Episode 188: Making Chocolate and Impact with Shawn Askinosie

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This episode is sponsored by Davwill Consulting. Emotional agility? Yep, it's needed more now than ever. Let's chat! Click HereIn 2006, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean-to-bar chocolate factory and never looked back.His company, Askinosie Chocolate, was recently named by Forbes “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America.”So far the company has provided over a million school lunches to malnourished children in Tanzania and the Philippines, without any donations.Founded at the forefront of the American craft chocolate revolution and regarded by many as a vanguard in the industry.Shawn was named by O, The Oprah Magazine “One of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World.” He's received two honorary doctorates and given a popular TEDx.Shawn’s book, co-written with his daughter Lawren, published by Penguin Random House titled “Meaningful Work: The Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul” is an Amazon #1 bestseller.He is a Family Brother at Assumption Abbey, a Trappist monastery near Ava, Missouri, and the co-founder of Lost & Found, a grief center now in its 20th year serving children and families in Southwest Missouri.Connect with Shawn at:http://www.askinosie.com/http://www.shawnaskinosie.com/https://twitter.com/shawnaskinosiehttps://www.instagram.com/shawnaskinosie/https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnaskinosie/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit debcrowe.substack.com