Our guest this week is Sonali Fiske. Sonali is an international speaker and leadership consultant for marginalized & underrepresented visionary womxn and emerging women-identifying leaders. Her private and group programs teach leaders to unearth their cutting edge and deeply rooted messages, to help inform, educate the cultural zeitgeist. Her masterclass on "Dismantling White Dominance in Women's Entrepreneurship" went viral, and centered the stories of black, indigenous women of color countering the current narrative in leadership and influence.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Sonali's Website
• Pick Your Platform & Raise Your Voice Program
• Paul's Easeful Marketing Plan
• The Awarepreneurs Community

For the Awarepreneurs podcast, Paul Zelizer looks for diverse leaders doing innovative work in the intersection of conscious business, social impact and awareness practices.  It's one of few the conscious business and social impact podcasts that gets into the the granular decisions around finances, marketing, and pricing that leaders face. 

Our guests today are the cofounders of Manna, an online platform for the world’s first Universal Basic Income cryptocurrency.  Eric Stetson is the Founder and Executive Director and Brandon Venetta is the Co-founder and Director of Networking of Manna.  Manna is distributed by the People’s Currency Foundation as a basic human right that every person in the world is eligible to receive, for free. Founded in 2015, Manna has achieved milestones in the cryptocurrency movement, as the first blockchain-based currency to be created and distributed by a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, and the first digital currency to implement a Universal Basic Income as its primary method of distribution. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Manna website
• People's Currency Foundatio website
• The Manna Whitepaper
• Paul's Easeful Marketing Plan
• The Awarepreneurs Community
• Our sister podcast, Dialogue Lab

Our guest today is Geneveive Chavez Mitchell.  She is the Operations Partner of Goddess Ink and a social impact investor in New Mexico.  She is passionate about spirituality, family, community and being an inspiration in the world. A life time learner, she has an undergraduate degree in Social Work and Government from New Mexico State University, a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. She also has a Naturopathic Degree from The University of Natural Medicine.  

Over the past 10 years, Geneveive is increasingly passionate about the impact of values based investing in local communities and she increasingly speaks on this topic.  


Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Geneveive's company, Goddess Ink
• Paul's Easeful Marketing Plan
• The Awarepreneurs Community

Our guest today is Stephanie Calahan.  She is a Business Vision Catalyst who specializes in working with purpose driven entrepreneurs.  After a dynamic career in corporate consulting, Stephanie realized she had comprised her health in working long hours and living an unsustainable lifestyle.  She eventually got so sick, she had to quit everything.  In this episode, she shares how she learned to have a more sustainable buStephanie Calahansiness and approaches she teaches her clients to create a business that fits their goals and energy levels.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Stephanie's Income Accelerator program
• Paul's Easeful Marketing Plan
• The Awarepreneurs Community

Our guest this week is Elinor Predota.  She is a spiritual counsellor and coach, a storyteller, poet, singer and artist, a spoonie, a Marxist and intersectional feminist, a mystic, a geek, and a queer, genderfluid, bisexual Witch.  Elinor works with people who long to make action for social justice an everyday part of their life and work, and who need support with the inner aspects of that task.  Her upcoming class is called Midwinter Magic.  Here is the link to the Development Compass Rose mentioned in the episode.

Thanks for listening!  And if you'd like to be part of a dynamic social impact entrepreneur community, check out the Awarepreneurs Community.

Our guest this week is Marc Choyt.  Marc is the co-Founder of Reflective Jewelry and one of the leading activists for fair trade jewelry in North America. Marc works on marketing and publicity for the company (like the websites), strategic planning, and the like.  He also focuses on their supply chain, seeking ways to create jewelry that has exceptional environmental and ethical sourcing standards. Marc is also the author of The Ethical Jewelry Exposé, a new guide that explores the history of misrepresentations in the jewelry industry that seeks to hide the fact that millions of people have died in conflicts financed by precious gems and metals and great environmental and social harm continues to happen despite the narrative mainstream jewelers branding themselves as "ethical" and "responsible".
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Thanks for listening!  And if you'd like to be part of a dynamic social impact entrepreneur community, check out the Awarepreneurs Community.

Our guest this week is Mike Dannheim. Mike is the Founder and CEO of the Sensie app.   It's an app that detects a neuromuscular signal that represent the stress response.  By applying research from the fields of neuroscience and psychophysiology with machine learning techniques and the sensors on your smartphone, Sensie is able to measure the fluidity of your movement - sensing whether stress is present or not and guiding your through a specific mindfulness technique to help you achieve peace and calm.

Thanks for listening!  And if you'd like to be part of a dynamic social impact entrepreneur community, check out the Awarepreneurs Community.

Our guest this week is Sasha Allenby. Sasha is an author and a ghostwriter who wrote her first book in 2005 and co-authored the popular healing book Matrix Reimprinting - which has sold around the world and has been translated into 11 languages.  In 2016, she began to hear a calling to support social evolutionaries - including those who make an impact in racial, sexual, gender, economic, religious and refugee equality - to craft and hone their messages. This is the topic of her soon to be released fourth book, Catalyst: Speaking, Writing and Leading for Social Evolution. 

Thanks for listening!  And if you'd like to be part of a dynamic social impact entrepreneur community, check out the Awarepreneurs Community.

Our guest this week is Monica Kang. Monica is the Founder and CEO of InnovatorsBox® and a creative educator who is transforming today’s workforce through the power of creativity. She is driven by the belief that everyone is innately creative and that creativity can be used to catalyze personal and professional change. Through her innovative workshops, consulting, products, and curriculum, Monica teaches creativity in a tangible, practical, and relatable way regardless of industry or job title.

Thanks for listening!  And if you'd like to be part of a dynamic social impact entrepreneur community, check out the Awarepreneurs Community.

Our guest this week is Lisa Robbin Young.  She is the founder of founder of Ark Entertainment Media and the author of Creative Freedom: How To Own Your Dreams Without Selling Your Soul. She helps creative entrepreneurs make good money doing what they love and enjoy their life in the process.  Lisa founded the Creative Freedom Incubator: a hands-on business incubator for creatives ready to build a profitable, sustainable business doing what they love.  It works on a Pay For Results Model.

Thanks for listening!  And if you'd like to be part of a dynamic social impact entrepreneur community, check out the Awarepreneurs Community.