How You Can Create Positive Impact on Your Community | Obama Foundation President, David Simas

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, David Simas, President of the Obama Foundation, shares his insights on: [1:03] - How his immigrant parents taught him the importance of respecting himself and his community [7:02] - What it truly means to be a citizen in the United States [9:23] - The four biggest keys for effective community organizing [13:04] - What causes increased partisan politics and how that leads to more extreme viewpoints Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is The Playbook.
0:02.8	Dave Boucher with Entrepreneurs The Playbook.
0:05.8	I'm so excited.
0:06.8	I got another David here.
0:07.8	And we have so much in common.
0:08.8	David Simici is the president of the Obama Foundation.
0:13.2	That's right, president of Obama, my hero.
0:15.3	Went to Occidental College for a little bit and has always been someone that I've looked
0:21.0	up to.
0:22.0	And to meet David Simici, you see why?
0:24.6	Because everyone he surrounds himself has a mindset, a heart set, and a handset that
0:29.3	is to provide value to others, to change the world, to impact the world.
0:32.6	Welcome to The Playbook, David.
0:33.6	David, you're really kind to have me on.
0:35.6	I so appreciate it.
0:36.6	Oh, my goodness.
0:37.6	You know, you meet someone and you say, wow, that would be a really interesting job.
0:43.4	And I've always tried to have those in my career by thinking outside the box.
0:47.5	But the reason I find what you do so interesting is that I'm always looking for something that
0:53.4	is an activity I get paid for that impacts the world.
0:58.0	Yes.
0:59.0	You didn't start off with that size, go up and scale of a mission.
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