Giving Back Podcast

Welcome again on my Thursday solo cast. This is the 6th episode of Giving Back Podcast weekly solo show where I talk about how our guests and their charities serve others, to explore actions each of can take to make a difference in people’s lives and to share. Today I discuss faith and the importance of it . Listen to today’s episode and don’t forget to give your feedback and valuable comment. Enjoy!

 

Key Takeaways:

 

Recently Rob join a public gathering of shilohm church

Rob Joined a ministry of men under pastor Michael Moore

We all have something to give

What does Rob have special?

For Rob, Faith is together we can make a difference

Rob mentions Chris Casamere, A pastor and friend who introduces Rob to Shilohm

Somebody needs what you have, Don’t Ignore it.

Ron Klabunde had conversation with Rob about GOD

For Rob, GOD is love

Join the movement to END child hunger in YOUR COMMUNITY!- Ron Klabunde

Nate & Caleb The young and inspiring young men.

Rob talks about the impact Nisha Kotecha and Alex Swallow is making to society.

Corinne Hindes and Katrine Kirsebom are continuing to do something everyday!

Klaus Schwab is a man of versatile virtues.

The Young generation has a completely different attitude, a global attitude that can help millions.

Judy Adams fights to save a neighborhood theater.

Rob loves women march because it’s united 10’s millions people for a reason. The power of getting together.

Ricky Mena, the Heart of a hero shows us how we can work on our vision

Ricky Mena saves 8000+ kids

We all have something special to give.

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Giving Back Podcast

Shiloh Church: shilohchurch.com

Ron Klabunde, Generosity Feeds: www.generosityfeeds.org

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: www.schwabfound.org

women march: www.womensmarch.com

Heart Of a Hero:  www.heartofahero.org

Young Charity Trustees: alexswallow.com

Good News Shared ツ: goodnewsshared.com

12 social entrepreneurs:  www.weforum.org

Corinne Hindes and Katrine Kirsebom: www.warm-winters.org

Maria Keller: www.ReadIndeed.org

Lillian Pravda: http://www.visionforandfromchildren.org/

Krista Gawronski: www.TheFabulousWomen.org

Jonathan Keyser is the founder and thought leader behind Keyser, a world-class commercial real estate advisory firm. When Jonathan first started his career in real estate, he was ruthless; he was a shark. This was because everyone else in the industry was a shark and he thought that’s who he needed to be in order to succeed. Boy, was he wrong! After years of being unhappy, he decided to make a commitment to turn his business philosophy and his selfish attitude around. After 5 years of working at it, his business exploded to new heights and he was fulfilled on a much deeper level.

 

Key Takeaways:

[4:35] Jonathan is in his fourth year of business.

[7:00] Jonathan had an awaking, but having an awakening is not just a one-time event, it’s a long, long process.

[8:50] The whole world would shift if we thought more selflessly about our businesses.

[9:30] Who is Jonathan?

[13:00] After joining the real estate industry, Jonathan became a bit of a shark.

[17:10] Under the advice of his mentor, Jonathan made a shift in his attitude and about 5 years later, it finally paid off!

[19:15] When Jonathan finally started coming from a place of selflessness vs. selfishness, his business exploded.

[25:20] The standard operating procedure does not have to be ruthless.

[30:50] Jonathan made a strong commitment to changing his core beliefs about business.

[37:15] People want to know you care and are looking out for them.

[37:30] Selflessness will not give you instant gratification, but you are planting the seeds for a much bigger purpose and cause.

[42:30] The 15 Core Operating Principles at Keyser are incredibly meaningful. Be sure to read it over twice!

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Giving Back Podcast

Keyserco.com

Jonathan’s 15 Core Principles

Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi

Disruptive - How To Disrupt Your Industry Through Selfless Service, by Jonathan Keyser

Welcome again on my Thursday solo cast. This is the 5th episode of Giving Back Podcast weekly solo show where I talk about how our guests and their charities serve others, to explore actions each of can take to make a difference in people’s lives and to share. Today I discussed three important factors of Giving Back. Reflecting, deciding, choosing the actions. Listen to today’s episode and don’t forget to give your feedback and valuable comment. Enjoy!

Key Takeaways:

How is what I want to do a reflection of who I am?

What’s a man to do?

Meditate, reflect and decide on “Ambition vs Purpose”

Dwayne helps veterans transition to civilian life and as a veteran, himself has a great perspective

Be proud of being a veteran and use the skills you learned in the military.

Dwayne can help ANY organization serving veterans to stay relevant.

Legasee has changed him and the way he sees the world

Legasee has a wonderful archive for veterans to keep their memories alive

Martin Bisiker has a huge impact on veterans, their families, Great Britain and most of all himself.

Legasee is a great example of an incredible opportunity for young people getting involved in a nonprofit to gain mad skills

The way Rob & Martin look at the world is different from our work.

Alex Swallow is a mutual friend who is an advocate of young people getting involved with nonprofits

The people from Jefferson Award Foundation raise Hillary Schafer's game and her standards.

Hillary Schafer shared some amazing work by teenagers that is changing our world

Corinne Hindes and Katrine Kirsebom are incredible leaders in my backyard

Maria Keller gathered a million books, then a second million --- this young lady is on FIRE!

Lillian Pravda is helping over 26 THOUSAND kids receive the gift of sight, and going strong

Looking forward to presenting together about service and charity with Krista Gawronski

Reflecting, deciding, choosing action

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Dwayne Paro: LandmarkLifeCoaching.com

Martin Bisiker: legasee.org

Hillary Schafer, executive director: www.jeffersonawards.org

David Delmar: www.ResilientCoders.com

Corinne Hindes and Katrine Kirsebom: www.warm-winters.org

Maria Keller: www.ReadIndeed.org

Lillian Pravda: www.visionforandfromchildren.org

Krista Gawronski: www.TheFabulousWomen.org

Guylaine Saint Juste is the Executive Director of the National Capital Region of Year Up. What does love feel like? Some children grow up in harsh backgrounds where they are unable to experience this. Year Up gives them a new opportunity to experience and surround themselves with a group of individuals who CARE. Year Up aims to provide our talented youth the opportunity to succeed no matter how awful their economical background may be.

 

Key Takeaways:

[4:00] Rob discusses why Year Up means so much to him.

[6:25] What is Year Up about?

[13:10] Why does Year Up’s message resonate so strongly with Guylaine?

[19:20] Year Up aims to provide both the technical and soft skills to their young students.

[22:05] Year Up students are three times more likely to stay in a business position or role than the average recently-graduated college student.

[25:55] A portion of the millennial generation is impatient due to how quickly technology and information is accessed.

[30:05] There’s a real competitive advantage to having a millennial on your team.

[30:50] When building a leadership team, it’s important to consider how your team thinks and reacts to certain situations. Everyone is different.

[34:10] Guylaine shares a story that happened in the first three weeks of her being on the job.

[39:25] Sometimes we have so much that we forget how privileged we really are.

[47:40] Rob reads a quick quote about the origins of Year Up.

[50:30] We are so fortunate to be Americans and no matter what’s going on right now, America is STILL the land of the free!

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Giving Back Podcast

Yearup.org

Welcome everybody on my Thursday solo cast. This is the fourth episode of Giving Back Podcast weekly solo show where I talk about talk about how our guests and their charities serve others, to explore actions each of can take to make a difference in people’s lives and to share. Listen to today's episode and don't forget to give your feedback and valuable comment. Enjoy! Key Takeaways:

Rob is doing what he loves to do.

The Giving Back Podcast is taking much bigger roles in Rob's life than what he intended.

At GBP Rob is working with really successful middle-aged people who want to make their half-life count.

People are transitioning from getting to giving.

Best of Humanity event in July.

International Good Works (Humanitarian/Charity) people.

Rob's guests are making a change to the world.

Rob talks about southeast Asia fund

Comparison between Corporate social responsibility and Personal social responsibility.

lots of these ready, both US and international, including the fellow I mentioned earlier,

Rob talks about mastectomy tattoos for breast cancer survivors

Rob talks about Interfaith people.

Rob talks about visionary Artist.

Rob has guests from Grammy winner and Pulitzer winner who are doing amazing work

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Noel:  P.ink

Evolutionary Business Council: ebcouncil.com

Teresa deGrosbois: Teresadegrosbois.com

Candy Barone, founder and CEO of You Empowered Strong At: http://www.candybaroneinternational.com/

Jana Stanfield: www.janastanfield.com

Together We Can Change The World: TWCCTW.org

Scott Friedman: scottfriedman.net

Bill Taylor: seafund.org

Rebecca Morgan: booksfortreats.org

Miranda Clendening: www.brollyevents.com

Tim hobbs: www.dataconnectcorp.com

Eric Barsness is the Director of Development for Puppies Behind Bars, a program where inmates raise and train service dogs for wounded war veterans and Explosive Detection Canines (EDC) for law enforcement. This program offers inmates a new sense of purpose and gives them tasks that help prove they can be productive members of society. 

 

Key Takeaways:

[3:35] What is Puppies Behind Bars about?

[6:30] How do the inmates help these puppies?

[9:55] These inmates can be eligible for parole  6 months earlier if they have successfully worked in Eric’s program for 18 months.

[10:15] Eric currently has 4 former-inmates working for his organization.

[12:25] What happens to the dogs during the program and after? 

[15:05] The dogs end up fitting into two careers - Service dogs or Explosive Detection Canines (EDC).

[18:15] Prison inmates, to a degree, have many of the same symptoms veterans do.

[19:50] The dogs get swapped every 6 months so that they spend their time in different environments.

[20:50] Have any of Eric’s dogs in this program found explosives?

[23:10] Dogs are trained to help find a veteran’s car.

[24:35] Puppies Behind Bars is currently in 5 facilities and is in the process of opening a 6th one.

[25:00] The program was founded in 1997.

[27:25] How did Eric personally get involved with Puppies Behind Bars?

[32:55] Eric talks about the founder, Gloria Gilbert Stoga.

[36:25] There is room for growth in this area!

[41:45] Eric talks about sponsorship and how the program gets funded.

[49:00] How can people get involved?

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Giving Back Podcast

Puppies Behind Bars

How are you, everybody? Rob Welcomes everyone to 2017 first solo show. This is the 3rd episode of Thursday insights where we talk and ask the question about how our guests and charities are working to change the people live around us.  On this episode, Rob made a recap of amazing 2016.  He also expects an outstanding 2017.  Listen now and put your valuable opinion in the comment section.

 

Key Takeaways:

Rob Spent time in San Diego with leaders who have a vision of serving others, by doing good, we can also do well.

Joseph helps people build movements.  Talked about alignment, who we are and what we do.  When they are aligned, we get great energy.

As long as I bring my best, where my behavior and communication are aligned to reflect my good intentions, then I’m really open to the outcomes, and that’s liberating.  

Fear: name it, declare it, don’t let it paralyze you.  “Feel the fear and move towards it”

Fear is a green light

For the most part, our fears are not life threatening.  Fear is a risk, the risk is that you look foolish and are embarrassed.

We are social animals, that’s how we survived.  But being social people, if you’re cast out of the tribe, then you die. So being part of the group is a big deal, and looking bad is what we fear.

Naming fears takes away their power.  When I talk about my fears, they even sound funny sometimes.

Rob came away from San Diego thinking about alignment.

When who you are and what you do are the same, you’re gonna make magic

It’ll be a natural extension of your beliefs and you’ll have a lot of power.  Not ‘takeaway’ power, it’s power to help others.

Gets people to another level of performance

If you've got skills, and the courage to go and offer those skills, then you can make a big difference without realizing it.

 Intentionally helping others with open heart and kindness.

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Joseph Ranseth: josephranseth.com

Michelle Gunderson: www.languageofyoga.com

Noam Kostucki: www.artofamagicallife.com

Kenny Cannon: www.kennycannon.com

James Woeber: artofheartfulliving.com

Noam Kostucki: www.artofamagicallife.com

Summer Cleaton: resolutionariesinc.com

Nisha Kotecha: goodnewsshared.com

Carlos Miranda: www.impactandgrowth.com

Nisha Kotecha is the founder of Good News Shared, a website that was founded in 2014 that shares the positive things that have happened, or are happening, in the world. Good News Shared was born out of a desperate need to showcase good and uplifting stories in a society that consistently highlights and promotes the bad. Nisha has worked and volunteered for charities in the UK for over 10 years and stresses the importance of why we should give our youth a chance when it comes to working on the causes they care about. 

 

Key Takeaways:

[2:45] Rob’s having a competitor on his show. Isn’t he afraid that Nisha will steal his thunder?

[4:55] Is the world really a bad place?

[5:15] Good News Shared was founded in 2014.

[6:05] How has Good News Shared changed Nisha’s life?

[9:10] Nisha talks about some of the charity work she’s done.

[14:30] What kind of experiences has Nisha had that have made an impact on her?

[21:30] What were some of the things Nisha was doing at her local Rotaract Club?

[24:45] How did the idea for Good News Shared come about?

[29:30] What do Nisha and her team consider ‘good news’?

[36:15] Rob is very tempted to get a tattoo after speaking to Noel Franus from P-Ink.

[37:20] Both Rob and Nisha share some of their favorite good news stories.

[52:00] Why is it so important to bring younger people into charities and have them take an active role to helping others?

[55:25] Where does Nisha see Good News Shared going in the future?

[1:05:50] How is Nisha spreading the word and bringing awareness to Good News Shared?

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Giving Back Podcast

Good News Shared

NBFA Assisting the Elderly

Rotaract Club (Great Britain & Ireland)

Young Charity Trustees on Facebook

Justaddspice.org

We.org

Hot off the presses, The Moments Journal by Nisha Kotecha of Good News Shared

This is the second episode of Giving Back Podcast weekly solo-cast show. Every Thursday we do insights to which gives us chances to talk and ask the question about how our guests and charities are working to change the people live around us. In this episode, Rob talks about Gratitude, Freedom Journal, Pencils of Promise, Adam Braun, Entrepreneur on Fire, EOFire and John Lee Dumas. Enjoy the Show.

 

Key Takeaways:[1:15] Rob Start his morning with gratitude and go to sleep with it too.

[1:40] Rob started his podcast journey at 2015

[2:00] The Idea came up to Rob with Freedom Journal which is the fifth largest publishing project in Kickstarter.

[2:45] The profit was given the Pencils of Promise of Adam Braun

[3:30] The Freedom Journal is an initiative by Jhon Lee Dumas who is the Host of Entrepreneur on Fire podcast.

[6:05] Rob Tells how Podcast has changed my life.

[7:20] Rob changed his jobs and mindset for this show[8:30] Why is Rob so fortunate?

[9:00] How did Rob get in touch with so many award winning philanthropist?

[10:30] Rob help people Help people.

[11:40] There are huge opportunity to help people.

[12:00] Rob is grateful for the lessons he learned.

[13:45] Rob mentions the Upstanders series podcast show from Starbucks

[14:35] What happens when a mosque moves across the street from a church in the Bible Belt?

[15:00] Rob talks about Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice

[16:35] Thank you for your love and support

Mentioned in This Episode:

Giving Back Podcast

Freedom Journal

EOFire.com

Upstanders series

Del Seymour is a 65-year-old Army veteran committed to doing amazing things for our impoverished youth and unemployed citizens in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, California. Del is the founder of Code Tenderloin, which provides dignity and opportunity through their intense job readiness and workforce development program. Find out more today!

 

Key Takeaways:

[4:10] Del has been in San Francisco for the last 35 years and calls it home.

[6:10] Del recently visited Mount View, a city in California, and understands why tech companies are leaving.

[11:30] What does Code Tenderloin do?

[13:00] Code Tenderloin doesn’t need food or clothes; they need your HR.

[16:30] Del’s mission is to raise the poverty level so that people can get out of their situation and stop being homeless.

[19:05] Code Tenderloin was established 3 years ago and has had 120 clients in those 3 years.

[20:40] Of those who graduate from the program, how many are able to find employment?

[23:55] What’s the next step for Code Tenderloin?

[28:00] The problem is, once a homeless person gets a job, they still need support from the community. Getting a job doesn’t solve the problem.

[35:30] Del walks Rob through their 5 week intense coding program.

[40:40] Del talks about some of Code Tenderloin’s partners and sponsors.

[44:00] Tenderloin is a way of life. There are Tenderloins all over the U.S..

[52:45] People who are coming out of prison are unable to find work, which continues the cycle.

[1:00:35] What kinds of jobs are Code Tenderloin alumni finding?

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Giving Back Podcast

Codetenderloin.com

Tlwalkingtours.com