Patrolling Your Purpose

Dr. Kareem Puranda is a transformational speaker, emotional intelligence strategist, and former law enforcement officer helping high-functioning people confront the survival identities they built to avoid vulnerability. Known for his powerful ability to challenge perspective and decode the hidden emotional cost of performance, leadership, emotional suppression, and survival mode, Dr. Puranda helps audiences understand the difference between who they truly are and who survival forced them to become.

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After his law enforcement career ended following excessive force indictments where he was found not guilty, Dr. Puranda began confronting the unresolved trauma, emotional armor, and survival conditioning that shaped his own identity. That transformation led him into the mental health profession and inspired the creation of Self-Talk Counseling & Consulting, PLLC in 2017, where he provides emotional wellness services and leadership support for “people on both sides of the law.”

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As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor, Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist, and founder of Achieving Success On Purpose (ASOP), Dr. Puranda’s work focuses on emotional intelligence, leadership, identity reconstruction, trauma awareness, and helping people create the emotional safety needed to live and lead authentically.

He is the creator of Patrolling Your Purpose™: The Mask Removal Framework™, and the author of Breaking the Code of Silence: A Cop's Journey to Triumph and Truth, helping audiences nationwide rethink strength, vulnerability, leadership, and healing through a culturally relevant and transformational lens.