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Turn your deepest why into a life's work

By fusing the Japanese wisdom of Ikigai with the African philosophy of Sankofa, Purpose & Legacy Lab guides you from scattered self-doubt to a crystal-clear purpose statement, a personal clarity map, and a validated, mission-driven venture you're actually built to lead.

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Purpose & Legacy Lab

Purpose isn't something you find — it's something you excavate, and I'm here to hand you the tools.Dora Edney

What you'll learn

What you'll be able to do

  • Craft a clear, personalized purpose statement rooted in your values, strengths, cultural identity, and lived experience using the integrated Ikigai–Sankofa framework.
  • Complete a deep self-inventory — exploring how culture, spirituality, family, and personal identity shape your purpose — and distill the insights into a lasting personal clarity map.
  • Receive a personalized final report identifying your core strengths, purpose themes, leadership style, entrepreneurial opportunities, and prioritized next steps.
  • Design a viable, mission-driven business, career path, or online course concept that is directly aligned with your purpose and validated against a real-world audience need.
  • Build a practical entrepreneurial roadmap — including ideation, validation, a purpose-driven business model, and an action plan — so you leave with a launch-ready vision, not just an idea.
  • Walk away with a toolkit of journaling rituals, AI-guided reflection practices, and curated resources (including affiliate-recommended tools) to sustain momentum, well-being, and long-term legacy-building.

How it works

A school that adapts to you

This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.

We learn your level

A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.

Lessons adapt as you go

Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.

Your AI coach keeps you moving

Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.

The curriculum

What's inside your school

6 modules · 29 lessons

1

Roots & Foundations: The Ikigai–Sankofa Framework

Introduces the philosophical and psychological foundations of Ikigai and Sankofa, establishing the integrated framework students will use throughout the entire course.

  • 1.1Welcome to Purpose & Legacy LabIncluded
  • 1.2The Wisdom of Ikigai: Where Purpose LivesIncluded
  • 1.3The Power of Sankofa: Looking Back to Move ForwardIncluded
  • 1.4Weaving the Two Philosophies: Your Integrated Purpose MapIncluded
  • 1.5Your Purpose Baseline: First Reflections & Journaling RitualIncluded
2

The Deep Self-Inventory: Strengths, Values & Lived Experience

Takes students through a thorough self-discovery process — examining passions, strengths, values, and formative life experiences — to unearth the raw material of their purpose.

  • 2.1Mapping Your Passions: What Lights You UpIncluded
  • 2.2Uncovering Your Strengths: What You Do BrilliantlyIncluded
  • 2.3Clarifying Your Values: What You Stand ForIncluded
  • 2.4Mining Your Story: Lessons from Your Lived ExperienceIncluded
  • 2.5Your World Needs You: Connecting Strengths to a Larger MissionIncluded
3

The Influence Audit: Culture, Identity & the Forces That Shape Purpose

Provides a dedicated, judgment-free space for students to examine how culture, religion, spirituality, politics, family, and personal identity influence — and can empower — their purpose journey.

  • 3.1Understanding the Influence LandscapeIncluded
  • 3.2Culture, Heritage & Ancestral WisdomIncluded
  • 3.3Spirituality, Religion & Personal Belief SystemsIncluded
  • 3.4Family, Community & Social ConditioningIncluded
  • 3.5Politics, Identity & Your Place in the WorldIncluded
4

Crafting Your Purpose Statement & Personal Clarity Map

Synthesizes all self-discovery work into a clear, personalized purpose statement, a lasting personal clarity map, and a comprehensive AI-generated final report.

  • 4.1From Insights to Identity: Synthesizing Your Self-InventoryIncluded
  • 4.2Writing Your Purpose Statement: A Step-by-Step WorkshopIncluded
  • 4.3Building Your Personal Clarity MapIncluded
  • 4.4Your Personalized Final Report: Strengths, Purpose & Next StepsIncluded
5

From Purpose to Venture: Ideation, Validation & Mission-Driven Models

Teaches students to translate their discovered purpose into a viable business, career path, or online course concept using practical entrepreneurial tools and real-world validation.

  • 5.1Purpose-Led Ideation: Generating Your Business & Course ConceptsIncluded
  • 5.2Know Your People: Identifying and Understanding Your AudienceIncluded
  • 5.3Validating Your Idea Before You BuildIncluded
  • 5.4Designing a Purpose-Driven Business ModelIncluded
  • 5.5Creating Value with an Online Course or Coaching OfferIncluded
6

Your Entrepreneurial Roadmap: Action Planning, Tools & Legacy Launch

Equips students with a personalized, launch-ready entrepreneurial roadmap, an action plan with concrete milestones, curated tool recommendations, and a legacy mindset for long-term success.

  • 6.1Building Your Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial RoadmapIncluded
  • 6.2Your 90-Day Action Plan: From Vision to First StepIncluded
  • 6.3Sustaining Purpose: Well-Being, Resilience & the Long GameIncluded
  • 6.4Your Toolkit & Recommended ResourcesIncluded
  • 6.5Legacy, Impact & Your Next ChapterIncluded

Who it's for

Is this you?

The Career Transitioner

You've built a respectable career but the meaning has drained out — you need a structured, soulful process to discover what comes next and why.

The Emerging Entrepreneur

You feel the pull to build something of your own but want to start from purpose and values, not just a market opportunity.

The Coach or Consultant

You help others transform their lives and you want your own practice to be rooted in a clear, articulated mission — not just a niche.

The Culturally-Rooted Creator

Your heritage, community, and ancestral story are central to your identity, and you want work that honors and amplifies that lineage.

The Thoughtful Course Builder

You have knowledge worth sharing and want to design an online course or teaching offer that is genuinely aligned with who you are.

The Legacy-Minded Professional

You're thinking beyond income and titles — you want to understand the through-line of your life's work and the impact it will leave behind.

Questions

Frequently asked

Your teacher

A note from your teacher

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Dora Edney

If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've been living with a quiet, persistent ache — the feeling that the work you're doing, however successful it looks on the outside, isn't quite yours. Or maybe you're standing at a crossroads, feeling the pull toward something more meaningful but not yet able to name it. Either way, I want you to know: that ache is not a problem. It's a signal. And I built this Lab to help you follow it all the way home.

I know what it feels like to have purpose somewhere in your chest but no real map for getting it out into the world. I also know that most of the resources available — the business courses, the vision-board workshops, the career assessments — tend to answer only half the question. They either go deep into the soul work and leave you inspired but directionless, or they hand you a business framework with no roots in who you actually are. Purpose & Legacy Lab was born from my conviction that this is a false choice. That the most powerful, sustainable ventures — the ones that create real impact and genuine legacy — are built when inner clarity and outer strategy grow from the same soil.

That's why this program fuses two wisdom traditions I hold deeply: Ikigai, the Japanese philosophy of purposeful living, and Sankofa, the Akan principle of drawing on your ancestry and lived experience to navigate forward. Neither of these is a trend or a metaphor. They are time-tested, culturally rich frameworks for understanding what a life well-lived actually looks like — and together, they create something I haven't found anywhere else: a way to locate your purpose not in the abstract, but in the specific texture of your story, your strengths, your heritage, and your particular moment in history.

What we do in the Lab is not soft work. We do a real self-inventory — mapping passions, strengths, values, and the cultural and spiritual forces that have shaped you. We look honestly at your lived experience as a source of wisdom, not just biography. We write a Purpose Statement that is yours and no one else's, and we build a Personal Clarity Map you'll return to for years. And then we roll up our sleeves and do the entrepreneurial work: generating ideas, finding your audience, validating what you're building, designing a business model, and mapping out your first 90 days with the kind of specificity that turns vision into momentum.

I designed this for aspiring and early-stage purpose-driven entrepreneurs, for career transitioners who know they're meant for something different, for coaches and creators who want their work to mean something — and for anyone drawn to cultural wisdom, deep self-inquiry, and the kind of legacy that outlasts a LinkedIn headline. If that's you, I want to invite you in. The lab is warm, the questions are deep, and your purpose has been waiting long enough.

Dora Edney

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  • 6 modules, 29 lessons
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