Latest Social venture Podcast Episodes
Martina Hodges-Schell: Understanding your operating model
Make Things That Matter - April 15, 2024 19:52 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMartina Hodges-Schell is a transformation coach and consultant that helps organizations adopt a Silicon Valley approach to innovation. She spent 25 years leading design and innovation in tech companies, and now she loves providing a fresh, outside perspective to help teams develop and mature the...
Marty Cagan: Moving to the product model
Make Things That Matter - March 13, 2024 05:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMarty Cagan joins me for real talk about what it takes to transform into a strong product company. You can read the episode transcript here. — Topics discussed: (00:00) The process and challenges in writing a book (12:27) Real world products need tech for results (17:28) Deciding on inves...
Randy Silver: The conversations that create impactful products
Make Things That Matter - January 23, 2024 07:15 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRandy Silver is a product leadership advisor, podcast host, and global product community weaver. We explore the conversations needed to drive impact and perception of value. You can also read this episode here. — Topics discussed: (04:00) Moving from a journalistic editor to product editor ...
(Bonus) Chris Smith: Simple guidelines for AI investment sizing
Make Things That Matter - December 12, 2023 15:34 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsChris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. This is a short, bonus episode to go along with our main conversation: https://pod.fo/e/20a5ef — Topics discussed: (00:00) AI tooling allows for cost-effective testing. ...
Chris Smith: How to think about adding AI to your product
Make Things That Matter - December 12, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsChris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. He’s led the development of data systems & strategies at tech giants like early Google, Yahoo, and Sun; S&P 500's like Live Nation; and a wide variety of startups. — Topi...
Chime Audiology's transition to a Social Enterprise within the NHS with Johnathan Parsons
Make An Impact Podcast - November 17, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutesIn this episode, Heidi Fisher is joined by Johnathan Parsons, Managing Director and Consultant Clinical Scientist at Chime Social Enterprise. Chime is an NHS Audiology Service that utilised the Government Right to Request scheme to spin out as a not-for-profit Social Enterprise, having spun out...
Dismantling mental health stigma and embracing genuine self-kindness with Rhonda Lovell
Make An Impact Podcast - November 14, 2023 18:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode, Heidi Fisher sits down with Rhonda Lovell, founder of Wellington Counselling, to explore Rhonda's journey from her early career in gender studies to becoming a therapist and establishing a community-focused counselling centre. Highlights from the discussion include: Organic gr...
Transforming mindsets and creating positive impacts with The Parenting Apart Programme
Make An Impact Podcast - November 13, 2023 18:00 - 40 minutesThe Parenting Apart Programme is an early intervention that prevents long-term negative impacts on children’s emotional health and well-being when their parents separate or divorce. In this episode, Managing Director Claire Field and Parenting Apart Consultant Kam Kaur share their insights into...
A bottomless pit of ambition for patients with Dr Linda Harris, Spectrum Community Health CIC
Make An Impact Podcast - November 07, 2023 14:00 - 33 minutesWhat's the sign of an organisation that wants to realise the best for patients? It's something Dr. Linda Harris, a GP and the founding CEO of Spectrum Community Health CIC sees in droves everyday. And if you want to magnify your impact, whether in health and wellbeing, in working with vulnerab...
Nacho Bassino: How to build your first product strategy
Make Things That Matter - November 01, 2023 13:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsNacho Bassino is a veteran product leader and the author of Product Direction, one of my go-to books on how to actually generate a product strategy. There are many excellent books out there on strategy as a whole, but surprisingly few that specifically cover product strategy. — Topics discusse...
Pam Fox Rollin: Growing Groups Into Teams
Make Things That Matter - October 10, 2023 14:43 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsPam Fox Rollin is an executive coach and strategist. This is a conversation about the conversations that leaders are not having. These are THE difference between building a truly committed team that delivers the future you care about… and having a group which is a team in name only. Topics disc...
Pass the So What? test or you're not delivering impact with Naomi Hulston, Catch22
Make An Impact Podcast - October 09, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutesCatch22 supports over 160,000 people every year. A social business, it has over 1,700 staff and volunteers and delivers services addressing child exploitation, children's social care, criminal justice, education, employment and training, and health and wellbeing. Naomi Hulston had worked in the...
Eisha Armstrong: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing Change
Make Things That Matter - September 27, 2023 12:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsZooming in on three common change management issues: forecasting, role transitions, and departmental power dynamics. — Topics discussed (00:03:01) Companies transforming into product organizations (00:05:01) Revenue shift: smaller now, longer-term impact (00:08:30) Practical topics: forecas...
From burned-out social worker to seasoned business coach with Paul Zelizer
Make An Impact Podcast - August 23, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutesPaul Zelizer is a social entrepreneur coach and the co-host of the Awarepreneurs Podcast. He spent 15 years working in community mental health and tells Heidi about his journey from "burned-out, broke social worker" through a reinvention 16 years ago. Now he offers consultancy and coaching for ...
MJ Jastrebski: How to build resilience and stay buoyant as a CPO
Make Things That Matter - August 10, 2023 12:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMJ Jastrebski is the CPO of Stylitics, a rapidly scaling retail technology company that helps retail websites automate styling and bundling for their consumers. Click here to fill out the MTTM listener survey form by August 16, 2023: https://makethingsthatmatter.com/survey — In this episode, ...
A marketing masterclass for social and impact entrepreneurs with Ayo Abbas
Make An Impact Podcast - July 24, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutesHere's a rollicking, rip-roaring marketing 101 with Ayo Abbas. Ayo specialises in B2B (business to business) marketing for the built environment. And she believes marketing shouldn't be a weird, mystical art. We hear: why you should always remember you're marketing to people the problem with...
Thank you, and a brief update
Make Things That Matter - July 19, 2023 20:14 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIt's been quiet around here because I'm in deep in the creative process of reimagining this show, and I need your help. Podcast analytics are terrible, and I want to know more about YOU. Please fill out this short, 5-ish minute survey. Your help on this goes a LONG way, and I appreciate you tak...
Toys, artisans and sustainable livelihoods with Arshad Khalid, Ethiqana
Make An Impact Podcast - June 23, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutesHere's a horrifying statistic: 80% of toys are thrown away within two weeks, and they're packed with plastics and chemicals which damage the environment. Handmade wooden toys, so loved by so many, had been disappearing because of rapid industrialisation and the spread of cheap plastics. Arshad...
Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey
Make Things That Matter - May 30, 2023 00:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsDonna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey. Donna brings a background in design and product to her executive coaching and helps unconventional leaders take control of the story to drive impact for themselves and...
Adam Thomas: Operationalizing your product strategy
Make Things That Matter - May 17, 2023 12:43 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAdam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time fighting fires. — Sign up here to get upcoming essays + episodes emailed to you. Follow the MTTM journey on Twitter or LinkedIn! If you haven't...
Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu
Make Things That Matter - April 11, 2023 11:48 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week. This is a candid conversation about leadership and how our egos, sense of identity, and...
Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition
Make Things That Matter - March 27, 2023 22:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThe SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS businesses who has built six companies and has been a long-standing voice in creative, independent paths into product building and...
Economic empowerment through travel, tourism and hospitality with Alessandra Alonso, Women in Travel CIC
Make An Impact Podcast - March 23, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutesAlessandra Alonso is the founder and managing director of Women in Travel CIC, a social enterprise which focuses on the economic empowerment of women through employability and entrepreneurship in travel, tourism and hospitality. It provides all women, but especially marginalised, vulnerable and...
Neurodiversity, difference, dyslexia and passion with Remi Ray, The Diverse Creative
Make An Impact Podcast - March 10, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutesRemi Ray is a neurodivergent high-performance coach and the founder of The Diverse Creative CIC. She describes how she came to launch her social enterprise, which supports disabled entrepreneurs, and the multi-faceted approach she takes to coaching. After struggling through education because s...
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Make Things That Matter - March 07, 2023 13:04 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhat do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth. — You can read the original article here: https://tinyurl.com/2hdmy2zp LINK: STARTING CONDITION CHART: https://tinyurl.com/2fnemasz LINK:...
Creating powerful and stable cash positions to maximise impact with Yinka Ewuola
Make An Impact Podcast - March 02, 2023 15:00 - 37 minutesDoing good in the world? Then it is incumbent on you to build the foundations of a sustainable business, says Yinka Ewuola. Get those right and you can maximise your impact. This episode is about those foundations: cashflow and mindset. Plus Heidi is honest and open about common pricing mistake...
Petra Wille: Building a community of practice
Make Things That Matter - February 28, 2023 13:11 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsPetra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, my go-to book for the people development side of being a product leader. In this conversation, we dive deep into why and how a community of practice can level up your team and save training budget. You can also r...
Fixing the broken credit market with Open Banking - Tim Rooney, Salad Money
Make An Impact Podcast - February 10, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes"Everyone has had a financial bump in the road at some point in their life, but I don't think they should be punished for that," say Tim Rooney, CEO of "Fintech for Good" Award-winner, Salad Money. Salad is a social enterprise and community development finance institution (CDFI) which focuses o...
Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory
Make Things That Matter - February 07, 2023 13:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsBob Moesta is one of the pioneers of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory, which has fundamentally changed the way we think about building products and discovering what progress people actually need and want from the products they hire. — Sign up here to get upcoming essays + episodes emailed to you....
Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad
Make Things That Matter - January 25, 2023 13:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsSahil Lavingia has had an epic journey as an entrepreneur: he dropped out of college to become employee #2 at Pinterest and then went on to found Gumroad, one of the largest platforms for creators to sell their work and earn a living online. After the company failed to meet its VC-driven growth ...
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