From being a one-year-old having open heart surgery to seven more heart-related surgeries over the years, nearly dying on the operating table three times, and all that has gone with this journey, Danny Covey is here to tell us about his journey today. True miracles. Today’s guest was told he would never physically excel, yet to look at him now you’d never know of any of this. Danny is a fit black belt with a wife and three children working in marketing and design in Ottawa, Canada. This episode will give you such a boost and dose of inspiration!

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"Walking in the shoes of other people", Experiential learning rather than ‘talking heads’, Empathy as the basis for interacting with those around us, Experience design… These are just a few of the amazing deep dives in this week’s episode of Be The Good with Kate.

Executive Director of Empathable, Micah Kessel, joins me today to share so much insight and wisdom into how we communicate, adapt, and view the world.

From the Empathable website: “Empathy-centered leadership and team training, for a more emotionally intelligent generation of Belonging + Learning & Development.”

How experiential learning changes behavior… I will just leave it at that. It was fascinating to listen to Micah.

Listen to the end for really great exercise you can do at home, too.

*Also listen for this week's 'Good Deeds Doer shout-out'! Kudos to pediatric infectious disease specialist Miriam Laufer , nominated by Patrick Daniels.

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Start this episode for all sorts of insights into the nonprofit world, listen to the end for a most inspiring chat on growth versus scarcity mindsets…

Today’s guest on Be The Good with Kate is Kristi Porter, Founder and Chief Do-Gooder at Signify Solutions, which helps cause-focused organizations “understand and execute effective marketing campaigns so they can move from stressed to strategic”. Limited resources, as Kristi explains, does not mean limited potential.

How much stronger organizations are when they collaborate, hone their brands, verbalize their message, and build community. Kristi helps organizations make a bigger social impact.

What is social enterprise? Hear how Kristi explains and also shares stories of nonprofit growth and impact.

If you are in Atlanta like Kristi, she also mentions an organization called Be The Bridge and a great stop called Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party :)

**This week also begins Season 6 and our month of giving shout-outs to those who were nominated in my birthday ‘Highlight a Good Deeds Doer’ challenge.

Today's shout-out is Cheryl Miller, @gypseejourney . Meet her at the end of today’s episode!

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“If this is the next 30 years of your life, is this enough?”

My guest today on Be The Good with Kate is Genevieve Piturro, who is “all about Purpose and The Human Connection”. She has quite the story– I mean, even Oprah has talked about her! For real!

From simply showing up to read a book to children, to an entire nonprofit bringing love and comfort to children in shelters, and the story continues to expand and grow…

Genevieve:

Listen for the rest of Genevieve's beautiful, inspiring story. I came away from our conversation saying, There is so much one person can do, from what may seem like the least time-consuming volunteer event to creating an entire organization and so much in between!

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This week’s guest on Be The Good with Kate has a path that took an unexpected turn over the years: Dr. John DeGarmo is the director of The Foster Care Institute and has now been a foster parent to over 60 children over the years. His passion for helping children and foster care outcomes is so apparent, and I am happy to share our chat with you today.

65% of children end up homeless after going through the foster care system, and John is a warrior for changing this outcome.

John is the recipient of the Good Morning America Ultimate Hero Award, the Heroes of the Homeless Award, and several other honors. He has appeared on ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, and more. John is the author of ‘The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families’, the best selling book ‘Faith and Foster Care’, and foster care children's book ‘A Different Home: A New Foster Child's Story’. He is the director of The Foster Care Institute, and acts as a consultant to foster care agencies as well as an expert witness to legal agencies across the USA and globe. John is a High Content Speaker and informative trainer on the foster care system, and travels extensively across the globe, meeting with foster parents, child welfare workers, churches, schools, and organizations.

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This week’s guest on Be The Good with Kate has an incredible story of going from pain- and fatigue-filled teenage years, to a full life of health, happiness, and freedom in Peru.

Maya Lombarts is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach who grew up in Belgium while facing constant fatigue and pain, as doctors continued to tell her nothing was wrong. Finally she was able to get a diagnosis, as she was right: something was indeed wrong. Maya was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Have you heard about, or experienced yourself, people being tested for various conditions but being told nothing is wrong, despite so much feeling to the contrary? I certainly have. And Maya’s story illustrates how important it is to keep fighting to figure out what is wrong and for options for help.

Curiosity for Spanish culture led Maya to explore options for living in South America. Taking a leap of faith and moving to Peru, she discovered with amazement her health improved by leaps and bounds.

Food quality, air quality, social involvement, sunshine:

Listen to Maya's incredible story about finding a lifestyle that brought her relief from years and years of pain, and what she is doing now to help others every single day.

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My guest this week on Be The Good with Kate explains that his passion for brightening people’s days led him “to accomplish what others called ridiculous and unfeasible.” Eddy Smits became a professional clown in Belgium, and went on to visit over 10.000 sick and palliative children.

As his bio states, “This work required more than a pair of big shoes and a red nose. I needed to develop a strong kind of leadership, but most of all I needed to learn to connect, which, even as a clown, is a challenge with sick or palliative children.”

Today, Eddy uses his experience to help parents and leaders authentically connect in his role as a coach.

Welcome to this week’s fascinating and heartfelt episode.

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This week on Be The Good with Kate we meet Sofie Lindberg, host of Claim Your Potential, and she gives us so much insight and inspiration (while being the youngest guest we have had on the show yet!).

A few takeaways:

Sofie’s bio: Sofie Lindberg is an empowerment expert who uses her past struggles to guide and motivate others. She is the creator and host of Claim Your Potential, a podcast dedicated to empowering women and girls to reach their full academic, emotional, financial, and professional potential. Sofie is also a full-time student, an avid fencer, a nonprofit associate, and the program director of a university-wide sustainability initiative. Sofie’s story is one of resilience, dedication, and personal growth. Her life’s goal is to help women achieve their ambitions and live a life of purpose.

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This week’s guest on Be The Good with Kate challenges us to think deeper, see as many perspectives as we can, and, as he says, to ask ourselves: We know the Pledge of Allegiance, what is the pledge to yourself?

Roger Pollard is all about ‘the motive in motivation’, and this episode dives deep into the brain, psychology, and ‘big picture’ concepts on life. He is a teacher, author, father, and former athlete and coach.

Last week, we had an endurance athlete giving us a huge dose of motivation, and this week another angle of motivation and mindset: These seemed like the right two episodes to begin the year!

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This week’s guest on Be The Good with Kate is the founder of Run Tri Bike, Jason Bahamundi, and he brings us a burst of energy and motivation on this first episode of the new year! Jason created Run Tri Bike because, as he wrote to me, “I wanted this platform to be a guiding light for others to follow in these amazing athletes footsteps. The athletes that share our stories are not elite, they are not getting paid to perform but are your everyday athlete. They have jobs, families, friends, and many other responsibilities but still get up and train and race.”

I love this. As someone also in the fitness industry, I have been fortunate enough to witness so many amazing accomplishments that indeed do not make it to news outlets.

Jason is an endurance athlete, triathlete, long-distance runner (100+ mile races!), business owner, professor, lover of cooking and eating and keeping up with current events. But, 15 years ago, Jason was exhausted after running a quarter mile. Everyone starts somewhere.

As Jason reminds us in this episode, you don’t need to run hundreds miles, but find the movement and the community that fuels YOU.

Jason shares some incredible stories of people who have broken through barriers to find their way in health and sport. Also, great advice on success and failures near the end of the episode– applicable to all aspects of life and work. So filled with actionable ideas.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

P.S. A podcast makes for a great listen while walking– safely – just saying :)

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