Building a Good Life: Kirana Sidin on Purpose, Intentional Choices, and Finding Meaning in Everyday Life

Hello everyone, and welcome to another inspiring episode of Telling My Story, the podcast where we uncover the journeys behind remarkable people and discover their experiences, lessons, and choices that shape who we become. I'm your host, Henry Chiwetelu, and today's conversation is about something we all want, but don't always know how to define. What does it really mean to live a good life? In a world that constantly tells us to achieve more, learn more and become more. It's easy to forget that a meaningful life can also be built through the small, ordinary choices we make every day. Today, I'm joined by Kriyana Siddin. Did I get it correct?

Yeah, you pronounced it correct. wonderful

all right and amazon number one best-selling author a strategic life coach whose work explore purpose intentional living relationship personal growth and timeless wisdom her best-selling book cheer for a good life grew from a deeply personal journey of reflection and a desire to understand what it truly means to build a meaningful life kriana believe that a good life isn't something we simply discover This is something we build one ordinary choice at a time. Today, we explore her story, what she has learned about intentional living, and how each of us can begin creating a life that feels more meaningful. Kriana, welcome to Telling My Story podcast, and it's a pleasure to have you here with us today.

Hi. Hi everyone, thank you Harry for having me. It's a pleasure to be here and I can't wait to have the wonderful conversation with you. Thank you so much.

And I'm really happy you're here so that we can hear your story. So let's begin with your story. What first inspired you to start asking what it really means to live a good life?

So the first inspiration, I think it probably it came from unexpected place, yeah, from the journey of my life. So the turning point actually came from a very ordinary moment at home. My youngest child once called me jobless. That's the starting point. And honestly, it stayed with me. Not because it was completely wrong, I had stepped away from the conventional career path I had been on, but because that one word made me stop and look at my life from a completely different angle. And then I started asking myself, what have I actually been building? And is this the life I consciously choose or is it simply the life I drifted into? So that comment became a real wake up call for me. When I reflected on it, I realized that I had spent a lot of time being good at managing responsibilities, being productive, and then taking care of other people and doing what seemed like the right thing. But somewhere along the way, I hadn't really stopped to ask myself what I wanted to build. So yeah, and I think that realization was uncomfortable, of course, because I wasn't unhappy in some dramatic way. My life wasn't falling apart. It looked fine, but I realized I had been drifting. So yeah, I decided I needed to start building something that was mine. And I didn't start with some grand business plan or a five-year strategy. I only start a very small which is reading and I read about that some kind of psychology, philosophy, personal growth, human behavior,