Awarepreneurs

In this episode, I interview Desiree Adaway.  Through her business the Adaway Group, Desiree helps to build resilient,equitable and inclusive organizations.  Her passion is helping organizations and businesses go beyond diversity to creating truly inclusive and equitable organization.  

If you've ever wondered how your business can navigate the difficult conversations around race, gender and class and become a vehicle for inclusive transformation, then this episode is one we highly suggest you explore.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs community.

In this episode, I interview Alisoun Mackenzie.  Alisoun is a heart centeredd business mentor, keynote speaker, and leader who brings out the best in people who are making a difference in the world. She is the founder of the Give To Profit model - which shows impact oriented business owners how to leverage charitable giving to both increase social impact and grow a profitable business at the same time. The model has 7 easy steps that shows you how to better turn your business into a force for good. 

If you've ever wondered if your business could impact more people while simultaneously growing in an aligned way, the Give to Profit model is something we highly suggest you explore.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs community.

In this episode, I interview Elsie Escobar.  Elsie is a podcasting pundit and strategist that specializes in helping women leverage the power of podcasting to grow their impact and their social ventures. She has worked for Libsyn, the leading host and distribution network since 2007 (the Awarepreneurs podcast is hosted on Libsyn).  And she also coruns She Podcasts, the largest community for women in podcasting.

If you've ever wondered if podcasting might be a good approach to grow your impact and your business, we can't recommend this episode more highly.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.  

In this episode, I interview Keith Tucker, the founder of Hip Hop is Green.  Hip Hop is Green uses cultural events and Green Dinners to bring holistic health and transformation to urban communities.  They now have chapters in 30 cities around the United States and are looking at expanding into other countries.

If you've ever wondered how to engage diverse young people in health and wellness initatives, we can't recommend this episode more highly.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.  

In this episode, I interview Indigo Ocean Dutton, the founder of Awaken Business Consulting. Indigo is the Principle Consultant  at Awaken Business Consulting, founder of The Winning Start programs for people of color, and founder of the Aspiratech corporate consulting and Salesforce training firm.

Indigo has created online courses that have brought her business hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue as well as consulted with clients on their passive income products.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.  

In this episode, I interview Calvin Corelli, the founder of Simplero. Simplero is an online course platform created just of spiritual entrepreneurs.  Almost 900 entrepreneurs host their courses and other programs using the platform.  Calvin says "We are small, bootstrapped, profitable, and proud. We haven't taken funding, which means we're not beholden to anyone other than ourselves and our customers."

As the founder of a company that specializes in online courses in this space, Calvin has literally seen what thousands of successful examples of producsts in our sector.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.  

NOTE: This is a special episode of the podcast.

In this special episode, Awarepreneurs founder Paul Zelizer answers a question he's been hearing frequently in the community: "Why do we talk about racism so much in Awarepreneurs?"

Specifically, Paul explores 7 reasons:

1. Because social justice is one of our core values.
2. Because it is the ethically right thing to do.
3. Becuase doing so increases the diversity of our membership.
4. Because we come from 2 lineages - the entrepreneurial world and the wisdom world - that historically have not done a good job fostering diversity & inclusion.
5. Because it's good for business.
6. Because our community wants and demands it.
7. Because we want to be a role model to our sister communities.

In summary, as a community we believe that it's our responsibility to do better job fostering diversity and dimantling racism than either of our parent traditions have historicially done in order to make significant progress on our mission and goals.  

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.  

In this episode, I interview Michael Stratford of MichaelStratford.com.  Michael started coaching in 1992 and has worked with clients in China, Korea, Denmark, New Zealand, Brazil, Italy, and many other countries around the world.   Together we explore how Michael grew his global business and how you can bridge out past the narrow audiences most service providers focus on to allow you to grow a thriving business working with diverse clients facilitating transformative and impactful work. 

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.  

In this episode, I interview Angelo John Lewis of the Diversity & Spirituality Network on how to move beyond proscriptive approaches to diversity & inclusion and how the spiritual frame of "path" can be helpful in this process.  Angelo has been actively working in the intersection of diversity and spirituality for decades and shares real world examples and action steps tailored for awareness and social impact based businesses.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.  

In this episode, I interview Kaya Singer of Awakening Business on the archetype of the Crone and how to find the wiser and wilder version of your business.  Kaya has been in the personal growth field for decades and shares her journey with growing a successful business as well as the work she does mentoring women entrepreneurs to start and grow a soul based business through the power of Crone Wisdom.

As always, we'd love to hear your questions and thoughts on this important topic in the Awarepreneurs Facebook group.