DO GOOD X Podcast
Welcome to the DO GOOD X Podcast – where purpose meets business, and the journey is just as important as the destination. Hosted by advocates for impactful entrepreneurship, Kimberly Daniel and Stephen Lewis, this podcast creates a space for Black and Brown folk, especially Black women, navigating the intricate path of purposeful business.
In this sanctuary, the hosts understand the challenges of entrepreneurship, and their mission is to help listeners transform doubt into confidence, fostering the growth of their dreams without sacrificing well-being.
Embark on a transformative journey, discovering inspiration to fuel your passion for business. Shared experiences and stories act as beacons, nurturing you for the entrepreneurial road ahead.
Navigate the challenges of being an under-resourced entrepreneur with practical strategies and resources in the Tools & Tips segment. Overcome obstacles and thrive in the purpose-driven business world.
In the Mentorship segment, hear from seasoned guides who have successfully built businesses with a focus on social impact. Gain insights not only from the guests but also from hosts who intimately understand the unique journey of overlooked entrepreneurs.
This podcast is more than a productivity machine; it's about slowing down to go further. Each episode invites listeners to exhale, reconnect with inner wisdom, and rediscover the power of community. Embrace the impact your business can make without compromising well-being.
Leave feeling lighter, shedding stress, embracing self-compassion, and finding joy in the entrepreneurial journey. Gain actionable insights, learn from diverse perspectives, and expand your knowledge with tools for success, guided by hosts Kimberly and Stephen.
Feel empowered, recognizing yourself as your greatest asset. Build confidence to develop and grow a viable, impactful business aligned with the needs of the community.
About the Hosts
Kimberly R. Daniel catalyzes entrepreneurs and organizations to do good. She is
co-founder and project director of DO GOOD X, a community that provides programs
and support for faith-driven social entrepreneurs whose businesses focus on positive
Change.
Kimberly also helps purpose-driven organizations clarify and design compelling brand and communication strategies. With over 15 years of experience developing and leading communications efforts, it is her commitment to produce effective processes and create authentic, “sticky” brands that are community-centered.
In any aspect of her work, she is deeply passionate about purpose, meaning, and the
common good.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-r-daniel/
Stephen Lewis is the president of the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE) and creator and co-founder of DO GOOD X, a community that provides programs and support for faith-driven social entrepreneurs whose businesses focus on positive change.
He is an organizational change strategist and a leadership development specialist,
focused on inspiring the next generation of faith-inspired leaders and entrepreneurs to live and work on purpose. Stephen is the co-author of Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose (2020) and A Way Out of No Way: An Approach to Christian Innovation (2021).
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-lewis-8b1b941/
DO GOOD X Podcast
Ep. 25 Living and Leading with Purpose: Discovering Your Core Values
Welcome to this DO GOOD X episode hosted by Kimberly Daniel and Stephen Lewis. Today, Kimberly and Stephen dive into the values that shape their personal and professional lives as people of faith. Kimberly highlights authenticity, mutual relationships, community, and creativity as her core guiding principles, while Stephen emphasizes listening to intuition, recognizing your unique gifts, and leading with purpose. Together, they challenge listeners to reflect on their divine genius and consider the lasting impact they will leave on the world. Don’t forget to join the DO GOOD X LinkedIn community to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs on a journey of purpose-driven growth.
IN THIS EPISODE:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:27) How do values drive Kimberly and Stephen personally and professionally as people of faith
(02:16) Kimberly shares that authenticity, mutual relationships, community and creativity are core values that are key to her
(05:19) Stephen believes in listening to your intuition, determining what your gifts to the world are, using your imagination, and living and leading with purpose
(09:32) Kimberly challenges listeners to know their divine genius and to think about the imprint they will leave in the world
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Doing your best personally and professionally is accomplished by determining your core values
- Each of us has gifts. Success comes when we use those gifts to do good in our business and the world
- Entrepreneurs should periodically take time for self-reflection to ensure that their values remain consistent, regardless of the successes or challenges they encounter in business. They should stay true to the path they originally set out on
RESOURCES:
DO GOOD X - Podcast
DO GOOD X - Linkedin
Narrator: [00:00:00] Welcome to the do good X podcast, a sanctuary from the entrepreneurial grind host Kimberly, Danielle, and Stephen Lewis advocates for impactful entrepreneurship guide you on the path where purpose meets business. Join us to slow down, reconnect, and explore the challenges of under resourced entrepreneurs, uncovering the unique journey of building businesses that make a difference.
Now you're hosts.
Stephen Lewis: Welcome to the GDUGDX podcast. My name is Stephen Lewis and I am a catalyst for change. I worked with, over the last two decades, I have worked with, uh, entrepreneurs and community leaders to help them, uh, to work on purpose, with intention, with their faith. And the inspiration, the ways in which they're called to lead and serve their communities in the broader [00:01:00] world.
And I'm joined here today with my colleague and co host, Kimberly Daniels. Good to see you, Kimberly.
Kimberly R. Daniel: Good to see you as well. Hey, Hey, everybody. Thank you for joining us. I am Kimberly Danielle. I am a communication strategist, a coach, and a community builder who Comes from generations of faith driven entrepreneurs and leaders who believe that our purpose should drive us to contribute to the common good.
I am happy to be here with you today, Steven, on this episode, we are just going to explore the values that drive us either personally or professionally. Values are really important to us in our work at do get X as people of faith. Really building businesses are doing work that is rooted in these values.
It can really shape and inform what it is that we're doing, how we impact our communities, how we impact those around us.
Stephen Lewis: Yeah. And I think it really [00:02:00] gets to the core of. What really matters to us. And so Kimber, I want to ask you, what are the values that shape or form or even animate you professionally or personally?
Kimberly R. Daniel: So I think the values personally and professionally, they pretty much are around the same, but I'll just name, I'll, I'll name some authenticity. Authenticity is important to me. I have done a lot of work to, to be able to show up as my full self without apology. And I want other people to do so too. I want to trust that who you are, who people are being in my personal life, even in my professional life is truly.
What they, what, who they are at the core, people that I engage with as it relates to consultancy or Duke X, or built relationships with. This allows me to [00:03:00] see our connectedness, synergies. It allows us to have a better and more meaningful relationship, just showing up as our authentic selves. So authenticity is very important to me.
Mutuality. It's also a thing for me as well. I think I may have mentioned on another, uh, podcast episode that it's important to me when I build relationships, both personally and professionally, that it's, it's really driven by the desire to know a person and to not just think about what can this person offer to me, but what can I give to them?
And my expectation is that any relationships that I have. In my circle are mutual relationships where it may not look the same for, for either person, but there's some sense of [00:04:00] energetic exchange that is happening in order for It's to be a true, valued, meaningful, long lasting relationship. I'll quickly say this one, because we talk about this all the time, but community.
Community is so important to me and is a value that I operate out of. To build community, to create community for other people, and to be a part of that, and to provide the gifts that I can bring, and to help to see other people. And the gifts that they bring in that space. And then lastly. I will say creativity.
So I do come from an arts background. I have a huge appreciation and love for the arts and that has sparked a level of creativity even beyond that field for me to think about how I infuse that into my work but also my personal life on a regular basis because I [00:05:00] access another part of my brain that really opens up.
new ideas, things to explore, and my imagination around what is possible. So authenticity, mutuality, community, and creativity are the four that I will name just today. What about you, Steven?
Stephen Lewis: That's wonderful. I appreciate that. So the first one I think is really listening to your intuition. I think that's one of your greatest guides in terms of discerning.
Deliberating and making a choice about what it is that you need to do. The late legendary Howard Thurman used to say this in a, one of his baccalaureate addresses. He says, you know, that there is in you something that waits and listens to the sound of the gene within yourself. No one like you has ever been born.
And if you cannot hear it, [00:06:00] you'll never find what it is that you're looking for. Or if you hear it and you never follow it, you'll forever be on the strings that someone else pulls. So this whole idea of the sound of the texture of your own intuitive knowing about your business in which you're trying to do, I think is really important.
So intuition is an important value. For me, the other one is this idea of we all have something to bring into the world. And for me, I believe that the future. Griefs, if not mourns, if you and I don't and others who are listening on this call, do not discern the purpose, the gifts that we bring to the world, to our communities, to our customers that are longing for the, for the solution that we have to some of the greatest problems that they're [00:07:00] wrestling with.
I think it is a gift and it is a blessing to them. And so we. You know, don't attend to it. Then I think, you know, there's a, an aspect of the future that grieves and mourns. The third thing that I would say is that I really value imagination. The late bell hook says, you know, what you cannot imagine will never come into being.
So part of the question is how can we imagine not what's possible? How, but how do we imagine impossibilities? Because when we only imagine what's possible, we can sometimes put ourselves, you know, within a prison. Yeah. I can only go this far, do this much, so high, et cetera. But what I want us to do is to imagine the unthinkable.
In terms of the greatest, you know, aspect of what that could be, if we never reach it, but we strive for the, for what's impossible, to imagine the impossibility of [00:08:00] what could be, man, we would have made a major dent in bringing, uh, some goodness to the world. And so I believe that we, As individual entrepreneurs, but also our businesses can be a dynamic force for good.
And that's all dependent upon our imagination. And then lastly, uh, I think what I would say, you know, when I think about values is this idea of purpose. I try to think about how I live and lead on purpose. And I would say that, you know, I believe that each of us have a capacity to live and lead on purpose.
They, all of us. carry inherently a divine genius and that genius thing gets imprinted on our business. It gets imprinted in our lives. It gets imprinted on our relationships. It gets imprinted on all that we [00:09:00] touch with our one precious life. And if we can do that purposefully, then we know that, you know, and we live in our purpose.
We stand in our purpose. Then I think what we come to realize is that our life matters and what we do matters and that business of a good. They matter and they matter because they're beneficial and purposeful for the world, but they're also a deeply meaningful enriching to us as the entrepreneur.
Kimberly R. Daniel: So what is your divine genius?
I'm talking to you, listeners, what is your divine genius and the imprint that you leave in the world and on the world? I think Stephen left off with a really important value for us all to consider around purpose. And what are the values that you operate from? And that you are really allowing to [00:10:00] drive how you build your business.
how you lead, how you show up in the world as a friend, as a partner, as a human being. Each one of us has gifts. There is something that drives all of us. So we hope that you do some reflection on that because it does truly make a difference and it does Truly impact how we show up in the world. I hope that you have enjoyed this brief conversation today and We really hope that you continue to journey with us in This podcast in this season, in each episode until next time be well and do good.
Narrator: Thank you for listening to the do good X podcast to continue the conversation or access our [00:11:00] resources. Visit www. dogoodx. org. Join us again for conversations that will nourish your soul, ignite your dreams, And empower you to build an impactful business, one intentional step at a time. Until then, keep striving, thriving, and doing good.