We recently connected with Robyn Faucy and have shared our conversation below.

Robyn, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s talk legacy – what sort of legacy do you hope to build?

I want to be remembered as someone who not only inspired individuals, but helped them to activate change so they could walk in their life’s purpose. I hope that legacy includes that I was a great mother who used my story and experience to activate the potential and purpose in others. I believe one of the greatest opportunities we have to connect with others and effectuate change is to share our stories- the good, the bad, the traumas, and the triumphs.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am living my professional dream and walking in my life’s purpose each day! I gratefully and humbly state this because my life has not always been this way. I grew up in Sarasota, FL with hardworking parents who had not finished high school and had limited opportunities. We struggled financially. My father died when I was 12 leaving my mom to be a single mom.
The trauma of losing my father led me down a path of anger and awful decision making which landed me in an alternative high school. After graduating, I unsuccessfully tried my hand at a few jobs. I realized I wanted a different life and went to college. This is where my leadership and public speaking skills became evident. It is also where my desire to help others would emerge and eventually become my purpose.
My first job after graduating college was as a case manager in early childhood development making $10 an hour. At the time, my son Armando was just 4 months old. I was a single mom on public assistance with an infant, broke, and broken. However, I was determined to find success for me and my son. My nearly 20 year career in the nonprofit world allowed me to learn every aspect of the business (it is a business!). I spent most of my career raising money and eventually became a CEO. From the time I was 28, I wanted to become a consultant. The thought of helping multiple nonprofits and having flexibility was so exhilarating to me. However, being a single mom and needing to have a predictable source of income meant my dream was deferred.
In 2018 I would take a class with Hal Williams. That experience would change my life and make my deferred dream to become an entrepreneur a reality. Today, I get to use my lived experience and success in the nonprofit world and launching and growing Results 1st to guide others to achieve greater success and walk in their purpose.
Results 1st guides organizations and individuals to achieve greater success. While we work with the corporate and government sector, most of our clients are nonprofit organizations and the foundations that invest in their success. We are in the business of increasing human gains.
For our clients in the nonprofit world, we strengthen their organizations, staff, clients, Boards, and volunteers so they can provide more impactful programming and become more financially sustainable. We achieve this by equipping our clients with actionable approaches to define, track, verify, increase, and communicate their results. One of the greatest feelings in the world is when a former client tells us that they are seeing their clients achieve life changing results. Or, that they have raised more money because of what we taught and activated with them. Notice I did not just say that we taught them. Learning only becomes a result when it is put to use.
For our corporate clients, we guide them to design innovative approaches that increase client engagement, efficiency, and profitability.
We are change agents. Our deliverable isn’t a plan or process that is put in place. Our deliverables are designing and activating approaches that allow our clients to achieve more. The success of Results 1st isn’t defined by how many clients we have or how much income we generate. Our success is based on our clients’ success. In the past four years, we have guided over 130 organizations and individual clients to achieve their definition of success.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I am eternally grateful to my mother who showed me by example how to be resilient and persevere. My resilience was tested in 2020 and 2021 as I preparing to launch my business, leave my career as a CEO, and make the leap into entrepreneurship full time. In early 2020 my business partner and I determined we would form Results 1st and I would shortly after leave my full time position as CEO of a nonprofit. Our timeline was to accomplish this by the end of 2020. Enter the pandemic.
I had Covid in 2020 and was very sick for six weeks. It was a very scary and dark time for me. Our timeline, and perhaps the launch of the business at all, was uncertain. It was also during this time that it was evident my marriage was coming to an end.
Once I recovered from Covid, I focused on the decision that lied ahead knowing whatever direction I chose, I would be going alone. I chose me! Meaning, I realized that if there was anything I was willing to bet on at that time, it was me. My ex-husband and I went our separate ways in May 2021 and I left my job as a CEO the following month. I was scared, depressed, excited and determined.
Today, four years later, I am walking fully, completely, and unapologetically in my life’s purpose,

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

I met Hal Williams, the creator of Results 1st and my business’s cofounder, in a leadership class for leaders of nonprofits. I was immediately impressed by this man who had extensive experience with guiding nonprofits to achieve transformative gains. I was most impressed at the way he challenged me to think and behave differently.
In the fist class, Hal asked the participants to state what our organization achieved. At the time, I was the CEO of Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson’s. I explained that we improved the quality of life of people with Parkinson’s and their caregivers and we had increased the number of people we served from 1000 to 2000 in the past two years. I was really proud of my answer because you did not have to be a mathematician to know that was impressive growth.
Hal looked me right in the eye and said, “so what? So what you served 2,000 people, Did all 2000 of those people improve their quality of life?” I replied, “well, probably not all 2000.” Hal replied, “then how many did?”
Those two words, so what, changed my life both personally and professionally.
After the class, I hired Hal to do some work with my team. During our time together, he began asking questions about my career plans. He asked if I would retire at my current role. My reply was, “no, I want to be like you when I grow up. I always wanted to be a consultant.”
This was the first of many conversations that would lead to Hal choosing me to carry his legacy of change-making using the Results 1st methodology. I always told my son to be aware of the impression he makes because he could meet someone who could change his life. And it happened to me! Hal saw and cultivated the potential in me. I am eternally grateful to him for changing my life by believing in me and mentoring me to guide this very important and transformative work with our clients.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://results1st.org/
• Facebook: Robyn Faucy
• Linkedin: Robyn Faucy or Results 1st

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Tiffany Yoskowitz
Wendy Dewhurst