The Highest Level of Generosity Has Nothing To Do With Money | Ryan Leak

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Leak draws a hard line between enabling people and actually empowering them. He reveals why the most generous thing you can offer someone often isn't money at all. His own story of receiving unexpected grace is the reason he still extends it, even when people don't deserve it.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.0	How do you know when to give, for who to give to?
0:16.0	So for us, we have several, and being a speaker, it's kind of nice because you get to meet so many
0:23.7	different kinds of people doing all sorts of different things and you know if it's a cause
0:30.6	you know there's somebody on our team she helps raise money for single moms and I was like
0:36.4	that's so awesome and she had just joined our team.
0:38.6	And so I just, I looked at my wife. I said, hey, what do you think about this organ? Hey, could you send me the website? We send the website. And we just, we just get it. Scripture talks about not letting the left hand know what the right hand's doing when it comes to generosity. like the more
0:53.2	you're
0:54.9	involved in it
0:56.5	the the
0:57.6	the when it comes to generosity. Like, the more you're involved in it, the more your ego can get involved.
1:00.2	In fact, in Jewish culture, we're getting deep in the generosity.
1:02.9	There was eight levels of generosity.
1:05.0	Really?
1:05.4	Yeah, eight levels.
1:06.2	The first level was where you give, but you give with a grudge.
1:14.0	Big grudgingly.
1:14.8	Yeah.
1:15.4	I mean, yeah, you can have it.
1:17.5	Frustrated.
1:18.0	Yeah, but it goes all the way to each level has a different level of ego attached to it.
1:25.8	Sometimes you can give with a smile on your face, but you don't give enough.
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