🌊 Runa Ray – Oceans, Fashion Regeneration & Conscious Leadership | Episode 9

What if the future of business wasn't about extracting more—but regenerating more?

In this episode of the Impact Legacy Podcast, Marisa Selfa sits talks with Fashion Environmentalist and Designer Runa Ray to explore the deep connections between oceans, business, innovation, and conscious leadership.

From her early experiences witnessing the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry to pioneering biomaterials made from seaweed and textile waste, Runa shares why the future of business must move beyond sustainability and toward regeneration.

As we mark World Ocean Day, this conversation is a reminder that the ocean is not separate from our economy, our industries, or our future—it is at the heart of all three.

"Nature already contains the intelligence we're searching for. The question is whether we're ready to listen."

#ImpactLegacy #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Focus

In the latest episode of Impact Legacy, Andrew Morgan reflected on the idea that people are searching for meaning as much as they are searching for success or consumption.

He spoke about how the dominant cultural story for decades has centred around growth, acquisition and status, but that a different narrative is increasingly emerging - one focused on purpose, contribution and being part of something larger than ourselves.

One of the key themes of the conversation was that lasting change rarely comes from criticism alone. It comes from articulating a more compelling alternative: a different vision of fulfilment, progress and impact.

Throughout history, major cultural shifts have often been driven by people who were able to tell a better story about what it means to live well, contribute meaningfully and create change.

The conversation offered a thoughtful reminder that legacy is shaped not only by what people build or accumulate, but by the stories, values and actions they leave behind. Link in comments.

#ImpactLegacy #Entrepreneurship #Storytelling #Filmmaking #Focus

Too much of the climate conversation is built on a losing narrative.

Will Hayler, co-founder of Blue Earth Summit, thinks that's exactly the problem and in this episode of Impact Legacy with Marisa Selfa, he makes the case for a radical reframe.

The entrepreneurs transforming how we eat, travel, build and live? They're not on the losing team. They're the ones who'll win.

Are we asking business to be bold enough?

#ImpactLegacy #ClimateAction #BusinessForGood

What if entertainment could actually change the way we see the world?

This week on Impact Legacy, we sit down with Emily Woods, Founder & CEO of Eleven, one of the leading agencies redefining how brands live inside culture, not interrupt it.

Emily shares how film and TV can shine a light on urgent issues, like the impact of social media on young people, and spark real global conversations.

Because when stories resonate, they don’t just entertain… they create legacy.

🎧 Listen now to hear how culture can drive change.

#ImpactLegacy #EmilyWoods #CulturalImpact #StorytellingForChange #EntertainmentIndustry #SocialImpact #WarpFilms

Creativity is being educated out of the system.
In the latest edition of Impact Legacy, Marisa Selfa sits down with Creative Education Leader Rob Pepper, to unpack why education is at a crossroads.

They discuss how we’re still operating within a model built for the Victorian era- designed for scale, not individuality, as arts education is in decline, with GCSE uptake dropping by 40% over the last decade.
At the very moment creativity is needed most, we’re doing the least to protect it.
🎙️ A powerful conversation on the future of creative education.

#ImpactLegacy #FutureOfEducation #CreativeIndustries #ArtsEducation #EducationReform #CreativityMatters #NextGeneration #Leadership #CulturalChange

How do you stay hopeful when the world feels overwhelming?
Editorial Director of Country and Town House magazine Lucy Cleland shares a perspective in this episode that feels especially relevant right now: you don’t have to solve everything, just do the small thing in front of you.
From being consumed by negative headlines to finding a more grounded, purposeful approach, it’s about shifting from paralysis to action. Because if each of us does something, those small actions start to add up.
There’s room for everyone in this work. The radicals, the pragmatists, the optimists. Different voices, different approaches, all moving things forward.
- Focus on what you can do, here and now
- Let go of trying to fix everything alone
- Make space for others to come in, in their own way
That’s how change happens.
#Resilience #Hope #Leadership #Sustainability #Mindset

For decades, fashion has shaped culture - influencing what we value, what we aspire to, and how we see ourselves.

But with that influence comes responsibility.

In this episode of Impact Legacy, Marisa Selfa sits down with PVBLIC Foundation's President of the Board and Managing Director, Kerry Bannigan - founder of the Fashion Impact Fund and a leader working at the intersection of fashion, public policy, gender equity, and climate justice.

They talk about:

• When fashion’s influence must turn into accountability
• Why voluntary commitments aren’t enough
• How power, systems and policy shape real change
• And why sustainability and equity are not add-ons - but foundations
  

Fashion is not just about clothes.

It’s about who gets protected and who pays the price.

This is a conversation about legacy.

1,134 people lost their lives at Rana Plaza.

Behind the headlines were familiar clothing labels. Ordinary men and women making garments for global brands.

For writer and speaker Bel Jacobs, that was the breaking point.

In this powerful episode of Impact Legacy, she reflects on the moment discomfort turned into action and why she ultimately realised the system itself was too entrenched to fix from within.

A conversation about fashion, accountability, and what legacy really means.

🌊 Legacy in action: From Plastic to Purpose. A business built for the ocean.

The ocean doesn’t need just awareness…It needs better business models that save it.

In this first episode of the Impact Legacy Podcast, I speak with Will Pearson, Co-Founder of Ocean Bottle, about what it really means to build impact into the core of a company, not package it as a campaign.

This conversation is about:

• Designing products that fund ocean recovery
• Turning consumption into contribution
• Building accountability into the business model
• And proving that purpose can scale

Legacy is the future we choose to create.

If you care about the future of the ocean and the future of business, this episode is for you.

Welcome to Impact Legacy - a new podcast that looks beyond short-term sustainability & impact efforts to ask a more enduring question: what legacy are we building through the way we do business?

Hosted by CEO of Impact Tailors, Marisa Selfa, the series draws on more than 25 years of leadership across global brands including Levi’s, Adidas, Timberland, National Geographic Retail, ECOALF and North Sails Apparel.

Each episode features honest conversations with leaders and changemakers exploring how responsibility, leadership and long-term thinking can be embedded into the fabric of business.

New episodes released regularly.