ImpACTivist

In this episode, we speak to Jean Philippe Courtois (JP) who is one of Microsoft's top executives. His focus is on transforming national economies, helping to create sustainable and inclusive economic growth through digital transformation. He was key in the creation of Microsoft's social entrepreneur program. He also co-founded Live for good with his family in 2015 after a tragic event. Live for good aims to unlock the potential of young people from all walks of life through social entr...

Today we speak to Julien Lescs, co-founder of Kimpa, the first family office in Europe dedicated to impact investing. Julien and his team are actively helping wealthy families and family businesses align their family values with their impact investment Strategy in order to invest for good, innovate to keep their family quest alive and win with the next generation on board.He recently published a clinical perspective on ‘how the environmental urgency affects the psychodynamics between family m...

Today we speak to Manuella Cunha Brito, the co-founder of CLIMATESCAPE, the go to platform for the low carbon economy: https://climatescape.org/about Manella’s mission is reversing climate change and reducing inequalities. She co-founded Good Tech Lab and co-authored “The frontiers of impact tech”: https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5ebc463e30e8bd69378b5c117cf5d677ad8a2efc.pdfWe speak about her initial path towards a diplomacy career, her journey to becoming a researche...

Today we speak to Yessica Flores, Founder of Kantaya. In this episode, Yessica shares her corporate journey, why she chose this cause and how it has brought meaning and purpose to her life.Kantaya brings education to rural areas in Peru. 5 and 15 years old receive a holistic curriculum that allows them to keep being children in a safe space. The results have been astonishing and this in part to the focus on social-emotional skills.You can be part of this cause in many ways:https://kanta...

Andres and Maria have a conversation about their most important takeaways to finish the season. They speak about values, reconnection, rethinking, awareness, developing the left hemisphere of your brain, a new version of capitalism and much more. All this was inspired by the impACTivists that have been in the show.The impACTivist podcast crew will take a break and come back in September. Thank you for listening."So who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe, with manual dexterity...

Today we speak to a young leader who started to fight for sanitation as a universal right at 17 years old. We speak about how people like Marie Curie and books inspired her to be a scientist. We also speak about her experience as a young woman entrepreneur with investors, gaining credibility as a young innovator, how she decided to unfocus from her set of solutions to help society during the COVID pandemic, her new blockchain project and much more.Anna has won numerous awards like t...

In this episode Laura Mendoza, Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of UNIMA tells us her rich story experimenting with her identity without being afraid of “ridicule”, what she translates as not being afraid to fail. The value of family, how science, medicine, chemical engineering and marketing shaped her and a lot about entrepreneurship and how she is contributing to making the world a better place.UNIMA is a combination of vision, passion, purpose, and science. UNIMA is a bio...

One billion people that is 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability, and disability prevalence is higher for developing countries. Between 110 million and 190 million people, experience significant disabilities.People with disabilities are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes such as less education, poorer health outcomes, lower levels of employment, and higher poverty rates.Xoan Fernandez explains why supporting minority disability groups is impor...

Enrique Lomnitz merged the technical skills and soft skills to provide a practical solution to solve water scarcity in Mexico City. Enrique comes from a family of migrants and refugees. His childhood was surrounded by art, and his parents cultivated his social awareness. He migrated to the United States with his family when he was 5 years old. During the time he lived in the United States, he graduated from Industrial Design, and after the completion of his studies, he returned to Mexic...

Carolina Meza tells us why and how she collected stories about sustainability initiatives while travelling the world, why we need to reconnect to the basics of life, to nature and how she is bringing all her learnings and knowledge to her municipality as an elected representative. Carolina is also speaker's curator and cities program lead for the largest impact event in the world. The world’s largest event for the planet is on the 27,28, 29 May. Check out the amazing line of speaker...