How To Make Money And An Impact

Welcome to the Limitless Women podcast. Our mission is to

help women business owners like you grow profitable businesses

and actualize your opportunities to serve and give to yourself

and others. Here's your host, the founder of Limitless Women,

Laura Gisborne.

Are you a woman who struggles between whether

you're going to make money or whether you're going to make an

impact? I'm Laura Gisborne, founder of Limitless Women, and

I'm here to tell you you get to do both. One of the most common

things that I hear from emerging leaders, right? Because now I

just turned 60. I'm talking to a lot of young women who are much

younger than I am, and what they say is, "Gosh, I love what you

do with limitless women. When I grow up, I want to make impact

with my work. I want to give away money. I want to really be

able to serve with my talents and my tithes, and I want to be

able to spend my time making a difference in the world. So

here's what I say to them: Guess when it starts today. Wherever

you are today, if you haven't really gotten clear about the

system for profits for purpose, I'm going to break it down for

you in this video.

Okay, the first thing you want to do is decide that this is

something that is important to you. I'm not a big fan of doing

philanthropy or making a difference to look good, right?

In this season of life, God's been very, very, very generous

with my family. We've overcome incredible adversities, both my

husband and I, and we're so grateful that we get to do the

work that we get to do today. Decide that you get to do this,

not that you have to do it. It's not about how it's going to look

in your marketing. It's going to become who you be in the world,

and that's a big difference in how you perceive your work. When

you know that you get to do it, then you just choose. Decide how

you want to give. You may give a small percentage off of the top

of one of your programs. Now we donate the first 20% of our

gross revenue. I do not recommend this for you if you

are new in business.

Okay, this is my ninth business. I've exited several businesses.

I've been very blessed. I can afford to make my life around

philanthropy. If you're young and you're getting started, just

choose one program, choose one service that you do. So for

every one of this coaching program, we donate the first $50

to the second step, which is who's your cause, right? So

decide that you want to do it, then decide what percentage or

what dollar amount makes sense for you? The second thing is

where is your money going? Now, over the years, we've been

really blessed to support foundations that are currently

across five continents. We're working with many, many

different organizations through my community because I'm in the

business of leading leaders. Right? If it's just me, I'm one

person. I'm not going to make the impact as I'm going to make

by pouring into you, so that you're making your impact, and

Lee's making his impact, and Richard's making his impact, and

Lisa's making her impact, and Marie's making her impact. Right

together, collectively is how we heal the world. So, what you

want to decide is what's important to you.

And my business advice for you on this one is: How does it

align with your brand? I know that when we went to Africa this

year, we took a group of our legacy leaders there to work on

the ground with 300 young women, ages 11 to 14. We all came home

as different people. Not only did we get to give our time, our

talents, and our tithes, and pour into these young women. But

I'm going to tell you something: they poured into us, and we had

hope for the future. We saw the opportunity for humanity that we

didn't see before. Right? We came home fired up in our

business. Choose wisely. Choose a cause that aligns with your

values. If you don't have your core values for your company

figured out, reach out to me about that. That's a whole

nother training. But I will tell you that as a mission-driven

person, you need to have a culture that speaks to what's

important in the way that your business does business, and

those secret sauces often live in your core values. At

Limitless Women, we believe we get to give.

You've heard me speak about it already in this video, right? We

believe that action changes everything. It's not someday

when I think about it that it's going to get different. God

bless all of us that are faith-based people that are

praying to be shown. But I got to tell you, I believe God asks

us to meet him. I believe that we have to take the action. We

receive the invitation, we receive the opportunity, and

then we have to take the action.

So your second step in this process is you're going to

decide how you're going to give, and you're going to get into

action with it. That's going to lead you to the third piece,

which is let people know to. A lot of years for me to be able

to talk about myself as a philanthropist. I didn't feel

that I was qualified. I didn't feel that I had given away

enough money. I was like, "Well, when I give my way to millions,

then I can use that language. Right? Here's what I know: the

majority of shift and change around eradicating poverty on

the planet, for as long as it's really been tracked well from

the 1970s is when the United Nations got serious about

tracking the impact of different initiatives.

Right, what we know is that the collective actions of many

people are what it takes to get great results. I'm so grateful

for the foundations and for the individuals, but they are a

small percentage of what actually happens in donations.

Donations are often from working-class people like me and

you, making a little donation as we can, as a part of a community

committed to change and service. It's never been a better time to

be alive. There's never been more opportunity for you to

create impact in the world, and the infrastructure that you

choose to adopt in your business may touch so many lives that you

may never even know. Right? I'm the founder of Limitless Women.

My name is Laura Gisborne. If I can support you in any way,

please don't hesitate to reach out. You can hop into my

calendar personally at schedulemycall dot today.

There's a few questions there to let me know who you are. The

link will take you right to my calendar. If you see that I'm

not available for a few weeks, please be patient with me. I

travel frequently, and it's my pleasure to really talk to you

heart to heart and help you get access to whatever resources you

need, so you can join me in helping others get the resources

they need.