Be Your Change

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.

Today we are taking a look at social entrepreneurship and media. These emerging economies bringing new players in the media space while promoting investment in mission driven companies and building a new Exciting media ecosystem.

Today we are talking about Fair Trade with Karrie Pukstas from Kroger and Abby Ayers from the certification organization Fair Trade USA. You'll learn how we can all contribute to provide decent conditions for workers and get them out of the poverty cycle just by how we shop.

In this episode, you'll learn how Lubiana found her voice through an unusual encounter with the Kora. Kora is called the African guitar but is much more than a traditional musical instrument. It ties the world of music to spirituality and oral tradition. Traditionally played by male, Lubiana is one of the rare women who has emerged as an uprising singer-songwriter, kora player and is on her way to become a griot herself. You will learn about the shocking numbers of gender disparity when it comes to music in sounds and hears from Terri Winston, executive director of Women's Audio Mission.

In this episode, we discuss the rise of the women podcasting community. Jeanine shares with us how men and women do differently when they podcast. Highly informative.

What is Fair Trade? And how can it contribute to ending poverty? Find out by listening to this episode, with Elisha Chan, the executive director of Fair Trade Los Angeles and the founder of elishac store and the Elisha C foundation in Haiti. Learn how easy it can be for you to improve people's life.

In this episode, you'll learn about how Eunice and Sabrina Moyle used their design company Hello Lucky to create positive change and engage the youth to get their voices heard. You will also learn how their experiences growing up outside of the U.S have influenced their work. Photography by Zoe Larkin.

In this episode, you learn about Laina Raveendran Greene, the co-founder of Angels of Impact, a company investing in responsibly produced goods made by women living in poverty.

Changing the world starts by looking at how we spend money, from daily purchases to long-term pension funds. Today on Be Your Change we explore impact investing. The term has different meanings for different people, but the basic idea is to make sure the money we invest has a good impact on the world. Rosa Lee Harden is a leader in the social impact movement and a co-founder of Social Capital Markets (SOCAP), one of the biggest conferences about impact investing.

In this episode, you’ll learn how social therapy grew out of a movement for social change.Social therapy is a group-oriented model that looks at patients as social performers, people capable of being change-makers. I am talking to Joyce Dattner, a leader in the social therapy community. She will explain how practitioners of this therapy relate to the group, not the individual…