What are you really building toward?
I’ve spent most of my career around entrepreneurs and we’re very good at talking about what’s next. More revenue. More growth. The next opportunity. The next big idea.
But the longer I build, the more interested I am in a different question: Does what you’re building still feel aligned with who you’re becoming?
That question came up again and again when I sat down with Chirag Sagar and Adam Torres, co-founders of Mission Matters. Their company is built around a belief I happen to love: every person has a mission. Their work is about helping people find it, amplify it, and connect with the people who can help move it forward.
Meet Chirag and Adam
I knew this conversation was going to be interesting because Chirag Sagar and Adam Torres, co-founders of Mission Matters, have built their company around a question most entrepreneurs eventually ask themselves: What am I really here to do?
Over nearly a decade, they’ve turned that question into a media platform, a community and a business designed to help other people move closer to their own mission. But what I loved most was seeing how they’ve built it together. There’s a real respect between them, a lot of humor and a shared vision that has given them room to grow in very different ways. And after all these years as partners, this was their first interview together.
And here’s a fun fact I love: after nearly a decade of building Mission Matters together, Chirag and Adam had never been interviewed together on a podcast. Their first time? Right here on Potential to Powerhouse. I’d say we got pretty lucky. 😉
Purpose and peace belong in the same room
Chirag said something during our conversation that stayed with me.
“You can pursue what looks like your purpose and still be driven by something underneath it that has nothing to do with purpose at all.”
Maybe you’re trying to prove something. Fill a void. Reach the number that will finally make you feel successful enough.
From the outside, those paths can look exactly the same.
Chirag has learned to ask a different question: Does the work fuel you, or are you burning yourself out trying to keep it alive?
I think that question gets more important the more successful you become. Because at some point, another revenue goal isn’t enough. You start asking, What am I actually building all of this for?
Then the conversation took a turn
Adam has conducted thousands of interviews over the years, but some of the most meaningful conversations he ever recorded were with his mom.
After losing her unexpectedly, those recordings became something entirely different. They became a way to hear her voice again, hold onto her stories, and preserve a piece of her for the family he hopes to have one day.
That moment shifted the way I thought about everything we had been discussing.
We spend so much time thinking about the reach of what we create. The views. The followers. The numbers.
But sometimes the real value of what we create isn’t something we can measure today.
Sometimes it’s legacy.
Continue the conversation
There is so much in this episode about finding purpose, building the right partnership, trusting yourself, navigating burnout and what it takes to keep showing up when the work gets hard.
And Chirag and Adam have very different ways of looking at all of it, which made this conversation so much fun.
I walked away thinking about this:
Purpose doesn’t always arrive as one giant revelation. Sometimes it leaves breadcrumbs until you’re finally ready to follow them.
So I’m curious: What breadcrumb keeps showing up in your life right now?
Tell me in the comments. I read every one.
Xx,
Tracy
P.S. If you’re at an inflection point and questioning what you’re building next, send this episode to someone who knows you well. Sometimes the people closest to us can see the breadcrumbs before we do.
