18 APR 2020 · Alice Bosley is the executive director and co-founder of One Five Labs, the first social impact startup incubator Five in Iraq. Based in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, they support young people from all of the diverse communities in the Kurdistan region to launch scalable and innovative businesses.

11 APR 2020 · My guest today is Wingee Sampaio. She is the global director with the Cartier Women’s Initiative, an international program to support women's social entrepreneurs as a force for good. Her role is to coach women entrepreneurs in the early stages of their business to make sure they are driving social change and reaching their full potential in partnership with many other organizations.

25 MAR 2020 · In today’s episode, we sit down with the host and co-producer of the One in Four podcast Beatrice Spadacini...One in Four podcast looks to educate, humanize and elevate the conversations about previously incarcerated people re-entering society. The criminal justice system is no better, Minorities, and especially men of color, are targeted more compared to their white counterparts...Just to give you an idea of what we are dealing with, 1 in 3 black men and 1 in 6 Latino men are incarcerated in the U.S...compared to 1 in 17 white men. 1 in 18 black women compared to 118 white women but Beatrice thinks criminal justice was designed that way. We discuss with Beatrice with staggering numbers, her podcast and what we can do to help this incredibly tragic problem is Beatrice Spadacini…

10 MAR 2020 · In this week’s episode, we are celebrating International Women’s Day by talking with women from an organization named RefuShe. It’s an organization that works with refugee girls in East Africa. We sit down with Jailan Adly who is the president of Refushe and Esperance Gikundiro who is a refugee herself and now a board member of the organization.

4 MAR 2020 · In today’s episode, we travel to a town east of Paris named Montreuil. Montreuil is to Paris what Oakland is to San Francisco, a vibrant multicultural young the dynamic and creative suburb of Paris. Montreuil is also well-known for its left-wing politics, with a rate close to 26% of immigrants, the city has been led by a succession of Mayor affiliated with the French communist but also the Green party. The result is an incredible melting pot of culture, diverse languages, and deep artistic cultures that goes back to the early century with the movie industry.

27 FEB 2020 · Meryl Lieberman is the co-founder of the non-profit Casa Milagro, or House of Miracles. We are talking to Meryl today about her commitment and innovative approach to end homelessness and address mental health in Santa Fe, New Mexico. About 2 percent of the global population, or 150 million people are homeless. In the United States alone in 2019, more than five hundred thousand people reported being homeless…and the number of people experiencing homelessness in New Mexico is on the rise. From 2018 to 2019, the number of people living on the streets rose by 27 percent, one of the largest increases in the country.

19 FEB 2020 · Dianne Calvi is the CEO of Village Enterprise. She started with the non-profit in 2010. She has grown the organization from 13 employees to now 200 and overtime she has helped over 1 million people transition out of poverty. Village Enterprise works towards achieving the United Nations’ first sustainable development goal...to end extreme poverty by 2030. And the UN defines extreme poverty by people living on less than one dollar and 25 cents a day. As of last year, more than half of the world’s population living in extreme poverty is located in sub-Saharan Africa...and that is who Village Enterprise works with. Juliette Roy talks with Dianne about her work as the Ceo of Village enterprise and how the non-profit has been making strides in lifting people, mostly women, out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

12 FEB 2020 · In 2015, the United Nations introduced seventeen sustainable goals to transform the world by 2030. These goals provide a framework to build a conscious world. They cover a lot of ground from poverty to sustainability and education. Today, we are introducing goal number 5 to address gender equality which is also tied up to decent work conditions and economic growth, goal number 8. So what do the goals mean really? To understand them in action, I’m excited to introduce our guest, Drakshan Khan. She has decided to be part of the solutions to transform the reality of women in Pakistan.

22 JAN 2020 · Today, we are taking a look at the social impact space. Our guest Neetal Parekh is a long-term advocate and expert in social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is a new type of business that is growing fast.