Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship

This is our final conversation with inspiring social entrepreneurs. Here Ilze Jece speaks with Naomi Ryland, who is co-author of the book "Starting a Revolution" - what we can learn from female entrepreneurs about the future of business. In this conversation, they talk about what it is like to jump into the fast profit-driven start-up world and if there is an alternative way to build a business, raise funds and organize the work of your employees. Naomi openly shares her struggles as well as sources of inspiration. And invites more women to find their purpose and ways to build a sustainable income.

Miles4Migrants is a charity, dedicated to using donated frequent flyer miles to help people impacted by war, persecution, or disaster start a new beginning in a new home. They partner with other non-profits to identify refugees, asylees, asylum-seekers, and their immediate family members who have legal approval to travel, but cannot afford airfare.

A conversation with Lindsey McCoy - CEO and co-owner of Plaine Products. Plaine Products offer returnable, refillable reusable aluminium bottles full of all-natural, vegan, toxin-free products for hair and body. Their core mission is to help eliminate the need for single-use plastics in the world.

Lindsey is coming from the non-profit field, having worked for over ten years in the Bahamas doing environmental education work. This is also where her idea was born to create systems that help people avoid using single-use plastics. In this conversation, Lindsey shares how her experience in non-profit and life in the Bahamas has helped her to build a successful and purpose-driven company.

Making a difference while working out, doing your daily yoga practice, or gardening in your backyard. These are some of the things offered by  AtlasGo - a fitness and wellness app that helps companies engage their employees and helps non-profits raise funds!

Atlas Go is a company that brings endless possibilities for individuals and companies to better their health and increase positive impact in the world. In this conversation, Ilze Jece interviews one of the founders - Magali Mathieu, where they talk about the importance of doing purposeful work, keeping resilient in joyful in daily life, and committing to making a difference in the world.

In this conversation Ilze Jēče is speaking with Russ Stoddard, who began his career as a river guide before entering the corporate world where he has become recognized as an expert working at the confluence of business and social responsibility. Russ believes that there is a growing need for independent socially responsible businesses. Russ runs his own company - Oliver Russell - social impact branding agency that not only gives their services pro bono for some non-profit organizations, but practices wellbeing and good doing in their day to day work.

This #makeanimpact podcast episode is about developing entrepreneurship and initiative as a competence. What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial? Which are some of the most important soft skills for entrepreneurs? How can we learn and work with ease and playfulness?

Our guests - Inese Ločmele and Inese Priedīte from the international team of Moving Into Soft Skills project - share their findings about a bit more unusual approach to development of entrepreneurial skills which is based on somatics and embodiment.

How to transform passions such as surfing to a viable business model? What any business can do in order to serve environment and communities better? What is responsible tourism, and how much do travellers know about state of environment? In this episode Travis Bays, one of the founders of Bodhi Surf + Yoga, shares a lot of good ideas and tips for those who wish to do what they love in a way that their clients will love them too.

Edo Sadikovic, founder of Sende, a rural coworking space in Northern Spain, speaks about how to bring back life to the villages via innovation and technologies, about slow growth and not burning out, coworking and many other topics. After hearing him, you might wish to go to Sende right now. It is wonderful to see how simple ideas can transform villages and sustain different ways of living and seeing the world.  Edo's tips on how you can organize your work are truly refreshing and worth listening to.