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The Mike Litton Experience

Living a Generous Life with Mary Elizabeth Sadd | Leadership, Legacy & Purpose

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Business, Kids & Family, Parenting, Careers

5.0 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this inspiring episode of The Mike Litton Experience, host Mike Litton sits down with executive search expert, speaker, and author Mary Elizabeth SaddΒ to discuss what it truly means to live a generous life β€” with purpose, integrity, and impact.

Mary Elizabeth shares her incredible journey from Westport, Connecticut to becoming one of Atlanta’s most respected executive search leaders. She opens up about her family legacy β€” her great-great-grandfather Moses Waddell, former president of the University of Georgia β€” and how that legacy inspired her life framework:

Learn Well β†’ Earn Well β†’ Return Well

Through heartfelt storytelling and professional insight, Mary Elizabeth reveals:
πŸ’‘ How to lead with authenticity and wisdom
πŸ’‘ What makes great leaders stand out in today’s world
πŸ’‘ How to create lasting impact through generosity and service
πŸ’‘ Why servant leadership and gratitude transform lives and organizations

This episode is packed with leadership lessons, legacy insights, and personal inspiration that will leave you motivated to live with purpose and give more of yourself to others.

πŸ‘‰ Watch now to discover how living a generous life can change your business, your family, and your future.


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🌐 Website: https://MaryElizabethSadd.com
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0:00.0

How do I get wisdom like you have?

0:01.6

He just knew a lot about a lot.

0:04.2

He had depth and breadth and he was just so wise.

0:07.0

And he said, honey, I wish I could give it to you.

0:09.2

He said, but it's not pretty because by the time you get it, you're not pretty anymore.

0:12.6

The story of my story is it started out to be one thing, but it became a little more rooted in that legacy I spoke of with my great, great grandfather.

0:20.0

And my love of learning and my

0:22.6

my love of returning so I say learning if you learn well you can earn well if you earn well you can

0:28.5

return well you can't get what you don't have I really want to help just destroy limiting beliefs

0:34.3

about earning especially around if the leader's transparent, if there's real

0:38.5

authenticity, and a leader that can really feel present when they're not and really make you feel

0:43.2

valued, well, you'll have so much more followership, you'll have more engagement. Sadly, there's about

0:48.1

the status, 50% of employees today are disengaged. And that means lack of productivity that is

0:53.6

just, it's hard to replace.

0:55.2

So a leader that really knows how to work through that kind of need in the workforce are the

1:01.0

ones that are winning today. So, but literally, God wasn't done with me. So can I ask you, Mike,

1:07.1

what is it like now a month out from that? What does it feel like to have had such a

1:11.3

life death, near life death experience? It's interesting because you sort of ask yourself,

1:19.1

why, right? But I also believe with every fiber of my being that I'm literally doing right now in what we're

1:33.7

doing, I'm doing what God prepared me to do.

1:36.9

Did you know there's a technology that's actually an app on your phone that uses sound

1:41.1

waves to tell your brain what you want your brain to do?

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