Planet Impact
44 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Planet Impact is a show on how non-conformist individuals are changing the world. In this show, we speak with the most impactful individuals such as the Ashoka fellows, Forbes 30 under 30 nominees, TED Speakers, and even Nobel Laureates. With support from Google-PRX, Bridge from Billions and Ashoka, this podcast aims to inspire everyone to become a changemaker.
We support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
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Ep. 30. Louise Mabulo: Founder of The Cacao Project
October 30, 2021 09:22 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBLouise Emmanuelle Mabulo is a 22-year-old chef, farmer, and entrepreneur. She is the Founder of The Cacao Project, which cultivates resilient and Climate-smart livelihoods, positioning farmers for sustainable success in San Fernando, Camarines Sur, Philippines. Louise is a National Geographic Young Explorer, a featured honouree for Forbes Asia’s list ‘30 Under 30’, a Young Champion of the Earth under United Nations Environment Programme, an honouree of Tatler’s ‘Generation T’, and was award...
Ep. 29. Satyajeet Tambe: President, Maharashtra State Youth Congress; Founder, Jaihind Yuva Manch
October 22, 2021 12:30 - 33 minutes - 47.1 MBSatyajeet Tambe is an educationalist, an entrepreneur, and a young Politician from Maharashtra, India. He attended Pune University and John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/manthanshah/message
Ep. 28. Ara Kusuma: Founder of Aha! Project, Co-leader at Ashoka Young Changemaker and a Nat Geo Young Explorer
October 15, 2021 11:57 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MBAra is the founder of the Aha! Project (www.ahaproject.id | @aha.projectid ). It is a social initiative that provides quality and fun learning tools for young students at home. Within less than 12 months since its inception, her initiative has already impacted ~2,400 children across 13 provinces and 35 villages in Indonesia. "We need every one of us to take action and solve the problems we face around us, instead of waiting for a hero and demanding the change from other people we all must ...
Ep. 27. Mesut Keskin: Founder-CEO, E-Bursum, Turkey
October 08, 2021 12:30 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBMesut is an Ashoka Fellow, and founder-CEO of E-Bursum. E-Bursum is the biggest educational finance platform in Turkey that digitizes and democratizes financial opportunities for students. Background: Mesut established E-bursum to build a democratization and digitization movement aiming to make student scholarships and loans more transparent, fair, and impactful in Turkey. Mesut is turning a dysfunctional financial instrument in education into an empowerment tool and fundamentally changin...
Ep. 26. Layusa Isa-Odidi: Associate Partner at Dalberg
August 06, 2021 11:30 - 34 minutes - 48.7 MBLayusa Isa-Odidi is an Associate Partner, leading Dalberg’s presence in Melbourne, Australia. She focuses on strategic planning and financing across the areas of education, employment, agriculture, and gender. Her recent work in Education to Employment includes working closely with the Secretariat and Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education to develop a new financing and funding framework and supporting a large private foundation on its 2018-2030 strategy, a realignment ...
Ep. 25. Dr. Arunabha Ghosh: CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
July 30, 2021 06:03 - 43 minutes - 58.2 MBDr. Arunabha Ghosh is a celebrated public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. In this warm conversation, we chat about Dr. Ghosh's Inflexion Points, which is also the name of his monthly Business Standard column. From making documentaries with Jay Z, and working with the United Nations in New York, to coming back to New Delhi, and starting a policy think tank from scratch, Dr. Ghosh has done it all. While his TED talk crossed over 250,000 views, this pod...
Ep. 25. Dr. Arunabha Ghosh: Founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
July 30, 2021 06:03 - 43 minutes - 58.2 MBDr. Arunabha Ghosh is a celebrated public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. In this warm conversation, we chat about Dr. Ghosh's Inflexion Points, which is also the name of his monthly Business Standard column. From making documentaries with Jay Z, and working with the United Nations in New York, to coming back to New Delhi, and starting a policy think tank from scratch, Dr. Ghosh has done it all. While his TED talk crossed over 250,000 views, this pod...
Ep. 24. Caitlyn Lubas: 22-year old author of 'You Are Where You Go' and an Ex-Instagram Product Specialist
July 23, 2021 12:30 - 38 minutes - 50.7 MBCaitlyn is the author of You Are Where You Go: A Traveler’s Coming of Age Journey Through 70 Countries and 7 Continents During College. She wrote this book to inspire others with her personal stories of how travel has changed her perspectives about the world. Her goal is to prompt readers to see travel as a tool for personal development and to spark readers’ desires to learn and grow outside of their comfort zones because everywhere you go becomes a part of you! From visiting penguins in ...
Ep. 23. Krishna Allavaru: Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee and National In-charge of the Indian Youth Congress
July 16, 2021 10:30 - 17 minutes - 23.5 MBMr. Allavaru is a lawyer by profession who has been associated with student politics since his days at the University of Delhi. He deems the youth as the catalyst of societal and political change. He spearheads the Indian National Congress's initiatives on all fronts, be it in taking on the government on any issue or making outreach programs in different parts of the country. He has an LLM from Georgetown University and an MBA from INSEAD. Formerly, he worked at KPMG in India, and The Bost...
Ep. 22. Kiran Bir Sethi: Design for Change and Riverside School
March 25, 2021 19:30 - 18 minutes - 23.5 MBKiran Bir Sethi is the Founder-Director of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India and the Design for Change organization. She has a design background, having received her diploma in visual communication from the National Institute of Design (NID). She is also the Founder of “aProCh” – which stands for “A Protagonist in Every Child” – an initiative that is attempting to make Ahmedabad more child-friendly, for which she was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2008. Kiran ma'am developed a Design for ...
Ep. 21. Felix Finkbeiner: Plant for the Planet
March 19, 2021 03:30 - 42 minutes - 53.4 MBFelix Finkbeiner is a German environmentalist and the founder of the international tree-planting and environmental advocacy organization Plant-for-the-Planet. Starting in fourth grade, he attended Munich International School from which he graduated in 2015. After living in London for three years, he graduated with a BA in International Relations from SOAS, the University of London in 2018. Since September 2018 he is a PhD student of environmental sciences at the Crowther Lab of ETH Zürich,...
Ep. 20. Riddhima Yadav: Non-Resident Fellow, Aspen Institute; Sustainable Finance Group, Goldman Sachs
March 11, 2021 23:30 - 30 minutes - 43 MBRiddhima works with Goldman Sachs’ Sustainable Finance Group in New York, which partners with the firm’s global businesses to drive sustainable solutions related to climate transition and inclusive growth. She is also a Non-Residential Fellow at Aspen Institute for the Energy and Environment Program. Riddhima has experience working on climate policy at the United Nations, World Bank and the Global Commission on Economy and Climate. She graduated from Yale University in 2018 with a B.A. in Et...
Ep. 19. Dr. Girish Kulkarni: Life of a Changemaker (Part 2)
March 05, 2021 16:30 - 23 minutes - 35 MBDr Girish Kulkarni is the founder of Snehalaya, an NGO based in Ahmednagar, India. Snehalaya means 'Home of Love', and was founded in 1989 to provide support for women, children and LGBT communities, who have been affected by HIV and AIDS, trafficking, sexual violence, and poverty. In India, 93 women are raped every day. It is estimated that 135,000 children are trafficked every year. Over 120,000 women a year will suffer domestic violence. There are 2.1 million people living with HIV, and a...
Ep. 18. Dr. Girish Kulkarni: Snehayala
February 26, 2021 15:30 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBDr Girish Kulkarni is the founder of Snehalaya, an NGO based in Ahmednagar, India. Snehalaya means 'Home of Love', and was founded in 1989 to provide support for women, children and LGBT communities, who have been affected by HIV and AIDS, trafficking, sexual violence, and poverty. In India, 93 women are raped every day. It is estimated that 135,000 children are trafficked every year. Over 120,000 women a year will suffer domestic violence. There are 2.1 million people living with HIV, and a...
Ep. 19. Dr. Girish Kulkarni: Snehayala (Part 1)
February 26, 2021 15:30 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBDr Girish Kulkarni is the founder of Snehalaya, an NGO based in Ahmednagar, India. Snehalaya means 'Home of Love', and was founded in 1989 to provide support for women, children and LGBT communities, who have been affected by HIV and AIDS, trafficking, sexual violence, and poverty. In India, 93 women are raped every day. It is estimated that 135,000 children are trafficked every year. Over 120,000 women a year will suffer domestic violence. There are 2.1 million people living with HIV, and a...
Ep. 18. Matthew: West Coast Radio Podcast
February 18, 2021 20:30 - 28 minutes - 36 MBMatthew is the host of the West Coast Radio Podcast (WCR). WCR is a Seattle based talk show featuring artists, performers, hustlers, creators, & wanderers. All are to reach out to him and hear his podcast. Email: [email protected] Links: Listen on your favourite platform: https://linktr.ee/westcoastradio --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manthanshah/message
Ep. 17. Gavin Thurston: Journeys in the Wild - The Secret Life of a Cameraman
February 12, 2021 08:30 - 1 hour - 121 MBGavin Thurston is the award-winning Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II cameraman who worked with Sir David Attenborough for over 20 projects. In this podcast, he shares with us the extraordinary and adventurous true stories of becoming a legendary cameraman. I met Gavin in Dubai on his book tour at Emirates Literature Festival, and instantly I was moved by his stories and his kind personality. Gavin has been a wildlife photographer for over thirty years. Against a backdrop of modern world...
Ep. 16. Melati Wijsen: Creating a Global Youth Run Movement
February 04, 2021 19:30 - 21 minutes - 28.3 MBMelati is an 19-year-old Indonesian/Dutch activist and an absolute change maker. She and her younger sister, Isabel, ounded Bye Bye Plastic Bags and have been leading the movement driven by youth since 2013. As of 2019, they successfully banned plastic bags, straws and Styrofoam on their home island Bali. She has spoken at TED and the United Nations and has also been selected among FORBES top ten most inspiring women in the country. She is very passionate about protecting the ocean; Alumni...
Ep. 15. Sujay Santra: CEO and Founder of Ikure Techsoft Pvt. Ltd.
January 28, 2021 18:11 - 34 minutes - 30.9 MBSujay worked in IBM & Oracle for over 12 years, before founding iKure in 2010. The social venture was incepted with the vision to provide affordable and accessible, quality primary healthcare up to the last mile using technology intervention. Realizing that there will never be sufficient doctors to treat patients in India individually, iKure led by Sujay is changing the public healthcare system from an individualized curative model to a community based preventive healthcare system to ensure ...
Ep. 14. Taylor Reneau: Star Youtuber at YesReneau and Ivy Advise
January 21, 2021 19:04 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBTaylor graduated from Harvard in 2015. When most of her friends were choosing jobs in finance and consulting, she decided to become a YouTuber. On her first channel, YesReneau, she uses poetry, storytelling, and sit-down talks to help her subscribers better navigate the “real world”. On her second YT channel, Ivy Advise, she shares the content that will enable anyone to get into the Ivy League or any top-tier colleges in the USA. She has now created a course that prepares you for college ...
Ep. 14. Taylor Reneau: Youtuber at YesReneau and Ivy Advise
January 21, 2021 19:04 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBTaylor graduated from Harvard in 2015. When most of her friends were choosing jobs in finance and consulting, she decided to become a YouTuber. On her first channel, YesReneau, she uses poetry, storytelling, and sit-down talks to help her subscribers better navigate the “real world”. On her second YT channel, Ivy Advise, she shares the content that will enable anyone to get into the Ivy League or any top-tier colleges in the USA. She has now created a course that prepares you for college ...
Ep. 13. Vikra Ijas: Co-founder of Kitabisa 'Indonesia's biggest Fundraising Platform'
January 15, 2021 12:30 - 36 minutes - 31.1 MBVikra Ijas is the co-founder and the Chief Marketing Officer at Kitabisa.com. His mission has been to leverage tech to connect and amplify kindness. Vikra graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2012 with a Bachelor's in Commerce specializing in Marketing and International Business. In 2013, along with his co-founder, Timur, Vikra established a social initiative called Kitabisa. It is an online fundraising and donation platform. When this podcast was recorded in 2019, ...
Ep. 12. Aysha Baqir: Writing the best-seller 'Beyond the Fields' (Part 2)
January 08, 2021 07:30 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBMs Aysha grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 on a scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her time at college sparked her passion for development and she chose to return to Pakistan to work in the non-profit sector. She quickly learned that girls and women in villages needed access to economic resources before they could voice their demands for social justice. After completing her MBA from LUMS in 1998, she foun...
Ep. 12. Part 2. Aysha Baqir: Writing the best-seller 'Beyond the Fields'
January 08, 2021 07:30 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBMs Aysha grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 on a scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her time at college sparked her passion for development and she chose to return to Pakistan to work in the non-profit sector. She quickly learned that girls and women in villages needed access to economic resources before they could voice their demands for social justice. After completing her MBA from LUMS in 1998, she foun...
Ep. 12. Part 1. Aysha Baqir: Kaarvan Crafts Pakistan
January 01, 2021 12:30 - 23 minutes - 18.7 MBMs Aysha grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 on a scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her time at college sparked her passion for development and she chose to return to Pakistan to work in the non-profit sector. She quickly learned that girls and women in villages needed access to economic resources before they could voice their demands for social justice. After completing her MBA from LUMS in 1998, she founded...
Ep. 12. Aysha Baqir: Kaarvan Crafts Pakistan (Part 1)
January 01, 2021 12:30 - 23 minutes - 18.7 MBMs Aysha grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 on a scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her time at college sparked her passion for development and she chose to return to Pakistan to work in the non-profit sector. She quickly learned that girls and women in villages needed access to economic resources before they could voice their demands for social justice. After completing her MBA from LUMS in 1998, she founded...
Ep. 11. Prashant Lingam: Bamboo House India
September 18, 2020 14:30 - 38 minutes - 29.1 MBMr Prashant is the founder of Bamboo House India that works in creating sustainable bamboo-based livelihoods. It utilises bamboo as an economic driver for providing sustainable livelihood opportunities to rural and tribal communities at the base of the economic pyramid. He is also a consultant at the United Nations Development Programme - Plastic Waste Management Project. His innovative social business model has been studied by universities such as Harvard, Cornell, Kellogg, ISB and more. He ...
Ep. 10. Miriam Lancewood: Woman in Wilderness
September 04, 2020 08:30 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBMiriam is a best-selling author of the book 'Woman in Wilderness'. She lives with her husband in the New Zealand wilderness, surviving in extreme conditions by hunting wild animals and foraging edible plants. Miriam Lancewood has given up all modern-day comforts to live life right on the edge and off-grid. Her book, now translated in many languages, is her story of living six years in the wilderness with her husband. In 2017, Miriam and Peter left New Zealand to explore other wild places. T...
Ep. 9. Jared Kleinert: Most Connected Millennial
August 21, 2020 19:44 - 34 minutes - 33.5 MBJared is the USA Today's 'Most Connected Millennial'. He is the founder of Meetings of the Mind (motm.co). He has also a TED Speaker and has authored two best-selling books '3 Billion Under 30' and '2 Billion Under 20'. His invite-only mastermind community, Meeting of the Minds, curates top entrepreneurs, CEOs, and business owners for quarterly summits in places like Napa Valley, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Bermuda. Members of this network (typically operating 7-figure businesses w...
Ep. 8. Samira Khan: Senior Manager, Global Impact Engagement, Salesforce
August 08, 2020 20:08 - 42 minutes - 37.6 MBMs Samira Khan is the Senior Manager at Salesforce.org, USA. She works at the intersection of social impact and tech at Salesforce.org. She had been focused on impact management, the SDGs, and vulnerable populations. Samira has worked on global social impact and innovation across corporations, governments, and the social sector for over twelve years. Her work spans the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. She is a former strategy & management consultant at Accenture; and while with A.T. Kear...
Ep. 7. Arijit Patra: Rhodes Scholar
July 17, 2020 14:30 - 44 minutes - 36.8 MBArijit Patra is a PhD student at the University of Oxford. He is one of the few recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He works at the intersection of Machine Learning for diagnosis of Fetal Echocardiography. He graduated from IIT-Kharagpur with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. Order of Merit, Social & Cultural, IIT Kharagpur. In his tenure there, he won the prestigious Honda Scholarship to study and work in the University of Tokyo. He is passionat...
Ep. 7. Arijit Patra: Rhodes Scholarship & Machine Learning for diagnosis of Fetal Echocardiography
July 17, 2020 14:30 - 44 minutes - 36.8 MBArijit Patra works at the intersection of Machine Learning for diagnosis of Fetal Echocardiography. He graduated from IIT-Kharagpur with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. Order of Merit, Social & Cultural, IIT Kharagpur. In his tenure there, he won the prestigious Honda Scholarship to study and work in the University of Tokyo. He is passionate about helping marginalised communities with coding and education and travelling. Having just finished his Ph. D, from ...
Ep. 6. Bonnie Chiu: Story of Lensational
July 10, 2020 04:30 - 55 minutes - 75.8 MBBonnie is a Forbes 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur, a gender equality advocate and a social impact consultant. "Everything happens for a reason. We don't have to force things too much; we should be open to what the universe is giving us." She was born in Hong Kong. She holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a BBA in Global Business Studies with First Honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School...
Ep. 5. Pablo Santaeufemia: Unlocking Limitless Innovation
July 03, 2020 10:30 - 52 minutes - 40.6 MBPablo is the founder of Bridges for Billions (https://bridgeforbillions.org/), one of the worlds best social entrepreneurship programs backed by the United Nations, Coca-Cola, Brown and MIT University amongst many others. Pablo is an entrepreneurship and innovation geek, Forbes 30 under 30, and Ashoka Fellow, who’s driven by his desire to make all that he’s learned available to everyone. He graduated from Brown University and Carnegie Mellon University. His story is truly mind-blowing! Co...
Ep. 4. Devika Malik: Ability Beyond Disability
June 26, 2020 09:30 - 41 minutes - 52.1 MBDevika is the co-founder of Wheeling Happiness Foundation, the Queen’s Young Leader Awardee 2015, UN Women Transforming India winner, Global Happiness Leader and Forbes 30 under 30 awardee 2020. "One mistake that many of us make is equating disability with inability. Sometimes, we disqualify people just by assuming that they will be unable to perform a certain task." Born a premature baby with acute neonatal jaundice and hemiplegia, Devika Malik was paralysed on one side of the body. Des...
Ep. 3. Anshul Tewari: Democratising Journalism
June 19, 2020 15:27 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBAnshul Tewari is the founder of Youth ki Awaz, India’s largest youth media and journalism platform. He is also an Ashoka Fellow, a Forbes 30-under-30 winner, an INK Fellow, a United Nations ITU Young Innovator and works with the Obama Foundation. "If we all come together and speak up, something can really change." Opportunities: Writers Training Program and YKA Action Network Fellowship Contact: Instagram- @anshultewari @thelordofgreens @youthkiawaz About Anshul: He was born in a middle-clas...
Ep. 2. Sumitra Pasupathy: From Cambridge to Creating Changemakers
June 11, 2020 19:30 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBSumitra Pasupathy is the Senior Manager of Global Partnership at Ashoka. "I am always looking for inspiring, bright and young interns" Email Ashoka Singapore at [email protected] Follow Sumitra on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitra-pasupathy-56291/ About Sumitra: She grew up in Kaula Lampur, Malaysia. She graduated as a chemical engineer from the prestigious Cambridge University in 1995. She worked at Kraft and Proctor and Gamble before getting an MBA from INSEAD. Afterwa...
Ep. 1. Federico Garcea: Saving the Planet, One Tree at a Time
June 05, 2020 05:01 - 33 minutes - 26.2 MBFederico Garcea (@federico_garcea) is the founder and CEO of Treedom (@treedom_trees)- Financial Times Top 100 most sustainable companies in Europe, and an Ashoka Fellow from Florence, Italy. This UN World Environment Day, Federico tells us his story from being a financial analyst to being the founder of the B-Corporation which has been saving the planet one tree at a time. Federico did a lot of odd jobs before he stumbled upon the idea of Treedom. The main source of inspiration was a comb...
Ep. 1: Federico Garcea: Saving the Planet, One Tree at a Time
June 05, 2020 05:01 - 33 minutes - 26.2 MBFederico Garcea (@federico_garcea) is the founder and CEO of Treedom (@treedom_trees)- Financial Times Top 100 most sustainable companies in Europe, and an Ashoka Fellow from Florence, Italy. This UN World Environment Day, Federico tells us his story from being a financial analyst to being the founder of the B-Corporation which has been saving the planet one tree at a time. Federico did a lot of odd jobs before he stumbled upon the idea of Treedom. The main source of inspiration was a comb...
Ep. 0. Manthan Shah: About the Host and the Podcast
May 29, 2020 18:09 - 5 minutes - 5.73 MBWe are living in exceptionally difficult times. Corona Pandemic, geopolitical polarization, the new inequality, climate change and many other wicked problems mark our times. To solve these issues we need a big solution. We need a systems changing solution. This podcast aims to inspire everyone to become a changemaker. In episode #0, MJ Tarun of Radio One very generously introduces me, Manthan Shah, the host, to the world. This podcast is an outcome of hard work of lots of changemakers and st...
Ep. 0: About the host, Manthan Shah
May 29, 2020 18:09 - 5 minutes - 5.73 MBWe are living in exceptionally difficult times. Corona Pandemic, geopolitical polarization, the new inequality, climate change and many other wicked problems mark our times. To solve these issues we need a big solution. We need a systems changing solution. This podcast aims to inspire everyone to become a changemaker. In episode #0, MJ Tarun of Radio One very generously introduces me, Manthan Shah, the host, to the world. This podcast is an outcome of hard work of lots of changemakers and st...
Planet Impact Trailer
May 29, 2020 17:28 - 1 minute - 2.51 MBMJ Tarun of Radio One introduces the podcast, what to expect and when will it start. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/manthanshah/message
Sultan Osman CEO of Du
February 09, 2020 20:27 - 20 minutes - 17.7 MBMr Osman shares his life story from being an engineering student in Beirut to leading of middle east's biggest telecommunication company Du for 26 years. He shares his insights from work experience, tips on leadership, and shares witty personal stories. Heartfelt, candid, entertaining and insightful.
How to create the next World Toilet Organization with Jack Sim
November 18, 2019 22:33 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBCelebrating this World Toilet Day - 19th Nov - with Mr. Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization (WTO), Base of Pyramid Hub (BoP Hub), World Toilet College (WTC) and the Restroom Association of Singapore. At the age of 40, he attained financial independence after creating a series of 16 successful businesses. Thereafter, he decided to retire and devote his life to social work. Jack has been named the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and is an Ashoka Global fellow. Jack also...