Podcasts about meaningful work a quest

Shawn Askinosie the founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate and author of the book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul is talking to us about his big career shift, from the courtroom to a sweet place. He speaks about the importance of farmers and his personal journey to finding his calling and how he practices self care. Shawn is dropping important nuggets on self awareness and meaningful work. You can get your Askinosie Chocolate here https://askinosie.com and order his book on Amazon https://amzn.to/3A1vmxb. Trust me, you will be delighted by both!

Less than 13% of adults who are employed full-time consider their work meaningful. It is not surprising that 70% of us are disengaged at work. Finding meaning in our work doesn't necessarily require a new job, and it isn't about saving the world. In this episode of the Career Confidante, host Marie Zimenoff welcomes Shawn Askinosie – entrepreneur and author of Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. We discuss sorrow, service, and how to define “enough” to chart your path toward meaningful work. Listen in to hear Shawn's insights and find more meaning and joy in your life!

Less than 13% of adults who are employed full-time consider their work meaningful. It is not surprising that 70% of us are disengaged at work. Finding meaning in our work doesn't necessarily require a new job, and it isn't about saving the world. In this episode of the Career Confidante, host Marie Zimenoff welcomes Shawn Askinosie – entrepreneur and author of Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. We discuss sorrow, service, and how to define “enough” to chart your path toward meaningful work. Listen in to hear Shawn's insights and find more meaning and joy in your life!

Today, I'm honored to introduce Shawn Askinosie, coauthor with his daughter, Lawren, of the book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. Shawn is the founder of Askinosie Chocolate, which was named by Forbes as one of the 25 best small companies in America, and he was named by Oprah as one of 15 guys who are saving the world. Shawn is all about chocolate. I've tasted it, in fact, I have the 72% dark chocolate from Tanzania in front of me right now and it is amazing. And no, he didn't pay me to say that. But he and his chocolate company are also about so much more. Using his company’s revenues, Shawn's chocolate business has provided over a million meals to hungry students in Tanzania and the Philippines. They've delivered thousands of textbooks to schools and they've drilled water wells for villagers.

Shawn Askinosie is an author and the founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate. His book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, takes readers on his journey to self-actualization and is a guide to how they can discover the secret to purposeful business. He joins Kevin Monroe for a follow-up episode to further explore concepts included in the book, as well as how they enabled him to help others. How Much is “Enough”? Kevin asks Shawn when he started thinking about the concept of “enough.” Shawn replies that as he embarked into a new career the idea of financial success and notoriety began to lose its luster. The paradoxical and mysterious connection between his joy and sorrow gave him clarity of purpose during those years of transition. “If you want to find yourself, lose yourself in service to others,” Shawn quotes.  Scale Shawn claims that rapid growth is the temptation of our time, especially for entrepreneurs and people with ideas. In certain cases, scale is necessary and optimal, but you risk losing something when growth is valued above all else. He describes scaling as a dark temptation and warns that even when it’s for ostensibly good purposes, it may not actually be good. He describes an experience with a major retail company in which they give a fitting depiction of Askinosie Chocolate: they are about reverse scale. Kinship Kinship, Shawn says, is woven deep within the fabric of his company, is highly valued, and is another part of the human connection. He details how Askinosie Chocolate strives to engender kinship among their members, partners, and customers. Doing business with these values at the forefront is a much more rewarding pathway, he points out.  Relationships Affect Your Product If you bake a bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger, Kevin quotes. He asks Shawn to elaborate on the correlation between a good product and human connection. Who we are and the product or service that we deliver are inseparable; we can’t peel them apart, Shawn replies. The value chain is enhanced through relationships. Shawn talks about the projects Askinosie Chocolate has undertaken, the impacts they have made in numerous communities internationally, and how the connections he has established with people have positively enhanced his life. Fair and Direct Trade Fair trade began with good intentions, but has become so ubiquitous that it is now a victim of its own good marketing. Studies show that the premium added to the market price of products is not making its way to producers and is gradually lost along the complex supply chain. Shawn describes how Askinosie Chocolate has redefined fair trade into direct trade, including modified travel practices that ensure their producers get the profits they rightfully deserve. Resources Shawn Askinosie on LinkedIn | Twitter  Email: hello@shawnaskinosie.com Askinosie.com ShawnAskinosie.com Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul Kevin Monroe on LinkedIn | Twitter  Email: kevin@higherpurposepodcast.com  Call or text Kevin: 678-744-5111 Join the community: KevinDMonroe.com/decade

Shawn Askinosie is an author and the founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate. His book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, takes readers on his journey to self-actualization and is a guide to how they can discover the secret to purposeful business. He joins Kevin Monroe to discuss his book and how its teachings apply to current events. Threshold Poet and philosopher John O’Donoghue would consider this current period a threshold, Shawn says. A threshold can be a dark place of panic, discomfort and depression, but also a place of teaching, awakening and connection with our higher selves, if we allow it. You have to understand your present position and acknowledge your fear, instead of waiting to reach the other side of the threshold. Kevin adds that he has realized that current events are the world’s “temporary new normal,” and we must learn to adjust to it rather than hold on to the normal of the past. We may all be in one of three places right now, according to Shawn: on a threshold; on the path to awakening, where you have a daily practice that keeps you grounded; or among the masters or teachers from whom we gain wisdom. The tools you can access on your path depend on where you are.  Success Kevin quotes a line from Shawn’s book and asks him to elaborate. Shawn shares a story about a young girl’s positive experience with an employee of one of his stores, and says that even if his business fails, that moment of impact will be around forever. He considers that as part of his redefined meaning of success. “What people want to know is that they are joyfully alive,” he says.  The Journey Shawn’s experience of losing the love and motivation he had for his career led him on a quest to discover a new passion. He shares some of the activities he participated in along his journey, a notable one being volunteer work in hospice care. Accepting his broken heart, caused by the death of his father, enabled him to connect with his true self. “Our greatest joy is sorrow unmasked,” Kevin quotes. This joy wants to explode out of our sorrow, and to access it we must be willing and open to find that pathway.  Floundering and Flourishing The greatest freedom in humanity is the choice we make in response to the stimulus in our lives. Even in the midst of challenge and difficulty, we can decide whether to flounder or flourish. However, we must be able to surrender to the moment, and not just survive it. We do not have to wait until we cross the threshold to flourish, Shawn says.  Resources  Shawn Askinosie on LinkedIn | Twitter  Email: hello@shawnaskinosie.com Askinosie.com (Blog) ShawnAskinosie.com Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul Kevin Monroe on LinkedIn | Twitter  Email: kevin@higherpurposepodcast.com  Call or text Kevin: 678-744-5111 Join the community: KevinDMonroe.com/decade

http://www.alainguillot.com/shawn-askinosie/ 25 years ago, Shawn Askinosie was a successful criminal defense lawyer. Being a lawyer was a childhood dream passed down from his father. He defended and won many high profile cases, which brought him fame and fortune. But the high-pressure of his work lifestyle was unsustainable and one day, Shawn woke up without motivation to continue, "it was like turning the lights off," and his empty soul starting searching for a new meaning. He looked everywhere but he wasn't able to find an answer. On his quest to discover more meaningful work, he started volunteering in the palliative care wing of a hospital until one day he realized that what he wanted to do was to create chocolate. Keep in mind that up to this moment Shawn had no experience whatsoever in the chocolate business. He created a chocolate company that sourced 100% of its cocoa beans directly from farmers across the globe and with whom he shared its profits fairly. In addition to developing relationships with small farmers, he also partnered with schools in their origin communities to provide lunch to 1,600 children every day with no outside donations in this episode, Shawn describes his quest to discover more meaningful work, his insights into doing work that reflects one's values and purpose in life. He shows us how to create a work-life that is inspired and fulfilling, and we talk about his book Meaningful Work.    

Less than 13% of adults who are employed full-time consider their work meaningful. It is not surprising that 70% of us are disengaged at work. Finding meaning in our work doesn't necessarily require a new job, and it isn't about saving the world. In this episode of the Career Confidante, host Marie Zimenoff welcomes Shawn Askinosie – entrepreneur and author of Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. We discuss sorrow, service, and how to define “enough” to chart your path toward meaningful work. Listen in to hear Shawn's insights and find more meaning and joy in your life!

Less than 13% of adults who are employed full-time consider their work meaningful. It is not surprising that 70% of us are disengaged at work. Finding meaning in our work doesn't necessarily require a new job, and it isn't about saving the world. In this episode of the Career Confidante, host Marie Zimenoff welcomes Shawn Askinosie – entrepreneur and author of Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. We discuss sorrow, service, and how to define “enough” to chart your path toward meaningful work. Listen in to hear Shawn's insights and find more meaning and joy in your life!

Less than 13% of adults who are employed full-time consider their work meaningful. It is not surprising that 70% of us are disengaged at work. Finding meaning in our work doesn't necessarily require a new job, and it isn't about saving the world. In this episode of the Career Confidante, host Marie Zimenoff welcomes Shawn Askinosie – entrepreneur and author of Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. We discuss sorrow, service, and how to define “enough” to chart your path toward meaningful work. Listen in to hear Shawn's insights and find more meaning and joy in your life!

Chocolatier, Lawyer, and Monk.  These are distinct and separate roles and titles, some of which Shawn has held in the past and holds now. Shawn is the founder of Askinosie chocolate, a chocolate factory that practices direct trade, profit sharing with farmers, as well as a variety of social endeavors. He is also the author of a fantastic book called, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul— a book that everyone listening is likely to enjoy. We got to dig into his journey into chocolate, his thoughts on vocation and how to find it, and the important distinction between doing and being.   In this episode you'll learn: What does Shawn do? What is the difference between being and doing? What is the challenge to him by a monastery brother? How to determine our true self? How did he arrive to where he is now in life? What was the beginning of his pivotal moment? Shawn shared a bit of his book and suggest how to use it. His words to offer for the people who are lost like th Shawn before. Suggestion to the people who are asking what to do next. What is our greatest joy? What is the questions to ask yourself if you are in a struggling stage? His message to a religious person and the other. How to discern the moments of calling? What is the Paschal mystery? How to turn suffering to calling? How he prepares when AI take over most of the jobs? His vision for his chocolate factory? How to pursue your personal vocation and still work or do business? Shawn shares some of his vocations. Why he strives to create the best taste of his chocolate? What is the myth in the social entrepreneur of today? Why wouldn't he trade what he does today to going back as a lawyer that earns more? What are the questions that Shawn suggest that helps? Show notes at: https://www.themeaningmovement.com/shawn

Shawn Askinosie is CEO and Founder of Askinosie Chocolate as well as author of the book Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award-winning chocolate factory located in Springfield, Missouri, sourcing 100% of their beans directly from farmers in regions all over the world and sharing the profits with them. The Askinosie Chocolate mission is to serve farmers, their neighborhoods, their customers, and each other by leaving the world a better place than they found it. So far the company has provided over a million school lunches to malnourished children in Tanzania and the Philippines, without any donations. Askinosie Chocolate was named by Forbes as “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America” and Shawn was also named by O, The Oprah Magazine, as “One of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World.”In this episode, Stew and Shawn discuss Shawn’s remarkable personal journey from being a phenomenally successful criminal lawyer, who never lost a case, to a life-changing moment that caused him to realize he needed to leave the law. Shawn speaks candidly about the imperative to explore one’s grief, one’s “pain point,” helping others to help oneself. He co-founded a The Lost and Found Grief Center and worked in a palliative care unit, “searching, searching, searching” for five years before finding his way to chocolate making and working intimately, and directly without delegating, with indigenous cocoa bean farmers in the Amazon and Tanzania. Shawn’s story is honest, sometimes wrenching, and inspirational. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The founder of Askinosie Chocolate (Shawn Askinosie) joins us to share his journey to creating one of the world’s leading chocolate factories in the world. We discuss the importance of doing meaningful work, finding your calling, how chocolate is made, The Backstreet Boys, being transparent with your team and the process he calls visioning.

In 2005, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean-to-bar chocolate factory, Askinosie Chocolate, and never looked back. The only chocolate maker working directly with cocoa farmers on four continents, Shawn travels to regions of Ecuador, the Philippines and Tanzania to source cocoa beans for his chocolate. Recently named by Forbes "One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America", Askinosie Chocolate has also been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, on Bloomberg, MSNBC and numerous other national and international media outlets. As someone who encourages and inspires entrepreneurs to take the leap from intentional contemplation to purposeful action, Shawn Askinosie was named “One of the 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World” by Oprah Magazine. In his newest book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, Shawn shares how businesses can and should solve problems in the world, and how positive change begins with individual action. In this conversation, Branden and Shawn explore the journey of weaving social responsibility into everything we do — the overarching idea that doing more is not enough, but work worth doing is. soundsgoodpodcast.com/shawn

In 2005, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean-to-bar chocolate factory and never looked back. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award-winning chocolate factory in Missouri, sourcing 100% of their cocoa beans directly from farmers across the globe. Recently named “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America” by Forbes, Askinosie Chocolate was founded at the forefront of the American craft chocolate revolution and is regarded by many as a vanguard in the industry. But other than the honestly sourced cocoa, what’s the secret of Askinosie Chocolate’s success? According to Shawn Askinosie (and his daughter Lawren Askinosie), there is a lot more, as he shares in Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul.

In this episode, I talk with Shawn Askinosie about his book, "Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul". We also discuss his journey to owning a chocolate company, purpose both in life and work, direct trade versus fair trade, and much more. The post Ideas: Shawn Askinosie — Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul appeared first on Adam Kirk Smith.

Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Shawn Askinosie, Founder & CEO of Askinosie Chocolate and author of the new book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. Sponsor: This week's show is brought to you by Audible! Get a free audiobook to spice up your commute and get. Sign up for your free book at AudibleTrial.com/causetalkradio. You can even use your free book credit to download Shawn’s book today — just search for Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul after you set up your 30-day trial account! Links & Notes Askinosie Chocolate

You know that old story of a successful criminal defense lawyer who quits practicing law to start a bean to bar chocolate factory? Yeah...it’s a new story for me too. But that is the story of Shawn Askinosie. Shawn is a remarkable human being. Not because Oprah Magazine named him “One of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World” or because Forbes named his small batch, award winning chocolate factory, Askinosie Chocolate ‘One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America’ (both of which are true by the way). It’s because Shawn holds a contemplative vision for his life and business to create a more just and loving world. Askinosie Chocolate is a direct trade business that profit shares with their partners, the cocoa farmers, from around the world. Shawn and his team are recasting how a profitable business can operate in the world with integrity, passion and humility. In this conversation you will get a taste for Shawn’s values as he shares about his experience as a Family Brother at Assumption Abbey, how he recognizes the relationship between joy and sorrow, the lasting impact of his 6th grade teacher, why he wanted Askinosie Chocolate to be direct trade, profit sharing and open book management from its inception,... and what the hell he means by the phrase, ‘It not about the chocolate, it’s about the chocolate. This is just a taste of Shawn’s deeply empowering book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. You can buy the book, Meaningful Work, wherever beautiful books are sold. To learn more about Shawn visit (and order chocolate) at askinosie.com.  

Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, by chocolate entrepreneur Shawn Askinosie, is a book of stories and practical steps to find your personal vocation.

Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, by chocolate entrepreneur Shawn Askinosie, is a book of stories and practical steps to find your personal vocation.

Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, by chocolate entrepreneur Shawn Askinosie, is a book of stories and practical steps to find your personal vocation.

This episode had a huge impact on my life, and I know if you listen to it, do the work, it will change yours too and have a beautiful rippling affect. Shawn Askinosie is the founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate, a small business based in Springfield, Missouri. Their chocolate is world-renowned, award winning and Forbes recently named them as “One of the 25 Best Small Companies In America”. But this episode isn’t about chocolate, it’s about chocolate. (something that you’ll understand once you’ve listened). You see, the way Shawn does business is the way it should be taught in business school. Shawn’s beautiful business model is all about direct trade with farmers of coco beans in the Philippines, Tanzania and Ecuador, about open book management, profit sharing, reverse scale, kinship and community. Shawn and I dive into all of those topics and how his company sustainably feeds thousands of children who were once malnourished, without donations, simply giving money or charity. We talk about the notion of enough, and to ask ourselves, “What is enough”. That individually and in business is it easy to get caught up in the striving for more, but enough is where we can do the work we love with people we love. Towards the end of the podcast Shawn talks about and guides you through a visioning exercise. It is something that he does, and something that he has his chocolate university students, his farmers, and the school students he works with in other countries do. It is powerful and if you want to create personal change in your life, I recommend you do it as well. Shawn has recently written a book, with his daughter Lawren, titled - Meaningful Work: A Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, And Feed Your Soul. I don’t recommend many products but I can’t speak more highly of a book than this one. I personally purchased the audio book version through Audible and I loved hearing Shawn narrate each word and tell his story. I have links below in the show notes to where you can purchase it. If you’re thinking of a little something for someone for Christmas, or even better for yourself, I highly recommend it. And make sure you reach out to Shawn and let him know what you thought of the book. I know he’d love to hear from you. Shawn is a beautiful human who has crafted a way to do meaningful business and live life with love and passion. I hope you enjoy x www.liveimmediately.com

Conn is joined by Shawn Askinosie who tells us how we got lucky enough that he got into the chocolate business and gives us some insight on his new book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul!!

In 2005, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean-to-bar chocolate factory and never looked back. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award-winning chocolate factory in Missouri, sourcing 100% of their cocoa beans directly from farmers across the globe. Recently named “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America” byForbes, Askinosie Chocolate was founded at the forefront of the American craft chocolate revolution and is regarded by many as a vanguard in the industry. But other than the honestly sourced cocoa, what’s the secret of Askinosie Chocolate’s success? According to Shawn Askinosie (and his daughter Lawren Askinosie), there is a lot more, as he shares in Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. In 2005, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean-to-bar chocolate factory and never looked back. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award-winning chocolate factory in Missouri, sourcing 100% of their cocoa beans directly from farmers across the globe. Recently named “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America” byForbes, Askinosie Chocolate was founded at the forefront of the American craft chocolate revolution and is regarded by many as a vanguard in the industry. But other than the honestly sourced cocoa, what’s the secret of Askinosie Chocolate’s success? According to Shawn Askinosie (and his daughter Lawren Askinosie), there is a lot more, as he shares in Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul. Shawn Askinosie shares: · How to create a work life that reflects what’s most important, so that it’s not a drain on physical and mental energy · How to use the principles of “integrated kinship” in order to achieve your business’ calling · “Success” no longer translates to “profitable” alone—it also encompasses happiness, purpose, and community · Despite their inclination, most entrepreneurs are skeptical that their business can have a purpose beyond making a profit. Askinosie says, there’s no need to wait for your business to live out a calling…begin now · The business philosophy of “reverse scale” not to get bigger, but to get better at staying small. Meaningful Work is not a book about “saving the world,” but how positive change begins with individual action. It’s a book for anyone who may be successful but unsettled, in a hurry for answers, and ready for the next journey, or anyone just starting out and looking for the on-ramp. It’s a story about Shawn did it, how he is still doing it, and how others can do it too. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shawn Askinosie is the founder of Askinosie Chocolate. Lawren Askinosie, his daughter, is the Chief Marketing Officer. Their business model has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on Bloomberg and numerous other media outlets. Shawn was named by O, The Oprah Magazine, as "One of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World." He is a Family Brother at Assumption Abbey, a Trappist monastery near Ava, Missouri. https://www.askinosie.com