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Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Paoola: I think my superpower has always been I have felt this need to use my skills and experience in service to others. Paoola Sefair is a cancer survivor who used her experience to build an app to make the cancer journey a bit more tolerable, enabling patients and caregivers to coordinate support more effectively. She calls her app and her enterprise M...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Chris: There are a couple of things, and I hesitate to label them superpowers because that doesn't feel right. Chris: What I've recognized, and it's been by happenstance, [is] that for some reason people will listen when I say stuff, and if I say it well, they might think about doing it… One of the things that I have, I think, has been helpful for me in t...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Andi: I think my superpower is a bias towards action. And what I mean by that is I'm willing to take a leap before I feel completely ready. I'm okay with being uncomfortable and getting outside of my comfort zone. And maybe I would state that I'm more afraid of never trying than failing at something. So I'm willing to take kind of that first step. Have yo...

Devin: What is your superpower? Joseph: I believe that first and foremost, my superpower is my understanding that I am a reflection of the divine in my full uniqueness and within the full mysterious nature of how, in fact, all of us are individually, but yet collectively, a reflection of who the divine is, whether you call God, God, whether it's divine intelligence, the energy or the force, whatev...

Devin: How would you describe your superpower?   Lisette: I would say it's two things, but those two things have to be combined. It's determination making the impossible possible. It's about progress, not about perfection. And you mentioned progress before. And I think that so many people sometimes are scared of not getting it right that they don't move forward. So it's about progress, not perfect...

Police reform is one of the significant challenges facing us in the United States. Lisa Broderick, founder and executive director of Police2Peace, notes that one of the fundamental difficulties is that there are 18,000 police agencies in the United States. They are all locally funded and operated and are subject to relatively little Federal control. “It's not a political issue. It's really a pract...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Mandi: I'm passionate about connecting people. I'm good at connecting people. I've been able to open doors and create this network of people for others to build relationships, especially during a time of COVID. When we switched to being so disconnected, I brought our industry together. What’s the Deal With Hemp? The word hemp means a lot of different thin...

Devin: What is your superpower? Jess: First thing that came to mind was ruining food. I’m not a cook. That is probably my strongest superpower—not delivering a very easy recipe, especially if it says like easy or like one-pot dinner. Yeah, I will screw that up. That’s my biggest superpower. But you probably meant something positive. So I would say finding a space to equalize the tension in the roo...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Garrett: I love that question. You always ask this in your interviews. I think my superpower power is finding what matters for that person, finding and creating a purpose for other people, a purpose bigger than themselves. Garrett Underwood is a social entrepreneur and nonprofit leader who focuses his energy on helping people find their path out of homele...

Gary: I think if I can be permitted to talk about what might be another superpower, is that what I’ve discovered over the years is it’s about channeling. Gary White has been among the most frequent guests on my show. He’s one of the most down-to-earth guys I know. With his Water.org partner and co-author megastar Matt Damon, Gary is accelerating water and sanitation access with impact investments....

For 30 years, Village Enterprise has been working to help people at the bottom of the pyramid lift themselves out of poverty. A randomized control trial begun in 2014 demonstrated that its programs worked. That evidence led to the nonprofit serving as the first recipient of a development impact bond (DIB). Winnie Babra Auma, vice president of programs for the growing international organization, wa...

Devin: What is your superpower? Arthur: I would say my superpower is having relentless focus and not really believing that any job is too small. Embracing Diversity Can Be a Competitive Advantage Arthur Woods, co-founder of Mathison and author of Hiring for Diversity , says, “The great news in our space is that the last ten years, 15 years, if anything, has led us to many more conclusions about th...

Devin: Gabi, what is your superpower. Gabi: Being a hugger. Devin: Mary, what’s your superpower? Mary: I’m good at going around and telling people our story. You know, getting the word out there that people with special abilities are worthy and good workers and awesome. Gabi’s Grounds and Gabi’s PALS Gabi Angelini, the only girl in a home with five brothers, is different in another way. Her mom, M...

I’m taking vacation this week. Despite best efforts, today’s post was the only one I was able to finish before leaving so it will be this week’s only one. Enjoy! We’ll see you next week. Devin: What is your superpower? Anca: I feel like I have a keen sense of knowing when things are about to go bad or go wrong, and I am one step ahead of that as well as with, I think that goes hand-in-hand with my...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Sarika: I think my superpower is being a scientist but thinking beyond that label as a box. Sarika Khanwilkar is an evolutionary biologist working on her Ph. D. at Columbia University. Ph. D. students are almost all overworked. It is a high-stress job, much more so than the student life we experience in undergraduate studies. Starting a Nonprofit That pre...

Devin: As you think about how you got here, what do you think of as your superpower? Shawn: Having your passion of your mission, getting visuals of faces and people in areas that you are protecting and saving. That is really a driver for me. I’m not going to stop. I’m going to be relentless in our pursuit of helping and impacting and changing the world and saving lives because of the people that a...

You will find a video of the podcast recording below. Devin: What do you see as your core strength, your inner superpower that will help you get this done successfully? Lindsay: I will answer that by saying the first day that I didn’t drink, something happened to me. I was down in my kitchen making a coffee, hungover, ashamed, the whole thing. And I could see for the first time—I don’t know why, b...

Devin: Jonathan, what is your superpower? Jon: I guess I don’t know that I have any superpowers aside from just getting in there and doing it. I guess I’ve never been one that shied away from a challenge. I think we’re were put here for a reason. And I believe that you’re in your position, and I’m in my position in order to do something. Ok? And to me, that’s not a superpower that’s just doing you...

Devin: What is your superpower? Susan: I think my superpower has got to be my passion about the topic of strengthening the impact of girls and women in Utah and also worldwide. I am deeply—my purpose is so strong. But I would add that I have a lot of stamina to do a lot of work. And I’m not afraid. So I think maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s—I don’t know what it is, but at this point in my life, I sp...

This article is from the recording in the podcast player above and the video below. Devin: I wonder, Allan, if you would share with us what you see as your superpower. Allan: Well, that is really the magic question. I guess when it comes down to it, I’d have to say that I am always a glass-half-full kind of guy. I’d like to believe that my main superpower is an optimistic outlook on life. I do try...

Devin: Kristen, what is your superpower? Kristen: Daniel and I were, you know, marinating on this earlier today. I think my superpower is connecting with people. Devin: Daniel, what is your superpower? Daniel: Optimism. Language revitalization requires optimism. When you start a project to reawaken your language, you need to have a degree of faith that a generation from now you will have had succe...

Devin: I wonder what you identify as being your superpower. Suren: Belief: because I believe in the mission. I know it’s there, and I know it’s only a matter of time to bring this new revolutionizing approach to education. When you believe in something the way I believe, then you start seeing life from your own [perspective]. Whatever you believe in, it becomes reality. So that is how it was worki...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Sam: Oh, my superpower is connecting with people, that’s probably it, it’s, and once again, it comes down to soft skills. It’s not the hard technical skills, even though I was trained as a developer. It’s great to have that technical knowledge, but at the end of the day, it is still people who make decisions. Tech guru Sam Kamani is taking some adven...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Terri: My background is in television reporting and producing. And I just truly learned how to listen and how to be reflective of the communities that you're part of and tell that story so that others can be inspired. Terri Broussard Williams, the author of Find Your Fire , is a movement maker. Her day job as a lobbyist gives her experience fighting...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Cleveland: God has been good to me. You know, I’m a believer, I have faith, and I’ve always had to work at things, Devin. I’ve always had to work. I don’t know any other way. You know, whether it’s football, baseball, business, a lot of hours. I don’t have any alternative solution to success. I don’t have it. Maybe I sometimes wish I had. But it’s just it...