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Nathan A. Stuck of Profitable Purpose Consulting joins the Mighty Measure Podcast to discuss “building the beloved community” through practical action and sustained progress. 

He shares his path from trucking, poker, and Enterprise sales to repeated layoffs, returning to UGA for an MBA, becoming Athens’ first Uber driver, and witnessing low-wage workers juggling multiple jobs, which pushed him to question capitalism. 

A B Corp project through UGA’s Net Impact Club introduced him to values-driven business and led to work at ADV (now V) and later teaching B Corps at UGA. 

Stuck discusses learning from history, resilience amid backlash against terms like DEI/ESG, and community work including trash cleanups and homelessness advocacy, emphasizing affordable housing as a major challenge.

He argues for bridge-building across divides, leading by example, and focusing on helping “one” person at a time.

Scott Smith of Smith and Connors shares how his path from aspiring novelist and freelancer in New York to Portland-based strategist led him to build a purpose-driven agency with his wife and sister-in-law in 2013, aiming to use strategy “for good” and work with values-aligned clients.

He describes early growth sparked by winning a major bid with Meyer Memorial Trust, the challenges of balancing profitability with values in an extractive system, and a 2020 reset after COVID when the firm shrank, went fully remote, and adopted a new metric focused on the experience of clients, employees, contractors, and partners.

Smith discusses becoming a B Corp as an external marker of existing practices, emphasizes Smith and Connors’ core offering of clarity and alignment through “design therapy,” audience mapping, and empathy, and reflects on optimism driven by clients, cultural shifts toward vulnerability, and curiosity as a core value.

Pallavi Pande, Oregon mompreneur and founder of DTOCS compostable tableware and DTOCS Consulting, an Amazon growth partner firm, joins Kim Allchurch Flick on the podcast.

Pallavi shares how a disappointing experience with a Google marketing agency - spending about $20,000 for fewer than three sales - taught her to track weekly metrics and led her to build a consulting model focused on educating clients with calls, SOPs, and training.

She explains why Amazon became DTOCS’s primary channel (about 80% of sales), especially during COVID, and how Amazon can help small businesses with visibility, logistics, inventory optimization, and storytelling/PR, while acknowledging concerns about packaging and warehouse conditions and noting avenues for advocacy.

The conversation covers using AI tools, choosing channels strategically, supply-chain lessons from prior jobs and businesses, documenting impact, and community involvement.

LaToya “Patrice” Seawood, founder and principal consultant of Level Up Management, MBA professor, and Mighty Impacts instructor, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss the theme “your business is not stuck; your systems are.” 

Seawood shares how she started Level Up during COVID after leaving her job to care for her children and evolved it into a social-enterprise-minded consultancy focused on turning vision into clarity, structure, action, and impact, with emphasis on operations, workforce development, and customer experience. 

She describes common challenges for entrepreneurs and nonprofits - lack of administrative knowledge, undervaluing operations until breakdowns occur, and the emotional side of change and trust - especially during growth. 

She highlights tailored leadership development for marginalized communities, building workforce pipelines, aligning operations with purpose and values, and helping founders let go so the owner is not the system.

Shanti Joy Gold, a former corporate leader turned entrepreneur and coach who supports LGBTQ+ and other underrepresented professionals, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss how stories reconnect people. 

Shanti describes hiding her relationship at work for a decade, later coming out in workplace conversations and on LinkedIn, and how allies’ responses sparked her podcast, Stories We Haven’t Shared, creating a forum for under-discussed experiences. 

They discuss the ongoing, complex nature of “coming out,” the “radar” marginalized people use to assess safety, and how challenges can become superpowers. Shanti highlights podcast episodes on disability (Ruth Blatt), a Holocaust survivor (Tibor Spitz), and her father’s Vietnam experience, and emphasizes presence over rumination. 

She shares her website, monthly “Saboteur No More” gatherings, and a surfing metaphor for mental fitness; they also discuss music, including the Indigo Girls.

Laurie Lane-Zucker, founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, joins Kim Allchurch Flick.

Laurie Lane-Zucker, who coined “impact entrepreneur” and whose upcoming book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy (Sept. 1, 2026), argues for transforming an extractive economy into a regenerative one. Lane-Zucker traces his systems-thinking roots to environmental writers and his work on place-based education, linking cultural foundations, economic architecture (including B Corps), and systemic infrastructure as three nested layers needed for change.

He frames today’s “polycrisis” as a single systems failure and introduces “real security” and the “prevention dividend,” citing returns from preventive investments like ecosystem restoration, hazard mitigation, and pandemic preparedness.

The conversation also covers language shifts from sustainability to regeneration, mission protection through ownership models, the impact of the attention economy on community and place, and resources available at impactentrepreneur.com/breakthrough.

Lisa Geason-Bauer, founder and president of Evolution Marketing, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss sustainability/ESG consulting, impact storytelling, ethical marketing, and environmentally responsive design. 

Lisa describes founding the firm on Sept. 15, 2007 to prove a professional services company can succeed using a triple bottom line lens - people, planet, and profit - while navigating Wisconsin’s long recessionary period after 2008. 

She recounts building the state’s B Corp ecosystem through Be Local Wisconsin and helping companies certify, noting growth from a handful of B Corps to 26+ statewide and preparing members for B Lab’s new standards. 

The conversation covers challenges like politicization of environmental and social sustainability, the need to find common ground, and Lisa’s optimism tied to launching Evolution Marketing’s 2025 Carbon Footprint and Operational Impact Report, climate education, and practical actions such as home efficiency, reduced plastics, local food systems, and Malarkey roofing innovations.

NOTE: Lisa made an error, saying B Local Wisconsin started in 2007 when it was actually 2017.

Jeffrey D. Stewart, founder and executive director of Enharmonic Encounters, joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Enharmonic Encounters helps companies measure impact and amplifies non-English speaking stakeholders through language access.

Stewart describes becoming the first company in the United States to certify under B Lab’s new standards (V2) and explains the need for real case studies to show compliance is possible across company sizes.

He traces his path from a Fulbright experience in Brazil to working at B Lab as a Portuguese-speaking analyst certifying over 100 companies, then launching a translation practice combined with B certification consulting.

They discuss global versus local impacts, the growing need for language access amid B Lab’s global consolidation, and key V2 updates including required climate action planning, continuous improvement mechanisms, equity integrated across standards, and higher-level governance buy-in, as well as early challenges setting qualitative climate SMART goals.

Heather Beiden Jacobs, a Portland-area wellbeing coach who supports organizers, nonprofit leaders, and mission-driven change makers with “radical self-care” as strategic infrastructure and inner work of resistance - joins Kim Allchurch Flick.

Heather shares her background of childhood trauma, a severe diabetes diagnosis at age eight, years of self-destructive behavior, and a near-death hospitalization at 19 that helped shift her toward healing, sobriety, and sustained self-compassion, later reinforced by her relationship with her partner, Blaine.

She describes widespread chronic systemic overwhelm and how burnout benefits manipulation and division, arguing self-care is necessary, mutual, and tied to meeting human needs so people can access clarity and collective action.

Heather discusses challenges of reaching overwhelmed clients, offers a workshop for aligned organizations, and shares how to contact her via TransformativeWellbeingCoaching.com and LinkedIn.

Tessa Bridge joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a follow-up discussion about her book "Do Your Part: Bold, Sustainable Leadership for Social Impact Leaders in a Time of Polycrisis." Bridge describes writing the resource she needed when she felt overextended in vulnerable leadership roles and couldn’t find guidance at the intersection of values-based work and exhaustion. She frames today’s “polycrisis” as requiring a shift from individual heroics and constant sprinting to grounded, regulated, collective leadership, including tools like the “window of tolerance” to recognize hyper- and hypo-arousal and return to clear thinking. The book includes research, interviews, and case studies on issues like attachment to workplace community, internalized pressure, and unjust systems creating impossible expectations. Bridge shares optimism about human-centered, interdependent leadership and invites readers to clarify what’s theirs to do, seek generative communities, and connect via her website, LinkedIn, and newsletter; she names three influential authors she’d dine with.