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b'About Shawn:
\\nIn 2006, Shawn left a successful 20 year career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean to bar chocolate factory and he never looked back. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award winning chocolate factory in Springfield, Missouri, which sources 100% of their beans directly from farmers that they profit share with on three continents. Shawn chronicles his journey in his powerful book, \\u201cMeaningful Work: The Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling And Feed Your Soul\\u201d.
\\nNot only is Askinosie Chocolate one of Forbes’ 25 Best Small Companies In America, but it\\u2019s products have earned International accolades for it\\u2019s quality and taste. When you combine that with the way Shawn leverages his business to do good in the world, the result is truly mind blowing.
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\\nPlaces to Find Shawn:
\\nShawn\\u2019s Blog: https://shawnaskinosie.com/
\\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnaskinosie/
\\nAskinosie Chocolate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askinosie
\\nAskinosie Chocolate Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/askinosie.chocolate
\\nFind Askinosie Chocolate: https://www.askinosie.com/locations
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\\nShow Notes:
\\n[3:00] minute: What life was like growing up and how it shaped the person you became?
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\\nGrowing up in the 60\\u2019s in Missouri with a Father who practiced law and worked on social justice.
\\nFather diagnosed with lung cancer when Shawn was 12.
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\\n[4:50] minute: In your book you mention you didn\\u2019t deal with the emotions of your Father\\u2019s death until well after the fact, could you tell us about that process and how it impacted you?
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\\nWas with his Father the moment he died.
\\nSpent 25 years not living the best version of his life. Felt like he was searching.
\\nParadox of choice.
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\\n[8:10] minute: The change wasn\\u2019t immediate right? You left law and then had a few years before you got to your new company, what was that transition like?
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\\nDidn\\u2019t actually leave law, had to continue for 5 years while he got things figured out. Was depressed most of the time.
\\nHappened into a volunteer program at a hospital.
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\\n[11:00] minute:
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\\nUnresolved grief over Father led him to co-found a grief center for children and families whose family member has been lost.
\\nDecided to volunteer in a hospital visiting with people who were terminal and just wanted a visitor.
\\nAllowed him to spend some time completely thinking about someone else for a few moments a day instead of himself.
\\nFelt joy, and that was new to him.
\\nParadox of helping yourself by helping others.
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\\n[16:30] minute: The idea of a personal vocation, what do you mean by that, and how can we find it?
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\\nA Calling, or a Drawing. We are being pulled towards something. The thing we are doing.
\\nPut the distractions aside and go do the work.
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\\n[21:00] minute: Does pursuing your vocation mean a massive career change like it did for you?
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\\nNo, Shawn gets emails all the time from people who read his book and realize they are right where they need to be.
\\nThe hero’s journey.
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\\n[23:00] minute: You mentioned the limiting belief in your book that most companies think that doing good isn’t beneficial to the bottom line, why do you think they would think like that?
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\\nCulturally conditioned to believe this.
\\nBeholden to shareholder value.
\\nMillennial generation is helping to change this status quo.
\\nHis 17 person company has supplied over 1 million school lunches through his program, while using only ingredients from farms that he profit shares...'