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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick86. Just for Fun 2021!It's the fifth Wednesday of the month, and you know what that means (maybe): it's a Just for Fun episode! On the season finale, Melissa shares a fun bonus section from her conversation with Mike Snowden. She also answers some listener-suggested questions, including a dive into her various personality assessments and numerous top five fave lists! We'll be back in January 2022!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick85. Weekend Routines FTW!A consistent weekend routine can set you up for a good week and create more time for you in making your impact! Melissa leads you on a field trip (within the confines of her own home) and takes you through her weekend routine. An unexpected adventure with her clock arises out of nowhere and will keep you on the edge of your seat for at least three minutes!
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2021-09-2233 min
Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick84. Can Bullet Journaling Help You? #BUJOBullet journals: calendar as an artistic masterpiece or practical place to track goals and the tasks it takes to achieve them? Melissa discusses her exploration of bullet journaling in 2021 and whether she believes it could be a useful tool for you in making your impact!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick83. Q & A with Melissa!It's become something of an annual tradition on the Making Your Impact Podcast: a Q & A episode with Melissa! Melissa answers listeners' questions, including personality assessments like Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram. She also shares a bunch of her top fives, including books, languages, cities, and smells!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick82. Anti-Summer Self-Care: Quest to Beat the HeatSummer is definitely Melissa's least favorite season, but she's found a way to beat the heat and enjoy summer her own way! Join Melissa on her annual anti-summer self-care quest to beat the heat as she engages in activities that don't typically go hand-in-hand with sweltering summer days.
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick81. 2021 Mid-Year Resolution Check-inMelissa shared her 21 for 2021 resolutions in this season's first episode...but how is she actually doing? She shares which resolutions she's achieved, which are in progress, and which she forgot about entirely. One thing is for sure: setting her intentions at the beginning of the year and reviewing them halfway through always helps her in making her impact!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick80. Your Virtual Personal Board of DirectorsMelissa shares how you can build your own VIRTUAL personal board of directors and how it can benefit you in making your impact. She shares the types of people to include in your virtual personal board of directors and the members of her own VPBOD!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick79. Talking Drugs and Rock & Roll, with Mike SnowdenIt's the second part of Melissa's conversation with Mike Snowden, the Agent-in-Charge of the Human Trafficking Division for the Oklahoma Bureau. They discuss Mike's day to day work in fighting human trafficking and share inspiring of human trafficking survivors. Mike also discusses the unexpected way he had the opportunity to weave his interest in rock and roll music into his work training members of law enforcement about drugs.
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2021-08-1130 min
Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick78. Be Interested in People Who Are Doing Something, with Mike SnowdenIn part one of her conversation with Mike Snowden, Agent-in-Charge of the Human Trafficking Division for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, Melissa and Mike discuss how education, both in life and on the issue of human trafficking, can be a powerful force for change. The more people who learn the truth about human trafficking and get past common misconceptions, the more trafficked people get help and the more future victimization in human trafficking can be prevented.
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick77. Five Tips for Fighting Human TraffickingMelissa shares tips from over 8 years of working full-time in anti-human trafficking advocacy. She shares these tips in the context of human trafficking, but they can also apply to many different causes and will help you make a difference sustainably and effectively.
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick76. You Have A Story to Share! with Jenna WorthenMelissa contemplates the enormous reach Jenna has through her nonprofit consulting, where she helps those who are helping others grow in sustainability. Jenna shares the challenges of running her own business and the inspiration for her ever-growing online community, Mom Who Works.
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick74. Summer Self-Care Field Trip!Melissa is taking you on a COVID-safe, spontaneous self-care field trip! She also explores a new approach to self-care involving engaging in different kinds of rest and shares the results with you!
ARTICLE:
"The 7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs," Saundra Dalton-Smith MD
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick73. BIRTHDAY TRIPLETS THREE-PEAT!The July 3rd Bday Trips are back and you're invited to our celebration! Marla O’Fallon and Kaylee Bishop share how they've been making their impact since our last birthday. Then, we have a legit birthday party with full-on decorations, gifts for their enneagram numbers (Kaylee is #1w2 like me, and Marla is #2w3), and a lot of laughs!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick72. Embrace Your Weird! A Felicia Day Book ReviewMelissa shares a few of her personal entries from “Embrace Your Weird!" This book is a guided creativity journal by Felicia Day that's designed to help us see the value of our creativity and overcome the things that hold us back from expressing that creativity. Melissa expected the book to be a fun self-care activity (it was!), but did NOT expect how much this book would speak to the purpose of the Making Your Impact podcast: to inspire and equip you to pursue your calling and make a positive difference in the world.
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick71. Felicia Day Is All Inspiration, All the Time: A Book Review“You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost),” a memoir by Felicia Day, helped Melissa realize the power of creating your own thing and not waiting for someone to give you permission. It's a hilarious and inspiring book that has meant so much to Melissa and she's excited to share it with you!
Get the book*:
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), by Felicia Day
*affiliate link
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Website: www.melissaeick.com2021-06-1625 min
Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick70. The Art of Decluttering with Ally DeatherageFriend of the show and return guest, Ally Deatherage, shares about her new book, “Sort by Season: A Quick, Encouraging Guide to a Lifelong Decluttering Habit" She and Melissa discuss how developing systems for decluttering and organization helps us in making our impact by creating more physical space and mental clarity. Ally also shares about her digital art business, including a few art disasters, and how she has stepped out of her comfort zone to make her impact.
Get the book:
Sort by Season, Ally Deatherage
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick69. Three Impact-y Books to GiftMelissa loves the three books she’s sharing today! They make fantastic gifts for someone who is making their impact (including yourself)! All three books made a huge difference in Melissa's life! Episode Feature: The Leslie Knope Corner!
Featured books*:
Better than Before, Gretchen Rubin
Atomic Habits, James Clear
Good Morning, Good Life, Amy Landino
Bonus: The Good Morning, Good Life Planner, Amy Landino
*affiliate links
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick68. AAPI Heritage Month #StopAAPIHateMelissa highlights different ways we can make our impact on anti-Asian hate and support our AAPI (Asian-American Pacific Islander) neighbors. She also highlights the work of one of her favorite actors/comedians/producers, Kulap Vilaysack, and highlights a few family-friendly shows she loves that feature Asian-American characters and stories.
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick67. Mental Health Mission with Davis VargheseMay is Mental Health Awareness Month! What better time to speak with Davis Varghese about his mission to bring awareness to mental health with his new business, Black Balloon Brand? Davis and Melissa talk about the importance of celebrating the every day victories of those facing mental health challenges and more! #mentalhealthawareness
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick66. Five Focus Tools for Making Your ImpactMelissa 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...2021-05-1227 min
Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick65. Five Ways to (Really) Help a NonprofitWith 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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick64. Building Her Impact with Ashley BasnightAshley 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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick63. Looking Back at Episode One!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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick62. How to Make a Podcast for $0Is 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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick61. How Can Gratitude Affect Your Impact?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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick60. GritPassion + 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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick59. 21 for 2021From 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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick58. 3 Ways St. Patrick Can Inspire Your Impact!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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick57. VIP Impact Maker!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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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick56. Self-Care Weekend!56. Self-caring it up before an enormously busy time! Melissa tackles different types of self-care, including cliche and not-so-cliche activities!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick55. Q&A Sesh!Melissa answers YOUR questions about Making Your Impact! Through a combo of fun anecdotes and serious reflection, Melissa discusses how she runs the podcast, her favorite parts of being an anti-human trafficking activist, and how you can take steps toward making your own impact.
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick54. Just for Fun Ep (The First)A new Making Your Impact podcast tradition is born! In today's first ever Just for Fun ep, Janey Merry shares how she soaked in all the manga and anime she could as a kid (which stoked her interest in learning about cultures and languages) and Taylor Wood shares about her running adventure in Melissa's home state of Iowa!
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Making Your Impact Podcast with Melissa Eick53. Impacting Future GenerationsMelissa is joined once again by Taylor Wood! Taylor shares about running a mentorship program for at-risk youth in Oklahoma City, plus some incredible stories about how her work directly prevents human trafficking!
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UnYielded: Thriving No Matter WhatFulfilling a Life of Purpose: Melissa EickMelissa Eick is the epitome of being fueled by purpose. She understands the challenges of making her dreams come true. She is the cofounder and the director of communications and development at the Dragonfly Home, a nonprofit in Oklahoma city, serving victims of human trafficking. She is an attorney, a writer, and a seasoned speaker. Her podcast, Making Your Impact, inspires and equips you to pursue your calling and make your positive impact on the world. In this episode, we explore the roots Melissa's calling and how the choices, twists, and turns over her life and career have led t...2020-09-111h 04