Scott M. Curran is a social impact lawyer, advisor, educator, and founder and CEO of Beyond Advisers. After serving as general counsel of the Clinton Foundation, where he advised a global nonprofit operating in more than 50 countries, Scott built a career helping leaders and organizations turn good intentions into lasting impact. In his new book, Better Good: A Simple System for Creating Lasting Impact, he makes that work accessible to anyone who wants to do more good in their life or work.

We explore Scott’s framework for recognizing the influence we already have. It starts with the three P’s, profile, platform, and passion, and the three T’s, time, talent, and treasure. Scott challenges the belief that impact requires wealth, status, or a large audience. Our everyday roles, relationships, skills, and choices give us opportunities to make a difference right now.

At the heart of Scott’s message is awareness and intentionality. When we recognize how much good we are already capable of creating and deliberately act on it, even small moments can create meaningful ripple effects.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Be aware, be intentional, and take action. The more we recognize opportunities to do good and act on them, the more momentum we create in our lives, our work, and the lives of others.

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Resources:

• Read Better Good: A Simple System for Creating Lasting Impact
• Beyond Advisers

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Jamison Carrier is the founder of Team NavX, a leadership advisory and recruiting firm that helps organizations build high-performing teams through clarity, accountability, and execution. He is also the co-author of Building a Championship Team: A Practical Guide to Finding, Recruiting and Developing Top Performers, which distills lessons from years of hiring, leadership, and team development into practical systems leaders can use immediately.

In our conversation, we explore why strong teams begin with clarity. Jamison introduces his MAP framework, which defines a role through its missions, actions, and performance expectations, giving leaders a clearer way to hire, onboard, and coach. He also explains why past performance matters more than credentials alone and shares his 30-minute rule for avoiding the biases that can distort hiring decisions.

We also discuss what keeps top performers engaged once they join a team. Clear scoreboards, consistent feedback, autonomy, and specific appreciation create an environment where people know what winning looks like and have the support to perform at their best.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Every leader needs to decide where their organization falls on the spectrum between family and team. Family prioritizes acceptance, while teams prioritize performance, and understanding that distinction helps leaders set expectations and lead with greater clarity.

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Resources:

• Read Building a Championship Team: A Practical Guide to Finding, Recruiting and Developing Top Performers
• Team NavX

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Roger Dooley is an internationally recognized author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and expert in neuromarketing and behavioral science. His books include Friction, Brainfluence, and The Persuasion Engine, which examines how artificial intelligence is making sophisticated behavioral science tools accessible to businesses of every size.

We explore how most human decisions happen beneath conscious awareness and why effective persuasion requires more than listing features and benefits. Roger explains how AI can analyze customer behavior, strengthen marketing messages, simulate eye-tracking research, and provide insights based on the work of leading behavioral scientists. He also shares practical ways to improve AI responses, including providing detailed context, asking the model to identify missing information, requesting a stronger version of the original prompt, and comparing answers across multiple platforms.

Roger also challenges the belief that AI cannot understand emotion. While it does not experience empathy, it can often predict emotional reactions and help organizations communicate difficult decisions with greater care, clarity, and awareness.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

AI understands emotion and empathy better than many people realize. Used ethically, it can help us communicate and persuade more effectively while guiding people toward choices that genuinely serve them.

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Resources:

• The Persuasion Engine
• Brainfluence
• Friction

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Phil Cousineau is a writer, teacher, filmmaker, storyteller, cultural historian, and the author of more than 40 books, including The Art of Pilgrimage and The Hero’s Journey. Drawing on decades of studying mythology, working with Joseph Campbell, consulting for major film studios, and leading journeys through Greece, Phil joins us to explore his newest book, The Wisdom of the Odyssey: 24 Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic.

We examine why The Odyssey has remained relevant for nearly 3,000 years and how it can serve as a map for navigating trauma, identity, relationships, and healing. Phil reframes Odysseus as a wounded soul trying to find his way home and shares lessons about seeking mentors, reclaiming our personal stories, welcoming unfamiliar ideas, and listening deeply to the people we love. He also explains why ancient stories help us recognize that our pain is not unprecedented and why wisdom begins when we look beneath the surface of our experiences.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Go deeper into the stories, relationships, and experiences that move you. Ask what wisdom and hidden meaning they contain, then listen closely enough to hear the answer.

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Resources:

• The Wisdom of the Odyssey
• The Art of Pilgrimage
• The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work

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Richard Moss is an internationally respected teacher, author, and visionary thinker who has spent nearly five decades exploring human consciousness, presence, and what he calls radical aliveness. After a spontaneous state of illumination ended his career in emergency medicine, he devoted his life to helping people understand how their thoughts shape their emotional experience and how awareness can reconnect them with a deeper sense of self.

In our conversation, Richard explains the framework behind his book, The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness. He describes how the mind pulls us into stories about the past, fears about the future, and judgments about ourselves and others. By returning to the present moment, we can observe those patterns without becoming controlled by them.

We also explore why resisting fear often gives it more power. Richard shares how meeting difficult emotions with attention, softness, and curiosity can turn fear into aliveness and help us respond to life from a place of love rather than reactivity.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You have a divine spark within you, and you are not the victim of your mind. Before speaking or reacting, pause and ask, “What does love want right now?”

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Resources:

• The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness on Amazon
• Richard Moss’s Official Website

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DJ DiDonna is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and the founder of The Sabbatical Project, where he studies how extended time away from routine work can reshape our health, identity, and direction. In his new book, Big Time Off: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals and How to Take One, he draws on years of research to show why sabbaticals are far more than extended vacations.

We explore how stepping away gives us enough distance to recover from burnout, reconnect with neglected parts of ourselves, and consider what we want from the next chapter of our lives. DJ explains the three common sabbatical archetypes: the achiever, the explorer, and the seeker. He also shares why duration, disconnection, and journaling matter more than creating the perfect itinerary.

Our conversation offers a practical way to think about time off, even when family, finances, and professional responsibilities make it feel impossible. A meaningful sabbatical may require years of preparation, but the first step is deciding which experiences are too important to leave undone.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Treat a sabbatical as regret insurance. Make space to identify what you would regret never doing, then begin moving the financial, professional, and logistical pieces needed to make it possible.

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Resources:

• Big Time Off by DJ DiDonna
• DJ DiDonna’s Website

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In this episode of The Daily Helping, we’re joined by Paul Ingram, the Kravis Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and author of What Do You Really Stand For? The One Question That Will Transform Your Work and Life. Paul has received Columbia’s highest recognition for teaching, along with numerous teaching awards from students at Columbia and Cornell, and his research has appeared in more than 100 articles, book chapters, and books.

Paul shares why clarity around our values is one of the most practical tools we have for improving our work, relationships, and well-being. Through decades of research and teaching, he has found that when people bring their values to mind, they become more resilient, ethical, motivated, and connected to what truly matters.

We also explore how values shape workplace culture, strengthen relationships, and help people make better decisions. Paul offers a simple reflective process for identifying values by looking at meaningful experiences and asking why they mattered.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Clarify your values, then make them concrete and easy to access. Keeping them visible, whether on a card, mug, or daily ritual, can ground you, reduce stress, and help you live with greater intention.

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Resources:

• Read What Do You Really Stand For? By Paul Ingram

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Kevin Dias is the founder of Ambiki, an EMR and practice management platform built for pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy practices. His path has taken him from investment banking to teaching English in Japan, translation technology, and healthcare software, but the thread connecting it all is a deep interest in solving real-world workflow problems.

In this episode, we explore Kevin’s book, The Problem First Method, and why teams so often rush into building solutions before they fully understand the problem. Kevin shares how customer requests, investor pressure, competitor moves, and now AI can all make it easier to build quickly, but not always wisely. His framework encourages leaders and teams to slow down, ask better questions, remove solution language from early planning, and build from a clearer understanding of what actually needs to be solved.

What we loved about this conversation is how practical and human Kevin’s approach is. Whether you are building software, managing a team, or navigating everyday family challenges, his message is a reminder that thoughtful problem-solving starts with curiosity, not assumptions.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Don’t fall in love with solutions. Fall in love with understanding the problem deeply enough that the right solution becomes obvious.

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Resources:

• Read The Problem First Method by Kevin Dias
• Ambiki
• https://problem-first-method.com
• https://www.kevinsdias.com

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