Transcript - Ignite Your Purpose and Embrace Change With Madi Murphy

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[INTRODUCTION]

[0:00:03] PF: Thank you for joining us for episode 551 of Live Happy Now. We’re wrapping up 2025 and heading into a brand-new year, so it’s a great time to talk about what we want to do with it. I’m your host, Paula Felps, and this week, I’m joined by Madi Murphy, author of In the Cosmic Zone and host of the chart-topping CosmicRX Podcast, who’s here to talk about how to ignite your purpose. Using a blend of astrology, neuroscience, spirituality, and practical tools, Madi helps everyone from artists to CEOs discover how to identify their purpose and make the most of their lives. She’s here today to talk about how we can use those practices to step into a brighter, better new year. Let’s have a listen.

[INTERVIEW]

[0:00:45] PF: Madi, thank you so much for coming on the show.

[0:00:48] MM: Paula, thank you for having me. This is a treat in the truest sense of the word.

[0:00:54] PF: You are such a delight to talk to, and I thought as we’re looking at the end of the year, we’re wrapping it up, and this is a time when people get really reflective and they start resetting their goals, or re-evaluating what they want, so this seemed just the perfect time to bring you on to talk about how we can get out of our comfort zone and find our purpose. As you and I have talked about, it’s called a comfort zone for a reason, so do we really have to leave it to find our purpose?

[0:01:22] MM: There’s something about our comfort zone, and listen, I’m not saying don’t get comfortable. I’m a cozy girl. I like my creature comforts, I like safety, I like security. That is something different. Comfort zone is where you feel yourself. You build up these walls, you stay somewhere, and the comfort starts to feel sticky. It actually starts to feel more like stuckness, or stagnation, and your whole body and that part of your brain that blessed be it, it is designed to protect you from like, do not try new things, danger, Will Robinson, do not go out, do not pass go, just stay here. All of that part of you will say, “Mm-mm. Let’s not do it.” But there’s a part of you, and if you’re listening and this resonates, you know what it feels like. It’s deeper, it’s louder, and it is persistent, and that is the place of the soul, right? Your heart and your soul are like, “We need to go. We need to grow. We need to expand. We need to really discover who we came here to be.”

[0:02:24] PF: As you’re dealing with that, it can get very uncomfortable, just that realization that you need to make a change, or make a move.

[0:02:32] MM: A 100%. Let’s just say, it doesn’t always happen from oh, fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh, rainbows and unicorns arrived at my door and said, “Hello, here’s a gift. A publisher’s house clearing check of a new opportunity.” It usually comes from a dark night of the soul, a cosmic plot twist you didn’t expect, an ending, a beginning, a breakup, a breakdown always happens usually before the breakthrough.

[0:03:00] PF: Yeah. When you look back at your own life and you can see these moments that you thought were just horrible, tragic, how am I ever going to get through this? Then it turns out to be, oh, that opened a door that I never dreamed was possible.

[0:03:14] MM: Yeah. Every time, I’m going to tell you, it doesn’t happen just once, because I think this happened for me in my late 20s, I ended up calling off my wedding about two weeks from the big day, like true movie things. I was 27, 28. I was like, I did it. That was my big lesson. Yeah, honey, that’s cute. That’s cute. You think you’re going to do one of those ego deaths? You think you’re going to do one of those big life transitions? Actually, because of that, I got a tattoo on my wrist of the Roman numeral five, because every time I’ve been called to let go of the good for the great to leave the cozy, sticky trappings of the comfort zone for the cosmic zone, I am plagued by the number five.

[0:04:02] PF: Interesting.

[0:04:03] MM: Which is an angel number, they say, that has to do with change, like it’s time to change. You think about one through 10, five is the number where we’re like, we’re switching, right? We’re making that curve, but you’re divinely directed and protected. But it’s not going to feel good when you’re in it. I had to get it tattooed on myself, because every time I’m like, “No, I don’t want to do it this time.” Every time I’m like, and I have to literally have it on my wrist tattooed in permanent ink to be like, remember the last time you didn’t want to do it, you thought you couldn’t and you did. On the other side of it, life was more beautiful, more brilliant, more you than you even could have imagined. Yeah, that’s what’s happening again, honey.

[0:04:46] PF: That’s amazing. That is amazing. What I love about your approach, it’s really, really fresh, because you blend astrology with spirituality, science, and then you offer a lot of practical tools. Tell us how you began to explore what you call the cosmic zone.

[0:05:04] MM: Yeah. Thank you for saying that. I am a born and raised New Yorker, daughter of a long line of working-class New Yorkers. My grandfather worked at the Fulton fish market, my dad’s a taxi driver. All I have to say is that I love spirituality. I love philosophy. I love self-development, but I’m like, it has to be rooted in the actionable, in the practical. I’m like, what are we doing? What are we doing here, people?

[0:05:29] PF: Right.

[0:05:30] MM: I’ve always been spiritually curious, right? I always knew from a young age, there was something bigger out there. I grew up in a household that was equal parts. My dad was a big thinker, a broad thinker, Catholic school boy, but encouraged us to read everything from the idiot’s guide to the Koran, the Torah, to Eckhart Tolle, so Wayne Dyer. Then my mom’s a bit traditional, more with her bible. She had a little woman’s bible study. I did my little Sunday school at home. We did a whole thing. I had that connection, right?

I think life either beat it out of me, or I felt like it was silly, or not to be taken seriously. As I entered more of college and in the professional world in New York City. As I got further from that, I got further from enjoying my life, feeling alive, connected to curiosity, clarity, confidence. Then in my late twenties, the universe was like, okay, pulling the plug on this. Whatever this fake life you created was, this ain’t going to fly anymore, honey. Shut down. My whole body shut down. I started getting signs from every place you could ever imagine. I felt like that’s almost having psychosis for how much my brain was being flooded with new information and downloads and people interfering, intervening in my life. That was my sign to call off this wedding that I was going down a path. Wasn’t a bad man. He was a very sweet man, but he was not my man. That was not my future. That was not my timeline.

I think from there, there’s something about making a really public declaration that you’re not going to live an authentic life. You’re not going to make yourself small and fold yourself into something that’s not true to you. You almost were like, well, I can’t go back to doing anything inauthentic. I was like, I just made this my whole everyone in my life. I stood on this stage and was like, no. I have to be true to myself. Then I was like, who am I? Who is myself? Who is she? What is that version of her?

I just started devouring and returning to texts and principles and spiritual modalities and methodologies that I had been lightly playful with as a child, but then it became less play, more like, oh, no, this is my lifeline. This is keeping me alive. It led me to meditation, numerology, energy work, reiki, tarot. But astrology, I think it was that thing that it has a little bit – it’s not a science. It was in certain times in history. But it is backed by so much data. It is like, I think people have called it the original data science, because it’s just collecting data since the beginning of time on the cycles that we go through with the planets, with the moon, the sun. I started to understand myself and my cycles of life so much more. It helped me get a framework of language to everything.

Everything about it was like, oh, it really helped me organize my own Virgo. It helped me organize all this information I’ve been collecting about everything from mindset work to again, energy to rituals. I was Oh, this is just like a filing system from the universe. Oh.

[0:08:44] PF: Oh, interesting.

[0:08:45] MM: Oh, oh, oh, you’re going through this right now. Oh, it’s Sagittarius season right now at the time of this recording. All of us are having a check in on our beliefs. All of us are being asked to expand. All of us are being asked to plug back into our vision, to do something new, wherever you’re at in life right now. It happens every year, like cosmic clockwork. I was like, oh, great. That’s all that self-care that I’ve learned, can fit under that season. Then I started sharing this with friends, started doing circles, the people started asking, working one on one. I was working, running businesses that had nothing to do with this.

My husband called it my cosmic side hustle. People were coming into my juice shop, my coffee shop, ringing up their purchase and being like, “Hey, can you teach me how to do what you taught this person to do, or you do about this, living in alignment or trusting your intuition or learning about your purpose. Then I realized from helping other people, I was like, “Oh, it’s not just working from me.” Because again, I need data. I was like, now this is working for a dozen people, two dozen people, a 100 people, 200 people, 300 people. People started having this experience that we call living in the cosmic zone, where you really know yourself authentically, where you’re really embodying this new energy. You’re not just reading about it, talking about it. You’re living it. You’re being it. You’re breathing it. You’re magnetizing it towards you and you’re living in this place of flow that is so cool, so free. Dare I say, it’s fun.

The universe starts having jokes with you like, oh, my God. Like, signs, symbol, synchronicities are guiding your path. You’re just trusting you’re in such acceptance, because you know that when you’re in the cosmic zone, you’re too aligned to settle, you’re too aligned to fail. When something doesn’t work out, or you’re being asked to make a big shift, you’re like, great. We coined that term the cosmic zone, because so many of my clients would come to me with like, “The craziest thing happened.” We’d be like, “That’s life in the cosmic zone, baby.”

[0:10:48] PF: What is so great about this book is it takes that woo-woo factor. Like, if someone’s more comfortable saying it’s a state of flow, versus saying it’s the cosmic zone, that’s great. And you really break down the science. I think that’s where it’s, so much instruction in the past has lacked that, like we don’t understand. We’re just supposed to say, “Hey, believe this.” We haven’t had that science that shows us why this works and how it affects us.

[0:11:16] MM: It’s flow state, baby. Everyone’s been there. That’s what’s cool is sometimes you hear these words, or concepts and it feels like something outside of them, or like, enlightenment, or some guru has to take you there. You have to go on a retreat to Bali or Costa Rica. Honey, no. Honey, you’ve all experienced flow state. It might be like, just you’re talking to your best friend. All of a sudden, you’re like, “Oh, my God. That’s that great idea,” right? Or you’re off doing laundry and you’re like, all of a sudden, you’re like, “Oh, my God. I had a ping of a creative download.” Or you’re just doing something you love and you’re losing track of time. We’ve all tasted it for a minute. I just want to help you live there more. More than not.

[0:11:56] PF: Yeah. Your book, it is all about learning to live in better alignment with your purpose and then respond to the ideas, or opportunities as they present themselves. How do we miss those opportunities when we aren’t in alignment with our purpose?

[0:12:12] MM: Oh, my God. It’s such a good question. This is what I’m so passionate about helping people for it, because I’m like, the opportunities, they’re all around us. There’s invitations, there’s initiations, there’s things opening to us all the time, but we can get so stuck. I actually use this analogy of, I had a dream one time that I write, as I was making one of my big changes in the five change, I had this dream, or a vision. I don’t know how to describe it. That I was in front of a New York City sidewalk and I was the five, six-year-old version of me. I was sticking, there was a lollipop on the ground, the concrete and it’s disgusting, right? Covered in all the stuff you’d imagine in a New York City sidewalk. But I’m just trying to make this thing work and get it up.

In this dream, my grandparents, I don’t know who they were, angels guy, a crew of people were like, “Honey, if you could just let go of that lollipop and trust us and turn around, there’s a whole candy store here for you, open. You get to go nuts, bananas. Just go nuts in the shop. But you’re so stuck on this one, weird grody, gritty thing that you don’t realize what’s waiting for you here.” Something about that vision and now I have a toddler and I experience this all the time, where I’m like, “Mommy’s trying to help you, but you have to release. You have to surrender.” Then I hear myself, I’m like, yup, that is what the universe is telling us all the time of there’s so much that we get in our own way about whether that’s things have to be a certain way, you have to be on a certain timeline. I have to have it all figured out. I overthink it. I’m not ready. I have to wait until I’m perfect, until I’m ready to do this thing. That opportunity, that’s not for me. That’s for someone else who is more, whatever, qualified, smarter, younger, prettier, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Our mind is just constantly blocking us, like that sticky lollipop. We’re just clenching on to it. There’s so much waiting for us. It really is a practice to be like, okay, and the first step is really knowing yourself, actually. The first step is knowing like, oh, because how are you going to trust yourself and trust the universe if you don’t know yourself, your gifts, your strengths, your obstacles, your opportunities, your shadows within you. I know, I’m a Virgo, like I said. One of my ways I get my own way is, I can wait for things to be perfect. I can get my head about it. I can be like, I have to have the whole plan, the white boards, the spreadsheets, the perfect team, and the perfect execution. Every time I do that, I never do the thing.

I’ve learned over and over time, the key in my book, Virgo, is practice makes magic. Just start doing it. When I do that, the universe opens the candy store for me. There’s so much opportunity and invitations out there and there’s so much that goes with it, like the magic that happens. The first step is understanding who you are, who you’re here to be, and maybe most importantly, how we can get in our own way a little bit sometimes.

[0:15:20] PF: Because it does take us out of just getting in this trench that we’re marching along. It makes us start thinking about other things that we could be doing, like that alternative life. I hear a lot of people talking about like, “Oh, if I were 10 years younger, I would do this. Or oh, if I would do that.” What I love about your approach, too, is that you talk about purpose, not as something that we discover, but something that we activate.

[0:15:46] MM: Exactly.

[0:15:47] PF: That’s a big difference, because a lot of people are trying to figure out, well, what is my purpose? Explain to me what that shift means and how someone can begin tapping into it, so they can understand what their purpose is and how they activate it.

[0:16:00] MM: Absolutely. One thing that also I always understood as a young girl was something in me was like, I am here for some purpose. I don’t know what. I’m here for something. I actually looking around, everyone is here for something really cool. That should be really important about everyone. But I didn’t have the language, the tools to articulate this and definitely, not within me. I am not a cookie cutter person. I thought your purpose was going to a career counselor, guidance counselor’s office. They’re like, “Hello, you’re a doctor.”

[0:16:32] PF: You’re really good at this, so this is what you’re going to do.

[0:16:34] MM: Here you go. You’re just like, “Thank you, life.” You go off and you do it till you die. Then you’re like, amazing. No. Your purpose, it’s less about what you do, or one label you wear. More about how you are, who you are, how you show up for life. In that, there’s things that the universe is going to ask you to bring out in the world. Some of those things are going to be tangible, like art, a business, teaching, healing, sharing messages. But equally important in that purpose of what is being asked to you’re bringing something out into the world that, thing wants to bring something out within you as well.

Finding your purpose isn’t like the scavenger hunt. I need a label you put on the outside world. It’s this beautiful, constant becoming. It’s just, oh, I feel really clear on who I am, what my superpowers, what my, I always say, my magic. I believe everyone has magic and medicine to share with the world. That could just be in, oh, my mom, she passed this winter. She had so many great things about her. One of her things was, and it was in her birth chart, she really sees people. She could see whether it’s a cashier at the pharmacy, or one of my best friends, she really slowed down and saw people for who they are, something beautiful about them. I think I inherited it a little bit from her.

Watching her move through the world, she really saw people. Not only was that a gift for other people, it also expands it for us. You living in your purpose, Paula. You are such a mystical messenger. You’re such a communicator. You also bring such sparkle energy. You’re just like human – you’re champagne in human form to me.

[0:18:33] PF: Thank you.

[0:18:33] MM: You’re just like that. There are these bubbles, and even sitting down talking with you, it’s giving me fresh air, fresh life, right? Of course, that can manifest through many roles. That can manifest through even work, or career. Our purpose isn’t just about work. It’s about like, oh, I have this thing in me. When I bring it out, I feel more of me, I can show up more openhearted, more loving, more connected, more clear. I can bring that out in someone else and I can teach them about that. My mom taught me about the power of seeing people. You, when I’m sitting with you, I’m like, wow. Like, Paula, this teaches me about the purpose of like, yeah, lightness, right? And play, and this witty, whimsical little sparkle you have about you. I’m like, oh, this is great. I can be that, too.

That’s what I also love about in the cosmic zone and astrology at large, is that we each carry unique gifts. When it comes to astrology, we all have the same science, the same planet. No one is born missing something in their chart. We just might have more of it, or less of it. By learning, by being our purpose, we’re expanding the people’s potential. What I love about it is I am someone who gets bored very easily. If someone did come to me and was like, “Hey, you need to be that cosmic career counselor, you’re going to be a doctor, or a lawyer.” I know myself. I would have been like, okay, great. Done that for four years, moved on to something else.

[0:20:02] PF: Nope. I’m bored now.

[0:20:03] MM: I’m bored now. The fact that all of us, our purpose is a constant state of becoming and it’s going to meet us at different moments and ask of us to make art of it in different ways is really cool. I work with people who are 17. I work with people who are in their late 70s. I work with, I think to date, one of my oldest clients I had was 84, going through her, a thing called the [inaudible 0:20:28] return. But she wanted to return back to her art. She started a podcast. Because we always have something to do. There’s never, especially in astrology, there’s no such thing as too young, too old. There’s just doing something with your purpose and understanding your divine timing in it.

[0:20:50] PF: We’ll be right back with more of Live Happy Now.

[BREAK]

[0:21:00] PF: Now, let’s hear more from Madi Murphy.

[INTERVIEW CONTINUED]

[0:21:04] PF: What about someone who is just not sure what their purpose is? They’ve been maybe raising kids, got a career. It’s like, I think women in particular can struggle with this, because we have to do so many different jobs. We have to do the child rearing. We have to do the house. We have to do our careers. We have all these things, and we put ourselves dead last on that list. When you ask someone, there’s two questions they can’t answer. What do you do for fun? Because it’s like, nothing. Sleep. Or, what is your purpose? They’re like, “I don’t know. I’m so busy taking care of everybody else that I can’t even find that.” How does someone start digging into that?

[0:21:47] MM: This is exactly the exact message that I just want to broadcast and shout from the mountaintops, because I realized after living in it in my own life, especially women, especially caretakers, we are trained, programmed, rewarded, or the only thing we can do is be in a response mechanism, responding to, what do you need? What do you need? What do you need? Out, out, out. In that moment, when I was talking about calling off my wedding, that was the first moment that I was like, who am I? What do I want?

I’m the oldest of four girls. Every job I ever had was like, “Yes, ma’am. I’ll get that right away for you.” Put out that fire, right? Oh, partner. You want this? You want to be like this? I’ll do that. Sure, sure, sure. All of a sudden, I was standing there burn down my whole life, blow up a bomb. I was like, I don’t even know what I want next. I don’t even know what I want. I don’t know who I am. It was almost dizzying. It was unnerving. The first step about understanding your purpose, or what do you do for fun, or any of this is literally just carving out some space to tune in back to you. To looking at yourself, getting to know yourself, finding words for who you are.

Remember that you are someone, not just someone who is the driver, the chauffeur, the cook, the cleaner, the emailer, the scheduler. Like, oh, right. I have something in me. I have a spark. I was born with a light. I was born with – I have things that do light me up. I have things that scare me. I have things that I dream of. I have things that I desire. It’s okay to take up space in that. But first, I have to know what that is. We talk a lot in our society about love yourself. Love yourself. Could you love someone? Could you fall in love with someone, without knowing them, talking to them?

[0:23:42] PF: No. It’s crucial to the process.

[0:23:45] MM: It’s crucial, right? We don’t do that with ourselves. Saying, oh, love yourself. Okay. When was the last time we talked to ourselves, got to know ourselves and really studied ourselves? For me, as someone who is naturally – I am a naturally empathetic human. You walk in the room, you’re tired, I’m like, I’m tired, too. Sometimes I have such –

[0:24:09] PF: You’re a sponge.

[0:24:10] MM: I am a sponge. It is so hard for me to separate. Carving out space and stillness. Then having something about like, oh, I am that way. Again, I like, in my book, I wanted to write about these keys and these archetypes, but less in a way that’s defining you. There’s a reason why I didn’t make my book super technical, because I don’t want someone to pick it up and immediately be like, headache. Just down, mumbo jumbo. Literally, everyone knows their sun sign. What’s your sign, baby? Turn to that key.

Every one zodiac sign equals one key, equals one chapter. Just read. Read that chapter. Read a little bit about that. Read about that energy. Read about the gifts and that the needs of that. An understanding that like, oh, that’s part of you. By even just meditating on that for one week and noticing how that comes up, right? For me, I said, the practice makes magic, the Virgo. I’m like, okay, noticing where that comes up, noticing where I can embody that more, noticing where I can choose that key to unlock things when I feel stuck, it brings you back to yourself. It brings you back to a returning, to a remembering. Like I said, nothing your purpose is outside of you. It’s just about peeling back all these layers. Honestly, unfortunately, a lot of them are conditioning. Our society is not set up to be like, hey, enough of that, enough of that over giving.

It’s up to us to be like, yeah, I’m going to take some of my power back right now. Thank you very much. Remember that I have needs, too, and I have things I want to do. It’s a reclamation. It’s a whole revolution.

[0:25:57] PF: You offer some really great practices. You have the mindset practice and spiritual practice to help us overcome the blocks that we are going to encounter when we are making change. Talk about why these practices are so important to implement into our lives, to keep change going.

[0:26:14] MM: What I love about this work, there’s a reason why we’re still writing self-development books. There’s a reason why like, you’re like, okay, the stuff is the same material over and over again, because we need it. I have to take my own medicine all the freaking time, because as humans, every time, why I had the tattoo, every time, we’re up against change, we’re up against doing something that feels scary. Every time we’re being called in that comfort zone, we need something. We need something to come back to, to remind us that we’re ready, but it’s not enough just to be like, “You’re ready.”

It has to be a practice, a tool. Think about learning how to do anything, right? With the right tool, it’s so much easier. I am someone, again, who has spent almost a decade now helping people, my clients, my mentees move through really big hard things, or take some really big leaps. I realized that if I could tell them, “Hey, you’re great. You can do this.” They’re like, okay, that helps. If I could give them a tool to empower them, right? Empower is right there. I am power. When we do something for ourselves, we remember how powerful we are. It just changes us, like a deep, experiential level.

A tool, even if you don’t understand it in the beginning, how I feel is, at least I have something on my side. Okay, I just have this one mind set practice. I’m grabbing it for dear life. I’m like, I’m jumping in this boat, I have this one tool. Okay, cool. Right? It’s funny that when you do that, it just helps bridge the gap. It just helps bridge the gap, whether it’s a security blanket, placebo.

[0:28:01] PF: Or just your starter kit.

[0:28:04] MM: Your starter kit. It’s just getting you somewhere. To me, I’ve always thought the best things in life are the ones that give you tools to do something yourself, whether it’s the old leading – where teach a man to fish expression, or it’s therapist. I love a therapist who gives you a tool kit. I love someone who teaches you how to do something on your own. I’m like, no, don’t do it for me, right? Teach me how I do it for myself, so that I can do it over and over again. Also, I can remember, oh, I’m powerful. I forgot for a second, right?

[0:28:36] PF: Yeah. That’s so important for us to be able to remember. Especially right now, this is such an unusual time in history. It’s a very uncomfortable time. You talk about this moment as a collective awakening. How do you see purpose, spiritual empowerment, and personal alignment contributing to this larger revolution that you write about?

[0:28:57] MM: It’s more like self-leadership, self-governing, how to be more self-sovereign, while being in that space of more of what the energy of the world needs right now, more open, more compassionate, more creative, more loving, more heart-centered, more nurturing. A lot of our society focuses on what’s not working. How are we going to, you know, oh, this is not working. This stinks. This stinks. That is what like, your phone and the news and the headlines and Instagram and TikTok, that stuff feeds off of getting you addicted to fear and negativity and the doom scrolling. There’s hard stuff happening. I’m never going to discredit that. But I am here to tell you that there is something beautiful coming. There is something so beautiful coming, but it’s going to take all of us weaving something into this new tapestry. I don’t care what it is. It doesn’t have to be big and grand, but it is going to take us having courage to lead from the heart and to lead with a new way of living. I keep calling it revolution, the joyful reimagining. Can we reimagine?

[0:30:06] PF: Oh, I love that.

[0:30:07] MM: Can we reimagine what it’s like to be connected to our neighbor, to our society, to our community, to our schools, to what would it feel like, right? So much of the cosmic zone, I wrote this to let people know that so much of what we think about the world, what we think about ourselves is really conditioned. It’s outdated programming. It’s time for an iOS upgrade from the inside out. We’re not going to build a new and better world with that old programming inside of us.

[0:30:40] PF: I love that. I love that. I can’t even think of a better way to wrap that up. That is that parting thought that we all want to have. As we venture into this new year, what’s the one thing that they can hold on to? What is the thing that first and foremost, that they should keep top of mind as we look at how we want to change and how we want to find our purpose, or activate our purpose?

[0:31:06] MM: First thing I’m going to say, anything is possible. I just want to say, as wild and as untethered and as feral as it feels out there, it is. It’s wild. But there’s no rules. Almost imagine we’ve been plucked up out of gravity, which means that there’s enormous potentiality for things that you might have tried in the past, or things that didn’t work, or things that are like, how. Do not focus on the how. I want you to focus on the what and the who and the why. Why are you doing things?

My biggest the mantra that I keep repeating to everyone who will listen to me is just, if you’re here right now, you were born on purpose, with purpose for this exact moment. Just trust it. It doesn’t have to be perfect. But what we do on the personal level affects the planetary level. Every time that you heal yourself, every time you choose a new path, every time you choose love, over fear, openness over closeness, every time you just choose a new path, you’re weaving something so powerful into our collective energy right now. Just keep doing that, honey.

[0:32:23] PF: Love it. Madi, thank you for sitting down with me. Always so fun to talk to you. Thank you for your book. We’re going to tell our listeners how they can find you, how they can find your book, all the things, all Madi, all the time. Again, I wish you a wonderful 2026.

[0:32:40] MM: Likewise. Thank you for having me.

[END OF INTERVIEW]

[0:32:45] PF: That was Madi Murphy, talking about how to move out of the comfort zone and activate our purpose in the new year. If you’d like to learn more about Madi, follow her on social media, tune in to her CosmicRX Radio Podcast, check out her book, In the Cosmic Zone, or get some cool free downloads, just visit us at livehappy.com and click on this podcast episode.

This is our last episode of 2025. We’re going to give the Live Happy team a well-deserved week off and meet you back here again next year with all new episodes. Until then, this is Paula Felps and the team from Live Happy, wishing you a very happy new year.

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In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why leaving your comfort zone is essential for growth — and how to recognize when it’s time.
How to activate your purpose through alignment, rather than waiting to “discover” it.
Practical tools and mindset practices to overcome blocks and live in flow more often.

Discover her new book, In the Cosmic Zone.

Visit Madi’s website.

Listen to the CosmicRx Radio podcast.

Get her free self-care workbook.

Follow her on Social Media:

- Personal Instagram: @iammadimurphy
- Business Instagram: @thecosmicrx

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