Happy New Year! In this ep, Melissa shares a word on the role of perfectionism in making your impact (#1w2) and her 20 for 2020! She also kicks off the Human Trafficking Awareness Spot, a month-long feature in honor of Human Trafficking Awareness Month. 

Learn more about how The Dragonfly Home is helping survivors of human trafficking: www.thedragonflyhome.org

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

Melissa is joined once again by Shayla Raquel (from Ep 11) to discuss how she achieves SO MANY FREAKING GOALS. Hint: she involves her community to help hold her accountable and make goals more fun. They also discuss the importance of self-care for survival in making our impact! Stay tuned for a Listener Feedback that almost makes Melissa cry (almost) and get a pep talk if you're anywhere even approaching burnout. And listen for the Question of the Ep!

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

Where has Melissa been?! She'll fill you in on all the impact-making goings-on and what's to come for the Making Your Impact Podcast!

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

Breakthroughs! Revelations! Even a few tears. Melissa interviews author Gary Medina and THINGS GET REAL.  It's all about taking risks, breaking away from traditional thinking to pursue the calling in our heart, and not giving up on making our impact.

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

Go on a mental vacation with Melissa (if you don't mind traveling to Canada) as she shares her top four most optimistic shows on Netflix! All of them are hilarious, all of them are bingeworthy, and all of them leave her feeling refreshed and motivated to keep making her impact after she's done watching them. Maybe it will inspire you to make your own list of such shows! Stay tuned for regular feature, French Word of the Day, and the Question of the Ep!

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

Melissa discusses five ways that doing morning pages the past year has CHANGED HER LIFE (no exaggeration) and how it could help you in making your impact! Also tune in for another edition of I Tried A Thing, where Melissa talks about the "Sleep With Me Podcast," a podcast with bedtime stories to help you sleep (which helps A LOT in the realm of impact making, too)!

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

The higher the stakes, the work, the dedication to your impact-making event, the harder the fall! Post-Event Letdown is REAL, but in today's episode, Melissa discusses ways to not let it keep you down! By taking these four steps, you can even come out more refreshed and ready to get back to making your impact!

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

In part 2 of their conversation, Melissa and Hannah discuss how achieving her goals helps Hannah make her impact, particularly in the work she does with refugee kids through her church. Hannah also shares the creative ways she harnesses the power of external accountability to reach her goals (including giving others control over aspects of her life...within reason). Plus a new feature - Listener Feedback!

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

In part 1 of their conversation, Melissa talks with her friend Hannah Brammer about making an impact throughout her harrowing years in corporate America, a huge career pivot she made to protect her physical and mental health, and her work with refugee children over the last 10+ years. Also appreciate their nod to vocal warmups from "Anchorman" and "High School Musical," plus a brief discussion of Zac Efron's positive attributes.

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

Melissa is back telling you more about Gretchen Rubin, this time discussing her book, Better Than Before! She'll discuss the ways this book can help us in forming life-changing habits, how it helped her transform areas of her life, and three ways this book can help you make your impact!

CONNECT WITH MELISSA:

Join Team Impact!! Melissa's Patreon

Website: www.melissaeick.com

Podcast Instagram:  @makingyourimpactpodcast

Melissa's Instagram: @melissaeick

Email: [email protected]

Listener Voicemail (leave a comment or a question!): anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message

LINKS:

Get your copy of Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubin: https://amzn.to/2pYF5Uw

Audio book: https://amzn.to/31QXqjG