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The Ripple Effect of Kindness ~Leadership, Life & Community
An employee walks out of a meeting feeling valued, and it influences the next conversation.
Someone gets home after ...a long day with a little more patience for the people they love.
A person feels seen at exactly the right moment, and that experience stays with them as they move through their day.
Where does the ripple go from there?
That’s what I want to explore.
On this special Living With Intention LIVE, I’m bringing together Samantha Bergdahl and Kevin Smith for a conversation about how kindness moves through leadership, our personal lives, and the communities we’re part of.
And we’re going to do something I’ve never done on a LIVE before.
We’re going to watch the ripple happen in real time.
We’re going to light up the world.
During our conversation, we’ll bring ROKindness onto the screen and watch as lights begin appearing across the globe.
Each light represents a person choosing to participate, making visible something we rarely get to see: how individual acts can become part of something much bigger.
And you get to be part of it.
In This Conversation, We’ll Explore:
• How can YOU make a difference when one small act doesn’t feel like enough?
• How does the way we show up professionally create a ripple that can reach far beyond the workplace?
• What happens when kindness travels from our professional lives into our relationships and communities, influencing the environments we create along the way?
• Can seeing kindness happening around us change how we experience other people and the world?
Meet Samantha Bergdahl
Samantha is the creative eye behind Eco Sam Earth-Led Photography, where her camera is often focused on what the rest of us walk right past: a dewdrop, the veins of a leaf, pollen resting on a bee.
Her belief is beautifully simple: what we protect begins with what we notice.
Her work lives at the intersection of art, education, and regeneration, with a growing vision for conservation in northern Belize that honors both the land and the people who call it home.
Now Sam is bringing that same gift of noticing into her work with people.
Her passion for humanity has become part of the expanding vision for Kindness Worldwide, including the upcoming Kindness Worldwide Meditation on September 27 at 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern, bringing people together across the globe through presence, connection, and a shared intention of kindness.
Kindness Worldwide Meditation:
https://www.eco-sam.com/kindnessworldwide
Meet Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith lives by a conviction that has guided both his personal and professional life:
“The meaning of life is to live it in a way to make a meaningful difference.”
He founded the global nonprofit Kindness Worldwide in 2023 with the vision of creating a culture of kindness in communities throughout the world.
In August 2026, that vision expanded with the launch of ROKindness, an interactive global platform designed to make the movement of kindness visible.
Kevin has spent decades in leadership, philanthropy, civic service, and financial planning, earning national recognition throughout his career. Yet the legacy he wants to leave is much more personal:
“Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.”
And from my somatic perspective, there’s another part of this conversation I’m especially curious about:
What happens within us when we experience kindness?
When we feel seen, included, acknowledged, or supported, something can shift in how we feel and how we meet the next person in front of us.
Maybe that’s where the ripple really begins.
So come join us and add your light.
By the end of our LIVE, we’ll bring the ROKindness map back onto the screen and see what happened while we were together.
Register to participate: https://www.rokindness.org/
The question isn’t whether one person can change the world.
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