Leave the World Better Than You Found It (Part 10)

About this episode

Jill Hodge reflects on her mother's final life lesson about leaving the world better than we found it through small acts of kindness.

In this episode, I reflect on my mother’s final life lesson (#10): the idea that we each can do our part to leave the world better than we found it. We can get granular in our thinking and understand the impact of small acts of kindness—attention, presence, and everyday compassion. My mom did it by getting to know people through a lens of discovery and acceptance. Drawing from memories of my mother’s way of moving through the world in a way that honored an individual's intrinsic beauty ...

People in this episode

Host: Jill Hodge

Topics covered

• personal growth
• kindness
• life lessons
• compassion
• legacy

Keywords

• personal growth
• kindness
• life lessons
• compassion
• legacy
• mother
• self-improvement

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