Have you long desired a career path that aligns with your personal joys and values, AND allows you to make a comfortable living? Roshan Paul has spent his professional life helping nearly 10,000 people from over sixty-five countries accelerate their careers in social impact. Today, he’s sharing his top tips for how you can make a living and make a difference, all at the same time.”    Author of “The New Reason to Work: How to Build a Career that Will Change the World”, Roshan shares his story of how that can be possible. Roshan Paul is the co-founder of Amani Institute, an award-winning global social enterprise that helps individuals align their working life with the life they want to lead. Prior to Amani Institute, Roshan worked with Ashoka for a decade, where he designed and launched programs that supported over 500 social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows) around the world. Raised in Bangalore, India, Roshan has a master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor’s in International Political Economy from Davidson College. He has guest-lectured or spoken at conferences at over fifty universities and other institutions around the world, including Harvard, Dartmouth, Georgetown, and the World Bank.   Listen in for a deep dive into how you can build a career around your values to simultaneously make a living and make an impact. [00:01 - 10:40] Opening Segment   Roshan shares a little bit of his background. Growing up in India. Moving to the USA. 9/11 Violence and terrorist attacks. Return to India to work in non-profits and social entrepreneurship. Starting his own organization.  The Amani Institute in Africa. The global recession in 2008. A transition towards careers of social impact. The global pandemic. Reevaluate: Having meaningful work and job.   [10:41 - 31:10]  Make a Living or Make a Difference? You Don’t Have to Choose   Opportunity mentality vs thread mentality. Diversity, inclusion, equity, etc. Roshan explains what impact means. Careers where the primary intention is trying to make a difference or solve a problem in society. Dichotomy: Doing good or doing well. Social impact practice. How mentality about work is changing Basic needs and social prestige in the past. Making an impact in the world. Ability to contribute. Achieve potential. How much time do people want to spend in the office and at home? Move back to offices in a different way. Technology will keep improving to help people in virtual scenarios.                Bring out the best in humanity and amplify our future on The Goodness Exchange More information on how you can join in below   [31:11 -  51:40]  How to Become an Innovative Thinker   Roshan’s insights about what being an innovator in our lives mean. The super skill that all people can have. Creative-problem solving. Creativity is a set of behaviors and skills that people can put into practice. Ask more questions. Uncover different elements of a problem. Living the problem. Immerse yourself to understand what is going on in a particular situation. Reframing. How you look at the situation and come up with a radically different way of looking at the same thing. Associating. Taking ideas from one area and applying them to another one Finding the flip. Understanding what is a behavior change that technology is going to lead to. Doing is the best way of thinking. Learning truly comes when you do things.   [51:41 - 54:35] Closing Segment   Start to do something that helps you learn something new. How to connect with Roshan and his work Links below  Give a review and rating, and share this episode with others Final announcements  Tweetable Quotes: “People are redefining what work is about, what it should be about, and that is going to continue around the road” -  Roshan Paul “If we’re going to solve problems we have around society, we need to be able to come up with new ideas and new solutions for it.” -