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How to Help a Few Billion PeopleShe Taught Herself to Code. Then She Built a Million-Woman Movement Out of an RV — Without a Dollar of VC.There’s a scene in Julia Taylor’s story that I can’t stop thinking about.It’s October 24, 2018. She’s sitting on a plastic sofa in an RV parked in Moab, Utah. Her parents are visiting. She’s refreshing a screen, waiting for her very first sale — a $97 course she built in real time for a beta group of women who wanted to learn what she’d taught herself: how to code, how to build a website, how to start a business from scratch.The sale comes through. Then another. By the time she sits down for br...
2026-03-121h 23
The Purpose Profit ShiftWhat Social Enterprises Actually Need (It's Not Money), With Mark HoroszowskiMark Horoszowski left a successful marketing agency during the Great Recession to travel the world asking one question: What do social enterprises actually need to flourish? His answer transformed how we think about scaling impact.In this episode, Mark shares how he co-founded MovingWorlds and coined the term "Experteering," deploying over $52 million worth of professional expertise to social enterprises across 122 countries. He reveals why chasing capital is often the wrong move, why focus is every entrepreneur's hardest discipline, and how corporations like Microsoft, SAP, and EY are proving that human capital creates more sustainable change than checkbooks...
2026-03-0753 min
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleWhat 4 Years of Failure Taught This Founder About Restoring the Ocean (And Building a Business)In 2014, Vriko Yu was diving weekly off the coast of Hong Kong when she watched a patch of coral community she knew intimately disappear in just two months.“That is the moment when I realized what is really happening in the water is no longer what I read about the books,” she says. “It really is happening at a much faster phase than I’ve ever imagined.”That moment launched a decade-long journey from marine scientist to social entrepreneur—one that includes four consecutive years of failure, a pivot to 3D printing, and a company that’s now g...
2026-02-051h 12
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleThe Mission Never Changed. Everything Else Did.Two years ago, Ella Peinovich wasn’t sure her company would survive.Today, Powered by People—her platform connecting 500,000+ artisans across 100+ countries to retailers like Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, and West Elm—just hit its first million-dollar revenue month. They’re on the path to profitability. They recently became B Corp certified.What happened in between is a masterclass in what it actually takes to build a world-positive business that lasts.The Conviction That Started It AllBefore Powered by People, Ella built SOKO—a jewelry brand employing 2,500 artisans in Kenya to produce high...
2026-01-211h 17
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleHow to Scale Healthcare Access to Billions of People Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Mission)Most health tech founders dream of making billions of dollars. Ed Booty dreams of improving the health of billions of people – 52% of the world to be exact, who do not have access to reliable healthcare and prescriptions.The Reach 52 founder took his company from a solo venture bootstrapped in Singapore to a multi-country operation distributing essential medicines across Asia and Africa - all while maintaining profitability and sanity. Well, mostly sanity.Here’s what makes his journey particularly instructive: Ed didn’t follow the typical venture playbook. He bootstrapped for nearly four years, said no to gra...
2026-01-071h 17
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleHow to Build a Caregiving Business by Actually Caring: Manuel Rosemberg's Ana StoryThe 5-Minute Version: Manuel Rosemberg built Ana.care into Latin America’s leading caregiving platform by doing the opposite of the Silicon Valley playbook. Instead of building “Uber for caregivers,” he picked up workers at subway stations, sat in customers’ homes, and asked one transformative question that changed his entire business model. His journey from bootstrapping with customer money to saying no to VCs to building government partnerships offers a masterclass in sustainable impact entrepreneurship. Here’s how caring about humans first built a company now serving millions – with aspirations for billions.When Life Punches You Three Times, Build...
2025-12-171h 22
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleWhen Government Collapses and You Lose 95% of Your Business: How Drinkwell Survived Bangladesh's Revolution and is Getting Clean Water to Millions of PeoplePicture this: You’ve built a network of 700+ IoT-enabled water ATMs serving 2 million people daily. Your biggest customer is the government. Then one day, that government collapses, the prime minister flees the country, and authorities shut down the entire internet—including the mobile networks your water ATMs need to function.This isn’t a thought experiment. It’s exactly what happened to Minhaj Chowdhury and his team at Drinkwell in Bangladesh last year.While most entrepreneurs worry about product-market fit, Minhaj had to figure out country-market fit—in real time, during a revolution.The story...
2025-12-031h 33
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleFrom COVID Relief to Climate Tech: How Farm to Feed's Accidental Discovery is Solving Africa's $4 Billion Food Waste CrisisWhen COVID hit Kenya in 2020, Claire was on sabbatical from consulting, reconsidering her career after her second child. Within 24 hours of lockdown, she launched a GoFundMe called “Farm to Feed” to buy vegetables from farmers who’d lost market access and donate them to families who’d lost income.Then she stumbled on a statistic that changed everything: 50% of fruits and vegetables in sub-Saharan Africa never reach the market. Half. Gone. While one in three Kenyans faces food insecurity.“I thought there has to be more awareness about this problem,” Claire recalls. “I consider myself quite an educa...
2025-11-191h 05
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleFrom Wall Street to Waste: How Anish Malpani Built a Business That Turns "Unrecyclable Waste” into Dignified JobsFrom making big bucks on Wall Street to turning trash into treasure in India 🚀 Anish Malpani quit his cushy finance job, spent 5 years preparing across 3 continents, and built a business that does the "impossible" - turning un-recyclable chip packets into usable plastic while creating dignified jobs for India's waste pickers. This isn't your typical "follow your passion" story. It's a masterclass in patient entrepreneurship, operational excellence, and why 90% of startups fail (and how to be in the 10% that don't). In this episode, Anish reveals:- Why he tells people "Do NOT be an ent...
2025-11-051h 20
How to Help a Few Billion PeopleThis is for entrepreneurs putting purpose over profit.How to Help a Few Billion People kicks off with host Mark Horoszowski explaining why most entrepreneurial advice pushes founders onto a “grow-at-all-costs” conveyor belt, and what it looks like to build world-positive companies instead: choosing financing that preserves mission, managing negative externalities, and prioritizing employee wellbeing without abandoning growth. We talk alternatives to traditional VC (grants, fiscal sponsors, PRI, debt, revenue-based financing), the role of systems and incentives, and the kinds of founders we’ll feature—leaders who would rather help billions of people than make billions of dollars. If you’re a social entrepreneur, an impact-curious builder, or an inve...
2025-10-3146 min
Social Impact PioneersEmpowering Social Innovation with Mark Horoszowski & Alam BainsWelcome to Social Impact Pioneers, where we spotlight change makers redefining the future of business and society. In this episode, we’re joined by Mark Horoszowski, Co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds, and Alam Bains, Head of Corporate Programs & Partnerships at MovingWorlds. Together they are empowering social innovation, unlocking the reasons why people might take action, enhancing social entrepreneurs and taking volunteering to another level.
Mark and Alam are at the forefront of transforming corporate volunteering into a powerful engine for global impact. MovingWorlds is a global platform helping social enterprises access critical skills and knowledge—while enabling professionals to grow thro...
2025-07-3045 min
Impact Boom Podcast - Social Enterprise & DesignEpisode 580 (2025) Mark Horoszowski On Elevating Social Entrepreneurs By Building PartnershipsOn Episode 580 of Impact Boom, Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds discusses scaling social enterprises through global skills-based volunteering, assisting entrepreneurs with tapping into key customer insights, and facilitating cross-sector collaboration to help impact-led businesses gain market traction.
If you are a changemaker wanting to learn actionable steps to grow your organisations or level up your impact, don't miss out on this episode!
If you enjoyed this episode, then check out Episode 143 with Jennifer Bishop on how corporates, NGOs & social enterprises are working together to create positive change -> https://bit.ly/44ITNjy
The team who made this episode happen were:
Host...
2025-07-0132 min
Career Dynamo - كارير ديناموإعادة الهيكلة كفرصة ذهبية: درّب مخك على التكيف وبناء المهارات الأساسية #26أهلًا بكم من برلين!
في هذه الحلقة، نتناول
تأثير التغيير وإعادة الهيكلة على سوق العمل ودورك الوظيفي، وكيف يمكنك الاستفادة
منها لتحفيز مخك وبناء مهارات أساسية (Core Skills) تجعلك أكثر
قيمة وتميزًا.
لماذا تستمع لهذه
الحلقة؟
🧠 التغيير هو الواقع الجديد، وإعادة الهيكلة أصبحت أمرًا
شائعًا في الشركات منذ سنوات.
✨ لتطوير
مهاراتك الأساسية مثل الإبداع وقوة التحمل، عليك فهم دور المخ وكيفية استغلال
مرونته لتطوير نفسك باستمرار.
التحدي الذي نطرحه:
💡 حلقة مليئة بالأفكار العلمية والتقنيات العملية لتدريب
مخك، تعزيز ذكائك العاطفي، وبناء مهارات تُحدث فارقًا كبيرًا في حياتك المهنية.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HUKdB54IDhk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SngXAGa4_as
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ztPKM0nryY8
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rvmvt7gscIM
https://neurosciencenews.com/handwriting-learning-brain-connectivity-25522/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/evidence-based-living/202402/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your-brain#:~:text=They%20found%20that%20brain%20connectivity,the%20brain%20that%20promote%20learning
Horoszowski, Mark. 2019. “Purpose-Driven Leaders Will Occupy Your
Workplace In 2020: Here’s How to Maximize Them.” Fast Company, December
12, 2019.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90441253/purpose-driven-leaders-will-occupy-your-workplace-in-2020-heres-how-to-maximize-them.
Koole, Sander L., Susanne Schwager, and Klaus Rothermund. 2015.
“Resilience is More About Being Flexible Than About Staying Positive.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38:
1–79. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x14001599.
Southwick, Steven M., George A. Bonanno, Ann S. Masten, Catherine
Panter-Brick, and Rachel Yehuda. 2014. “Resilience Definitions, Theory, and
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2025-02-2619 min
Facilitating Change: How to create transformative spaces that inspire, empower & drive real changeChange Starts Within: A Leader's Guide to Complex Collaboration with Mark HoroszowskiIn this conversation, Cole and Mark explore the intricate dynamics of cross-sector collaboration and leadership in social enterprise. They discuss the messy reality of collaboration, where often everyone shows up with their own goals, metrics, and ways of measuring success. The discussion gets personal as they unpack how leaders need to do their own inner work around ego and bias, highlighting why those in power must be willing to look in the mirror before asking others to change. Through stories and practical examples, they tackle the challenging truth that long-term collaborations are constantly in flux, with people, motivations, and...
2025-02-1155 min
Social Enterprise Alliance PodcastMoving Worlds with Mark Horoszowski - Ep 18Mark Horoszowski is the CEO at MovingWorlds, a social enterprise that convenes partners from all sectors to build a more equitable, just, and sustainable economy by empowering social enterprises, and the people working with — and within — them. Its global platform connects social enterprises with corporates, peers, learning content, and a global community of pro bono professionals to deliver market-based solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals, while simultaneously providing a scalable solution for corporations to achieve their ESG targets by educating and empowering employees.*********Moving WorldsLinkedIn
2023-03-2833 min
The Pre-ReadEstablishing a Common Language Around ESGIn this episode of ESG Talk, Workiva's Mandi McReynolds is joined by Mark Horoszowski, co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds. Mark and Mandi discuss how having a shared language around ESG will move business forward and finding common ground between business leaders, investors, and consumers.
2023-03-0319 min
Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.How Experteering Makes the World BetterWhen you purchase an item after clicking a link in this post, we may earn a commission.Devin: What is your superpower?Mark: You need to design a culture that’s best for your organization to grow and scale and create an impact and be an amazing place to work. Some of my natural tendencies, I’ll be honest, don’t lead to that. The reason I share that is to say, I think what I’ve learned—and it’s taken a while to get there—but it’s a superpower that I’ve developed o...
2022-08-1133 min
TALRadioLeading the Leaders | CXO Show TimeMark Horoszowski is indeed an interesting personality. He is a speaker, writer and a social entrepreneur. His interest towards social work right from childhood is interesting and inspiring. Mark is the founder of Moving Worlds… an unique organization connecting and developing professionals, corporations, impact investors, and social enterprises in building more sustainable and equitable planet. Mark has also been closely associated with the American Cancer Society for almost a decade. Here is an interesting conversation with Mark and his life journey.
2022-03-0247 min
Create New Futures | How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World through Conversation116 Mark Horoszowski - Building an Equitable FutureMark Horoszowski is the co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds, an award-winning social enterprise that helps businesses scale their social impact programs by engaging employees in all sorts of profound opportunities. Mark is an RSA Fellow and is a lecturer on corporate social responsibility at The University of Washington Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility. Today, Aviv and Mark engage in a meaningful conversation on social responsibility, helping others and building a sustainable and equitable future. Mark shares some of the insights he has gleaned about human nature throughout the course of his journey at MovingWorlds. Finally, Mark provides three...
2022-01-131h 08
Impact AudioLouise Bleach and Mark Horoszowski: CSR, Social Enterprise, and Doing Well by Doing GoodGood business in 2021 is about much more than quality products and services—today’s corporations are being held responsible for the impact they have on the planet and on humankind. This episode of Impact Audio features two experts in CSR and social good: Lousie Bleach and Mark Horoszowski.Listen on to learn:• Why clean water tech is more vital than you think, especially for beer-lovers• How social enterprises like Desolenator partner with the private sector to make lasting change• How CSR can benefit businesses, alter the global economy, and help the earth
2021-08-0314 min
🎙 Inventive Journey | Real Stories From the Startup Survival Club"Obsess Over Your Customers" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Mark HoroszowskiObsess over your customers in ways that you really understand their job to be done. And here I reference the Clayton Christensen model of; what are people actually looking to hire somebody or something for?
2021-06-2839 min
The Justin Brady ShowMark Horoszowski, CEO of Moving Worlds. Can capitalism lead a more equitable / sustainable recovery?Are capitalists profit-hungry evil folks, or can capitalists actually lead a better, more equitable, more sustainable recovery? We discuss why corporate responsibility and social impact is a true selling point these days, why Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) conversations of skyrocketed, and the amazing growth of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing.
2021-04-0735 min
Aware with SebIncreasing ROI Through Impact-driven & Conscious Business Initiatives w/ CEO Mark HoroszowskiShow Notes: Mark Horoszowsi is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.org, a global platform that helps people volunteer their expertise with social impact organizations around the world. His clients include Microsoft, SAP, and eBay amongst many others. In this episode, we discuss impact investing, the importance of ROI, how impact-driven movements can actually increase profits for companies, as well as conscious business practices that Mark implements in his own company to succeed. Show notes in order of appearance: Mark’s last “oh shit” moment Mark’s most recent hell yeah moment Mark shares his tipping point and why...
2020-11-2538 min
Restarting AmericaScaling Social Impact Initiatives during a Pandemic: MovingWorld's CEO Mark HoroszowskiIn this episode of Restarting America, Josh Gibbs from 97 Switch interviews Mark Horoszowski, the co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds, a social enterprise working to create a more equitable, just, and sustainable global economy. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Horoszowski shares how the current health pandemic has affected his company and how he is adapting to new circumstances.
Horoszowski is an RSA Fellow and is a founding adjunct faculty member and lecturer on Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Washington Tacoma's Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility...
2020-11-2000 min
Disruptors for GOOD | Social Entrepreneurs and Social EnterprisesMark Horoszowski // Co-founder of MovingWorldsIn Episode 15 of the Disruptors for Good podcast I speak with Mark Horoszowski, the Co-founder of MovingWorlds on using your skills and expertise to address the global talent gap.Mark is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.org, a global platform that helps people volunteer their expertise with social impact organizations around the world, on their own or through corporate-sponsored programs. Since its launch in 2011, MovingWorlds.org has unleashed over 7 million dollars worth of professional skills across 60 countries. Mark has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Stanford Social Innovation Review and many more as the...
2019-07-1047 min
The Impact Investing PodcastMark Horoszowski on MovingWorlds, Volunteering and the Impact of your SkillsetMark Horoszowski is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.org, a global platform that helps people volunteer their expertise with social impact organizations around the world, on their own or through corporate-sponsored programs. Since its launch in 2011, MovingWorlds.org has already helped unleash over 5 million dollars worth of professional skills to social enterprises around the world and is the originator of the term, Experteering. Mark holds a Master's in Accounting and a BA in Business from the University of Washington, serves as a volunteer co-chairing the American Cancer Society's National Volunteer Leadership Team, and is a contributor at Huffington Post...
2016-11-0941 min
Winning the Game of Life Podcast Interviewing Entrepreneurs, Wantrepreneurs, Intrapreneurials, Intrepreneurial & StartupsWGL:23 Mark Horoszowski With Shawn Chhabra, Mark is Mark is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.orgMark Horoszowski With Shawn Chhabra, Mark is Mark is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.org
Mark is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.org, a global platform that connects people who want to travel and volunteer their expertise with social impact organizations around the globe, on their own or through corporate-sponsored programs. Since its launch in 2011, MovingWorlds.org has already helped unleash over 1 million dollars worth of professional skills to social enterprises around the world. Mark holds a Master's in Accounting and a BA in Business from the University of Washington and serves as t...
2015-11-1621 min
Winning the Game of Life PodcastWGL:23 Mark Horoszowski With Shawn Chhabra, Mark is Mark is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.orgMark Horoszowski With Shawn Chhabra, Mark is Mark is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.org Mark is co-founder and CEO of MovingWorlds.org, a global platform that connects people who want to travel and volunteer their expertise with social impact organizations around the globe, on their own or through corporate-sponsored programs. Since its launch in 2011, MovingWorlds.org has already helped unleash over 1 million dollars worth of professional skills to social enterprises around the world. Mark holds a Master's in Accounting and a BA in Business from the University of Washington and serves as the volunteer co-chair of the A...
2015-11-1621 min