Built for Impact

Mark Heasman recently started his 6th role as CEO when he was appointed as Group Chief Executive at the Community Interest Company “ Provide". Employing over 1000 healthcares care workers in Essex in the UK and providing services to the community of over 1.4 million people through a network of a dozen businesses across the group. His experience in leadership is like stumbling upon a treasure chest full of nuggets of wisdom. He even talks about his experience serving Prince Charles (THE Prince Charles) and his family’s experience on a reality tv show in the UK. 

Steve Biondo currently serves as president of the Tim Tebow Foundation, now in its tenth year of service to vulnerable children and families all over the world. Since being founded in 2010 by professional athlete and sports analyst, Tim Tebow, TTF has established a reputation as an advocate for the most vulnerable through four main areas of ministry, including Anti-Human Trafficking, Orphan Care + Prevention, Special Needs, and Children with Profound Medical Needs. 

In this interview, Steve shares the importance of serving the interests of others before our own and how that value was planted in Tim Tebow’s heart at the young age of 15. We talk about how to say ‘yes’ to God immediately when He calls us to do something. This is exemplified in Tim and his father through a story about how his father purchased 4 girls in order to rescue them from being trafficked. This is a conversation that will inspire you and challenge you beyond your comfort zone. 

Today, Gary is a national award-winning, syndicated cartoonist for Creators Syndicate, along with being a speaker and filmmaker. But Gary’s journey has not been easy. He is a college dropout and persevered through 16 years of rejection before becoming an editorial cartoonist, a title few artists can claim. Through his faith and grit, he was not only able to be an editorial cartoonist but he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2015. His story is one of tenacity and faith that I know will inspire you.

What started out as an opportunity 3 men saw to serve their community and give to missions has grown into a company that has now given over $10 million away to missions work and provided over 2,500 homes for low-income families. But, it started with a borrowed office in a basement and one contract. This is a story of lives changed forever not from the glamorous entrepreneurial life, but because of constant, faithful grinding over decades. 

Imagine graduating in 2008 during a great recession with a Masters of Divinity degree, newly married to a husband who also just graduated with a theology degree, and neither of you have jobs. What do you do? How are you going to pay the bills? And how do you deal with the fact that the dreams you had are not going to happen now? This is where Michaela found herself in 2008 and where Long Winter Media was born.

In just 8 years, Anne Briggs has grown her following to over 186,000 people that she inspires across the world through her furniture making, blacksmithing, farming, gardening, and love of animals. She is known as “Anne of All Trades” and while she makes things look easy, it’s not always easy for her. In my conversation with Anne, she shares about her struggle with learning disabilities, anxiety, and depression and how she continually works through these challenges to pursue her dreams.

If you know that your life is meant for something more but you're not sure how your current career is going to get you there or how it fits into what you want the story of your life to be, this one is for you. Listen to how David Gerber fought through the mess and the mud of fear, shame, embarrassment, and failure to build a thriving coaching career where he helps people live up to their fullest potential. 

What would you do if you were told you’d never have enough content to make a magazine successful? Would you keep going? Or would you throw in the towel? Stanford Moore is a black American who loves horses and has a dream to celebrate the black men and women who have contributed to the equestrian life. Listen to his response and decisions as he’s faced oppositions along the way to building Black Reins Magazine.

Kathy Alm served as Executive Director of Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center in WA for 15 years. Under her leadership, Little Bit grew to be one of the largest organizations in the industry across the world. She grew the previously grassroots organization from a $280,000 annual operating budget to a professional $2.1 million organization, leading a staff of 23 full-time employees and building and operating a new $11 million facility. Today, she is the CEO of PATH Intl. and she leads the professional membership association representing close to 900 therapeutic horsemanship centers and more than 8,000 individual members. In our conversation today, Kathy shares sage advice on leadership and growth.