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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: Healing from Corporate

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Healing from Corporate. Click here to listen. Employers have a huge impact on their employees. Whether it’s a for-profit corporation, nonprofit organization or government job, some of us have had pretty crummy experiences that affect our self-worth and our ability to create change even in our own […]

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My Fight with Emotional Intelligence

You may have heard that emotional intelligence is correlated with higher income and greater success. Studies seems to confirm this. So you may be wondering how do you increase emotional intelligence. Well, let me tell you some of my journey around this. First I should explain emotional intelligence for those of you may not have […]

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The Impact Hour: Freedom

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Freedom. Click here to listen. We enjoy a lot of freedom here in the U.S. We’ll celebrate our various freedoms. We’ll also examine where we may be limiting our own freedom and see what we can do to change it. You can listen to the show live […]

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7 Leadership Myths

We are in a series on leadership. If you missed some of the previous articles in this series, you can read them here: one, two, thee, four. Today we are talking about leadership myths. We aren’t taught leadership in school much, so it’s easy to have a few misconceptions about what it takes to be […]

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The Impact Hour: Defending the Cause

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Defending the Cause. Click here to listen. Meet Tiffany Loeffler of Defending the Cause Regional Alliance. DCRA is doing amazing work coordinating between agencies to strengthen families and protect children in the Sacramento area. You’ll learn about the needs of children and families and what it’s like […]

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The Impact Hour: Thriving through Curiosity

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Thriving through Curiosity. Click here to listen. Sometimes we judge people without meaning to. But just accepting can be hard. Try this on for size: get curious and really seek to understand the other person. You can listen to the show live Wednesdays at 2 PM: on […]

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The Impact Hour: Hijacked by Emotions

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Hijacked by Emotions. Click here to listen. Does it seem like your emotions have a life of their own? Do anger, fear and sadness make you uncomfortable? Learn how to be with your feelings and the feelings of other people. Remember that how you handle your own […]

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