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Living in our strengths and passions to make the world a better place is ultimately satisfying. Under this category, we talk about how to align our lives with our strengths, passions, values and life experience. In short, we talk about how to live our calling.

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The Impact Hour: Overcoming Busyness

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour: “Overcoming Busyness” Click here to listen. Does making your own unique, positive impact sound great, but you’re just too busy for it? Learn how you can have more time for what’s really important to you. This conversation will go deeper than just time management. We’ll explore reasons […]

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Not Taught How to Feel

When I grew up I was not taught how to feel. That might sound weird, but it’s true. I was taught that expressing emotions is bad. If I was angry, it wasn’t OK. I was taught, through others’ responses, that if I felt something, unless it was happiness, I better get rid of the feeling quickly. Fear is […]

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Hiding Out in Plain Sight

I have spent most of my life hiding out in plain sight. This can look a lot of different ways, and in some cases it’s deceiving. It looks like I’m putting myself out there even while I’m hiding. I thought this might be an appropriate topic for a day when many of us will dress […]

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The Impact Hour: Highest Good

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour: “The Highest Good” Click here to listen. In this episode, we talk about getting to the highest version of you so you can hold the highest good for others. To make the deepest impact we can, we must become the highest version of ourselves so we can […]

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The Impact Hour: When Bad Things Happen

In this week’s episode of The Impact Hour (click here to listen): It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” you will experience a difficult event. How do you respond when bad things happen? In this week’s episode, we interview Faydra Koenig, America’s Crisis Coach. Faydra is an example what it can look like to follow […]

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Your Most Important Thing

What is the most important thing to you? Before you answer that, I’d like to talk about perspective. The best way to get perspective is to consider the question within different spans of time. What is the most important thing to you in this moment, right now? Maybe it’s a quiet moment with the cup […]

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The Impact Hour: What Does THAT Mean?

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour: “What Does THAT Mean???” Click here to listen. People say and do things that leave a lot of room for interpretation. What do you make those things mean? Find out how to choose new meanings that are beneficial to you and to the people around you. This […]

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The Journey and the Scout

Do you want to make more of a difference in people’s lives? More and more, we are seeing how doing so is a journey, not a destination. In fact, John and I took a long look at our own journey so we can better understand how to more efficiently guide people on their journey to […]

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The Impact Hour: Become an Expert

In this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we learn what it takes to become an expert at making the difference you want to make. You’ve got what it takes to seriously change lives for the better. Click here to listen. What differentiates you from an expert in making that kind of change? Three things: […]

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