Welcome!
This is a community exploring how the wisdom of mortality can reduce limiting fears and unlock your potential.
Death isn’t the taboo you’ve been led to believe. The simple act of acknowledging your mortality can unlock your life’s highest purpose.
Because once you understand the source of the fears holding you back, your potential becomes limitless.
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” (Socrates)
What Holds You Back In Life?
The fears that quietly shape our choices and limit our potential.
There is mounting evidence that common fears (fear of change, failure, rejection, even love) grow from one ancient root: the fear of death.
This ‘Grandmother fear’ silently influences everything from the tension before we speak in public, the pressure to prove ourselves, the need for control and how we view other people. These fears shape how we live, love and create.
We exist in a death-phobic culture and because we pretend death doesn’t exist, we take life for granted. The consequences run deep, shaping not just our relationships and work, but politics, economics and even how we treat the planet.
“Our fear of death enslaves us to the illusion that we will live forever”. (Terry Tempest Williams)
Unlocking Your Potential
Here’s the paradox: when we begin to acknowledge mortality, fears fade.
Gratitude deepens. The trivial falls away. Clarity sharpens and courage returns. We take risks, love more honestly and make wiser choices in work and life. Purpose stops being something we chase and becomes how we live.
Dying to Live With Purpose is a reflective sanctuary that brings death back into conversation. It’s aimed at seekers, creatives, and change-makers ready to reclaim their spark and live in deeper alignment with life.
Each week brings videos, essays and practical tools to help transform fear into freedom, plus regular live online meetings and Q&As to explore insights from the wisdom of mortality.
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” (Marcus Aurelius)
About Me
My name is John “Hoppy” Hopkins. I’m a creative, founder and Life & Death guide.
I’ve sat with the dying as a trained Soul Midwife (end of life guide), faced my own near-death experiences and studied natural philosophy. I’ve directed films, led companies, and built creative projects and yet it was confronting mortality that revealed the most important truth: facing death is the key to truly living. Read more in My Story.
I believe our fear of death might just be the biggest unspoken barrier to human evolution.
This is the most vulnerable project I’ve ever undertaken. It’s raw, real, and transforming me as I write it. My hope is that it transforms you too, helping you live with gratitude, courage, presence and purpose.
Why Subscribe?
Dying to Live With Purpose offers videos, essays, tools and live sessions to help you move from fear into freedom and unlock your deepest potential.
This is my life’s work and your subscription sustains it, helping a community brave enough to face fear honestly.
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Access to weekly newsletters, videos & free e-Book ‘Guide to Unlocking Potential’
£8/month
Everything above, plus:
Audio recordings of newsletters
Tools to unlock alignment & potential
Live Meetings, Q&As and community discussions
The ability to comment on posts
Subscribe by Oct 31st and get 25% off for the first year.
Let’s Collaborate
Speaking Engagements, Podcasts & Interviews.
If you’d like to help grow this project, or creatively contribute, I’d love to connect.
Contact
For media, collaboration, or sponsorship enquiries: hello@livepurpose.co
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Artwork
If you’re interested in purchasing a print of the stunning nature artwork by Oliver Barnett featured on this site, please get in touch at: ollybarnett@gmail.com