#40 Anne Bland on social entrepreneurship and saving the planet
Daring Self-Leadership & The Nature Connection
English - December 05, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement nature coaching stress connection mental health burnout self-improvement self-care nature connection career Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode is part of a series of interviews with members of The Climate Reality Project community who have trained with former US Vice President Al Gore to become Climate Reality Leaders.
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How often have I interviewed someone with their very own Wikipedia page? Never! That’s how often. But that’s changing today as I’m interviewing Anne Bland, born and raised in Finland and now a social entrepreneur in the UK.
That Wikipedia page? It’s because she used to be the Deputy Leader of Finland’s Green Party.
She left politics behind in 2015, but not her passion for social enterprise and impact.
With a background in business studies, financial and charity management and a master’s in grantmaking, philanthropy and social investment she puts her 20+ years of experience to good use.
That experience is combined in a rather surprising twist with ancient Tantric wisdom – something she spent some 750 hours studying.
She is a life-long learner with a can-do attitude who injects a spirit of joy into business and partnership development.
In the last few years, she has put all of this to good use in ‘Future Proof Your Business’ an enterprise she started with her business partner and mutual friend, Sue Jackson. Recently they added another one, ‘Repurpose 360’.
Both of these enterprises are very much in alignment with the U.N.’s Sustainable Global Goals that Anne most resonates with: Gender Equality and Global Action.
These goals also align with another role in Anne’s life; that of Climate Reality Leader and Mentor.
She was trained by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, who founded the Climate Reality Project in 2006 after the success of his Academy Award-winning film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
To date the Climate Reality Project has trained more than 36,000 people the world over. Each one of them believing that — as it says on their website — “a small-but-committed critical mass of activists can not only transform society, but change the world”.
Anne and I talk about social entrepreneurship and how business and individuals can contribute to changing the world — not only for humanity but for Nature and the planet.