The Power Project Podcast

In this episode, we're throwing it back to my friend Jodie Webb. Jodie’s story is one of restoration and redemption. She has answered God’s call for her life and is fully living a life of purpose. By God’s grace, she has been able to transform childhood trauma into a lifelong mission that stretches across international borders to fully restore survivors and further prevent these atrocities.
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Not only will you be inspired and empowered by Jodie’s mission but you’ll also hear about navigating the obstacles of starting a non-profit as well as balancing family life while pursuing a life of purpose.

In Season 3, we'll be hearing from Jodie about her newest projects.
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We’re throwing it back To episode #93, where I sat down with Dr. Vanessa Bouché who has been studying the issue of human trafficking since 1999, and her explorations of this topic have taken her all over the globe from Latin America to Europe and Asia. She has created HumanTraffickingData.org, an open-access and searchable database of federal human trafficking prosecutions in the U.S., interviewed convicted traffickers in federal prisons, surveyed hundreds of survivors, and consulted with a variety of international organizations and NGOs.

Most recently, however, she co-founded Savhera, a premium social impact aromatherapy brand that provides sustainable, living-wage, professional jobs to survivors of sex trafficking in India and the U.S.

She and I discussed biblical justice, business as a force of good, and her greatest challenges building a social enterprise. Tune in for this impactful conversation.

You can find out more at @savherawellness.

Check out what we have going on with our own social enterprise @ www.thepowerhatco.com

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This week, we’re throwing it back to episode #27 with Melissa Ice, Founder & Executive Director of The Net and Worthy Co. The Net is a non-profit organization that began when a group of TCU college students started building relationships with people experiencing homelessness. The Net was then able to launch a social enterprise called Worthy Co. and employs women that are survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Melissa has been named in 25 Women to Watch by Women in Business Networking in 2016, was recently named Fort Worth Business Press 40 Under 40, and, she is also Fort Worth Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for Best Philanthropist in 2018.

This gal is a woman after my heart! She speaks to all the subjects that drive me! She talks about navigating the business side of a social enterprise that supports the non profit that she founded as well. Melissa is passionate about empowering and loving on God’s people in a way that looks like coming alongside them and simply saying “I see you.”

I could have spoken with her for three hours today because she’s one of those people whose energy just fuels my soul! I know you’re going to love hearing her story!

To learn more about The Net, you can check it out at www.thenetftw.com
For information about The Worthy Co check out www.worthy-co.com

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In Episode #102, we're kicking off Season 3 by revisiting some of our favorite conversations we had over the course of the first two seasons. We're taking it back to the streets with
Elisabeth Jordan of The Human Impact.

In Episode #70, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Elisabeth Jordan of The Human Impact. Before I interviewed Elisabeth, I joined her and her team for street outreach. I was able to watch her in action as she showed me what it looks like to do what they were doing with the Human Impact.
Elisabeth grew up in one of the wealthiest zip codes in Dallas, and through her lens of privilege never realized what was happening on the streets just a few miles down the road. After losing her job in corporate America, she began a quest to find her purpose in life and realized that she most felt like herself when serving the community of people on the streets. She and I speak about how God can stop us in our tracks in order to truly speak to us in a manner where we are able to hear his call for our lives.
Elisabeth identified friendship as the need that would drive her mission and quickly realized that it would need to be more than just her to really affect change. What started as a volunteer position that fed her soul 7 years ago quickly grew into an organization where she, team members, and volunteers build relationships with people on the streets. As they forge friendships and learn about their new friends, they work through what issues are keeping them on the streets in hopes of eventually helping them transition off the streets and back into society, a place of their own, and employment. The Human Impact has been a thriving organization for the past 4 years and has recently created a partnership with Bonton Farms where people can work on an urban farm and live in homes of their own as a first step along the restoration process.
I encourage you to lean into Elisabeth’s message of learning to see this population not as “Homeless People” but instead just as people.
She challenges us to ask ourselves the same question she asked herself in the beginning. Who are the homeless? What are my assumptions about the homeless? How can we serve others when we humble ourselves?
Elisabeth discussed her original thoughts of providing a solution for the homeless community.
“Coming with a solution to a problem when I had never experienced homelessness was actually pretty arrogant of me.”
She quickly realized that she needed to lay aside what she thought she was going to the streets to do and instead start listening. She tells us about her friend from he streets that was the first to welcome her into the community. She shares that he was the first to recognize that she didn’t know what she was doing but that he was going to love her anyway. After that first bond was formed, she realized that God was using this community to heal her and teach her to love herself because they accepted her for who she was. We discuss how forging meaningful relationships by sharing our humanity with one another, including our pain and vulnerability is what truly makes us stronger as people.
“Often times, people of privilege are coming to serve the homeless and we don’t realize we can relate to them in such a human way.”

She and I both found the most surprising part of street outreach to be how most of the homeless community choose to focus on the good and beautiful things that God has for them.
Elisabeth brings her husband and children along for outreach because they want their family to be close to people who are different from them and have different needs and stories. After all, there is so much life to that. While discussing her children, she tells us that as an Enneagram 1, her greatest desire for her children is for them to remember that they played because it is easy to get lost in the world of perfection and miss those moments.
She gives us 7 Tips for following your purpose in life
Know that following the purpose that is within in you is worth the risk
Don’t let fear keep you from walking your purpose journey.
Don’t let the risks outweigh the purpose for which you were made.
Purpose can be served in both business and the non-profit space. Neither one is more purposeful than the other.
Be willing to take chances and continue to pursue the path of purpose no matter what comes.
Take small risks so that you’re prepared to take the bigger risks when you’re called to
Change how you view failure, learn from it and grow from it.

Elisabeth also shares with us how she has taken lessons from failure and applied them in learning and growing.
5 Ways to Handle Failure
Do a post mortum
Ask yourself what could we have done differently,
what could they have done differently,
Assess what you can do different next time.
What can you take away from that moment to learn for the future.

You can learn more about The Human Impact and ways to get involved over at www.thehumanimpact.org
You can follow along with their weekly outreach over on IG: @thehumanimpact

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Blythe Hill is the CEO and Founder of the Dressember Foundation, an anti-trafficking nonprofit organization. Through their annual campaign, thousands of people across the world commit to wearing dresses or ties for the month of December as a way to raise awareness and funding for anti-trafficking work. Since 2013, Dressember advocates have raised $10MM USD and resourced dozens of anti-trafficking programs across the US and the world. Dressember has received press attention from the likes of Forbes, Glamour, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, the TODAY Show, among others. In 2019, Blythe was named one of InStyle's 50 Badass Women, alongside powerhouse ladies like Michelle Obama, Christine Blasey Ford, Angela Davis, and Gayle King.
Blythe currently lives in Seattle with her husband, their son Behr, and their dog, Friday. She loves a good red wine, a good cheese and, clearly, a good pun.
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In episode #100 of the Power Project Podcast, I sit down to talk about the power of resting. Many of us are experiencing burnout; whether it's physical, spiritual, mental, or emotional. So, take a moment, listen to this episode, and find peace and rest in the Lord.

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In episode #99 of the Power Project Podcast, I sat down with a young lady who is looking to reenter the journey of chasing her goals and dreams. Grab your notebook and pen, and get ready to learn a lot about SMART planning!

SMART goals
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Reasonable
Time-bound

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In episode #98 of the Power Project Podcast, I give you guys an inside look with some tangible steps on having a purposeful business journey.

STEPS:
-Starting Point
-Traditional Career
-Entrepreneurial Goal
-Philanthropic Dream
-Side Passion

Starting Point: What can you do right now to make money?
Traditional Career: Career plan / this is a career that may require training or certification
Entrepreneurial: What business would you own?
Philanthropic: How do you want to give back?
Side Passion: This can be a creative endeavor or hobby.

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In episode #97 of the Power Project Podcast, I sat down with Former Miss Jamaica, Laura Butler, to hear about her journey of purpose. Laura has 20 years of experience in the field of corporate training, business consulting, & Human Resources. She has been invited to speak in 15 countries, has raised over $1 million USD in charities and scholarships for young people, and much, much more. Join us for this conversation about how to get going in life when you feel stuck, and you’ll also get to know Laura’s story as well.

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In episode #96 of the Power Project Podcast, I sat down with a coaching client to discuss personal branding, email marketing, and Facebook groups. From utilizing Pinterest to starting your own email list, we cover many personal branding and marketing bases.

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