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Today we are joined by Nivi Achanta, founder and CEO of Soapbox Project, making social impact easy for busy people, starting with bite-sized climate action plans! During this conversation, Nivi tells us the story of what led her to start Soapbox and what she’s aiming to achieve with it. We touch on some of the reasons that people don’t take action and she shares which factors she believes have led to her success, as well as why you should just do things and see if they lead to your success and why a bias towards action can be an amazing driver for success. We ask Nivi about her challenges and wins, why she felt that bringing Soapbox into the community space was the next step rather than just a newsletter, and what has been so exciting and productive about that process. She advocates for trusting your users and emphasizes the fact that community is about collaboration rather than control. She believes in positive messaging around social change and shares experiences that have motivated her to make a change. She shares some powerful advice, as well as all the details of her journey that will empower listeners to make a change.#ClimateChange #CauseCommunity #SocialImpact📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPTVisit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation -https://socialentrepreneurship.fm/207-climate-change-community/🔗 CONNECT WITH NIVI🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/niviachanta👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/niviachanta/📷 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/niviachanta💻 Website - https://www.soapboxproject.org/🔗 CONNECT WITH CORY🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/AmesCory👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/💻 Website - https://coryames.com/💌 Newsletter - https://coryames.com/newsletter/🔗 CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/📚 RESOURCES MENTIONEDMutualism by Sarah Horowitz - https://bookshop.org/books/mutualism-building-the-next-economy-from-the-ground-up/9780593133521Soapbox Project - https://www.soapboxproject.org/Change Letter - https://www.soapboxproject.org/changeletter🎙 ABOUT THE PODCASTThe Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast is the #1 podcast for social entrepreneurs and changemakers. With Host Cory Ames, Founder of Grow Ensemble, dive deeper into all things building a better world. Hear from CEOs, Executive Directors, Thought-Leaders, Academics, Activists, and more from any and every sector all over the globe. – https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/🎧 LISTEN ELSEWHERE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1IfgluvDr7Sdtthyx3Yquu🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1⭐️ SPONSORED BY Georgetown University: Master of Science, Environment & Sustainability Managementhttps://esm.georgetown.edu/📊 FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS & PURPOSE-DRIVEN BUSINESSES: If you want to explore a potential partnership with Cory Ames and Grow Ensemble, you can reach out to our team here: https://growensemble.com/advertise/Or, if you'd like help growing your impact-driven business, check out our Better World Business Growth courses - https://betterworldbusinessgrowth.teachable.com/

How to Build an Online Community to Fight Climate Change, with Nivi Achanta of Soapbox Project

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Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author of the book Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation on how we as individuals can think about climate change.#ClimateChange #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis📄FULL EPISODE SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPTFor the full episode with Paul Hawken - https://socialentrepreneurship.fm/205-end-the-climate-crisis/🔗 CONNECT WITH PAUL🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/paulhawken👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hawken-0792b/💻 Website - https://paulhawken.com/

What Can I Do About Climate Change? Paul Hawken

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We often believe that people who are more successful than us have worked harder than us, and so hustle culture has become so ingrained in today’s workforce. But it doesn’t have to be this way! You would expect the three people involved in a fast-growing tech startup that’s doing north of a million dollars in revenue would be burning the midnight oil, but that is not the case. Today we are joined by SparkToro’s Marketing Architect, Amanda Natividad, and Co-Founder and CEO, Rand Fishkin, to talk about exchanging hustle culture for chill work. SparkToro is an audience research software program that helps brands discover what their audience reads, watches, listens to, and follows. Before co-founding SparkToro, Rand also co-founded the SEO software company Moz and wrote the book Lost and Founder about that experience. When he co-founded SparkToro, he did it with a very different approach. In this episode, we discuss the concept of chill work, how it differs from hustle culture, what goals and objectives look like when you embrace this mindset, and how to embrace it from the inside of an organization that does not. You’ll also hear more about what SparkToro does and how it may benefit you.#ChillWork #AntiHustleCulture #AudienceResearch📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPTVisit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation -https://socialentrepreneurship.fm/206-chill-work/🔗 CONNECT WITH AMANDA🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/amandanat👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandanat/💻 Website - https://sparktoro.com/🔗 CONNECT WITH RAND🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/randfish👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/randfishkin/💻 Website - https://sparktoro.com/🔗 CONNECT WITH CORY🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/AmesCory💻 Website - https://coryames.com/👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/💌 Newsletter - https://coryames.com/newsletter/🔗 CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED- SparkToro questions or support – support@sparktoro.com- Moz – https://moz.com/- Lost and Founder – https://bookshop.org/books/lost-and-founder-a-painfully-honest-field-guide-to-the-startup-world/9780735213326- Obviously Awesome – https://bookshop.org/books/obviously-awesome-how-to-nail-product-positioning-so-customers-get-it-buy-it-love-it/9781999023003- Casey Henry on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyhen/- “Hustle Culture vs. Chill Work” blog – https://sparktoro.com/blog/hustle-culture-vs-chill-work/- Tablas Creek Vineyard – https://tablascreek.com/🎙 ABOUT THE PODCASTThe Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast is the #1 podcast for social entrepreneurs and changemakers. With Host Cory Ames, Founder of Grow Ensemble, dive deeper into all things building a better world. Hear from CEOs, Executive Directors, Thought-Leaders, Academics, Activists, and more from any and every sector all over the globe. – https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/🎧 LISTEN ELSEWHERE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1IfgluvDr7Sdtthyx3Yquu🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1⭐️ SPONSORED BY Georgetown University: Master of Science, Environment & Sustainability Managementhttps://esm.georgetown.edu/📊 FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS & PURPOSE-DRIVEN BUSINESSES: If you want to explore a potential partnership with Cory Ames and Grow Ensemble, you can reach out to our team here: https://growensemble.com/advertise/Or, if you'd like help growing your impact-driven business, check out our Better World Business Growth courses - https://betterworldbusinessgrowth.teachable.com/

The Antithesis to Hustle Culture: Chill Work, with Rand Fishkin & Amanda Natividad of SparkToro

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Neoliberal capitalism turns life into money by killing it, but what good is that money on a dying planet? Today we speak to Paul Hawken about how to end the climate crisis in one generation using an approach centered on regeneration. Paul is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. For Paul, the solutions to climate change are local, where human beings use their imagination to form economies that create more life than they take. We discuss Paul’s book Drawdown, in which he provides a list of 100 potential solutions to climate change and ranks them by the potential amount of greenhouse gases each could cut. We also talk about his new book, Regeneration, which offers a unique approach to understanding and taking action to address the climate crisis. In this conversation, Paul talks about why the fear and guilt-based climate change narratives don’t work and how we need to reimagine our relationship to our surroundings if we are to save the planet. He also addresses the lack of purpose people feel thanks to the current system and why bringing the earth back to life will bring people back to life too.#ClimateCrisis #Regeneration #SaveThePlanet📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPTVisit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation -https://socialentrepreneurship.fm/205-end-the-climate-crisis/🔗 CONNECT WITH PAUL🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/paulhawken👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hawken-0792b/💻 Website - https://paulhawken.com/🔗 CONNECT WITH CORY🐦 Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory💻 Website - https://coryames.com/👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/💌 Newsletter - https://coryames.com/newsletter/🔗 CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/📚 RESOURCES MENTIONEDProject Drawdown - https://drawdown.org/Project Regeneration - https://regeneration.org/Other Books:– Emergent Strategy - https://bookshop.org/books/emergent-strategy-shaping-change-changing-worlds/– How to Be an Animal - https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-animal-a-new-history-of-what-it-means-to-be-human/– Rooted - https://bookshop.org/books/rooted-the-hidden-places-where-god-develops-you/– Finding the Mother Tree - https://bookshop.org/books/finding-the-mother-tree-discovering-the-wisdom-of-the-forest-9780593459423/– Horizon - https://bookshop.org/books/horizon-9780375708473/– Dopamine Nation - https://bookshop.org/books/dopamine-nation-finding-balance-in-the-age-of-indulgence/– Wildling - https://smile.amazon.com/Picador-Wilding-Return-British-Hardcover/dp/1509805095🎙 ABOUT THE PODCASTThe Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast is the #1 podcast for social entrepreneurs and changemakers. With Host Cory Ames, Founder of Grow Ensemble, dive deeper into all things building a better world. Hear from CEOs, Executive Directors, Thought-Leaders, Academics, Activists, and more from any and every sector all over the globe. – https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/🎧 LISTEN ELSEWHERE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1IfgluvDr7Sdtthyx3Yquu🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1⭐️ SPONSORED BY Georgetown University: Master of Science, Environment & Sustainability Managementhttps://esm.georgetown.edu/📊 FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS & PURPOSE-DRIVEN BUSINESSES: If you want to explore a potential partnership with Cory Ames and Grow Ensemble, you can reach out to our team here: https://growensemble.com/advertise/Or, if you'd like help growing your impact-driven business, check out our Better World Business Growth courses - https://betterworldbusinessgrowth.teachable.com/

How to End the Climate Crisis in One Generation with Paul Hawken

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We still have a long way to go in terms of sustainability in fashion, but there are solutions!Not only that, there is an increasing number of brands and organizations actively working towards change.Today we’re back with another installment of our series on the impact of fashion. Joining Cory is Lucy Shea, CEO of the change agency, Futerra, to talk about sustainability in the fashion industry and why the fashion industry matters.Lucy is an expert in the business of climate action and sustainable lifestyles and has advised clients such as Tommy Hilfiger, Unilever, Sky, and the World Wildlife Foundation. She radically reimagined garment recycling over a decade ago by creating the global clothes swapping movement, Swishing.In this interview with Lucy, we discuss everything from her love for fashion and the major issues that drew her to work in sustainability in the industry, to what gives her hope for the future of sustainable fashion. She shares her thoughts on what she believes to be the most effective and respectful route towards change, and why she considers a living wage to be an absolute necessity for the future of our planet. #MakeSustainabilityFashionable #SustainableFashion #Fashion📄 SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPTVisit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation -https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/202-make-sustainability-fashionable🔗 CONNECT WITH LUCY👥LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-shea-55a0911b/🐦Twitter - https://twitter.com/swishinglucy💻 Website - https://www.wearefuterra.com/🔗 CONNECT WITH CORY🐦 Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/AmesCory💻 Website - https://coryames.com/👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amescory/💌 Newsletter - https://coryames.com/newsletter/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH GROW ENSEMBLE 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowEnsemble/🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/GrowEnsemble💻 Website - https://growensemble.com/🎙 ABOUT THE PODCASTThe Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast is the #1 podcast for social entrepreneurs and changemakers. With Host Cory Ames, Founder of Grow Ensemble, dive deeper into all things building a better world. Hear from CEOs, Executive Directors, Thought-Leaders, Academics, Activists, and more from any and every sector all over the globe. -- https://www.socialentrepreneurship.fm/🎧 LISTEN ELSEWHERE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1IfgluvDr7Sdtthyx3Yquu🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448278538?mt=2&ls=1⭐️ SPONSORED BY DHANAThis episode is part of our series on the Impact of Fashion (https://growensemble.com/impact-of-fashion/) with our partners at Dhana (https://dhana.com/), where we are exploring the social, environmental, and economic challenges and opportunities facing the fashion industry. 📊 FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS & PURPOSE-DRIVEN BUSINESSES: If you want to explore a potential partnership with Cory Ames and Grow Ensemble, you can reach out to our team here: https://growensemble.com/advertise/Or, if you'd like help growing your impact-driven business, check out our Better World Business Growth courses - https://betterworldbusinessgrowth.teachable.com/

How Fashion Can Make Sustainability Fashionable | Lucy Shea, Futerra

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