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Meet The ChangemakersDr. Alexander Grevel - From climate protest on the street to forming a new political partyMy guest is Dr. Alexander Grevel, a German climate activist. He is a board member of Klimaliste, a new party in Germany that advocates for climate action to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees.
Alexander holds a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science and a PhD in Biology and he is an active supporter of the Last Generation and Scientist Rebellion - two climate protection movements that use civil disobedience to spur political negotiations on much needed climate action.
On this episode, we talk to Alexander about how Klimaliste was...2022-10-1929 min
Meet The ChangemakersŞenol Ağaç - Climate protection through tap waterMy guest is Şenol Ağaç, founder of Zerobottle. Şenol has been an independent consultant in the drinking water industry since 2016. While living in Paris and working internationally, Şenol was amazed to discover that in countries like France, Austria, and the Netherlands, most people drink from the tap; in Germany people stick to the mass use of bottled water.
Through his continued work, he recognized the huge environmental impact of switching to tap water. Also the quality of water as a protected food, the convenience of immediate availability, and the extremely low cost of 0.2 Euro Cents per liter...2022-09-0630 min
Meet The ChangemakersManuel Kreitmeir - From Social Entrepreneur to Systems EntrepreneurMy guest is Manuel Kreitmeir who is a Social Entrepreneur and 'Third Culture Kid' with a background as a second-generation tea and spice farmer in Sri Lanka. He created Ohana Social Enterprise, which delivers coffee and tea from family-owned farms to purpose-driven companies, offices and coworking spaces.
He is a Facilitator and Thought Leader for Social Innovation. He worked as a Policy Advisor for the UN and European Commission for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Economy.
He co- founded the Digital Social Innovation Lab - Germany's first digital University incubator. At the Mannheim Business School, Manuel...2022-08-1630 min
Meet The ChangemakersZiwa Hillington - Promoting renewable energy and social impact with eco-friendly briquettes in UgandaMy guest today is Ziwa Hillington, Managing Director at Green Bio Energy Ltd. - a Ugandan-based clean energy social business.
Green Bio Energy is based in Kampala and Uganda’s leading manufacturer of eco-friendly briquettes. For 14 years, ZiwA has been working with international and national expert teams as well as marginalized communities in the social business arena and with NGOs. His work advances innovation and distribution of clean energy technologies and the social business framework, to fight poverty and climate change.
Connect with Ziwa on LinkedIn and on the Green Bio Energy website.
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Meet The ChangemakersJennifer Lauruol - How regenerative gardens enhance habitats, food security, and bring nature into city and suburbMy guest is Jennifer Lauruol, based in Lancaster, England, who designs and builds gardens that are regenerative, ornamental, edible, and wildlife-friendly.
With over 30 years’ experience, she works with individuals, groups, and organizations to use land sustainably for food production, herbal medicine, wildlife and beauty. She helps people to design and live with maximum resilience, whether in the urban, suburban or rural setting.
She is a trained permaculture and forest garden designer and designs stylish, natural gardens for outdoor living, food, herbs and wildlife.
Fine Jennifer at carpediemgardens.co.uk or on LinkedIn.
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Meet The ChangemakersTara Diaz - Inspiring people to take action over their wellbeingMy guest, Tara Diaz, is an acupuncturist and herbalist practicing in El Segundo, CA. Her practice Tara Diaz Wellness exists to inform about health, wellness, and East Asian medicine traditions that inspire people to take action over their well-being.
Tara grew up in Venice Beach, California and credits her unique upbringing with her interest in integrative medicine. As a teen she could be found in a health food store researching herbs in the pre-internet world or spending time with her grandmother giving her insulin shots or testing her own blood sugar and researching diabetes.
After st...2022-03-2332 min
Meet The ChangemakersErika Reyes - Creating a zero waste takeout ordering platformMy guest is Erika Reyes, CEO at inwit, Canada’s first zero-waste takeout ordering platform. Erika is a creative marketing expert with over seven years' international experience in branding and customer behavior. She has worked on developing strategic partnerships with over 200 businesses in Mexico, UAE, the U.K. and Canada.
In 2018, she started to realize that as a Marketer, her job was to take a “product” and influence someone to purchase it. The truth is, little to no thought was spared to the environmental or social impact of the product. She made the choice to leave the Market...2022-03-0227 min
Meet The ChangemakersRyan J. Kemp - Cultivating Regenerative LeadershipMy guest is Ryan J. Kemp, a regenerative and sustainable business consultant and guide, author and speaker. Since graduating cum laude in finance from Northeastern University in Boston, Ryan has worked in and traveled to over 45 countries learning from cultural elders about ways of seeing and being in the world, working on solutions to some of the world’s largest issues, writing about it through poetry and prose and speaking on various podcasts and summits.
Some of Ryan’s past work includes consulting with the Prime Minister of Cameroon, H.E. Philémon Yang, to implement rural infra...2022-02-1543 min
Meet The ChangemakersKieran White - Let's change recycling for goodI speak with Kieran White, a 22-year-old entrepreneur and environmental advocate based in London and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kieran is passionate about solving the recycling and global waste problem our planet is facing. He left high school wanting to be of use to the world and subsequently joined Tesla at age 18. Over 2 years he got the opportunity to travel, working on UK and European wide projects in key areas of rapid growth and scaling for the markets.
He left Tesla and joined the high growth startup, Lasso Loop Recycling, where he is the C...2022-02-0132 min
Meet The ChangemakersPurnima Ramakrishnan - How heartfulness can help us navigate life's challengesI talk to Purnima Ramakrishnan who is a heartfulness trainer, a UNCA award winning journalist and the recipient of the fellowship in Journalism by the International Reporting Project, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
She is the Chief Strategy Officer at World Moms Network, a Forbes Top 100 Website for Women uniting women from 30+ countries and 6 continents. She finds joy in meditation and writing and writes passionately about passionately about social causes, parenting, spirituality, womanhood, and life in India. She is a practitioner and trainer of Heartfulness Meditation and the host for the award-winning chat show...2022-01-1830 min
Meet The ChangemakersTara Eusebi - Uniting humanity through the power of BlessI speak with Tara Eusebi, the founder and chief blesser of Bless - a mobile app where needs are shared, hearts are touched, help is given, lives are changed and people come together.
In 2018, Tara stepped away from a successful career in corporate America to pursue her passion for helping others. This pursuit led to the creation of Bless, a mobile application that is bringing communities together to help one another in every part of the world. Now Tara is on a mission to change the world by changing lives one need at a time, uniting humanity...2021-06-2936 min
Meet The ChangemakersMary Lant - Empowering and uplifting vulnerable women and unemployed youth in South AfricaI speak with Mary Lant, who works for an award-winning NGO in South Africa, called Lesedi la Batho.
Mary Lant is a trained fashion designer and digital marketer from South Africa, who spent several years working and traveling abroad as a costume designer for resort theatres. Through cultural immersion, she became passionate about community upliftment through promotion of artisanal craft and storytelling – leading her to get involved with a small yet powerful, award-winning NGO in South Africa, Lesedi la Batho. For the last 10 years, Lesedi la Batho has worked to improve the lives of underserved youth and vu...2021-06-0839 min
Meet The ChangemakersBenjamin Webster - What fixing the 2000-year-old recruitment industry looks likeI speak with Benjamin Webster who is the co-founder of Troopl, a community of working professionals endorsing great talent to companies to ensure a people-focused approach to hiring.
Benjamin’s expertise is in learning and development and unleashing individual potential with employee experience initiatives that relate directly to business objectives. With corporate experience at Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and recently Tesla, Benjamin is now focused on building a global community of talented individuals moving towards a more sustainable future together.
Originally from Australia, Benjamin currently lives in the Netherlands where he is pursuing his mission of ch...2021-04-2742 min
Meet The ChangemakersAnne Koark - How a New Culture of Failure Can Propel Us ForwardI speak with Anne Koark, a management consultant, keynote speaker and author. She is British and has lived in Germany since 1985. Anne founded her own award-winning company in 1999. As a result of 9/11, Anne had to file for bankruptcy in 2003. After declaring insolvency on her business, she lost everything.
She wrote a book about her experience in which she advocates a culture of failure. The book was on the business bestseller list in Germany for 7 months. Anne has been challenging the definition of success ever since.
Her path continued with several surprises: She was invited to...2021-04-1338 min
Meet The ChangemakersMichelle Natalya Moore - The power of attention for sustained value creation and innovationI speak with Michelle Natalya Moore on how to design the future of work with increased wellbeing, innovation and effectiveness using the power of attention. Michelle is the founder of MindEQuity, where she is leading knowledge workers on a Focus Better Journey. Harnessing and protecting organizational attention is the foundation for a future of work that doesn't sacrifice wellbeing.
We speak about the seven mistakes that hinder sustained value creation, including task switching and favoring data analysis over body wisdom and instinct. An environment of digital overwhelm, increased work from home, and virtual meetings means people are...2021-03-3039 min
Meet The ChangemakersKasha Sequoia Slavner - Using visual storytelling to make the world a better placeIn this episode, I speak with Kasha Sequoia Slavner, a Gen-Z, multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker who comes to the profession as a seasoned photographer, social entrepreneur and social justice advocate for over a decade.
She was 8 when she first started her social justice journey and only 16 years old when she set out across the world for 6 months to make her first feature documentary “The Sunrise Storyteller.” She completed it upon returning to high school. Since its release in 2017, it has screened at over 60 festivals and won 29 awards, including the Ron Kovic Peace Prize as well as the Eva Hall...2021-03-1634 min
Meet The ChangemakersTorsten Schreiber - Starting a sustainable energy revolution in Sub-Saharan AfricaIn this episode, I speak with Torsten Schreiber who is a serial social entrepreneur and the founder of Africa GreenTec. Together with his wife and co-founder, Aida, they are on a mission since 2015 to empower people in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve more self-determination and growth through sustainable energy solutions.
Africa GreenTec has developed a holistic systems solution that makes it possible to supply entire village communities in rural regions with electricity and sustainable technologies. The intelligent system can withstand the harsh conditions in Africa’s off-grid regions – outperforming even modern European standards.
We talk about Afri...2021-02-1647 min
Meet The ChangemakersKim Willis - The power of storytelling to change the worldIn this episode, I speak with Kim Willis, the founder of Heroine's Journey.
Kim is someone deeply cognizant of the power and potential of stories, and committed to leveraging their power to do good. After 10 years working at the highest levels of government as a communications lead in 10 Downing Street, the UN and the Government Office for Science, Kim left the civil service to become a journalist and blogger.
She spent her 30s telling stories of reconciliation from post-conflict zones and writing in places like The Guardian and The Independent, as well as setting up he...2021-02-0139 min
Meet The ChangemakersTim McDonald - How unexpected change can be a giftIn this episode, I speak with Tim McDonald who received a stage 4 cancer diagnosis in late 2020. We learn why Tim sees his diagnosis as a gift, how he learned to befriend fear, and why life's unexpected changes are an opportunity for growth.
Tim McDonald works with organizations and individuals who are stuck get unstuck. He is a speaker and facilitates workshops. Recognizing how fear held him back, Tim has changed his relationship with fear and has used it to get unstuck and leave a toxic job, end a 17-year marriage, move to a new city, meet his l...2021-01-1953 min
Meet The ChangemakersWhy I launched Meet The ChangemakersToday, I'm launching Meet The Changemakers, a podcast where we will have intimate conversations with social entrepreneurs and visionary, impact-driven minds around the world who are obsessed with creating a better tomorrow. We illuminate imaginative ideas, uncover unconventional perspectives, and re-imagine business and life in order to build a sustainable and positive future for people and the planet.
In this first episode, I explain what inspired me to start this podcast. I talk about "the great pause" caused by the pandemic and how we can imagine a better future by using re-gnosis, instead of pro-gnosis.
I...2021-01-0512 min
Free Your Inner GuruThe Urgent Need for Conscious LeadershipIn a reversal of roles, Free Your Inner Guru host Laura Tucker shares her thoughts about Conscious Leadership in an interview with Nina Grenningloh Reyes of Communications Rebel and Radio Regent’s The Women’s Hour.
Highlights from this episode:
“Initially the podcast was about me having a voice. I spoke about things like survivors guilt and the healing journey. As it has evolved, I’m having people on who I consider to be conscious leaders for interviews. I want it to be a soft landing place for people to come and hear what an authentically conscious, not ego-based leader looks like...2018-10-2548 min