While economic geographers have for thirty plus years periodically questioned who they are and how they do their work, they have generally avoided a broad debate about the difference they might make, how, and for whom. Questioning our impact promises an interesting entry to a debate about the point of their collective enterprise and whether it defines a distinctive and coherent contribution. This paper traces one journey towards impact through an explicitly enactive research agenda that seeks to encourage diverse actors to do economy differently. The paper argues that this agenda has had impact and outlines how this might be measured. It suggests ways in which economic geographers can perform impact through critical scholarship under certain conditions.