Why You Should Never Create a Business or Strategic Plan Again
It’s an all too familiar situation. A retreat or intensive discussion with your team, board, advisors and more evolves to a 20+ page deck or document. Ideally, it’s a roadmap for the next three to five or so years of your organization. In reality though? Within months, it more often than not becomes obsolete. Both […]
Start Manifesting More Money For Your Impact Business with Cassie Parks
Interview with author and entrepreneur, Cassie Parks Subscribe to this show on Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud What if you could manifest another $10k in your life over the next 90 days? Sounds compelling right? That’s exactly what Cassie Parks helps people do. Cassie Parks is an entrepreneur, author, business coach, and leadership expert who runs the successful […]
Should I Incorporate my New Org as a Nonprofit or For Profit?
I get asked this all the time by early-stage social entrepreneurs: “I have this prototype or start of a business or idea that could help drive social impact and I’m not sure how to incorporate it.” Cleaning up a few common misconceptions. For-profits can receive donations; nonprofits can earn income. There are some business models […]
How to Find YOUR Story: With Real-Life Examples
If you’ve read anything about storytelling on the internet in recent years, you’re likely to have come across this: “Customers don’t generally care about your story; they care about their own.” (Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen) A bold statement. Also, a statement often taken out of context. (Donald Miller […]
5 Powerful Ways To Use The Hero’s Journey To Easily Grow Your Impact Business
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. That’s the short version of the storytelling pattern known as […]
Why Every Social Entrepreneur Needs a Business Model – And How to Get One
A clearly articulated business model is imperative to the success of any social enterprise and nonprofit. Period. Yet a lot of us – perhaps most of us – don’t have them. How I started my business. As a social entrepreneur myself, I realized this pretty damn quickly in starting my business. Like a lot of […]
Nasreen Sheikh: From Child Slave to Powerful Social Entrepreneur Helping Women Escape Poverty
Nasreen Sheikh was born silent. With no documents to acknowledge her birth or death, and with poverty stuck in her throat like smoke, she was the perfect victim of the sweatshop industry. You can’t report a crime if you don’t exist, and Nasreen learned from an early age that the more she stifled her voice, […]
Sustainable Development Goals Provide a Framework: Here’s How You Can Use Them
Many impact entrepreneurs feel overwhelmed when it comes to communicating the positive impact they’re making. Either they’re unsure exactly what metrics they should be recording, or they don’t feel confident that they’re delivering enough value to avoid accusations of greenwashing. Without a standard framework for impact measurement, it’s difficult to know what to include and […]
How to Cut Through The Overwhelm And Start to Enjoy Storytelling
If you’re a living, breathing human being, you know how to tell a story. That’s because our brains are built to run on stories the way your phone runs on Android or iOS. Still, a lot of impact entrepreneurs feel out of their depth even just thinking about telling their stories. And if you’ve ever […]
Learn This Proven Leadership Style to Grow Your Startup Impact and Profits
One of the most commonly held assumptions in the world of business is that it is only the most ruthless competitors who will flourish and succeed. During the past century, the models of successful businessmen and businesswomen that we are taught are those who put the bottom line of profit ahead of all other considerations. […]
