the world. This talk explores what keeps us from that connection and what we can do to find it again.  Ruby Maddox is the Chief Purpose Director, at Direct Your Purpose, an educational consultancy aimed at developing self-directed leaders.

She currently works our Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley focusing on experiential learning and international education.Ruby Maddox has spent over 12yrs working inthe field of higher education and nonprofit management.Ruby received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Public Policy and Urban Communities and she received her M.S. from Bay Path University, in Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy.

Ruby is also the co-founder of both Gardening the Community, a youth urban agriculture and food justice organization in Springfield, MA, and Leaders of the Free World, an international experience and leadership development program for young black men. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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