Jeffrey D. Stewart, founder and executive director of Enharmonic Encounters, joins me to talk about the B Corp movement, social entrepreneurship, and his journey of building a purpose-driven business.

We explore why language access matters, what it really means to include marginalized and non-English-speaking stakeholders in the sustainable business movement, and how purposeful businesses can create lasting impact - one step, one word, and one connection at a time.

Listen to the episode referenced in this episode: 185. Why Profit & Meaning Must Go Hand in Hand with Lisa Geason-Bauer:

-Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/185-why-profit-meaning-must-go-hand-in-hand-with-lisa/id1545594859?i=1000644208369

-Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6z8tHw3WNTEEUlgZJhdrl7?si=g7UrS4MXTG6xIodevb_9EA

Jeffrey D. Stewart is the founder and executive director of Enharmonic Encounters LLC, a small, Black-owned business dedicated to helping companies measure their impact and amplifying the voices of non-English-speaking stakeholders through language access. Having placed Enharmonic Encounters at the helm of the world's largest third-party-verified, socially responsible business movement as the first company in the United States to certify on B Lab's new standards for B Certification (V2), Jeffrey aims to create purposeful, lasting impact—one step, one word, and one connection at a time.

Website: www.enharmonicenc.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/enharmonicenc

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enharmonicenc and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-ds

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You have years - maybe decades - of experience.

You've seen what's broken in your industry. You have ideas about how things could work better. You have a perspective that could genuinely help people.

But if you're only sharing those ideas with your mentor, your coach, your colleagues, your friends, or the people already inside your professional circle…

you're talking to an echo chamber.

And your expertise can't create its full impact if the people who need it never get to hear it.

In this episode, I talk about why I believe Changemakers have an enormous opportunity right now to take their expertise beyond the traditional systems they've been working inside and build sustainable online brands around what they know.

I share my own journey from nonprofit immigration lawyer to also online social entrepreneur - including the moment I realized that although I deeply believed in my profession and mission, there were limits to how much change I could create within the existing system.

Building an online business gave me another way to contribute.

It allowed me to reach people across borders, share what I'd learned, build something profitable and ultimately help far more people than I could through my traditional professional role alone.

And that's why I'm so passionate about helping other Changemakers do the same.

In this episode, I explore:

• Why keeping your biggest ideas inside your existing professional circle limits your potential impact

• The opportunity we now have to reach people around the world through the internet

• How I moved from nonprofit immigration law into also entrepreneurship and online business

• Why building a profitable business doesn't have to mean abandoning your mission

• How I built Immigrant Finance with my husband to help immigrants build financial wealth

• Why content is one of the most powerful tools changemakers have for sharing their expertise

• Why learning online sales matters if you want your impact to be sustainable

• The connection between visibility, expertise, income and impact

• Why your years of experience may be exactly what qualifies you to become a thought leader

• Why now is such an important moment for Changemakers to step forward and help build what comes next

The internet has given us something previous generations could barely have imagined: the ability to share our ideas with people around the world instantly.

The question isn't whether that opportunity exists.

The question is whether you're actually using it.

If you know you have something important to contribute, it's time to stop keeping it behind closed doors.

Your people can't find you if they can't hear you.

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Have you ever gone to bed at night with that gnawing pang in your stomach, in your gut, knowing that you're meant for more, knowing that you could be making a bigger impact?

If that hits home, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I'm sharing the story behind my online business journey - the search to make more impact through the power of the internet. I talk about what it felt like to finally reach my dream career as a non-profit immigration lawyer, and why "arriving" didn't make that gnawing feeling go away.

I dig into:

• Why I feared my impact in the existing legal system - the existing matrix - had a ceiling, and how that fear became the catalyst for building online
• The pain point my husband and I lived through when he immigrated to the U.S., and how that became the seed for my first online business, Immigrant Finance
• What it actually took to go from zero business experience to building an online brand and the skills to master messaging, positioning, content, sales, and offers
• Why I never fully fit in with the online business coaches I studied with, and what that taught me about building a business around impact, not just revenue
• How I use my attorney brain to help clients build an airtight case for their online brand - a strategic foundation so content stops being spaghetti-at-the-wall and starts calling in dream clients on repeat
• Why that gnawing feeling isn't desperation or ingratitude - it's your inner Changemaker waking up, and it's a compass pointing you toward the bigger stage your life's work deserves

If you're a doctor who wants to change the conversation around wellness, a financial professional who wants to empower thousands of people, or a therapist who wants to shift a cultural paradigm - this episode is for you.

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