Master Asking Great Questions With These Seven Questions

by Elisa | Jun 23, 2019 | Leadership, Safe Spaces

If you want to create safe spaces, influence others well, and make a difference in the world, it is time to master the skill of great question-asking!

Is the Causebox Worth Getting?

by Elisa | Jun 17, 2019 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Socially Conscious Brands, Women's Empowerment

A Letter to the Anti-Trafficking Movement

by Elisa | Jun 7, 2019 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Your Stories

This is a guest post from Anna Carroll, founder and director of LightForce International, a global organization that seeks to create sustainable solutions to injustice. She writes at annamcarroll.com and can be found on Instagram @annamichelle. A Letter to Modern-day...

About Us, Now

by Elisa | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized

I started my first blog fourteen years ago. The content included badly written, excessively long essays about who knows what. Most were never read, which is probably better. I was fighting, discontent and depressed. I advocated with anger and was insecure about where...

The Seven Things Keeping You From Practicing Random Acts of Kindness

by Elisa | May 31, 2019 | Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Giving Back, Productivity, Ways to Make a Difference

Last year my family went on a KindnessQuest, an amazing adventure chalk-full of random acts of kindness. It made our vacation-roadtrip into something more, something others-centered. Yet to succeed, we had to begin doing things differently to overcome these seven...

Are Swell Bottles Really Socially Good?

by Elisa | May 28, 2019 | Being World Changers, Clean Water, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Socially Conscious Brands

Are Swell Bottles really socially good enough to make them worth buying? And what social good and charity work do they actually do?

Trailblazing with Freedom Hikers and Get Outdoors for Freedom

by Elisa | May 16, 2019 | Good Charities, Human Trafficking, Ways to Make a Difference

A few months ago I had a great conversation with Laura, founder of Freedom Hikers. She told me how she was overlooking a beautiful lake in the Cascade Mountains and just knew that she would take others hiking to that same spot to bring freedom to those oppressed by...

Purpose Roadmap

by Elisa | May 11, 2019 | Being World Changers, Fully Alive, Identity, Personal Growth, Stuff of the Heart, Ways to Make a Difference

You are important, and the story you live is important too. This is why I am ALWAYS asking you to join me in Life Mapping, an intentional system of living that helps you become who you were meant to be and make the difference you were born to make. But...

Rise-Up: The Poway Shooting From a Local’s Perspective

by Elisa | Apr 28, 2019 | Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Seeking Justice, United States

Poway Poway is my stomping grounds, a small town on the outskirts of San Diego that sees themselves as something different than the bustle of Southern California tourism and bikinis. Horses and hikers might be welcome here, but not hate crimes, like the shooting at...

Adventure

Swamp Wisdom: An Ecclesiastes on Human Rights

Ever heard of ancient King Solomon? He was said to be the wisest of them all as he philosophized...

Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids

Identity Crisis #3467 – My Messy Beautiful

The other day, my daughter was excitedly expressing her admiration of the teachers and helpers at her school. I usually resist the temptation to to ask my kids what they want to be when they grow up because at some point in my...

Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces

What to Do With that Blasted Holy Discontent (I used to be a radical)

I used to be a radical. I used to be a radical–until I wasn’t. After high school, I...

Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Giving Back, Socially Conscious Brands

June Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through June’s themes and advocacy days. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already...

Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Global Health, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States

Spectrum of Belief About Justice Issues: Art of Advocacy

Not everyone shares the same beliefs, so using the Spectrum of Belief graph helps us to have healthy conversations about justice that aren't so black and white.

Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking

Want to Bring Freedom to the Exploited (Right Now)?

Ready to do something about exploitation now? Help us find partners or volunteer for Blackout Trafficking!

Leadership

When Our Best Yes Meets Humble Service: When Should Changemakers Clean Toilets?

Often Changemakers find themselves doing the faithful background service of doing things like changing toilets. How to we balance our "best yes" with humility?

Spiritual Discipleship

When Our Best Yes Meets Humble Service: When Should Changemakers Clean Toilets?

Often Changemakers find themselves doing the faithful background service of doing things like changing toilets. How to we balance our "best yes" with humility?

Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity

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