Journey To Impact

In this episode, Ed will show you why strategy, focus, and the right metrics are so important on your journey to impact.

Whether you’re trying to grow in business or improve your golf game, you’re almost guaranteed to have greater success when you have strategy, focus, and a way to measure your progress and make necessary adjustments. 

These same principles apply when you’re looking at making an impact on the world. If you don’t have a plan or a way to know if you’re actually making progress and focusing on the right things, how can you expect to have the greatest possible impact?

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Ed talks about your unique experiences and how they tie into your passions and your skills to help you discover your sweet spot for where and how you can make an impact.

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Range by David Epstein

Today we’ll look at how your skills can be used for impact and how they are an essential factor to help you build your framework for impact.

What are your unique skills? You may not even think of yourself as having a skill because it’s something that you do every day and it comes easily for you. But how long would it take someone else to learn all that you know and be able to do what you can do at the same level as you? Now you can hopefully see how valuable your unique skill or skill set can be.

Let's find out about leaning into your skills and strengths when it comes to impact.

It’s time to get off the bench. Let’s do this.

Ed sits down with Justin Miller, the CEO of Slingshot Memphis, which works with nonprofit organizations that are focused on fighting poverty.  Slingshot takes a data-driven approach to increasing the impact of these nonprofits. Justin explains how significant a feedback loop is for measuring and improving your impact.

Whether you are a nonprofit or you are funding impact efforts, asking the right questions and evaluating the data will help you make decisions that can increase your return on investment.

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Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Ted Talk by Justin Miller

Today we’re talking about your passion. What gets you fired up? This is one of the first things to consider when you’re building your impact framework.

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Welcome to the Journey To Impact Podcast where we show you how to turn your unique passion into a strategy to change the world. 

Today Ed shows you how you can keep going when you’re discouraged on your journey to impact by holding on to the little victories along the way.

If you have kids, you know that parenthood is a long game. Right now you give and sacrifice and teach and pour into them. You are probably used to the idea that they don’t fully appreciate all that you’re doing, and sometimes, you can wonder if you’re wasting your time by trying so hard. But you don’t give up because you trust that your child will grow into a man or woman and that your efforts will have been worth it. 

This same kind of faith is so important when it comes to impact. You may not see results right away and you might not ever fully understand the impact that you have, but it will be worth it. 

This is part 2 of defining your unique impact. In this episode, Ed’s going to help you narrow your focus when it comes to your area of impact. If you don’t have focus, you can easily get overwhelmed when you look at all the different directions you could go or you try to take on every aspect of reaching a desired outcome. Just like a football team, every player on the team has the same goal of winning, but each player is focused on specific assignments and strategies to achieve that goal.

That’s why this is the Journey to Impact. It happens by taking one step at a time and Ed’s about to help us with that next step.

So here’s the question for today: what is impact? You may be listening to this podcast because you want to have an impact on your world or the people around you, but you’re not sure what that looks like. Maybe you see impact as something that’s too big for someone like you to achieve. Well as Ed will show you today, you’re absolutely going to have impact. But is it the kind of impact you want to have?

In this episode, Ed will guide you through some questions that will help you clarify your unique definition for impact so you can start building a plan to achieve it.

Welcome to the Journey To Impact Podcast where we show you how to turn your unique passion into a strategy to change the world. 

Today we’re introducing a series on the basics of impact where we’ll walk through the principles of Ed Gillentine’s book titled Journey to Impact. This will jumpstart you to develop your own framework for making a real impact on the world based on your unique passions, experiences, and skills. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book because you’re still going to get tremendous value out of what Ed shares with you on this podcast. However, if you’d like a copy to help as you follow along it’s available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or at www.EdGillentine.com. 

If you don’t know, Ed is the principal of Gillentine Group where he engages the hearts of people who want to use their wealth to create significant impact, but he is also personally invested in global philanthropy and impact projects. You’re going to learn from his expertise in business, finance, as well as what he’s learned through successes and failures along his own journey to impact.