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S1 E2 - Searching for a Better Way
This is the uncut version of Mitch Santala’s conversation with Kimberly Johnson, the CEO of the Children’s Legacy Center of Shasta County, where she has created a better way to assist children who have been neglected or abused. Mitch and Kimberly talk about the importance of failure, putting one vision on hold to focus on another, and that life doesn’t always look pretty.
The conversation opens when Mitch asks Kimberly about the Children’s Legacy Center and how her vision evolved into what we see today. Kimberly talks about how her initial idea and timeline were cast aside in order to fill a need that was different from her vision.
They continue to discuss the risks and tensions that come with entrepreneurship and how embracing the failures along the way is what makes you stronger. Kimberly even talks about a very raw day when she decided she needed to walk away from the project for good.
Mitch and Kimberly examine perspective and legacy and how to rally your team around a common goal. They also tackle the struggle between ego and humility – and what they discovered may surprise you.
Kimberly fully admits to her messy life – a husband who does more than his fair share of shopping and laundry, kids who spend too much time on devices, and a car that’s never clean. But she embraces her daily struggles and allows herself to be perfectly imperfect.
The conversation ends when Kimberly decides she wants to take a jet time machine to her two favorite Mexican restaurants. The first is a taco stand just inside the Mexican border, South of San Diego, where she says the al pastor tacos are life changing. The second is a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles where they serve a white queso with chili oil that, if given the opportunity, she would bathe in.
Table Talk:
Mitch Santala, Gil Moegerle, Erin Pruetz, and Isaac the Intern discuss Mitch’s interview with Kimberly Johnson, the CEO of the non-profit Children’s Legacy Center of Shasta County, in episode three.
The four participants begin by highlighting some of Kimberly’s best points – her decision to put down one dream to fulfill a greater need, her desire to learn from others, and the perspective needed to do both.
Gil points out Kimberly’s desire to serve and the group discusses the beauty in the simplicity of saying, “Your needs before mine.” Isaac the Intern may not have as many years of experience as Mitch, Gil, and Erin, but he shares a powerful story about a servant leader in his life.
Erin brings up Kimberly’s mastery in learning from others and equates Kimberly’s practice of reaching outside her immediate circle to an unexpected analogy: the airline safety briefing.
The highlight of the interview for Mitch was the perspective Kimberly had to find when all she could see around her were the weeds. The group discusses her very poignant story of what happened on April 19, 2019, which would become a turning point for her, with the help and support of her husband and children.
Links:
The Children’s Legacy Center of Shasta County
https://www.childrenslegacycenter.org/
Book: Heaven Help Us!
Dr. Steven Lawson
https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Help-Us-Eternity-Christian/dp/0891099123
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This is the uncut version of Mitch Santala’s conversation with Kimberly Johnson, the CEO of the Children’s Legacy Center of Shasta County, where she has created a better way to assist children who have been neglected or abused. Mitch and Kimberly talk about the importance of failure, putting one vision on hold to focus on another, and that life doesn’t always look pretty.
The conversation opens when Mitch asks Kimberly about the Children’s Legacy Center and how her vision evolved into what we see today. Kimberly talks about how her initial idea and timeline were cast aside in order to fill a need that was different from her vision.
They continue to discuss the risks and tensions that come with entrepreneurship and how embracing the failures along the way is what makes you stronger. Kimberly even talks about a very raw day when she decided she needed to walk away from the project for good.
Mitch and Kimberly examine perspective and legacy and how to rally your team around a common goal. They also tackle the struggle between ego and humility – and what they discovered may surprise you.
Kimberly fully admits to her messy life – a husband who does more than his fair share of shopping and laundry, kids who spend too much time on devices, and a car that’s never clean. But she embraces her daily struggles and allows herself to be perfectly imperfect.
The conversation ends when Kimberly decides she wants to take a jet time machine to her two favorite Mexican restaurants. The first is a taco stand just inside the Mexican border, South of San Diego, where she says the al pastor tacos are life changing. The second is a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles where they serve a white queso with chili oil that, if given the opportunity, she would bathe in.
Table Talk:
Mitch Santala, Gil Moegerle, Erin Pruetz, and Isaac the Intern discuss Mitch’s interview with Kimberly Johnson, the CEO of the non-profit Children’s Legacy Center of Shasta County, in episode three.
The four participants begin by highlighting some of Kimberly’s best points – her decision to put down one dream to fulfill a greater need, her desire to learn from others, and the perspective needed to do both.
Gil points out Kimberly’s desire to serve and the group discusses the beauty in the simplicity of saying, “Your needs before mine.” Isaac the Intern may not have as many years of experience as Mitch, Gil, and Erin, but he shares a powerful story about a servant leader in his life.
Erin brings up Kimberly’s mastery in learning from others and equates Kimberly’s practice of reaching outside her immediate circle to an unexpected analogy: the airline safety briefing.
The highlight of the interview for Mitch was the perspective Kimberly had to find when all she could see around her were the weeds. The group discusses her very poignant story of what happened on April 19, 2019, which would become a turning point for her, with the help and support of her husband and children.
Links:
The Children’s Legacy Center of Shasta County
https://www.childrenslegacycenter.org/
Book: Heaven Help Us!
Dr. Steven Lawson
https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Help-Us-Eternity-Christian/dp/0891099123
Subscribe to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Stitcher.
Follow us:
- Website