Shows
Karmic Capitalist - businesses with purpose"We're helping people on a fundamental level to be more sustainable" Hussein Allawi, Founder the Sustainability ShowFrom the high-stakes financial environment of the now defunct Lehman Brothers ("buy-and-sell in its most aggressive manner") to putting on an exhibition of some of the most ethical and long-term thinking brands.That’s the varied journey which my guest, Hussein Allawi, has been on. He took plenty of lessons from those early days, days which he found very lacking in purpose, but which have informed how he's now actively pushing a sustainability agenda.Hussein is the co-founder and CEO of Frontier Events, the company behind the Sustainability Show where lifestyle, food, travel and finance br...2023-06-0836 min
Karmic Capitalist - businesses with purposeCapitalism, Consumerism, Shamanism and Sado Masochism - Jarvis Smith of My Green Pod"We've become addicted to convenience, and it's killing us".So how do you respond? Well if you're Katie Hill and Jarvis Smith, you launch a lifestyle site selling things.EH?EXCEPT - you make sure what you're selling is ethically produced and sustainable, and that your suppliers work with and not against nature.Because the reality is that we *do* need to buy things. But, as Jarvis points out, why not buy them from companies that help rainforests rather than ones named after them?The first Karmic...2021-11-0440 min