Cover of The Impact Makers Podcast

The Impact Makers Podcast

The Impact Makers Podcast

By: Billie Aadmi and Melissa Deally
Listen for free

Season's Savings | 0.99 €/month for 3 months

5.99 €/month thereafter - terms apply. Cancel monthly.
Summary
 What if your story, gifts, resources, and experiences could become part of something bigger. Welcome to the Impact Makers Podcast, where inspiring people share how they are creating meaningful change in the world, turning challenges into solutions and making an impact. Hear powerful stories from entrepreneurs, leaders, changemakers, and authors from our Empowered Books who found their way off Victim Island and over to Solution City — and are now using what they learned to help others. You'll also discover the Impact Maker Alliance™ — a renaissance and a new way of doing business where purpose, prosperity, collaboration, and contribution come together to create the Impact Economy™. Everyone has something to contribute. 🎙️ Tune in. Be inspired. Share the mission. Become an Impact Maker. Because when enough of us choose to make an impact, we don't simply change individual lives — we change the world.🌎Copyright 2026 Billie Aadmi and Melissa Deally Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • When The Opportunity Of Education For A Ugandan Girl Changes Everything: Peninnah’s Story

    When The Opportunity Of Education For A Ugandan Girl Changes Everything: Peninnah’s Story
    10 Nov 2026
    From walking up to two hours through the mud to reach school in rural Uganda to now managing an international team spanning eight countries, Peninnah’s story is an extraordinary example of what can happen when opportunity meets determination. At 13, sponsorship through Girls Matter changed the trajectory of her life, helping her complete high school and university and opening doors she once could only imagine. Today, living in Monrovia, Liberia, Peninnah is helping build a home-based healthcare app designed to increase access to care, create employment for medical graduates, and support communities — while becoming an example for girls back home of what is possible. This episode beautifully demonstrates the ripple effect of impact: when we invest in one person, we may ultimately impact thousands more. Tune in to hear Peninnah’s inspiring journey of perseverance, opportunity, courage, and paying impact forward.Key TakeawaysOvercoming Adversity: Peninnah's journey began in a remote Ugandan village (Buyaya), where she walked 1.5–2 hours to school daily, often through mud, after completing farm work.Life-Changing Sponsorship: At age 13, Girls Matter sponsorship (funded by Canadian teens) removed financial barriers, enabling her to complete high school and a university degree.Pivoting for Progress: A COVID-induced pivot from nursing to online Procurement & Logistics studies prevented a year of academic delay.Seizing Opportunity: A job offer in Liberia became a career launchpad, where she now manages an international team building a home-based healthcare app.About the Guest: Namono Peninnah is a Procurement and Logistics Professional, Project Analyst, and Project Operations Specialist with an advancing focus on Business Analysis. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Procurement and Logistics Management and brings hands-on expertise in project coordination, operational workflows, procurement governance, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional team leadership.Currently based in Liberia, Namono is expanding her analytical capabilities through an intensive Business Analyst mentorship and training program led by Wonyi and Askiya. Each mentor provides specialized guidance to sharpen her skills in identifying business needs, modeling processes, translating complex requirements into actionable solutions, and driving efficient project delivery.Driven by a desire to create lasting social impact, Namono is deeply committed to initiatives that advance girls’ education, youth empowerment, and equitable access to opportunities. She combines a strong foundation in supply chain and operations with strategic analytical thinking and a continuous drive for professional excellence.Meet the Hosts: Billie & MelissaBillie Aadmi and Melissa Deally are the dynamic co-founders of Amplify Impact Academy, a global hub for personal transformation, leadership development, and high-frequency living. Together, they empower people to release unconscious limitations, align with their soul’s truth, and amplify their impact in the world.Billie’s journey spans from saving lives to healing souls — a single mom, seasoned Police Officer since 2005, real estate investor, international speaker, and best-selling author. As the visionary CEO of Go Mindspire Inc., Billie blends her background in Education, Human Kinetics and Metaphysical Science with deep transformational work, helping clients elevate their mindset for lifelong success.Melissa is an award-winning Integrative Mind-Body Health Practitioner, international speaker, and five-time best-selling author. As host of the globally ranked “Don’t Wait For Your Wake-Up Call!” podcast, she inspires thousands to take charge of their health and life. She also leads Girls Matter, her non-profit dedicated to keeping girls in school in Uganda and Kenya.Both Billie and Melissa are highly skilled Master Trainers of Hypnotherapy, Trainers of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, NLP Results Coaching and Magnified Healing®. They passionately teach advanced mindset, healing, and personal transformation modalities, equipping clients and students with tools to create lasting breakthroughs. Through their trainings, retreats, and mentorship programs, they deliver powerful experiences that create ripple effects of transformation — helping people everywhere live happy, healthy, wealthy, and free.Connect with the Hosts:Website: https://amplifyimpactacademy.comSocials:Facebook: amplifyimpactacademyInstagram: amplifyimpactacademyLinkedIn: amplifyimpactacademyYoutube: amplifyimpactacademyMelissa:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melissa.deallyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MelissaDeallyBillie:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billie.aadLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billie-aadmi-54063521/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billie.irei/TikTok: @gomindspireTake The Next Step:...
    Show more Show less
    1 hr
  • Creating Opportunity Where None Existed: Dr. Hairston's Journey From Survival to Global Impact

    Creating Opportunity Where None Existed: Dr. Hairston's Journey From Survival to Global Impact
    3 Nov 2026
    🌎✨ What if your greatest challenges could become the blueprint for changing millions of lives? In this inspiring episode of the Impact Makers Podcast, Dr. Hairston shares her extraordinary journey from foster care to becoming a seven-figure tech CEO, proving that your past does not have to determine your future. Through her book Master Your Destiny, she shares how mindset, determination, and choosing solutions over limitations helped her move from Victim Island 🏝️ to Solution City! 🌆🚀💻 Today, Dr. Hairston is creating an incredible ripple effect through Cloud Tech Academy, Astra Agency, Grants USA, and the PowerTech Foundation, opening doors to technology careers, financial independence, and funding opportunities for underserved communities. Her programs have helped students collectively generate over $100 million in annual salaries! 🎧 Tune in to discover how one woman's determination to create her own opportunities is now empowering thousands of others to master their destiny and create lasting impact! 🌟Take The Next Step:Check Out The Impact Maker Alliance and take our Blueprint Quiz:www.impactmakeralliance.comIntroduction video about Girls Matter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/viewAbout the Guest: Dr. Jamila Hairston is a 7 Figure CEO, international speaker, author, technology entrepreneur, and business strategist whose work is centered on one powerful mission, creating access, opportunity, and transformation for others.With an educational background in Computer Information Systems, Dr. Jamila has built a career at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, education, workforce development, and economic empowerment. She is the Co Founder of Astra Agency, where she helps entrepreneurs and organizations leverage AI, automation, business strategy, branding, and innovative technology solutions to operate smarter, scale faster, and position themselves for long term growth.She is also the Co Founder of Cloud Tech Academy, an education and workforce development organization that has helped individuals transition into high paying technology careers while partnering with school districts, workforce organizations, government agencies, and employers to prepare communities for the rapidly evolving AI economy. Through the programs and initiatives she has helped build, more than $100 million in reported salaries have been created for individuals trained through their technology programs.Widely known as Lady Tech Boss, Dr. Jamila has made it her mission to make technology practical, approachable, and powerful, particularly for women who are ready to embrace new possibilities, increase their confidence, and create greater freedom in their lives and businesses.Beyond technology, Dr. Jamila is deeply passionate about helping women recognize the power they already possess. She is the author of Master Your Destiny, a transformational book focused on mindset, purpose, personal growth, and taking ownership of the future you desire. Her message challenges women to stop waiting for permission, move beyond limitations, and intentionally create the life, career, and impact they were meant to have.That same mission comes to life through her ElevateHer events, which create spaces for women to connect, grow, be inspired, expand their vision, and rise into their next level of leadership, business, and purpose. Through ElevateHer, Dr. Jamila brings together women who are ready to think bigger, build meaningful relationships, and turn possibility into action.As an international speaker, Dr. Jamila has inspired audiences through conversations around leadership, technology, entrepreneurship, AI, personal transformation, and the power of access. Whether she is speaking to CEOs, emerging entrepreneurs, students, professionals, or women Dr. Jamila Hairston is a 7 Figure CEO, international speaker, author, technology entrepreneur, and business strategist whose work is centered on one powerful mission, creating access, opportunity, and transformation for others.With an educational background in Computer Information Systems, Dr. Jamila has built a career at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, education, workforce development, and economic empowerment. She is the Co Founder of Astra Agency, where she helps entrepreneurs and organizations leverage AI, automation, business strategy, branding, and innovative technology solutions to operate smarter, scale faster, and position themselves for long term growth.preparing for their next chapter, her message remains consistent: your current circumstances do not have to define your future, but your decisions, access, mindset, and willingness to act can transform it.Dr. Jamila Hairston is more than a technology leader. She is an architect of opportunity, committed to opening doors, building bridges, and helping people see what becomes possible when knowledge, technology, relationships, and purpose come together.Contact:...
    Show more Show less
    35 min
  • 50% Mind, 50% Body: Changing the Way Young Athletes Are Coached

    50% Mind, 50% Body: Changing the Way Young Athletes Are Coached
    27 Oct 2026
    🏐✨ What if greater freedom comes from understanding where our experience really begins? In this episode of the Impact Makers Podcast, Holland shares her journey from international netball athlete and Scotland’s National Netball Coach to discovering the transformative understanding that our experience is created through thought, not simply by our circumstances. This realization changed how she approached her own life, relationships, and coaching. 🧠💫Today, Holland is creating a powerful ripple effect through youth sport by requiring a 50/50 split between mental and physical training, helping young athletes develop resilience, self-worth, and skills that extend far beyond the court. 🌱🌎 She also shares insights from her book PlayFreely®️ and her mission to help humanity elevate consciousness and reconnect with our innate capacity for resilience and wisdom. 🎧🔥 Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation about sport, mindset, personal agency, and creating generational impact.Free gift: A free digital download of PlayFreely®️ - The Spiritual Key to Athletic Excellence. To access this, please email Denise at denise@playfreely.co.uk, and she will send you a one-time purchase code, so you can access the book for FREE!Take The Next Step:Check Out The Impact Maker Alliance and take our Blueprint Quiz:www.impactmakeralliance.comIntroduction video about Girls Matter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/viewAbout the Guest:Denise Holland is a State of Mind Performance Specialist for youth, talent and elite sports. She supports talent and elite performers to understand the state of mind behind, clarity, confidence and flow.A former international netball athlete, National Coach for Scotland Netball, England Superleague coach and author of PlayFreely® – The Spiritual Key to Athletic Excellence, Denise brings over 35 years of lived experience in high-performance sport to her work with talented athletes, coaches and parents.Through PlayFreely®, she points athletes towards a fresh understanding of performance, one that does not rely on mindset training, mental toughness or techniques for controlling the mind.Instead, her work helps athletes see where their experience is coming from in the moment, and how pressure, overthinking, fear of mistakes and the need to prove themselves begin to settle when state of mind is understood more clearly.This understanding is especially relevant for young athletes in clubs, academies, universities and talent pathways, where selection, expectation, confidence and identity can become closely tied to performance.Contact:Website: Www.playfreely.co.uk (book website)Website: Www.deniseholland.orgEmail: Denise@playfreely.co.ukEmail: Info@deniseholland.orgMeet the Hosts: Billie & MelissaBillie Aadmi and Melissa Deally are the dynamic co-founders of Amplify Impact Academy, a global hub for personal transformation, leadership development, and high-frequency living. Together, they empower people to release unconscious limitations, align with their soul’s truth, and amplify their impact in the world.Billie’s journey spans from saving lives to healing souls — a single mom, seasoned Police Officer since 2005, real estate investor, international speaker, and best-selling author. As the visionary CEO of Go Mindspire Inc., Billie blends her background in Education, Human Kinetics and Metaphysical Science with deep transformational work, helping clients elevate their mindset for lifelong success.Melissa is an award-winning Integrative Mind-Body Health Practitioner, international speaker, and five-time best-selling author. As host of the globally ranked “Don’t Wait For Your Wake-Up Call!” podcast, she inspires thousands to take charge of their health and life. She also leads Girls Matter, her non-profit dedicated to keeping girls in school in Uganda and Kenya.Both Billie and Melissa are highly skilled Master Trainers of Hypnotherapy, Trainers of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, NLP Results Coaching and Magnified Healing®. They passionately teach advanced mindset, healing, and personal transformation modalities, equipping clients and students with tools to create lasting breakthroughs. Through their trainings, retreats, and mentorship programs, they deliver powerful experiences that create ripple effects of transformation — helping people everywhere live happy, healthy, wealthy, and free.Connect with the Hosts:Website: https://amplifyimpactacademy.comSocials:Facebook: amplifyimpactacademyInstagram: amplifyimpactacademyLinkedIn: amplifyimpactacademyYoutube: amplifyimpactacademyMelissa:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melissa.deallyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MelissaDeallyBillie:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billie.aadLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billie-aadmi-54063521/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...
    Show more Show less
    38 min
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet