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33. Breaking Generational Poverty: What Actually Works

33. Breaking Generational Poverty: What Actually Works

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Summary
 Why do so many well-funded efforts to fix struggling neighborhoods fade away?

Eddy Moratin, President and Co-Founder of Lift Orlando, has spent years answering that question. His answer is that most solutions are built for communities instead of with them. Simon T. Bailey sits down with Eddy to explore what changes when leaders listen first.

Eddy walks through the Lift Method, the framework behind Lift Orlando's work:
L — Learn the root cause
I — Identify what works
F — Focus on place
T — Transform

He explains how Lift Orlando brings residents, business leaders, schools, healthcare, mixed-income housing, and workforce partners to the same table. He also makes the business case: community investment isn't charity. Stronger neighborhoods build stronger economies and talent pipelines.

In this episode:
• Why listening beats having all the answers
• How businesses can invest beyond writing checks
• The three lenses for talking about underserved communities: dignity, local, and mobility
• Why financial well-being is central to breaking generational poverty
• Eddy's practice of "gritty optimism," and how joy coexists with grief and failure
• How personal alignment strengthens both leadership and marriage
• Why the next generation gives him hope

For CEOs, nonprofit and community leaders, philanthropists, educators, and anyone working on economic mobility and social impact.The takeaway: You don't have to be the hero. Listen, build alongside people, open doors to opportunity, and let them write their own success stories.

Connect with Eddy:
Website: https://www.liftorlando.org/
Website: https://www.eddymoratin.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddymoratin/

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