The Lesson:

Everyone can make an impact if they give 10%—effort, time, money, etc. to ensuring that across all dimensions of life they are making a positive impact rather than a negative one. Sometimes it takes a hard look in the mirror, but it's always worth it in the end.

Notable Excerpt:

"[Do] an audit of your life across all the different categories. So career and job is one of them, but also your money, volunteering, your side-hustles, your family or the institutions you're part of, look at all your life and first start rating it by how much time are you spending on these categories and then whether you're having a positive-neutral-negative effect."

The Guest:

Alex has spent over 15 years working in the social impact space for one of the largest children's nonprofits. Save the Children and the Clinton Foundation. She now leads MIT SOLVE.

As a founding Executive Director of Solve. Alex has built and now oversees a fast-growing team whose mission is to drive innovation, to solve global challenges. How do they do that? Their team finds funds and supports the most promising social innovators in entrepreneurs all around the world.

To date solve has brokered funding commitments of over 60 million to their solver teams and entrepreneurs worldwide.