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People Helping People

132 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings

Inspiring greater social change in the world.

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Youngster.co’s Tony Rothacker Builds Bridges Between Generations

July 01, 2021 13:19 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MB

Tony Rothacker spoke about keeping open communication, and discussed building mutual benefit into a social enterprise. He is the co-founder at Youngster.co, which provides job opportunities to youth and empowers elders to use technology better. Youth assist elders with learning new technology they may need to interact with the world, or programs they may need help to use in daily life. Both sides of the connection, youth and elders, benefit from the intergenerational service as the initiative...

Breakthrough Accelerator’s Allison Chaney Advises Social Entrepreneurs on Influence with Emotional Intelligence

June 25, 2021 04:19 - 41 minutes - 57 MB

Allison Chaney imagines the world and business being a place where we can go-exist mindfully. Allison Chaney CEO of the Breakthrough Accelerator, a business accelerator that helps create stronger efforts through intentional business development and accelerating results. She talked about the valuable impact that can occur for initiatives both internally and externally. In this case, the results are more than profitability. Results are also focused on the impact initiatives create in doing busi...

Joe DeLoss of Hot Chicken Takeover Magnifies Impact with an Iterative Mindset

June 18, 2021 01:34 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MB

Our 100th episode is here, featuring Hot Chicken Takeover! Thank you for joining the People Helping People podcast on this journey, and coming this far with the show. We truly appreciate your participation, your sincere interest, and your shared enthusiasm. Today, we have another insightful conversation through a leader in the community who built a shining example of a hiring model: Joe DeLoss. Joe DeLoss started the Hot Chicken Takeover restaurant chain that prioritizes fair chance employme...

Rich Brubaker of Collective Responsibility Explains Why Nothing is Good, Bad, or Otherwise at First Glance

June 11, 2021 20:05 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MB

Rich Brubaker of Collective Responsibility explains the variety of work he does in both for-profit and non-profit spaces. He teases that even after 12 years of marriage his wife still asks what he does. Rich’s portfolio is versatile, but to describe him he is one of Asia's most recognized authorities on sustainability, innovation and responsible leadership. Portions of his work include being the managing director of Collective Responsibility, the executive volunteer of HandsOn China and as an...

TimeRepublik’s Gabriele Donati Shares Why Timebanking Builds Trust into the Community of Your Business

May 27, 2021 16:09 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MB

Gabriele Donati spoke about his work with TimeRepublik, the world’s first purpose-driven social network. TimeRepublik offers a global online platform for users to provide services in exchange for TimeCoins that can be used to purchase other services on TimeRepublik. With a global reach, TimeRepublik built a strong online community of users that value their social network platform. Lately, People Helping People podcast episodes are focused on how to build a stronger audience and community arou...

Growth Ensemble’s Cory Ames and Annie Bright Prioritize Quality and Consistency to Develop an Attractive Content Creation Strategy

May 21, 2021 01:24 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MB

Cory Ames and Annie Bright discussed their ongoing work with impact media company Growth Ensemble, which also includes their podcast Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Podcast. Growth Ensemble is a content and media company inspiring businesses and individuals to consider more sustainable business and life choices in support of the impact economy. Cory and Annie also train and consult other purpose driven businesses to achieve results to build audiences of advocates that connect with the ...

Grow Ensemble’s Cory Ames and Annie Bright Prioritize Quality and Consistency to Develop an Attractive Content Creation Strategy

May 21, 2021 01:24 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MB

Cory Ames and Annie Bright discussed their ongoing work with impact media company Grow Ensemble, which also includes their podcast Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Podcast. Grow Ensemble is a content and media company inspiring businesses and individuals to consider more sustainable business and life choices in support of the impact economy. Cory and Annie also train and consult other purpose driven businesses to achieve results to build audiences of advocates that connect with the miss...

Jen O’Ryan of Double Tall Helps Company Staff Expand their Worldview by Sharing Perspectives in a Safe Space

May 07, 2021 01:43 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MB

Jen O’Ryan from Double Tall discussed diversity and inclusion as it relates to the LGBTQ community. Double Tall provides service as a consulting firm for strategy, design, and implementation. Jen also placed her knowledge in her book “Inclusive AF: A Field Guide for ‘Accidental’ Diversity Experts”, which explains how to cultivate a more welcoming workplace. When first working with companies, Jen revealed that most approach Double Tall for consulting on unconscious bias. Jen shared that peopl...

Bruce Waltuck of Freethinc for a Change Builds Business Processes with Insight and Accountability

April 29, 2021 19:41 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MB

Bruce Waltuck shared the work he’s doing with Freethinc... for a Change. He holds three decades of experience from real-life settings and academia, which he spent improving business processes, teaching business courses, and being active in the U.S. Department of Labor. Bruce discussed methods social entrepreneurs can use to build an efficient and inclusive process for a social venture. Time spent in the federal sector was a monumental piece of Bruce’s later efforts in managing business proce...

Jodie Larsen and Grace Beard Support People Finding Their Purpose with Paws and Pause

April 22, 2021 18:03 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MB

Jodie Larsen and Grace Beards spoke about their work with Paws and Pause, a social enterprise doggy daycare center providing opportunities for the unemployed recovering from mental health and addiction. The pair first started working together when running a project for St. Mungo’s, a homelessness organization in London. This is where they first began incorporating dogs in their work, which would lead to launching Paws and Pause in 2019. At St. Mungo’s, Jodies and Grace were able to learn abo...

Rich Harwood of the Harwood Institute Shares How to Wield the Power of Community Conversation

April 16, 2021 02:35 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MB

Rich Harwood shared insights into sparking change that evolves over time. He founded the Harwood Institute in 1988 with work centered around developing community change-centered conversations. A philosophy of civic faith and community driven solutions fueled this initiative’s efforts for the more than 30 years. Society became increasingly polarized in the experiences and opportunities people encounter based on their backgrounds. Rich explains that most of the initiative’s work focuses on bui...

3 Tree Shares Easy Habits to Save the Planet

April 10, 2021 03:30 - 32 minutes - 45.4 MB

Kaiti Burkhammer from 3 Tree joined the podcast today to share the story of how they are helping people create sustainable habits that save the planet and help the environment. A new company started during the GiveBackHack Global event last fall, they shared their strategy for developing a product that will help individuals create environmentally friendly habits. They started by getting feedback from friends and family and then reached out to the local changemaker community to understand wh...

GoodFind’s Nohelia Rambal Talks About the Ripple Effect of Small Commitments

April 02, 2021 04:55 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MB

Nohelia Rambal spoke on her experience of quitting a corporate job to become a marketing consultant for impact organizations. She now runs the social enterprise GoodFind, a directory of sustainable brands that helps consumers easily find an ethical alternative to everything. Ideally, the directory was created so that anyone could find an alternative for anything. Items in the directory range from clothing, home goods, sports, health, and more. Before she dove deep into the social enterprise ...

Sheila Fuentes from SI’LO Shares Why Social Enterprise Issues Are Best Handled as One Problem at a Time

March 26, 2021 01:36 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MB

Sheila Fuentes spoke on the mindset lessons she learned while building her sustainable retail brand, SI'LO. Sheila is based in the Philippines, and pivoted her career from banking with an economics background to the fashion industry. One of the leading concerns for SI'LO is sustainability, but Sheila also mentioned the issue of unethical labors. Adopting new mindsets would help her in situations like the pandemic, when the business model needed to be revised. Overthinking a problem can lead ...

Cameron Cooper is Stopping Plastic Waste at the Source with Circular Economy and Cooper’s Refillery

March 19, 2021 21:02 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

Cameron Cooper talks about her sustainability work through Cooper's Refillery. Society has tried numerous ways to reduce plastic use and promote recycling, but the amount of waste is still largely unaccounted for. Cooper's Refillery is working to reduce plastic waste by focusing on the circular economy of plastics and rethinking sustainable production and consumption. In their work, the initiative is developing refill stations for reductions of single use plastics to redirect the future of ou...

Prowess Project’s Ashley Connell Shares The Three Key Relationships For Women Professionals Reentering the Workforce

March 11, 2021 19:13 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MB

Ashley Connell reveals how reentering the workforce can be better understood with her work from The Prowess Project. Women looking to get back into the workforce can engage with this initiative that acts as an employment agency. While with the agency, women can also build relationships, and learn skill development in EQ to mesh the right opportunities for better employment. Among women who take two to three years off to raise children, 43% of those women will lose 37% of her compensation pow...

Maxime Dücker’s Our Good Brands Connecting You with Impact

March 05, 2021 03:07 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MB

When Maxime Dücker arrived in Melbourne, Australia, she found inspiration in the thriving world of social & eco-focused enterprises seeking to change the world.  So, she set out to wield her marketing and branding expertise to create change and launched Our Good Brands as an entertainment hub for brands and worldwide consumers to make better decisions. Our Good Brands With topics around sustainability, ethical living, ethical consumption, and eco-friendly trends – Our Good Brands is a platf...

Dalia Kamar’s Global Interactions Bring Perspective for Developing a Purpose-Driven Enterprise Community in the Middle East

February 18, 2021 20:35 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MB

Dalia Kamar established her work in Egypt as she develops entrepreneurs to maneuver barriers. No matter if the barrier is geographic or linguistic, Dalia worked to empower entrepreneurs of the Middle East to flourish in their own communities. She is not opposed to global interactions and details her own global experience. Being open to finding serendipitous opportunities helped Dalia connect with diverse entrepreneurs. She started off with her experience attending an American University in C...

Anna Alaman from the Open Eyes Project Shares Lessons on Adapting and Community

February 13, 2021 04:11 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MB

Anna Alaman spoke with us about her work in responsible and sustainable tourism through the Open Eyes Project. Anna was determined to build a social enterprise in India and focused on tourism. She shared the experiences that led her to establish the project, including lessons on “learning while doing” and the differences between “having the academic point of view and also the practitioner point of view”. From her experiences, she was able to help change tourism in India for the last 11 years....

GiveBackHack’s Emily Stuhldreher Suggests Social Enterprises Focus on Small Prototypes Followed by Feedback

February 04, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MB

Emily Stuhldreher shared insights into getting social enterprises up and running after years of work with GiveBackHack. There’s an entire community of social enterprises in Ohio that connect to GiveBackHack, including previous guests and myself. Emily talked through a lot of what it takes to build and validate the ideas we start with when embarking on the road of social enterprise. Our conversation started with updates on how the initiative is operating. Emily shared the transition of connec...

Social Psychologist Lynnette Cook Reveals How to Move From Hopeless to Fearless

January 26, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MB

Lynnette Cook spends this episode discussing the Rootstrike program Hopeless to Fearless. We have a history with the initiative from our previous episode with Rootstrike’s Dave Parker. Through the program, frontline and mid-level professionals can use practical tools and resources to navigate challenging circumstances. We discussed the Nova membership looping informative experts, impact, and policy. Then, we returned to the origin story of Hopeless to Fearless developing into its current stat...

Bestowed Essentials’ Callee Ackland Knows Making a Choice Brings Entrepreneurs Closer to Clarity

January 19, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 56.3 MB

Callee Ackland discussed how her commitment to a zero-waste lifestyle developed into Bestowed Essentials and Hippie Haven. Interest in sustainable products came to Callee in 2016 after a purchase of hand-made soap. From then on, Callee stayed mindful of the ingredients and sources of the skincare she used in her daily life. She gave herself one year to develop her soap-making business full time, which is now Bestowed Essentials. A sustainable lifestyle was a standard to Callee who grew up in...

Galicia Gordon of Leading Learners Shows that the First Step is to Engage

January 12, 2021 19:00 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MB

Galicia Gordon discussed her work with Leading Learners, and gave her thoughts on how she was able to start building the initiative at 16 years old. Galicia Gordon’s experience with launching and developing Leading Learners became an amazing conversation to kick off this month’s theme of clarity and new possibilities for creating change. The initiative, based in Vancouver, CA, works to connect students with free resources, scholarships, and tools to empower ownership over their education jou...

Business for Good’s Nicole Crone Explains Building Community Connections

December 23, 2020 03:05 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MB

Nicole Crone is a role model for using her curiosity to connect with the community and learn what it means to create impact.

Third Way Cafe Gives Deeper Meaning to “A Chat Over Coffee”

December 01, 2020 02:02 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MB

Tim Rush spoke about creating a space for conversations through the Third Way Cafe -- a coffee house that helps the community come together for social good, entertainment, discussions, and of course, coffee! Tim mentioned “conversations” as a top priority in the atmosphere at the coffee house. Dialogue becomes more productive in a safe space, especially around social issues. Third Way Cafe is a place where you can order your coffee, and “talk to someone who's not just your barista, but also y...

Cova Cowork Proves Working Together is One of the Greatest Resources for Social Enterprise | with Josh Boone

November 16, 2020 16:07 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MB

Josh Boone of Cova Cowork shared his experience building support around social enterprises. Cova is a workspace providing tools and resources for entrepreneurship. While working as a freelance lawyer, Josh went on a global trip with a group of 50 others. He started an entrepreneurship mastermind with people who were interested. Oddly, a trend of social good came from out of the mastermind. Those first steps gained momentum, and eventually became the coworking space. Despite how smooth the tr...

Furniture Bank of COH Transforms 10,000 Acts of Kindness | with Steve Votaw

October 27, 2020 01:17 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MB

Steve Votaw from Furniture Bank of Central Ohio discussed the depth in their mission to “turn empty houses into homes of hope”. A phrase of “empty houses” referring to the barren conditions of a household pushing through poverty. A lack of material resources, such as furniture and appliances, can eat away at the warmth of a home. Furniture Bank of Central Ohio noticed the resources are available, yet oftentimes wasted by fortunate families wishing to trash items. At the core, the initiative i...

Lasheyl Stroud Maintains Deep Rooted Advocacy While Serving Within the Social Justice Ecosystem

October 19, 2020 20:47 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MB

Trigger Warning: Content in this episode involves conversations on human trafficking and trauma-based family dynamics. Lasheyl Stroud brought her expertise and authentic understating to share the work being done in and around the juvenile court system. At the time of recording, Lasheyl is growing past her role as Lead Magistrate, and running for judge of the Franklin County Court. She prepped the discussion by first explaining the difference between a judge and a magistrate. Lasheyl handled ...

Aspire Hosting their First Virtual Social Enterprise Award Ceremony | with Susan Post

September 29, 2020 20:19 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MB

Susan Post introduced Aspire, the Columbus-cultivated award ceremony honoring social entrepreneurs. The annual award show began in 2013, and continues to celebrate social enterprise in Columbus today. Similar to many events in 2020, Aspire will be held virtually. Now the event has a larger capacity for more people to share this celebratory experience sponsored by Social Ventures. Three awards exist, which include Social Enterprise of the Year, Emerging Social Enterprise of the Year, and Nonp...

Cuddles Foundation Brings Nutrition to Kids with Cancer | with Purnota Bahl

September 25, 2020 00:22 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB

Purnota Dutta Bahl of Cuddles Foundation provides nutrition to children undergoing cancer treatment. Being based in India, Purnota explained the barriers of cancer treatment for children within the country. Malnourishment is one of those barriers slimming the odds of proper treatment. Malnourished children can experience disruptive side effects during chemotherapy, and drop out of treatment. The organization believes “every child deserves a chance at cure”, and is determined to protect the pr...

Columbus Works is Breaking Generational Poverty with Employment Retention Coaching

August 31, 2020 19:38 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MB

Beth Gifford, President & CEO of Columbus Works, described the initiative perfectly, saying Columbus Works is a “nonprofit organization providing job readiness training and longterm wraparound support for any individual in central Ohio who desires to move out of poverty through full-time employment.” During COVID-19, assistance in employment matters is extremely relevant. Beth explained the pivoting challenges and adapting to the new atmosphere once stay-at-home orders began. For example, the...

Urban Accelerator X Creates A Better Business Map by Expanding the Horizons

August 17, 2020 22:44 - 52 minutes - 72.9 MB

George “Ski” Zarebski and Lolo Smith of Urban Accelerator X came to help everyone get on track around building up entrepreneurship. Urban Accelerator X works as an urban entrepreneur support organization much like their name would suggest. Usually, the initiative interacts with smaller businesses that are 5 years or younger in their business journey. The duo points out that they work with all levels of business, but the level closer to the ideation stage of business is where they currently ha...

Jennifer Sconyers Uncovers the Real Work Behind Diversity and Inclusion

August 10, 2020 13:48 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MB

Jennifer Sconyers came to discuss her extensive work in diversity and inclusion, alongside commentary on what lessons she learned. Being the president and founder of Abundance Leadership Consulting, Jennifer continuously worked with numerous companies and observed a lack of diverse talent. Absence of diversity only intensified as the conditions did not allow diverse backgrounds to thrive and be successful. For diversity and inclusion, companies and organizations will benefit from viewing thei...

DC Design Involves the Community to Solve the Right Problem

July 28, 2020 20:55 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MB

Durell Coleman speaks on DC Design’s work as a social impact strategy and design consulting firm. The firm works on the pressing issues such as the criminal justice system, healthcare, foster care, and education. Through their efforts, DC Design helps organizations nurture relationships with their communities in addition to developing strong strategies and resources. In the end, the firm provides an overall structure to empower the organization and the community. "Our work is powered by the ...

DC Design is Building Alongside the Community to Solve the Right Problem

July 26, 2020 16:15 - 56.7 MB

Durell Coleman speaks on DC Design’s work as a social impact strategy and design consulting firm. The firm works on the pressing issues such as the criminal justice system, healthcare, foster care, and education. Through their efforts, DC Design helps organizations nurture relationships with their communities in addition to developing strong strategies and resources. In the end, the firm provides an overall structure to empower the organization and the community. “Our work is powered by the ...

Omar Elhagmusa and Paul Bryson Answer the Question “Why Choose Non-Profit?”

July 03, 2020 12:29 - 46 minutes - 64 MB

In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with past guest Omar Elhagmusa and bringing in new guest Paul Bryson. Omar was a past guest when I spoke with his non-profit lending company Illinois Facilities Fund (IFF). Paul is working for the Legal Aid Society (LAS) as a non-profit lawyer. We dive into the benefits of incorporating as a non-profit, and navigate a conversation of whether to start as an LLC or non-profit. Quite often we hear the benefits of starting an LLC, so these two gue...

Marvetta Rutherford Shows People How Empowerment Can Come From Learning More About Society’s Systems

June 25, 2020 17:00 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MB

Marvetta Rutherford discussed with us her take on transportation, food access, ownership, and empowering people. Marvetta gave her observations on the evolution of her hometown, Cleveland, Ohio. Her life experience spans enough eras to remember the Hough riots and Glenville riots during the sixties.

SocialVentures’ Allen Proctor is Connecting the Ecosystem of Social Impact

June 19, 2020 19:59 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MB

Allen Proctor from SocialVentures balances optimism with an extremely realistic outlook on the development of social enterprises and community relations. He builds the ecosystem of social entrepreneurship. We talked through what is working well for social entrepreneurs and what they need to know. Starting off strong, his first two points revolved around what some of the best social enterprises are doing right now. One part is social media, and the other relates to business models. Lingering ...

Social Impact Business Coach Trudi Lebron Discovered Power in Changing Narratives

May 21, 2020 02:03 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MB

Trudi Lebron is a business coach for social impact-driven entrepreneurs. She also works as a diversity equity and inclusion strategist. She reflects on how she first began her venture into the coaching space. Trudi said school loan payment helped fuel her natural side hustle tendency. She briefly describes what gave the first push of momentum behind her coaching. As one learning point, she notes: “Swim towards the people who are swimming towards you.” From there, it’s all about taking small...

Share My Journey Combines First-Hand Experience and Meaningful Conversations | with Rebecca Cohen

April 30, 2020 18:54 - 34 minutes - 47 MB

Rebecca Cohen explained how Share My Journey “connects caring people to share knowledge and experience during challenging life circumstances.” She created a way for people who lived through a certain experience to give support to people currently living that experience. Whether the experience deals with family, career, or any of life’s endless enigmas, Share My Journey is filled with insights built from first-hand experience. Rebecca recalled the countless times she had no one in her immedia...

Can’t Stop Columbus Combats COVID-19 from the Couch | with Vincenzo Landino

April 23, 2020 03:37 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MB

Vincenzo Landino speaks on how Can’t Stop Columbus emerged during this time of social distancing for COVID-19. He recalls how the grassroots initiative began from a tweet on Twitter. Someone asked a holding a virtual hack-a-thon to combat COVID-19, and the response was overwhelming... three days later, over 300 people were involved. Seeing the huge amount of engagement, a Slack account was created to further organize everyone. One week later, Can’t Stop Columbus would find more and more peop...

Madison Mikhail Shares How Point Is Your First Step For Doing Good

April 16, 2020 04:52 - 33 minutes - 46.7 MB

* Left to right: myself, Emily of GiveBackHack, Madison of Point, Mico, and Nicole of APTE. Madison Mikhail Bush from the Point app is creating an easier way to volunteer and connect so that causes can have the necessary support. In her own words, she describes Point as “your starting point for doing good”. Regular volunteers may be familiar with the tiring task of learning about organizations and how to get involved. Discovering a nonprofit to support can also be its own task. Volunteering ...

PAST Foundation Allows Students to Use Their Creativity as Education | with Annalies Corbin

April 09, 2020 16:01 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MB

Annalies Corbin, Ph.D., from PAST Foundation speaks on transforming education through the PAST Innovation Lab. Programs in the organization change how students interact with learning environments. From Annalies’ view, today’s education systems do not properly equip students as the structure of those education systems is obsolete. She brought our attention to how we’re using the same education approaches we used over 100 years ago. Back then, education prepared students for specific industry ...

Cre8ive Craig Shares His Adventures of International Entrepreneurship

April 02, 2020 02:34 - 46 minutes - 64 MB

Craig Chavis of Cre8ive Craig is a serial entrepreneur and a coach on how you can fulfill your creative dreams. He launched his book, Burdens of a Dream, on the topic a few days ago. Craig shares his story and the lessons he learned in his creative pursuits. Craig went from his home state, Ohio, to play collegiate football in Alabama. After two years, he experienced a season-ending injury that led him to study abroad in Costa Rica instead. Fast forward all the way to Craig finishing up his M...

Level D&I Solutions Explains Why Diversity and Inclusion Is Critical | with Kristine Snow and Chelsea Akers

March 25, 2020 22:57 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MB

Kristine Snow and Chelsea Akers amplify true diversity and inclusion through Level D&I Solutions. From WITI (Women in Technology International) to a partnership with Revel IT, these two social entrepreneurs are molding a new experience for “women in tech”. Kristine and Chelsea imagine Level reaching more narratives to widen their involvement with diversity and inclusion. The duo identified a “disconnect” between the corporate environment and advocacy groups. Hosting networking or up-skilling...

Compelling Analytics Founder Abel Koury Helps Organizations Craft Effective Surveys with the Right Questions

March 12, 2020 02:08 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MB

Asking the right questions is essential for accessing insightful information. Abel Koury from Compelling Analytics helps refine questions that drive your social enterprise forward. After multiple interactions with nonprofits, Abel was inspired to combine his experience in research design and data analytics with social justice. Non-profits and smaller organizations don’t always have the capacity to create great surveys that will collect and analyze the proper data to further develop the organ...

An Interlude on the Sustainable Development Goals

March 05, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MB

Today we’re going to talk about measuring social impact. We’re going to start by diving into the Sustainable Development Goals, and then wrap it up looking at some ways to measure social impact. In 2015, the United Nations came up with 17 Sustainable Development Goals as part of their 2030 Agenda. At one level, the sustainable development goals are designed to be measured against these metrics set for 2030, but to do this, they created a set of goals which are broad and easy to understand....

The Happysmarts Project is Teaching You to Manage Your Happiness Level | with Dr. Raj Raghunathan

February 27, 2020 03:39 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MB

Raj Raghunathan of Happy Smarts teaches others to nurture well being and happiness. His recent courses, A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment and HEROIC (Happier Employees and Return-On-Investment Course), guide people in measuring happiness levels in the determinants of happiness. His story first began in 2007. In his seventh year as a marketing professor at the University of Texas, Raj had a chance to go to India, where he is from, and meet with old friends from way back. Questions about lif...

Wild Tiger Tees Special [Part 2]: What We Learned About Social Enterprise | with Adam Morris

February 21, 2020 00:14 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB

Continuing our discussion from episode 55, Suzy of GiveBackHack hosted an episode exploring my experience building Wild Tiger Tees, and what it’s like to engage with the social enterprise community. Reflecting on the journey so far, Suzy and I agree two major parts are finding what impact to make and discovering how to sustain what you are creating. I find myself navigating how to efficiently grow and sustain the projects I’m currently focused on. Honestly, there are barriers to get over. O...

Wild Tiger Tees Special: The Journey to an Idea

February 13, 2020 19:36 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MB

Today’s special, special guest is Suzy Bureau of GiveBackHack. If you listened to episode 50, you knew this would happen. I was encouraged to share a little more about my story, especially Wild Tiger Tees, and Suzy jumped in to share my experience starting a social enterprise. Wild Tiger Tees came together during a weekend at GiveBackHack in 2018. I, Adam Morris, am the co-founder of this social enterprise where we “empower youth experiencing homelessness with the skills necessary to gain em...

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