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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! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

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! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Bullet 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! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

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! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Summer 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. CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Melissa 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! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Melissa 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! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

It'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. CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

In 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. CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Melissa 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.  CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Melissa 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. CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Jenna Worthen's political activism started at age 8, and she hasn't stopped making her impact since. In part one of their conversation, Melissa and Jenna discuss how their background as child activists speaks to their work today. They also reminisce about how their "chance" (more like divinely arranged) meeting led to Jenna playing a key role in helping The Dragonfly Home, the non-profit Melissa co-founded, get off the ground. Get ready to be inspired and encouraged! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

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 CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

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!  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Melissa 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. Get the book*: Embrace Your Weird, by Felicia Day *affiliate link CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

“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 CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Friend 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 CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Melissa 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 CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

Melissa 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. CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support

May 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 CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support