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Having an honest conversation and sharing transparently about your life is a gift to other people.

It does come with risks though...

Serial entrepreneur, Tedx Speaker and Founder of Social Friday, Fikret Zendeli joins us for the podcast this week.

Not only is he reinventing Fridays and making them more meaningful, he is making Corporate Social Responsibility interesting.

Find out more about Social Friday here: Let’s reinvent Fridays! - Social Friday

See his Tedx talk here: Reinventing Fridays | Fikret Zendeli | TEDxZurich - YouTube

Connect with him on LinkedIn here: Fikret Zendeli | LinkedIn

Being an encourager to those around you is an incredible gift, but it doesn't just happen. Here are a few tips on how to do it.

Some things to look for when you want to support a charity.

What is the cost to other people when you are no longer growing?

When you think about those people that have really changed the world, perhaps someone who is a hero of yours, have you ever considered who was helping them along the way?

Welcome back for Season 7!

What are the things that you can do to help you feel good?

To wrap up this season, we talk about how to make a difference in our world and what it has to do with ancient military strategy, pilots and authors.

If you don't like what you are seeing in those around you, you can become the type of person that you want to reproduce.

Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.

It's surprising how helpful that could be to us now, but there is an even more extreme way to look at responding to how people treat us...

It's not that generous to tear people down and 'own' them with pithy zingers.

But what is the alternative?

Your generosity to others to help them succeed will, in turn, help you more than you know.

There is a dark side - but is schadenfreude a good thing or a bad thing?

I hate ants. You can't seem to get rid of them...

Like something else I know of.

I wasted my first pay packet.

It took me a while to learn how to use my money wisely, but I can still learn from those living in poverty.

How much money does Australia actually give in Foreign Aid?

You will probably be surprised.

"Show me your bank account and I will show you what you care about."

"Charity begins at home"

Why this statement is wrong or at least misunderstood and why foreign aid is vital for Australia.

Yep, well I did read the comments and led to an uncomfortable place. But a good place to be.

Kids learn by osmosis. If you want your kids to be generous, guess what you need to do?

It's not often that stories about generosity make the news, but one where it cost so little? It doesn't make a great deal of sense...

You can learn from anyone.

That sounds great, but in reality, what does it take be to able to do that?

Where you are looking to gauge your progress is vital. Part of this is recognising what race you are running, and not comparing yourself to others who are running a different race.

5 Easy Steps:

1. Find an alignment in purpose

2. Work out what your impact will be and how you will measure it

3. Choose an organisation that will fit

4. Create a plan with that organisation

5. Stay Connected to it

Here are three reasons why your business should support a charity, and one proviso...

What works for me probably won't work for you, because we are different.

Season 6 kicks off with a look at what happens when we lack - it becomes the only thing we can focus on. But when we get enough, anything is possible.

How to make your enemy really angry, or perhaps restore them into a relationship with you.

Spoiler Alert - You will die eventually, but what will you do with your death to make a difference?

Sometimes it is helpful to have some language you can use in your everyday life to encourage your generous thoughts. Here are three of the best.

In a world of challenges and trouble, this is why we need generosity.

Pride in your own creation is normal, even encouraged. But not for this thing we made...

No longer are they the catch all for the world. What can we do about it?

Have any stupid people in your life? Here's how to handle it.

Is it as good as we think it is? What should we look out for with crowd funding campaigns?

We are more than just numbers, but numbers are a good place to start.

Is there anything that generosity cannot do?

It seems that the world is all bad, but things are better than we think...

I encourage people to focus their generosity to things they are passionate about, but we can still care about other things.

I didn't know I had an addiction. It was sneaky, but calling it out has helped...

I dream of the day when I am no longer needed. That is a day that world will celebrate.

Money won't make you happy, except for the times when it does, but those times are short and have a limit.

Sure, eating well and exercising can help, but being generous could be the secret ingredient for a long life.

It is good for so many reasons, including how it can help improve your mental health.

There are so many needs in the world. How do we work out which is the most important to focus on right now?

Each industry has buzzwords that get overused and loose their meaning.

With that in mind, what does development actually mean then?

Did you know that your IQ can change? Yep, it can when you experience tunnel vision.

To finish season 4 of the Generosity Podcast, let's talk about being selfish, and what hope we can find if we realise that we are self centred...

The Generosity Guy exists because of my own selfishness.

Find out more at www.thegenerosityguy.com

How can you deal with rejection generously?

It happens to me all the time...

Things in our world are bad.

But are they as bad as we think they are?