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In this episode of The Do Good Business Podcast, we're deep diving into health and safety, and what that means for any business, of any size (yes, even you, solopreneur). We're joined by Health & Safety Consultant Aimee Arsenault. 

She's the founder of Transmit Safety and she's passionate about ensuring the success of the organization through health and safety management systems. With exposure to various industries throughout her career, she understands how dynamic working environments can be and know that communication between all parties is key. 

In this episode, we're talking about:

• What it actually means to have a "healthy and safe" workplace
• How to fight off the temptation to cut corners to keep profits higher
• When online and home-based businesses should start actually considering health and safety and being more intentional about it
• and more! 

To connect with Aimee, visit the Transmit Safety website at transmitsafety.com.

To learn more about Rebel Office and The Do Good Business Podcast, visit rebel office.ca. To grab your free copy of our guide 5 Tasks to Automate Today to Hit $5K Months, visit rebeloffice.ca/guide-automate. 

In this episode of The Do Good Business Podcast, our guest - Katie Gamble, founder of Nature Bee Beeswax Wraps - hits all of the pillars of this show. We talk community, environment, equitable opportunities and building a business with values that guide everything you do. 

Katie Gamble goes above and beyond with her company to not only have a positive impact on this planet, but also keeps her community front and centre with everything she does. In this episode, we talk about: 

• how starting with one goal to reduce plastic waste grew to a much larger mission
• how to support the people who are supporting you and your business
• how to sell products and services to raise funds for a cause or campaign

and more! Listen up.

More about Nature Bee

Nature Bee is a small women-run business founded by Katie Gamble in 2018, that specializes in producing high-quality Beeswax Wraps. Nature Bee’s mission is to make sustainability more attainable by providing a product that is both easy to use and good for the planet. Nature Bee wraps are made using 100% cotton, locally sourced beeswax, pine tree resin, and jojoba oil. Each wrap is handcrafted, folded and packaged here in beautiful Victoria B.C.! Nature Bee takes great pride in using top quality ingredients that meet sustainability and safety standards. 

Something Nature Bee does that sets them apart from other companies is their Custom Wrap collaborations. Nature Bee provides this service to companies who wish to customize the design of the wraps with their logos. Nature Bee has had much success with their custom wrap collaborations and has created wraps for companies like Lush Cosmetics, Babybel, and many more!

• Nature Bee Website: naturebeewraps.ca
• Mama 4 Mamas Limited Time Design

More about Rebel Office

• Rebel Office website: rebeloffice.ca 
• Book a Rebel Office Work Party: rebeloffice.ca/work-parties
• Grab your free guide: 5 Ways to Elevate Your Business to Attract High Ticket Clients: rebeloffice.ca/guide-elevate 

In this episode of The Do Good Business Podcast, we're talking all things values. How to craft them, how to introduce them to your team, how to live more in alignment with them - all of it! Values are such a foundational component of any business looking to do some good & have lasting impact, and Melyssa Griffin embodies this more than anyone we know. 

Melyssa Griffin is a former school teacher turned entrepreneur who believes that the best way to grow a thriving business is to heal the leader behind the scenes. She coaches entrepreneurs back to their inner truth so that they can create abundance without self-abandonment. Through her Aligned Abundance Mastermind, Limitless Life Podcast, and online courses, she’s helped over 300,000 women to reprogram their ineffective subconscious beliefs and patterns that are keeping them stuck so that they can create unapologetic and authentic success.

Connect With Her:

• Website: https://www.melyssagriffin.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melyssa_griffin/
• The Limitless Life Podcast: http://thelimitlesslifepodcast.com

More About Rebel Office: 

• Rebel Office Website: https://rebeloffice.ca
• Join us for Visionary Vacay: https://rebeloffice.ca/visionary-vacay
• Grab Your Free Guide: 5 Ways to Elevate Your Business Today to Attract High Ticket Clients: https://rebeloffice.ca/guide-elevate 

In this episode of The Do Good Business Podcast, we're learning about the importance of paying an ethical, living wage along with how to communicate the value of your ethical business practices to your clients and audience. 

Antoinette Daniel is the founder of Just Helpers, a UK-based cleaning company who previously worked with an anti-human trafficking organisation where she witnessed first hand how vulnerable people are taken advantage of across UK neighbourhoods. With that, she's now on a mission to end inequality by ensuring her team members are afforded good working conditions and fair pay.

As mentioned in the introduction, this episode contains sensitive conversations regarding situations of abuse and human trafficking.

LINKS & RESOURCES: 

• Just Helpers Website: https://justhelpers.co.uk 
• The Living Wage Foundation: https://www.livingwage.org.uk 

HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINES

• Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline: https://www.canadianhumantraffickinghotline.ca 
• National Hotlines Across Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/citizens-corner-national-hotlines/national-hotlines_en 
• USA National Human Trafficking Hotline: https://humantraffickinghotline.org 

MORE ABOUT REBEL OFFICE: 

• Visit rebeloffice.ca to learn more about us and The Do Good Business Podcast
• Visit rebeloffice.ca/guide-elevate to grab your free guide: 5 Ways to Elevate Your Business Today to Attract High-Ticket Clients 

In this episode of The Do Good Business Podcast, we're joined by Amanda Baker, COO of Tease Tea & Tease Tea's Founders Fund. Amanda Baker comes from a career in social impact marketing and now leads Tease, a sustainably sourced, benefit corporation certified tea company as well as Founders Fund, an organization that funds and mentors women in business. It is her fundamental belief that businesses have the greatest potential for environmental and social impact.

We're covering it all, from the B Corp process, to starting a fund, to starting steps for social impact and more. 

• Tease Tea's Website - https://teasetea.com
• The Founders Fund Website - https://foundersfund.ca
• B Corp Assessment - https://bimpactassessment.net 

You can reach Amanda on Instagram via @tease_tea or @thefoundersfund

To learn more about this show and Rebel Office, visit rebeloffice.ca. To grab your Free Guide: 5 Ways to Elevate Your Business Today to Attract High Ticket Clients, visit https://rebeloffice.ca/guide-elevate

In this episode of The Do Good Business Podcast, Sarah's chatting with Christina Jones, badass photographer and the founder of Colorjoy Stock. Colorjoy Stock is a lifestyle and business stock photo membership for brands who want to connect with their community through the images they use. Christina and her team are all about creating * gorgeous * collections of diverse stock imagery for women building better brands. 

We talked about all the things, including:

• 13:06 - Why it's important for businesses and brands to prioritize diversity and inclusion
• 15:43 - How representation in your visual identity boosts your bottom line 
• 18:05 - The selfish reason you need to show diversity in your photos
• 19:28 - Christina's top three tips on where to start to have greater representation in your brand 
• 21:35 - The benefits of building a diverse team and incorporating multiple perspectives into decision making 
• 24:44 - Christina's vision for stock photography and brands using them in the future

Links 

Go follow Christina over on Instagram at @christinajonesphoto and @colorjoystock. You can join her stock photo membership over at colorjoystock.com and get 25 FREE photos if you subscribe to their list! 

• Rebel Office Website - rebeloffice.ca
• Free guide: 5 Ways to Elevate Your Business To Attract High Ticket Clients at rebeloffice.ca/guide-elevate 

In this episode of The Do Good Business Podcast, we're learning the dirt on the laundry industry as Sarah chats with Bernard and Angie, founders of Kind Laundry. As both business and life partners of more than 10 years, they are lucky to share the same values in life. These shared values are how they stay strong as a couple and what drives them as business partners. They are committed to living as sustainably as possible, and that includes building a company that hosts the same values.

They don't hold back as they talk about the realities of building a conscious company with your partner. In fact, they don't hold back about a lot of things! They talk about:

• 4:52 - The process that Bernard & Angie took with Kind Laundry to go from ideation to market using their e-commerce experience
• 8:31 - How to figure out what to focus on and what their priorities were as they were building their business and making decisions about the impact that Kind Laundry would have
• 9:40 - The dirt on the laundry industry, industry practices, labelling and ingredients
• 12:46 - How to prepare and what to research before reaching out to suppliers
• 14:50 - How their relationship works living together AND building a business together that is so rooted in their individual values
• 19:18 - How decisions get made & who has the final call
• 23:00 - Where to start if you're thinking about starting a company with your partner
• 30:06 - The value of outsourcing and growing your team from just the two of you, and how much easier it is when you have a strong mission

LINKS:

Kind Laundry is a purpose-driven company whose mission is to single-use plastic polluting our oceans and landfills, while providing people with a more eco-friendly laundry cleaning solution. They keep sustainability at the centre of every single step of their business operations by offering innovative, greener and safer ways to do laundry that will keep your clothes clean and the planet happy. To learn more about them and to grab your detergent sheets, visit kindlaundry.com.

• Rebel Office Website - rebeloffice.ca
• Grab your free guide: 5 Tasks to Automate in the Next 30 Days to Hit $5K Months at rebeloffice.ca/guide-automate

Welcome to The Do Good Business Podcast! Hosted by Sarah Williams, founder of Rebel Office Inc., this episode is a quick run-through of what you can expect from this show. Additionally, we look at what people responded when asked what it means to "do good business", how your values matter, and what sort of special guests you can expect in coming episodes!

Links to Check Out:

• Visit our website at rebeloffice.ca to learn more about us and The Do Good Business Podcast
• Grab our free guide 5 Tasks to Automate Today to Hit $5K Months at rebeloffice.ca/guide-automate