Voices that Inspire

What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's voices that inspire. Dr. Mark McNase, I'm a social entrepreneur. I also consider myself a spiritual entrepreneur. A church planner started a coffee company and now a professor at FSU. I arrived at Tallahassee in 2003 after selling the family business in Los Angeles. I came here to plan a church. At that time in my life I had become, I would say, spiritually bankrupt. And I just realized I wasn't happy and I needed to do a course change. Went to the family and said, what do you think if we sold the business and I did something else? At that time I had found faith and just really a lot of satisfaction in helping other people. And I just wanted to make my life about empowerment, access to opportunity for other people because I felt just very blessed in my life. The church in the name of Morso, what Red Icoffey has been able to do to fund a FSU documentary about child trafficking in Western Africa. We've been able to build homes for single mothers in Guatemala. We are able to help nursing school in Haiti. We've been able to stand in the gap for 76 families right here for years in French town helping them bridge the nutrition gap. It's been really, really amazing. It's been a wild journey. Set a cap of how much you need to make to live the life that you envision and anything above that give away because it changed my definition of success. Drink coffee locally, change life globally. Dr. Mark McMase. Voices that inspire is sponsored by Leadership Tallahassee, a program of the Tallahassee Chamber celebrating 35 years of cultivating community leadership.