What does it actually take to build a social enterprise when you still have a day job, a family, and a world that won't slow down?

Three years in, the Social Impact Mastermind has become one of Adam Morris's favorite things he does. The idea was simple: bring social entrepreneurs together at a similar stage in their journey, create a space where they can be honest about what they're struggling with, and let the group do what groups do best. Support each other.

This recap covers the four themes that kept coming up this year: revenue, social media, scope creep, and balance. The revenue conversation gets refreshingly real, from a founder who paid $100 to practice discovery calls on userinterviews.com before ever approaching a real decision maker, to the mindset shift that turns sales from something uncomfortable into something genuinely collaborative. There's also a honest look at how the nonprofit funding landscape has changed and where to start looking when the grants dry up.

On social media, the big unlock was simple: stop waiting until you have the perfect post and just start showing up. Scope creep and balance round out the conversation, with Adam sharing why a weekly review habit and protecting your personal time are not nice-to-haves, they are the whole game when you are building something meaningful on the side.

Episode in a glance

00:00 The Social Impact Mastermind and how it started

03:14 Theme one: finding revenue and reframing sales as discovery

08:45 Theme two: why consistency beats perfection on social media

13:25 Theme three: avoiding scope creep with a weekly review practice

17:11 Theme four: protecting your time and energy as a busy entrepreneur

Curious about joining the next Social Impact Mastermind? Reach out to Adam directly to find out when the next cohort kicks off.

What if the thing standing between you and the impact you want to make isn't a lack of resources, but a lack of confidence?

Confidence is one of those words that sounds simple but hits differently when you're an entrepreneur trying to do something meaningful in the world. Adam Morris sits down with Rachyl Kershaw of Greater Columbus Consulting and Lachandra Baker of LBB Edutainment to dig into why so many purpose-driven people hold themselves back, and what they're doing about it through the Confidence Lab.

Two powerhouses who somehow never crossed paths despite moving in the same Columbus circles for years, Rachyl and Lachandra bring complementary energy to a shared mission: helping people show up as their full, authentic selves, whether they're in a boardroom, building a nonprofit, or somewhere in between.

The conversation gets real fast. Lachandra talks about the emotional exhaustion that drives people to the Confidence Lab, the feeling of constantly trying to find your sea legs in a world that keeps shifting. Rachyl shares her own journey from a sharp-elbowed early career version of confidence to the healthier, more grounded kind she now teaches, rooted in knowing your value rather than defending it.

They also tackle something particularly relevant for social entrepreneurs: the discomfort of selling, speaking up, and delegating when you're used to carrying everything yourself.

Their message: You don't have to do it all, and you don't have to do it alone. The Confidence Collective they've built is living proof of that, a group of brilliant leaders pooling their strengths and going after opportunities together.

00:00 Why confidence is harder in practice than it sounds

01:05 Rachyl's background and why she left corporate life

02:43 Lachandra's 35 years in people-first work

05:04 How the Confidence Lab idea was born and the gap it was designed to fill

08:31 What participants took away from last year's event

10:50 Why the Confidence Lab naturally became a women-centered space

16:21 The power of delegating, partnering, and not doing it all yourself

19:41 Rachyl's personal story: from defensive confidence to the real thing

25:19 How leaders can create psychological safety so others speak up too

28:35 How to find the Confidence Lab and get involved

Rachyl Kershaw is the founder of Greater Columbus Consulting, bringing decades of corporate and technology experience to help social enterprises and conscious capitalists build stronger, more impactful businesses.

Connect with Rachyl and her work: → LinkedIn

Lachandra Baker is the founder of LBB Edutainment, with 35 years of experience in employee engagement, company culture, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is a speaker, culture strategist, and champion for bringing full humanity into every workplace.

Connect with Lachandra and her work: → LinkedIn

The Confidence Lab Summit is Monday, May 4th, noon to 4pm at Rev1 at the Peninsula. Grab your tickets and learn more at confidencelab.org.

Can you actually build a meaningful business in a weekend and have it still be running years later?

Social entrepreneurship can feel lonely, overwhelming, and undefined, especially when you care deeply about a cause but have no idea how to turn that passion into a functioning business. That's exactly the gap GiveBackHack was designed to fill.

Adam Morris pulls back the curtain on the Columbus, Ohio-based organization that gave him his own entrepreneurial start, sharing how a weekend hackathon format rooted in applied design thinking has launched real businesses tackling real community problems. The secret isn't building a finished product. It's getting the right people in a room, surfacing your assumptions, and then actually going out to test them by talking to real people.

Adam walks through the stories of participants like Karen, whose research on Black caregivers became the foundation of her nonprofit Pair to Care; Leah, an AmeriCorps volunteer who discovered that a crumpled piece of paper with outdated resource phone numbers was failing the people she served; and Wesley, the rapid-prototyping tech wizard who embodies the "scrappy and fast" philosophy that separates learning entrepreneurs from stuck ones.

Along the way, Adam reflects on his own journey launching Wild Tiger Tees, a screen-printing business that employed youth experiencing homelessness at the Star House, and what it taught him about what entrepreneurship actually feels like from the inside.

At its core, this episode is about something bigger than business. It's about building authentic human connections, slowing down in an AI-accelerated world, and creating spaces where people feel genuinely heard. GiveBackHack, it turns out, is less a startup event and more a community transformation engine.

Episode in a glance

00:00 What is GiveBackHack and why Adam cares deeply about it

02:42 How GiveBackHack was founded and why it broke from the traditional startup weekend model

04:28 Design thinking explained: testing assumptions before building solutions

08:30 Karen and Pair to Care: turning research into a social enterprise

10:27 Wild Tiger Tees: Adam's own GiveBackHack origin story

12:31 Wesley's scrappy prototyping approach and what it teaches us

14:03 Leah and Hunger Helper: learning from people experiencing the problem firsthand

16:59 The Impact of Rapid Change in Technology

19:15 What the best social entrepreneurs have in common

Interested in launching a social enterprise? Reach out to Adam or join his social impact mastermind group for entrepreneurs at the early stages of building something meaningful.