Everyday Changemakers
Starting something that has a positive impact is incredibly difficult. We don't spend a lot of time focusing on positive change-makers in the media and who they are. This makes the regular person believe that they can't make an impact, but in fact, these changemakers are just like them with one difference: they took action. This podcast aims to inspire that first step to taking action on something you're passionate about and will make the world a better place.
Episodes
Dr Bree Gorman is the founder of Bree Gorman Consulting. A boutique consulting company that focuses on helping organizations become more diverse and inclusive. Dr Gorman has hands-on experience in identifying the barriers to equality that exist in organisations and has a tool kit of actions to draw upon that can work to decrease risk, improve performance and create inclusion.
In this episode we talk about the following:
- Why d...
In this episode, I speak to Rebecca Crawley the co-founder of a social enterprise called Dumu Balcony Cafe. Dumu Balcony Cafe is located in Bright, Victoria. They employ and train indigenous youth in hospitality, retail, and tourism in an effort to help break generational welfare dependency.
We speak about the following in this episode :
- Why Dumu Balcony Cafe exists
- What aboriginal culture is like
- How she got started ...
In this interview, I speak to Ann Pham about how she went from seeing a massive problem in the world of single use plastics, and how she took action to get started.
She speaks directly about her experience with the Hacker Exchange - a program where she travelled to San Francisco to learn about startups. It was there she learned about rapid prototyping and getting her product out to the world quickly.
We talk about:
- How she bu...
Learn how an Aussie living in LA built a social impact job site called Good Gigs. Dale Wilkinson built the site himself, having no experience in software development (using Bubble.io).
In this episode we talk about:
- Dale's personal journey into the social impact space
- How people can make money and also work in social impact
- Why it's important for businesses to have a social impact aspect
- What it's like to build a boot...
In this episode, I interview Niv Atar. A social entrepreneur who believes that consumers have the opportunity to change the world one purchase at a time.
We discuss:
- What impact changing your buying habits can have on another person's life
- How it's been starting a new venture and immigrating from another country
- How a simple cup of chai can change someone's life!
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Imagine you could sell all your old unwanted items online, and the profits were donated to charity? Well, the time is here. In this episode, I interview Mateo Palacio Gomez to learn more about how he and his co-founder created Charity Bay non-profit.
We cover the following:
-Imposter syndrome and how to deal with it
-What it's like to be an immigrant founding a non for profit
-How cold outreach works and why it's important to b...
Matt Boyd: Founder of Vollie: How skilled professionals can drive change in the social impact space.
Matt Boyd is the founder of Vollie. After volunteering himself for many years, Matt wanted to do more. He saw that non for profits couldn't afford to pay for professional services like designers, marketers or developers. And there were many young people who wanted to volunteer their time, from this insight Vollie was born. In this episode we dive into the following themes:
- How to prove your idea wrong
- What it's like to...
In this episode I interview Sabrina Paseman. Sabrina is an ex Apple Design Engineer who learned like many of us at the start of the pandemic, that there was a big shortage of masks for medical professionals. Using her engineering and design skills she quickly took action. She started to think through ‘Why are N95 masks so effective?’.
From there she prototyped a few designs, put one up on Youtube and after about 500,000+ view...
Chris Raine. Starting Hello Sunday Morning and helping people change their relationship with alcohol
In this episode I interview Chris Raine the founder of Hello Sunday Morning. HSM has helped 100's of thousands of people change their relationship with alcohol.
In this episode we cover:
- How a simple blog sparked an incredible movement
- How support and community has been impactful for people to change their relationship with alchohol
- How the world shapes your ideas when you put them out there.
- Why it's so important to...
In this episode, I interview Mary Kelly. Mary is the founder of an organization called Reusable. Reusably focuses on reducing coffee cup waste by providing a system to use interchangeable ideas.
Mary discusses her entire journey or starting a socially focused enterprise and what it takes to get started.
She covers how to get out and start speaking to customers, how to build a team and what it’s like to have imposter syndro...
In this episode, I interview Mark Watt. Mark is the founder of Whitelion. An organization supports young people at risk in the Australian community with programs and advocacy.
Mark discusses how it all started while he was working in one of Melbourne’s youth prisons. We also dive deep into why mentoring is such a powerful vehicle for change for disadvantaged youth, how social enterprise works and why it’s so i...
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