How To Change The World Podcast

Last episode, we featured Cole Mannix of Old Salt Co-op - a collective of ranchers outside Helena, Montana who are restoring landscapes, local food, and protecting a ranching way of life being squeezed by industrial agriculture.

Cooper Hibbard is one of those ranchers.

He speaks candidly about family legacy - the cherished values carried forward, and the harder history tied to the land. It’s a conversation about what we inhe...

“Land is kin.” 

It’s the mantra at the heart of what guides Cole Mannix and Old Salt Co-op. 

Old Salt is a meat company built by ranchers to take the power back from Big Beef. They do everything from pasture to plate, running multiple restaurants and an annual festival that draws thousands to Montana around food, art, and community. 

This is also a deeply personal story born out of a promise to save his own ranch. Cole serves...

It’s an idea so simple it could come from a five-year-old. 

At least that’s how Lufa Farms founder, Mohamed Hage, refers to their idea of turning idle rooftops into working greenhouses. But the real story - and this conversation - is about what it takes to build it, and what becomes possible once you do.

In Montreal, Lufa has become a household name for its rooftop farms, local food delivery, and hunger relief work - and tha...

Coral reefs are disappearing fast - and they matter more to our daily lives than most of us realize. Sam Teicher, co-founder of Coral Vita, joins the pod to explain their fascinating approach to reef restoration, which he calls “taking coral to the gym.” We talk Category 5 hurricanes, why the Bahamas is leading this work, and why coral reefs matter whether you live by the ocean or nowhere near one. We’ve all heard what’s g...

Arian Moayed (Stewy on Succession, Agent Cleary in the MCU) joins us for a joyfully real conversation about acting, ambition, and stories that can actually move culture. Arian opens up about his humble beginnings, the winding road to the stage and screen, and why the stories we tell actually matter. He also shares what it was like working with Robin Williams on Broadway (and why Robin was exactly who you hoped he’d be). 

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In this episode, we hear from Arne Duncan, Curtis Toler, and Billy Moore - leaders whose lives and work are deeply entwined with the realities of violence, healing, and transformation on Chicago’s South and West Sides.

This is Chicago Cred.

The How to Change the World Podcast is produced by World Within Studios.

Our producer and composer is Alexandre Miller, our editing team is Eve Weston, Martin McGreevy, and Kenny McMillan....

With a story that’s one part The Bear, one part The West Wing, Sam Kass might just be the most interesting man in the fight against climate change. He shares his unique path from the highest echelons of fine dining, to White House Chef, to the frontlines of nature-based climate solutions. Sam leads us through a critical conversation about how food and agriculture can become our biggest lever to fight climate change.

The first episode of How to Change the World features Brandon Stanton, the visionary behind  online storytelling sensation Humans of New York. He shares the story behind his boldest project yet - turning Grand Central Station into an immersive gallery of New Yorkers and their stories.

Together, we explore how to realize a dream this big, the moral complexity of capturing human stories, and the extraordinary wisdom in each o...

The How to Change the World Podcast invites you to sit down with builders, artists, and organizers as they wrestle with today’s challenging questions while providing blueprints, cautionary tales, and calls to action for anyone ready to fight for a more just world.

As our host Rostam Zafari put it: "Our world is organized by a financial system that concentrates power and wealth––pulling resources out of communities and putti...