The Change Makers Podcast
By The Change Makers Podcast
Season 2 of this podcast has a clear focus: the SDGs. We have only one decade left to achieve the UN's SDGs and we need to speed up the process to make it happen.
This podcast puts in the spotlight international thinkers and initiatives that are helping us get one step closer to the goals and will hopefully inspire listeners to start their own initiatives, in their own communities.
Think global. Act local.
The Change Makers PodcastAug 08, 2019
SDG 13: On the Green New Deal with Shannon Raponi
Shannon Raponi is a volunteer for the People’s Plan on the communications team. She is especially passionate about the protection of nature and the benefits of people connecting with the natural world.
The People's Plan aims to put people’s voices at the heart of a green and just recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic towards our net zero future, through engaging diverse communities on local net zero policymaking.
More on the People's Plan: http://peoplesplan.org/
The People’s Plan is one of the campaigns of The Climate Venture Collective, a grassroots group of volunteer entrepreneurs, thinkers, makers, and doers who come together to create scalable solutions to the climate and ecological crisis. As well as the People’s Plan Campaign, they build products, apps, and other services to help create a smooth transition to a zero-carbon economy.
More on The Climate Venture Collective: https://thecvcollective.com/
In today’s episode, Shannon and I talk about the Green New Deal and why we need to implement it on a global scale.
SDG 4: On immersive, experiential learning with Izzy Ngo
Izzy Ngo is an ed-tech entrepreneur for Southeast Asia, and is deeply passionate about democratizing quality educational resources through technology. She is the co-founder of VERE360, an immersive content platform that makes experiential learning experiences affordable, quick, and easy to use.
Try it out here: https://vere360.com/
In today’s episode, we learn the story of VERE360 and we break the stigma around VR, we reflect on how VR can be used as a tool to improve the quality of education, and we reflect on the challenges within education pre and post COVID.
SDG 8: Labor exploitation in the global supply chains
Annie Kelly is an award-winning human rights journalist for the Guardian and Observer. She is the editor of the Guardian’s Modern-day slavery in focus series. She also works as a writer and consultant for UN agencies and international NGOs. Previous clients have included UN Women, UNAIDS, Save the Children, ActionAid, Help Age International, and WaterAid.
Read more about Annie's work here: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/anniekelly
In today’s episode, we talk about modern slavery, labor exploitation, the impact of covid19 pandemic on people employed in the global supply chains, and we reflect on what is decent work.
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SDG 13: On greenwashing, activism and spirituality
Karry is a research and purpose consultant, helping companies implement the triple bottom line and re-imagine business as a force for good. As a B Corp Ambassador, she guides companies along their journey to becoming a Certified B Corporation and advocates for the B Corp movement in Germany, to raise awareness through community building and event creation.
Her research insights on the topic of purpose, brand activism and greenwashing are published on SustainableFashionMatterz.com and her own blog on karryschwettmann.com.
In today's episode, we talk about greenwashing, the rise of B corps and purpose-driven companies, activism and spirituality.
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SDG 5: Warrior Women Leading with Karla Morales-Lee
Karla Morales-Lee is a thought-leader, community chief, brand strategist, and designer of unique experiences. Over the past 15 years, she has founded four businesses, one of which she sold. Today, she leads two ground-breaking businesses, both of which exist to accelerate positive change.
Founded in 2018, her consultancy New Breed advises organizations on how to be a force for good, helping them to identify and co-design ways to grow their business through positive societal and environmental impact. In 2011 she saw a need to support social entrepreneurs to thrive (rather than just survive) and created The Warrior Women Network, which has quickly evolved to an app-based support and collaboration platform for female entrepreneurs pioneering new solutions to the problems that matter.
More on New Breed.
More on The Warrior Women Network.
In today's episode, we talk about gender equality, the challenges of women leading impactful projects, and the need for more collaboration to lead positive projects.
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SDG 8: Women & Informal Economy with Jaagruti Didwania & Sejal Maheshwari
Jaagruti Didwania and Sejal Maheshwari are 2 inspiring women who are co-leading the Blue Divide project, an endeavour to amplify the lives, voices, struggles and strengths of women confined by the intersectional divide created by gender, class, and the nature of work in the informal economy. Jaagruti is most passionate about women’s rights and equality and wants to use market-oriented solutions to solve some of the issues being faced by women today and Sejal is particularly passionate about women empowerment and continues to pick her battles on a day-to-day basis.
More on The Blue Divide: https://www.bluedivide.org/
In today’s episode, we talk about the informal economy and its challenges, women working in the informal economy and how the COVID 19 pandemic has affected the lives of millions of workers active in the informal economy.
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SDG 7: Storytelling for a Green & Resilient Future
Lenka Homolka is a storyteller & marketer on a mission to help clean-tech companies find their rightful spot on the market. She places them as thought leaders and creates their future-proof tales that empower everyday people in making a positive difference in the world. For the last 6 years, she is guiding companies, NGOs, communities & policy-makers through development, innovation, and implementation of their own inspiring (tech)tales to bring the Bright Tale for humanity. She is a creator of GET, a sustainable toothpaste tube made for the whole society, not only the green bubble.
More about Lenka: https://lenkahomolka.com/
More on GET: https://www.wearekontra.com/get
In today’s episode, we discuss Clean & Affordable #Energy 💡, what holds us back from employing it and what are the underlying behavioral patterns of change towards a green & resilient future.
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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities with Giulia Marzetti
Giulia Marzetti is an engineer that works as a project manager for a portfolio of sustainable transport and energy projects. Giulia is the driving Persona of the European Footprints, a multimedia project raising awareness about the SDGs through storytelling; she is also a Local Leader for the Women@EIT initiative, where she supports women in science and entrepreneurship.
Currently, Giulia is a Project Officer at the European Commission and the viewpoints she has expressed in this interview are not the ones of her employer. In today’s episode, we reflect on the SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, sustainable urban development, lessons after COVID, the need for a localized, systemic, and participatory approach to urban planning and community resilience.
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SDG 4: Education for life with Floris Koot
Floris Koot (1958, the Netherlands) is an experienced public speaker, writer, trainer, and since 2004, an active creative innovator in education. He is co-founder of Knowmads Business school Amsterdam and was involved in several other education startups.
Floris studied to be a Teacher of Dramatic Arts and Integral Psychology. During his journey, he worked in many creative professions, from actor to DJ, from illustrator to event designer. As a teacher, he always challenges mindsets and explores new possibilities. He helps students find their own answers.
- Find out more about Floris’ educational approach on his blog
- More about Floris' work on his personal website
- More on Knowmads here
In today’s episode, we reflect on the biggest challenges of education systems worldwide and how they are in contradiction with our human nature, we explore what should be the bigger purpose of learning and how it can better reflect the reality of the 21st century.
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SDG 7: Inclusion, equality and energy transition with Johannah Maher
Johannah Maher is the CEO and Co-founder of IMPACTR, an impact-tech startup company with a mission to inspire millions of people to do small things that together make a big impact.
More on IMPACTR: https://www.impactr.world/
Prior to becoming an impact-entrepreneur, Johannah was an executive at the world´s largest wind energy company, specialized in high-tech product development and value engineering. Johannah is a recognized industry expert in renewable energy and a fierce advocate for equality and social change.
In today’s episode, we talk about the energy transition, the relationship between inclusion, equality, and the clean energy transition movement.
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SDG 12: Towards circularity in the furniture industry with Robert Milder
Robert Milder is a designer, an environmentalist and the founder of Van de Sant- a sustainable design furniture company that makes fully circular furniture using recycled plastic gathered from land and oceans.
Yet as sustainability gets more and more popular, the traditional furniture industry still uses more than two billion trees annually to make its products; trees cut legally and illegally. Van de Sant started with the mission to stop deforestation and plastic pollution.
More on Van de Sant here: https://www.vandesant.com/
In this episode we talk about responsible production and consumption, the challenges in the furniture industry, and the opportunity to shift towards full circularity.
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SDG 3: Fighting cyberbullying with Agita Pasaribu
Agita Pasaribu is a child online protection enthusiast, cyberbullying policy analyst, and founder of bully.id - a future mobile app that combines psychology and law principles to proactively identify bullying & cyberbullying with an AI-analysis.
Over a decade, she has been working closely with the UN, ITU, and WHO.
Agita is a proud Fred. J. Hansen fellow, TEDx Speaker and Global Strategic Leadership Award 2019 “Social Cause Category" receiver.
In today’s episode we cover cyberbullying, regulations around bullying and harassment online, and its impact on mental health.
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Chill Cole- Amber Lights
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SDG 9: Design for Human Connection with Larissa Menocci
Larissa Menocci is a communication professional, tech entrepreneur and human connection designer. She is an expert on how to use Design Thinking for team development. Since 2011 she has facilitated hundreds of workshops in three continents leading tens of teams to business success. Larissa is a Hyper Island alumni, partner of MakeTeamWork, co-founder of Teaming and she is continuously striving to make people work together better.
Teaming is an app designed for remote teams to build trust, alignment, and a healthy culture.
In this episode we talk about the future of work, team development, and designing for human connection.
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Chill Cole- Amber Lights
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SDG 17: Change through systems and futures thinking with Alisha Bhagat
Alisha Bhagat is a senior strategist at Forum for the Future, a sustainability non-profit working globally with business, government and other organizations to solve complex problems.
More on Forum for the Future.
Follow Forum for the Future on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
In today’s episode, Alisha and I reflect on SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals. We discuss global solidarity in the midst of the global pandemic, we talk about the need to shift to long term oriented decision making at national and international levels and the need for global decision-makers to incorporate systems thinking in their processes.
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SDG 11: Housing is a basic human right with Pratik Parmar
Pratik Parmar is a business developer at Build up Nepal, an organization empowering local people in Nepal to use local material to rebuild their own villages. Build up Nepal works as an implementation partner for INGOs, NGOs, and local entrepreneurs focusing on community-driven reconstruction and supporting local entrepreneurship.
More about the project here: https://www.buildupnepal.com/
In today’s episode, we talk about SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. We reflect on what makes a city sustainable, what are the major challenges in urban planning, and the changes needed in the way we build and manage our urban spaces.
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SDG 17: Building an ecosystem to achieve the SDGs
Jeremy Liddle, Christian Walter, and David Galipeau are founding partners at SDGx, a global technology venture capital and advisory group offering a full-service ecosystem to achieve the SDGs. SDGx does integral investments in deep tech startups, provides tech transfer venture building and consulting services as well as conducts research on the impact of technology in society.
More on the work of SDGx here.
In today’s episode, we discuss about impact investing, systems change, and building partnerships for a sustainable development ecosystem.
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SDG 8: From growth to good quality of life for all with Dorian Furlonger
Dorian Furlonger is a creative writer and explorer of ideas to enable EVERYONE to achieve a good quality of life, on a sustainable basis, treating our diversity of cultures and viewpoints not as a basis for conflict but as a rich knowledge resource that we can draw upon in mutually constructive ways. His books include “Quality of Life for All” and "It’s Time for Politics to Grow Up”.
For reference on the principles and thinking techniques discussed in this podcast, have a look at:
- Thinking Techniques when searching for political solutions
- The principles proposed to enable us to move towards a sustainable quality of life for all.
In this episode, we challenge the growth paradigm that has been guiding our political and economic decision making, we reflect on what is a good quality of life for all and the changes needed in our political and economic systems to achieve it.
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Music Credits:
Chill Cole- Amber Lights
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SDG 17: Leveraging fintech to scale green finance with Marianne Haahr
Marianne Haahr is the executive director at Green Digital Finance Alliance- a private-public partnership between the UN environment program and ANT Financial to leverage digital technology to scale green digital finance.
https://greendigitalfinancealliance.org/
In this episode, we discuss the challenges of the current financial system, the current COVID-19 situation and the impact of this crisis on the economic and financial systems, we reflect on green finance and the need to scale it globally.
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SDG 4: Shifting towards experiential learning with Sudebi Thakurata and Probal Banerjee
Sudebi Thakurata and Probal Banerjee are the co-founders of D.epicentre, a transdisciplinary design collecting that uses a diversity of skills and approaches in delivering a unique pedagogy and learning experiences.
D.epicentre has a vision about shifts in patterns of thinking, in looking at the bigger picture, connecting the dots and changing the way we see ourselves in relation to the world around.
For more info about their work, check Sudebi’s and Probal’s profiles:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudebi/
https://linkedin.com/in/probal/
In this episode, we talk about learning as a process of inquiry in experiential, immersive, participatory and contextual ways. We reflect on the impact of the global pandemic on education and the opportunity to rethink the purpose and process of learning.
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SDG 8: Accelerating opportunities for African youth with Stayce Nimusiima
Stayce Nimusiima is a freelancer and consultant working on innovation and communication projects that have the ultimate goal for behavioural change and social impact.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth.
We explore what is decent work, and how the current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting it, we discuss the issue of unemployment, and the opportunities coming out of the current crisis, such as shaping the future of work.
Find out more about Stayce's work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staycenimusiima/
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Music Credits:
Chill Cole- Amber Lights
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SDG 10: Building confidence within children from disadvantaged communities with Jigyasa Labroo
Jigyasa Labroo is the founder and CEO @ Slam Out Loud, an organization that uses performance and visual arts to enable children from disadvantaged communities to find their voice through creative expression.
Find more about Slam Out Loud at: https://slamoutloud.com/
In this episode, we reflect on SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities and how the current COVID pandemic is exposing the inequalities in our society. We talk about the potential of implementing a Universal Basic Income as a potential solution to inequality and an opportunity to rethink our socio-economic systems.
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SDG 17: Challenging organization models with Silvia Remotti, Fabrizio Pierandrei, and Stefano Anfossi
Silvia Remotti, Stefano Anfossi, and Fabrizio Pierandrei are members of the PACO design collaborative - an open organization that uses the potential of design and education in fostering social innovation, sustainable behaviors, and business opportunities.
PACO believes that our organization models are inadequate for the reality of the 21st century. We are faced with global problems, yet we continue to have national or regional political decision making. During the Industrial Revolution, we have managed to go beyond our physical limits. With the next revolution, we should be able to go beyond our social limits.
In this episode we dive into Sustainable Development 17: Partnership for the Goals and how can we reframe the way we look at reality, how can we remodel the way we live and work, and how can we collaborate to build a better world.
Learn more about PACO Design Collaborative at: http://www.pacollaborative.com/
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Music Credits:
Chill Cole- Amber Lights
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SDG 3: Reflecting on healthcare in Bangladesh with Sadia Afrin
Sadia Afrin is a community builder, teacher coach and curriculum developer who, for the last years, has been researching and working at the intersection of conscious leadership and mental health.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and wellbeing.
We explore the biggest challenge in achieving this goal in Bangladesh, the interdependence of health with other areas such as climate action and poverty, and we reflect on detaching access to healthcare from economic status.
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SDG 4: Providing free quality education to all with Neelesh Bhatia
Neelesh Bhatia is the co-founder of Akadasia, a group of highly experienced educators, entrepreneurs, creative thinkers & technology professionals who are on a mission – to provide free access to a good, quality education to all in Asia. Akadasia believes that education is freedom & that good quality education is a basic human right that should be easily accessible to all regardless of their gender, race and/or economic background.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 4: Access to Quality Education, the differences between private and public education when it comes to quality and access, the role of parents in the educational journey of their children.
Learn more about Akadasia at: http://akadasia.com/
Questions we explore in this episode:
- What is quality education?
- What do you think about public vs private education when it comes to quality and access?
- What do you think are the biggest challenges in achieving SDG 4?
- What needs to change or adapt to our current education models?
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Chill Cole- Amber Lights
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SDG 17: Building partnerships to tackle complex problems with Merel van der Woude and Hanja Holm
Merel van der Woude and Hanja Holm are the Creative Director and Managing Director at Butterfly Works, a social design studio pioneering the use of co-creation and design thinking in international development.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals. We explore the opportunities and challenges in collaborating across borders and sectors and the value of using a human-centered design approach in bringing different stakeholders around the same table.
Learn more about Butterfly Works at https://www.butterflyworks.org/
Questions we explore in this episode:
- What do you think are the challenges that we need to overcome as a global society to be able to achieve SDG 17?
- What paradigm shifts need to happen for governments, the private sector, and civil society to start working together?
- How do we convince stakeholders to let their interests and priorities aside when it comes to achieving the SDGs?
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SDG 3: Systemic change for an inclusive global health system with Margianta Surahman
Margianta Surahman is the spokesperson of Youth Movement for FCTC, the framework convention on tobacco control in Indonesia.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. We explore how the outbreak of the COVID-19, the coronavirus has been revealing the loopholes we have in our global health systems and the need for a systemic change to focus on prevention instead of a reaction to such crises.
We also talk about the terrible effects of the NCDs, the non-communicable diseases, caused by alcohol and tobacco, and how governments, as well as individuals, should start taking action to tackle them from a systemic perspective.
Learn more about FCTC at https://www.fctcuntukindonesia.org/
Questions we explore in this episode:
- What are the biggest challenges when tackling SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being?
- What can we learn from this corona outbreak and from how countries are tackling this issue?
- What kind of systemic change do we need and who should involve in creating this systemic change?
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SDG 12: Closing the plastic waste loop locally with Jan Jaap Folmer
Jan Jaap Folmer is the founder of Upp! UpCycling Platic, who wants to contribute to at least 100 zero waste cities in at least 10 countries by 2025. Upp! designs and builds Upp! Circular Plastic Factories or Upp! Mobile production units to process mixed plastic waste streams into durable and recyclable building materials.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, plastic pollution, and the changes needed in our infrastructure to transition to a circular economy model.
Learn more about Upp! at: https://www.upcyclingplastic.com/en/
Questions we explore in this episode:
- Why is plastic such a big problem?
- Who should take responsibility, the producer, the consumer, the government?
- What needs to change in the current infrastructure and who would be the main players in facilitating this change?
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SDG 17: The challenges of our economic model with Tom Ansell
Tom Ansell is the founder and CEO at Whyable, who has the vision to have a positive impact on the world by improving the global political and economic system from the inside.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals, the challenges in our current economic model, the paradigm shifts that need to happen so that we can achieve the 2030 goals.
Learn more about Whyable at: https://whyable.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Whyable/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/whyabletech?lang=en
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/whyable/
Questions we explore in this episode:
- What is the importance of collaboration and partnership building to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
- What is the importance of entrepreneurship in building partnerships for the SDGs?
- What do you think are the challenges that we need to overcome as a global society to be able to collaborate for the SDGs?
- What paradigm shifts need to happen for governments, the private sector, and civil society to start working together?
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SDG 2: Collaborating for an inclusive food system with Christine Gould
Christine Gould is the founder and CEO at Thought For Food, who is on a quest to bring more creativity and collaboration into the food and agriculture industry.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger, the complexity of our food system, and the power of collaboration and innovation to change our food systems for the better.
Sign up to the TFF Labs and shape the future of our food systems: https://tffdigitallabs.org/
Questions we explore in this episode:
- How is the next generation uniquely equipped to help achieve zero hunger?
- What is the importance of collaboration and innovation to change our food systems for the better?
- Beyond SDG 2: What makes our food systems so complex?
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Thought For Food on Social Media:
Facebook & Instagram: @thoughforfoodorg
Twitter: @thoughtforfood_
LinkedIn: @Thought For Food
Music Credits:
Chill Cole- Amber Lights
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SDG 4: Increasing Civic Engagement with Jennifer Pfister
Jennifer Pfister is a social entrepreneur working towards a vision of increasing civic engagement and bringing communities closer together.
In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 4: Access to Quality Education and the power of young people and communities in creating positive impact and leading the path towards transformative change.
Questions we explore in this episode:
What do you perceive as quality education and can we achieve that by 2030?
What do you think are the biggest challenges in education?
What is currently stopping governments/companies/educational institutions from overcoming these challenges?
What is Impactify and what is its mission?
How do you think Impactify contributes to SDG 4?
How can we educate young people to become changemakers in their own communities?
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Episode 33: Change through environment-centered design with Nicole A.A Calistri
Find out more at:
envision.london
www.trytriggers.com/blogposts/how-to-design-for-the-planet
www.trytriggers.com/shop/planet-centric-deck
Contact Nicole: na_ac@outlook.com
Questions:
01:02 What were the experiences that impacted you the most?
5:38 What is the role of design in facilitating change and the role of a designer?
8:30 How do we change behavior?
12:25 What is environment-centered design?
17:17 What is the Planet-Centric Deck and who should use it?
19:52 What is the feedback from the teams that applied the deck?
12:20 What is the importance of asking "What If" questions in the creation, ideation phase?
24:34 What are the changes that we should start tackling right away?
26:18 Change coming from the industry vs from people
28:22 What is the change or impact that you would like to create through your work?
30:33 Advice for the listeners of this podcast
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Episode 32: Change through collaboration and partnership building with Nadim Choucair
Find out more at:
medium.com/@NadimChoucair
www.wearecabinet.io/
globalgoalsjam.org/
Questions:
1:22 What were some experiences that impacted you the most?
4:26 How was your experience studying international relations and diplomacy in regards to the Sustainable Development Goals?
7:24 At our current pace, are we able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?
10:19 Can you share a little bit more about the The Global Goals Jam and its purpose?
16:14 Sustainability by Design or Design for Sustainability?
21:18 What is the importance of collaboration in achieving the SDGs and how can we motivate different players to cooperate in achieving them?
28:49 You are setting up an initiative called 2030 Cabinet. What is it and what do you aim to achieve with it?
32:02 What is the change that you would like to create through your work?
34:48 What can the listeners of this podcast start doing today?
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Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/catalinacatana/
Music Credits: INOSSI- Wait for you
Episode 31: Change through service design and social innovation with Valentina Salvi
In her creative facilitator role, Valentina has been planning and leading over 30 Design Sprints and workshops that help her clients empathize with their users and bring value to their lives. Valentina actively writes on her Medium page where she shares her expertise and hands-on insights of her work as a service designer.
sprintstories.com/@valentina.v.salvi
Questions:
1:45 Background and impactful personal experiences
6:44 What is service design?
10:55 What makes a good user experience?
16:44 How do you convince your clients about the importance of user research?
20:41 How do you adapt Design Sprints to different client contexts and needs?
26:22 What are the advantages and challenges of the Design Sprint methodology?
32:45 How did you apply service design to social innovation?
38:28 Why is service design a good approach in tackling social innovation challenges?
40:42 What is the change you would like to contribute to?
42:03 What can the listeners of this podcast start doing today?
If you liked this episode, subscribe to the Change Makers Podcast and don’t miss the upcoming interviews.
Connect on Instagram: @change.makers.stories
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/catalinacatana/
Music Credits: INOSSI - Wait for you
Episode 30: Change through creativity and personal sovereignty with David Chislett
He offers 1-on-1 coaching, workshops, mentoring programs and company activations for organizations that need to be more innovative and respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
Find out more at: www.davidchislett.com
Questions:
1:26 What were some of the most impactful experiences that led you to become who you are today?
5:24 What drove you to be self-employed and just follow your passion?
9:39 What is creativity, why is it important, and how do you train it?
14:07 How can we train creativity in schools?
15:51 Can creativity be extended to finance or statistics which seem like hard based fact fields?
17:46 What will be the role of creativity in the future in regards to tech and the future of work?
21:05 Can the future you are describing happen in our current socio-economic system?
22:38 What are the changes that we need to tackle as soon as possible?
23:37 How can these changes happen on a global level?
24:55 What is the change that you would like to create through your work?
25:40 What can the listeners of this podcast start doing today?
If you liked this episode, subscribe to the Change Makers Podcast and don’t miss the upcoming interviews.
Connect with us on Instagram: @change.makers.stories
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/catalinacatana/
Music Credits: nymano x saib- night walk
Episode 29: Change through impact branding with Elif Algu
Questions:
1:22 What is a better world for you?
2:08 The need to start a social impact agency
9:02 Why is branding important?
11:06 What is the importance of storytelling?
12:21 How can small brands compete with multinational corporations?
15:42 What is your opinion on responsible consumption on a global level?
19:42 How was the process of starting your own company?
22:18 Have you experienced extra pressure when you changed towards that impact driven agency?
27:23 How do you choose the brands that your agency is working with?
29:14 Are you also telling hard truths to your clients? What is their feedback?
32:54 Examples of inspirational brands
39:32 What is the world you would like to contribute to?
References:
www.weleda.com/international
recyclesint.org/
www.thevegetarianbutcher.com/
brandingabetterworld.com
Episode 28: Changing our attitude towards AI with Nadia Piet
How can we democratize access to AI and leverage its capabilities to create a positive impact?
How can we design for human values in algorithmic systems?
The outcome of the research is a toolkit for designers to help them design for machine intelligence and to inspire people to leverage machine learning within the context of the users. The deck will be available for free to download on aimeets.design/
Questions:
1:54 Personal story and journey
6:38 Getting comfortable with change
10:30 Designing for human values in algorithmic systems
16:06 What makes a good user experience?
20:00 How can companies implement a user-centered approach?
26:05 The responsibility of a designer
29:22 Balance between creative responsibility and business revenue
38:35 How will AI change the job market?
44:19 A polarised view on technology
45:11 We tend to personify AI
49:56 The intersection of AI and design
55:48 Personal aspiration
References:
nadiapiet.com/
diopd.org/
Episode 27: Changing Fashion with Mariel Jumpa
slowfashionworld.com/
Questions:
1:53 Introduction: the journey of connecting with the fashion industry
6:20 The biggest problems in the fashion industry
10:50 How can the local communities of artisans compete with the global brand?
14:21 Lack of sustainability in fashion: an industry or a consumer problem?
17:18 What is the role of the government in regulating the fashion industry?
20:16 The social impact of the fashion industry
23:48 Greenwashing
26:28 Sending second-hand clothes to poorer communities aggravates the problem
30:39 What is slow fashion?
34:26 Examples of sustainable fashion brands
www.thereformation.com/
www.peopletree.de/
www.everlane.com/
38:32 A vision for the future of fashion
References:
conscious-closet-guide.com/
katefletcher.com/
hmfoundation.com/
Further Reading:
www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/aug/20/greenwashing-environmentalism-lies-companies
www.bbc.com/news/world-44968561
Episode 26: This could be our future
Yancey is the co-founder of Kickstarter and author of ’This could be our future’. Yancey is currently on a mission to end financial maximization as the dominant force, and as the dominant value that guides our decisions and actions by 2050. In this interview, we discuss the expansion of our current set of values so that we start making decisions for long term sustainability, for reasons of community needs, for reasons of fairness. Yancey strongly believes that we have the ability to affect the largest possible things, that the deepest possible assumptions of society are changeable by us.
Jump right in:
1:21 What are the values that you discuss in your upcoming book that we should build our society on?
9:55 Away from financial maximization as the dominant value
14:28 A global philosophy applied in local ways
20:18 Is it worth pursuing progress for the sake of progress?
27:32 What do you think is the future of work?
31:55 Kickstarter and crowdfunding: a look into the future
37:56 Investors ask good questions
44:20 What is your destination? The impact you would like to create?
References:
www.ystrickler.com/
www.kickstarter.com/
www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116493/this-could-be-our-future/9780753552834.html
Music Credits:
KONSTENTYN- 早くお金を返せ (2019)
Episode 25: Sustainability in the fashion industry
Currently, Nanette is dedicating most of her time to the development of her fashion platform Our World with the aim to accelerate the sustainability of the fashion industry. She believes that consumers play an important role in this. Our World therefore wants to inspire them in a substantiated way, challenge them and offer alternatives to make more sustainable clothing choices.
www.ow-ourworld.nl/
Questions:
1:15 Introduction and Background
07:04 Our World Platform
18:01 The decision to pursue the passion project full time
21:14 The biggest problems in the fashion industry
24:48 Lack of sustainability in fashion: an industry or a consumer problem?
34:54 Sustainable mindset
36:48 Examples of sustainable fashion brands
studiojux.com/
www.muji.eu/
www.thereformation.com/
46:49 Impact in the context of sustainable fashion
52:47 Learnings from researching sustainable fashion
Further Reading:
www.fashionrevolution.org/
www.theguardian.com/world/rana-plaza
truecostmovie.com/
Episode 24: The Culture Shift
Episode 23: Developers as agents of change
Questions:
1:01 Introductions
3:51 The role of creativity in engineering
7:42 Technology as one of the main drivers of change
11:49 Lifelong learning in the role of a developer. Do developers need a degree?
21:17 The community of open source sharing
29:45 The balance between day to day problem solving and looking at the bigger picture
37:10 Why should we make businesses scalable and where is the limit?
41:11 What is the cost of scalability in the long term?
47:48 Morals and ethics in the role of a developer
53:41 Artificial Intelligence: How far are we from software writing software?
1:00:26 What is impact for you?
1:06:08 What is the change you would like to contribute to?
About the interviewees:
Rasmus Reiler is an entrepreneurial minded software developer and certified pasta expert that's always looking for new ways to expand his horizon with new skills.
Simon Kristensen is a software engineer who strives for a strong collaboration with anyone he works with. He puts aside ego and focuses on a result-driven process, as well as a work environment that constantly allows the growth of skills and capabilities.
Stefan Schonert is the co-founder and CTO of Statum, a digital recruitment agency specializing in scale-ups.
Music Credits:
🎶Curl Up into a Ball- Joey Pecoraro
Episode 22: Tranformation & Human(ity)-Centered Design
Episode 21: Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable
Episode 20: Creating a more meaningful working world
Essentially, Tom aims to create a more meaningful working world where people can wake up each morning and be excited to go to work, working with teams, doing things that excite them, and making the impact they believe in.
www.extraordinarylife.eu/
Questions:
* 1:27 Introduction Tom Marshall and Extraordinary Life
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* 6:28 What did you study? What were your expectations after graduation and have they been met?
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* 9:24 How come we have this system with money flowing upwards and task flowing downwards? How can we overcome these pyramids in corporations?
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* 13:33 What do you think will be the impact of automation? Can we expect people to just reinvent themselves?
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* 18:14 What do you think needs to change in education today to meet this work scenario? Shall we keep preparing and training people for roles and professions?
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* 22:08 One of the core missions of Extraordinary Life is to evolve the notion of work. What should change in the current view that we have?
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* 24:02 How would this notion of work integrate on a global level? We are in a privileged position to talk about purpose, how would that work in other areas that have different cultures and other levels of development?
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* 28:54 How can we help people to discover the impact they want to make?
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* 34:50 What is the change for you? And what is the change you would like to create in your lifetime?
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* 36:53 Who is a changemaker for you?
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* 38:03 What would you tell your younger self?
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* 40:43 How do you define success? What is your vision for Extraordinary Life?
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Resources mentioned in this interview:
📚The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Daniel Susskind
🎵 Music credits: nymano- back to reality
Episode 19: "The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is"
Episode 18: We all need to be "enfants terribles" to change the world
In this podcast, we discuss new work. What needs to change in the current way we work? What are the alternatives? What is the importance of collaboration, community, and leadership? Tune in for Marion's inspiring story and interesting insights on the topic.
enfants-terribles.org/
🎵nymano- truly happy
Episode 17: Education is the most effective tool for social change
* The impact of the economic recession on education
* the balance between financial sustainability and quality talking for all
* the role of technology and communities within lifelong learning
* how did the needs of students change in the context of digitalisation and access to information?
* The role of an instructor in the 21st century
* The need to rethink the growth mindset that we are trapped in and the assessment measures for student achievement
* Shifting from “how can we use tech to personalise learning" to “how can we employ more people that can provide a personalised human to human learning experience”?
* The paradigm shift in choosing careers: will organisations dissipate into networks of self employed professionals?
* The role of education within social change
For more information about EdSurge, access the following link: www.edsurge.com/
🎵credits: Rise Above (prod. Mad Real)
Episode 16: Together for a circular future
In this conversation, we reflect on the topic of sustainability, no waste and inequality, philanthropy, doughnut economics and re-thinking our current economic model and mindset.
www.circle-economy.com/
Episode 15: Impact, Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation
In this interview, Leon is sharing his thoughts on impact investing, the collaboration culture in the social innovation field, entrepreneurship as a tool for social positive impact, and the balance between profit and purpose.
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Impact Hub is a community, a consultancy and a creative space. As part of the biggest global network for social innovation, Impact Hub inspires, connects and enables the local community of changemakers to develop their ideas for a more sustainable world.
berlin.impacthub.net/
🎶 Credits:
Sinh, Masego- Early Spring
Episode 14: Inclusive Education
She is the director of Student Pathways at Compass Academy based in Colorado, but is currently in the Netherlands, exploring the Dutch secondary education choices with the aim to take best practices and models back to the US.
In this episode we talk about differences and similarities between American and some European education models, we question the current measures of student performance and growth and we also reflect on the complexity of the teacher profession.
www.compassacademy.org/