Ethical Hour Changemaker Chats

This week on the podcast I'm joined by Jade Hicks. Jade built a successful career as a photographer before turning her attention to the world of blogging, where she now runs The Stand Out Club - a programme designed to help bloggers own their personal brand, recognise their unique brilliance and turn their blog into a successful business.

Jade is really passionate about empowering people and living ethically - some strong values she shares with Ethical Hour! In today's episode we talk all about money mindset, social media and how to show up authentically in your life, business and for your cause.

 

Find out more about Jade here: https://www.standoutclub.comFollow her on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/standoutclub/ (https://www.facebook.com/standoutclub/)

 

This episode is brought to you by Ethical Holiday.

Looking for a life changing holiday? EthicalHoliday.com is a new online directory of ethical places to stay, matched with short term volunteering opportunities. Each and every listing has been handpicked for their ethical values, from paying fair wages and reinvesting into communities to caring for the environment and helping conservation efforts, so you can rest assured you’re changing lives for the better just by having a great time.

There’s something to suit every interest and budget with award winning glamping breaks, cultural homestays, luxury safari camps, jungle cabins or beachside hotels. And if there’s an opportunity for you to get involved during your stay ethical holiday will suggest optional volunteering nearby, so you can experience new cultures, learn new skills and reconnect with nature.

Join the ethical holiday community today to get exclusive special offers, gifts and even your own blog space to share your life changing experiences. Just head to ethicalholiday.com (http://ethicalholiday.com/) and Join The Community!

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/

Today on the Ethical Hour Podcast I speak to Impact Strategist and Business Coach Kat Luckock about how social enterprises and impact businesses can start to measure and communicate their impact.

As consumers demand more from the brands they buy from, businesses and social enterprises need to cut through the greenwashing and demonstrate their impact. Telling your impact story can be a powerful marketing tool, as well as an opportunity to attract more stakeholders and even investors.

Kat Luckock is a successful social entrepreneur who works with impact driven brands to measure and communicate their impact. Today she shares her advice on how to measure and use your impact as a business and marketing tool.

In this episode you will learn:

* How to set targets and goals for your impact

* How to communicate your impact story to attract customers

* Where to start when it feels overwhelming and you wonder if you're doing enough

* How to create your first impact report

* How to use your impact to attract stakeholders and grow your business

 

Find out more about Kat on her website: https://shareimpact.org/ (https://shareimpact.org/)

 

This year we're encouraging people to #ShopEthicalInstead as an alternative to Black Friday. This is a crucial time of year for small businesses and we can vote with our wallet by purchasing gifts that do good for people and the planet. Please help us spread the word and join the #ShopEthicalInstead campaign by sharing what you're doing using the hashtag!

 

The Be The Change Awards are now open for entries! Tell you impact story and get the recognition you deserve. Enter now! http://bethechangeawards.org/ (http://bethechangeawards.org/)

This episode is brought to you by Ethical Holiday.

Looking for a life changing holiday? EthicalHoliday.com is a new online directory of ethical places to stay, matched with short term volunteering opportunities. Each and every listing has been handpicked for their ethical values, from paying fair wages and reinvesting into communities to caring for the environment and helping conservation efforts, so you can rest assured you’re changing lives for the better just by having a great time.

There’s something to suit every interest and budget with award winning glamping breaks, cultural homestays, luxury safari camps, jungle cabins or beachside hotels. And if there’s an opportunity for you to get involved during your stay ethical holiday will suggest optional volunteering nearby, so you can experience new cultures, learn new skills and reconnect with nature.

Join the ethical holiday community today to get exclusive special offers, gifts and even your own blog space to share your life changing experiences. Just head to ethicalholiday.com (http://ethicalholiday.com/) and Join The Community!

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/

Today on the podcast I speak to Jess Lohmann, owner of Ethical Brand Marketing, voice talent and author who has dedicated her life’s work to speaking for Mother Nature. As an advocate for animals, the environment and ethical marketing, Jess has so much value to share with us today!I first met Jess online through the #EthicalHour community, but we had the pleasure of meeting in person in May 2018 at a workshop by Liz Gilbert run in London, all about her book Big Magic (check it out if you’re interested in creativity and personal development! https://amzn.to/2QA20Oz *)

Since then, we’ve formed a mastermind of women working in ethical marketing where we support each other to run and grow our businesses. We’ve worked together to grow Jessica’s Instagram presence and we’ve become friends as well as colleagues.

Today we talk about finding your purpose, ethical marketing and why you need a strategy, and what it means to connect with Mother Nature and be a voice for the planet and its creatures.

Find out more about Jess and her work on her websites:

https://ethicalbrandmarketing.com/

https://jesslohmann.com/

Follow her on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/jesslohmann/ (https://www.instagram.com/jesslohmann/)

In this episode we also discuss Trash Talk’s campaign to encourage people to “strip naked in the supermarket”! Find out more about it here: https://citygirlnetwork.com/trashtalk/

 

This episode is brought to you by Ethical Holiday.

Looking for a life changing holiday? EthicalHoliday.com is a new online directory of ethical places to stay, matched with short term volunteering opportunities. Each and every listing has been handpicked for their ethical values, from paying fair wages and reinvesting into communities to caring for the environment and helping conservation efforts, so you can rest assured you’re changing lives for the better just by having a great time.

There’s something to suit every interest and budget with award winning glamping breaks, cultural homestays, luxury safari camps, jungle cabins or beachside hotels. And if there’s an opportunity for you to get involved during your stay ethical holiday will suggest optional volunteering nearby, so you can experience new cultures, learn new skills and reconnect with nature.

Join the ethical holiday community today to get exclusive special offers, gifts and even your own blog space to share your life changing experiences. Just head to ethicalholiday.com and Join The Community!

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community:

In today's episode I chat to Rosie Cook, Founder of transformational swimwear company Deakin and Blue, who were the recent winners of the Blue Patch Awards in the Sustainable Innovation category.

Deakin and Blue was started when Rosie struggled to find a swimsuit that she felt great in on the high street. It's a struggle many women face, and it's actually putting them off getting in the water.

500,000 women have given up swimming in the last 10 years because of body image concerns, and 1 in 2 mums have stopped taking their child to learn to swim because of the thought of putting on a swimsuit. Deakin and Blue are on a mission to change this, and to help women, whatever their shape or size, feel great in a swimsuit.

As a brand they have removed single use plastic from every stage of their supply chain, and they use a regenerated yarn to create their swimsuits - a yarn made from regenerated post-consumer waste, such as spent fishing nets.

Today we talk about body positivity, how women are portrayed in advertising and the media, sustainability, plastic free and circular economy.

 

Find out more about Deakin and Blue and shop the collection on their website: https://www.deakinandblue.com/

 

The Be The Change Awards are now open for entries! Tell you impact story and get the recognition you deserve. Enter now! http://bethechangeawards.org/ (http://bethechangeawards.org/)

 

 

This episode is brought to you by Droppoint.DropPoint provides a range of parcel postage services to charities and ethical retailers. For sending packages to your customers or stockists, or receiving back returns, you can use their fully tracked services for parcels weighing up to 15KGs.

Proceeds go to support their gift in kind donation service which helps charities across the UK collect item donations from the public through their platform DropPoint.org, where you can find hundreds of items being requested.

DropPoint also supports businesses and charities with their corporate social responsibility programmes wishing to collect item donations for redistribution to those in need.

you can contact them via email [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and find out more on their website: https://droppoint.org/ (https://droppoint.org/)

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/

Today on the Ethical Hour podcast, I interview Kim - founder of Plastic Free Pantry, to discuss how she first made the move to a plastic free lifestyle and felt inspired to help others do the same.

There's been so much press coverage about plastic pollution this year and everyone wants to do their bit, but what difference can we really make and how can we cut out single use plastic?

Kim shares some tips to get started and avoid feeling overwhelmed.

Find out more about Plastic Free Pantry here: https://plasticfreepantry.co.uk/ (https://plasticfreepantry.co.uk/)

Follow them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plasticfreepantryuk/ (https://www.instagram.com/plasticfreepantryuk/)

 

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/

What can we do about climate change?

Recent reports paint a worrying picture about the state of the planet, with scientists warning us that we have just 12 years left to turn things around - yet globally carbon emissions are still on the rise.

Many of us are feeling upset and overwhelmed - an emotional combination that often leads us to feeling like there's no point doing anything. But we'll only solve these global problems with everyone on board.

In today's episode, I interview Angela Terry, an Environmental Scientist with over 18 years' experience in renewable, clean energy, including on-shore wind, hydro, solar and biomass schemes. She is one of the original pioneers of community renewables, has worked in sustainable forestry as Head of Wood Fuel for the Forestry Commission and contributed to the development of the UK Renewable Energy Strategy, as well as working as a carbon scientist in New Zealand.

Angela has reported on climate change for the BBC and is also the Founder of One Home, a new website that promotes actions we can all take to reduce our impact on the planet, one step at a time.

Angela's strong belief is that our changing climate is the biggest and yet, at the same time, the most understated issue we face as a society.

Today she joins the Ethical Hour podcast to discuss this big issue in an easily digestible way, and to share the small swaps and changes we can all adopt to help tackle climate change.

 

Find out more about One Home here: https://onehome.org.uk/ (https://onehome.org.uk/)

Follow Angela on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ANGETERRY (https://twitter.com/ANGETERRY)

Switch to Bulb renewable energy and get £50 off with this referral link: bulb.co.uk/refer/sianc4916 (bulb.co.uk/refer/sianc4916)

Listen to Vicky Smith talk about sustainable travel and the impact of flying on our carbon footprint: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/sustainable-tourism-the-sdgs-and-how-storytelling-can-change-the-world/ (https://ethicalhour.co.uk/sustainable-tourism-the-sdgs-and-how-storytelling-can-change-the-world/)

Find out if your home is at risk of flooding: https://flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk/ (https://flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk/)

 

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/ (https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/)

REstart Refugees is the world's first local crowdfunding platform for asylum seekers and refugees who want to activate their skills and make a living in their new communities.

For more than 10 years, Founder Alexis Rhyner has worked with NGOs and non-profits, including leading international human rights projects and campaigns, and searching for creative solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. She has a deep understanding of the social enterprise space and is now bringing her experience and expertise to establish a platform that empowers displaced entrepreneurs and works to change the narrative about how we think of refugees.

Many refugees have valuable education and experience, but remain stuck in menial jobs, isolated from mainstream society and the economy. The greatest barrier to entrepreneurship is lack of access to traditional business funding, which is not available when you're under refugee status.

REstart are working to change that by involving local communities and inviting them to invest, financially and emotionally, in empowering refugees and displaced entrepreneurs to start new ventures.

In this episode we talk about the power of social enterprise, the amazing changes that occur when communities empower people and the damaging media portrayal of refugees and how we can challenge and change the narrative.

Find out more about REstart Refugees here: https://restartrefugees.com/ (https://restartrefugees.com/)

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/

Annie Moon is a Virtual Assistant for changemakers, with experience in CSR, philanthropy and social enterprise. She has worked across the charity, not-for-profit and community development sector on a wide range of projects, and she's now bringing her experience and insights to a new online conference, When Good Stuff Happens.

When Good Stuff Happens will share interviews and insights from leaders in the philanthropy and CSR sector.

In this episode, Annie gives us a sneak peek of some of the big insights learnt from When Good Stuff Happens, as well as sharing tips for how ethical and social entrepreneurs can improve their business systems and work smarter. Plus she shares what it's like to work with a virtual assistant and how it can help us grow our ethical businesses!

Find out more about Annie and the services she provides here: https://www.bethedifferenceva.com/ (https://www.bethedifferenceva.com/)

Register for When Good Stuff Happens here: https://www.bethedifferenceva.com/when-good-stuff-happens (https://www.bethedifferenceva.com/when-good-stuff-happens)

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/

Jo Salter is the Founder of Where Does It Come From? An ethical fashion brand that can tell you exactly who made your clothes, where to cotton came from and how it was made at every stage of the supply chain.

Jo has been on the podcast before talking about her transparent supply chains in India and how she built them - and we collaborated together to run the Ethical Brands For Fashion Revolution Event in London in April 2018.

Now Jo is working on establishing ethical supply chains in Africa to bring a range of ethical African tunics to the UK. In this episode she joins us to talk about the process of setting up a new supply chain, why ethical fashion is important and what ethical considerations you need to think about when you buy cotton - and so much more!

Their new range uses rain-fed cotton as a more sustainable choice of materials and the supply chain has been built to give back to the community as much as possible.

Find out more about the African tunic project and support the Crowdfund campaign here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/african-tunics (https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/african-tunics)

Find out more about Where Does It Come From? here: https://www.wheredoesitcomefrom.co.uk/ (https://www.wheredoesitcomefrom.co.uk/)

 

 

Today's episode is brought to you by The Ethical Marketing Club, our brand new community that helps you make more money to maximise your impact.

Ethical Hour have launched our marketing membership community, and we want you to be part of it. Every month you'll get exclusive resources, training, group coaching and support from Sian Conway, an ethical marketing expert, to help you develop your marketing strategy, engage your ideal customers and sell your products and services so you can make a positive impact.

If you're ready to work on your marketing strategy and one-to-one consultancy isn't in your budget right now, then The Ethical Marketing Club is going to give you all the benefits of working with an ethical marketing consultant for a low cost monthly subscription of $29.99 USD - with no long term contract.

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If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/

Rachelle Strauss is the founder of Zero Waste Week - a global campaign designed to raise awareness of waste and encourage people to send less stuff to landfill. Starting on 3rd September, Zero Waste Week 2018 will be all about reducing single use plastics.

As China have announced they will no longer accept imported recycling and Blue Planet II raised mass awareness, the plastic pollution problem (https://ethicalhour.co.uk/ultimate-guide-plastic-pollution-really-avoidable/) has inspired people all around the world to take action. The waste issue and it's environmental impact is no longer "out of sight, out of mind"

This Zero Waste Week, if you want to get involved, the best thing to do is start by taking an audit of your current household waste so you know what your current situation is. Rachelle shares tips for how to do this and what to do next.

In today's episode we talk all about how to get started with zero waste, how sustainable living can reconnect you to your local community and accessibility in the ethical space. Today's episode is all about approaching Zero Waste without getting overwhelmed.

If you want to find out more about what can be recycled in your local area, check the website https://www.recyclenow.com/ (https://www.recyclenow.com/)

Find out more about Zero Waste Week here: https://www.zerowasteweek.co.uk/ (https://www.zerowasteweek.co.uk/)

 

Our Zero Waste Week campaign is kindly sponsored by: Oddbox (http://www.oddbox.co.uk/), Be For Change (https://www.be-for-change.com/), The Berry Berry (https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheBerryBerry), Gone For Good (https://goneforgood.org.uk/), Zero Waste Market (https://zerowastemarket.org.uk/), The Green Edition (https://www.thegreenedition.com/), REGIFTWRAP™ (https://regiftwrap.it/), Unwrpd (https://unwrpd.com/), The Crop Club (https://www.thecropclub.com/) and Plastic Free Party Bags (https://plasticfreepartybags.com/). Tune into the #EthicalHour Twitter Chat to discuss all things Zero Waste on Monday 3rd September 8pm UK time to meet our sponsors and learn more.

If you're interested in starting or growing a business with purpose, you can access tailored training, advice and support inside the #EthicalHour community: https://ethicalhour.co.uk/our-community/