Work on Purpose: Lara Galinsky on Careers with Heart, Head, and Hustle

Lara Galinsky, Senior Vice President of Echoing
Green is launching an inspiring career guide for social-impact
work called Work on Purpose.


Each chapter of Work on Purpose asks key questions for career
seekers; illustrates the impact of these questions in the lives
of Echoing Green community members; and offers a place for notes
at the end for you to jot reflections from your own life.


In this episode of the Idealist Careers Podcast, Idealist's Amy
Potthast chats with Lara Galinsky about the central message of
Work on Purpose: finding work that uses your "Heart + Head =
Hustle."


Lara shares the stories of the five people who illustrate this
message:



Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, who
graduated from medical school and Kennedy School of Government,
and chose social-justice over medicine.


Mark Hannis, founder of the Genocide
Intervention Network and the child of Holocaust survivors, who
discovered as a college student that genocide still occurs, and
that he could mobilize action to end it.


Mardie Oakes, founder of Hallmark Community
Solutions, combined her background in architecture, community
housing, and finance to develop housing for people with special
needs.


Socheata Poeuv, creator of the film project
Khmer Legacies, which documents interviews between Khmer Rouge
survivors and their adult children.


Andrew Youn, Founder of the One Acre Fund, who
started out in a corporate consulting job but later used his
business skills to develop a market system for farmers in a
region of Kenya to prevent annual famines.



Learn more about Work on Purpose.


Learn more about Work on Purpose.