Melissa can personally vouch for the effectiveness of the five focus tools featured on today’s show! These tools will help you tackle whatever is stealing your focus, whether it’s something physiological and psychological, as well as time management support. Check them out to help you in making your impact!

LINKS:

1. Pomodoro Timer

2. B Vitamin Info - Mayo Clinic 

3. Focus@Will: focusatwill.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=16&aff_id=2420 (affiliate link) 

4. Freedom App: freedom.to/?rfsn=2118277.6049a3 (affiliate link)

5. Bose Noise-Canceling Headphones: amzn.to/3xTv0qA (affiliate link)

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With nearly ten years of nonprofit experience under her belt, Melissa shares five ways you can *really* help a nonprofit if that's a way you want to engage in making your impact. From helpful attitudes and approaches to specific ways to make a difference, these ideas will help you make your most effective impact when partnering with nonprofits.

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Ashley Basnight is an engineer and a brilliant woodworker who has built her own business with a mission, Handmade Haven. From empowering women to supporting services for survivors of human trafficking, Ashley does a lot with a great deal of intention. You also might recognize her from her appearance on NBC's "Making It!" There’s no way you’ll walk away from this interview without being inspired!

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It's the 2nd pod-versary of Making Your Impact and Melissa is celebrating by looking back at the very first episode! Does the initial vision for the show hold up? Did Melissa achieve her objective of creating a community of people encouraging each other in making their impact? Listen to find out! Feature: The Leslie Knope Corner!

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Is starting a podcast one way you want to make your impact but you're worried about the cost? Melissa discusses how to maximize the tools you probably already have, plus free (but high quality) resources to help you get started with a budget of $0 invested!

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What can lower blood pressure, improve mental health, and benefit your well-being as you're making your impact? Gratitude! What?! Melissa shares some astonishing info about the power of gratitude according to science and her personal experience with a gratitude practice.

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Passion + perseverance = grit! When life comes at us from all sides, Melissa offers three ways to dig into our grit to help us make it through and keep making our impact.

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From learning to repot plants to building a skincare routine to putting up Christmas lights, Melissa shares her 21 goals and resolutions for 2021!  Usually this would be a New Year's episode, but ya know, better late than never. ;)

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Melissa will share three ways St. Patrick's real, actual, non-snake-related life can inspire and equip us in making our impact!

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When Ally Deatherage isn’t working in the middle of the night teaching English online to Chinese children, she is exercising her skills as a writer and organization expert and writing her book about decluttering! Ally uses practically every minute of her day to make her impact or to restore her energy for those impact making moments, all while being just a truly delightful person.

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