POG #40 Resource Futures paving the way for a sustainable world

Gareth is an author, speaker & an AMN practitioner. He specializes in getting people out of long-term pain, improving focus & cognitive function, & insomnia. His goal in life is to give as many people as possible the tools in life so that they

Women who have worked tirelessly to be professionally excellent but have neglected themselves in the process. Conquering frustration, guilt and time poverty to live truly prosperous, happy and fulfilled lives. Society is so formed on our assumptions of wh

Chris Walton MSc is an internationally recognised performance psychologist, consciousness researcher and the author of two best-selling books; The Gamma Mindset – Create World Champion Self-Belief in 5 Minutes Per Day. Peak Performance in 60 Seconds – The 4 Essentials to Maximise Your Energy, Resilience and Performance. The people the kept winning were the ones that bring that skill into the moment where pressure was on. The fitness is given, the skill is there with all the experience for elite athletes but the mindset that makes the difference Chris Walton

2:42 – Chris talks about his interest in the mental aspect of performance

6:12 – How one can reach its highest state of consciousness

7:30 – Why do people still feel a lack of accomplishment

9:22 – What convinced him to bring his work into the market

17:20 – Chris explains the preparations needed for Gamma Mindset

20:45 – How to align your body and mind

24:24 – What could be the side effects when applying the Gamma Mindset

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Joel Solomon is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. Joel is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute,” and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors.

I believed that my money has my name on it and, when I make a choice about where to purchase something, where to save it, how to invest it, I’m affecting a whole series of things that we kind of given a pass card to ignore.

Joel Solomon

2:25 – Why does Joel consider our money not to be clean

5:38 – How do you consider spending your money into something clean

7:03 – How would the government impose on local people to be responsible for spending money

9:10 – What was his journey to write the book clean money revolution

15:33 – What are the morals we get from the money that we spent the right way

25:43 – How does Joel define spiritual and how it connects to the current situation of the world

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Shawn Young is the CEO and co-founder of Classcraft, an award-winning Engagement Management System used by 5+ million students and educators in more than 160 countries. Classcraft uses the cultural phenomenon of video games to help educators drive measurable academic performance, non-cognitive skills development, and school climate. By blending students’ physical and virtual learning, the program reframes their progress in school as a game they play together throughout the year.

ClassCraft isn’t a tech tool, it’s an approach that is facilitated by technology

There is a lot of reason not to change, and there aren’t that many reasons to change other than hopefully we have a better outcome for kids.

Shawn Young

1:56 – ClassCraft: How Gaming Concept (Esports) can be beneficial when applied as a method of teaching for students

3:20 – Gamify learning and how he started ClassCraft

6:30 – How do they make education a more engaging and intrinsic motivation

11:28 – Shawn’s advice for parents that have challenges in motivating their children to go to school

14:55 – Shawn talks about a school in Spain and how they were creative with ClassCraft

17:08 – What are the factors that made them grow and become more impactful

22:02 – Why his pricing starts at a minimum amount

22:47 – The most significant resistance for the next generation education

25:23 – What are the plans for education and ClassCraft

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POG #34 Talsom is looking at companies from a different digital perspective

Mike is the founder and Managing Partner of Active Impact Investments, an impact VC with $10M in assets under management. Active Impact exclusively supports small to medium sized purpose-driven ventures scale their impact and profit by providing funding and extensive capacity building services to the portfolio companies. Prior to this, Mike was a Top 40 under 40 with 20 years in the tech industry specializing in services companies and SaaS products. He worked for 14 years in various executive roles for award winning companies, most recently President of Traction Rec and COO at Traction on Demand. Prior to that President of Randstad Professionals running $300M in revenue. Mike's greatest expertise is in enterprise sales, building high performing teams, improving operational efficiency and execution. He serves on the board of directors at DSRF and is a mentor/EIR at NVBC, Founder Institute and Spring Activator. Mike has a Queen’s BSC, INSEAD exec MBA and got his board training through the Beedie Directors Education Program (DEP).

Our team is inspired by what positive impact would these companies succeeded; We look for the business model the way that makes their money to be intertwined with the benefit that they are creating for the society and the environment.

Mike Winterfield

2:42 – Active Impact; small venture capitals, they invest in companies that are solving a social and environmental issue

5:02 – Why they choose to invest in companies that have a positive impact on the environment

8:55 – The reason behind he created Active Impact

12:10 – The experience that makes him in the top 40 under age 40

14:22 – How Mike's company differs from other venture capital companies through support and control standpoint

16:47 – Mike's future plans for the company

18:27 – Where is venture capital leading towards

24:00 – His advice to the people that want to scale their business, factors that are to be considered before seeking investments

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Martin Clermont, Eng., M.SC.Env., B. Tec.h Mec. is founder and CEO of Will Solutions. For more than 30 years, he has been involved in setting up and carrying out several major and innovative projects in the sustainable development sector, in Canada and around the world as a consultant and then as an entrepreneur. Mr. Clermont has, at the same time, carried out various mandates for the Basel Convention Secretariat in some 20 countries in Europe, Africa, Latin America and China. Since 2007, he is actively involved in carbon markets. He designed and led the development of a GHG emission reduction aggregation methodology for small emitters until it was accepted by the VCS certification program. It has filed, as project proponent, a first project in Quebec that has been validated by a recognized third party and whose offset credits are now available on the voluntary market. 2:24 – An introduction to Will Solutions 4:17 – Why is it necessary to work on both sides of the market 5:31 – Martin’s strategic plan of reaching out to the local people and the small and medium scale businesses in Quebec 7:37 – The early stages of Martin’s career that led him to start Will Solutions 9:39 – His advice as to when is the right time to start doing business 10:40 – How they become sustainable while giving most of the profits back to the people 12:22 – The challenges of getting clients to partner with them 15:35 – His perspective of staying in the middle, being neutral and convincing two different worlds of people and how it can impact in the long run 18:34 – Why Martin’s company is offering a franchise opportunity We have no frontier for a climate changed, but we have geopolitical considerations everywhere, in every nation, so the challenge is to be able to integrate all the stakeholders, civil society together to make them participate and face what we have right now with the climate. Martin Clermont That’s all for today and don’t forget to subscribe for more updates. For show notes and resources visit: http://pioneersofgood.org/ And, as always, if you want to get in touch with me, email me at: [email protected]

Anahita Moghaddam is the founder of Neural Beings, and a coach, organizational trainer and International speaker. Her rigorous and experiential methodology is rooted in the Eastern contemplative traditions, and continuously refined under the mentorship of leading scientists and academics in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and the Eastern philosophical systems. Anahita is committed to serving organizations and individuals who aspire to have a substantial positive impact in the world. She is a coach to executives, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders, facilitates workshops and organizational trainings, and speaks at events around the world. She has been a student of the Eastern contemplative traditions for over a decade, primarily attending teachings with HH the 14th Dalai Lama, and has been trained in contemplative neuroscience and psychology at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science in NY. Anahita received her BA in Marketing & Advertising at the London School of Communications and her MA in Social Anthropology at The School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Anahita is committed to a path of self-inquiry, combining analytic insight with experience-based practices. With an objective to refine methods that can unlock the upside of human potential, Anahita leverages her training in social anthropology and contemplative science. When you make the happiness and the flourishing of another person your priority and then you make that your life’s path and purpose, your opening yourself up to a lot of space and positivity. Anahita 1:57 – Anahita talks about the early stages of her life and how she overcomes those issues 6:47 – Why do people seek happiness 8:10 – The factors that led to her decision to help others 10:50 – She shares her experience in her first client and how she made an impact 14:06 – The things she’s doing for the benefit of her future 19:59 – Anahita explains how a person reacts to unhappiness and how one can calibrate the right way to perceived challenges 25:32 – How she combines science and her philosophy to ensure that an individual has an effective function of brain. That’s all for today and don’t forget to subscribe for more updates. For show notes and resources visit: http://pioneersofgood.org/ And, as always, if you want to get in touch with me, email me at: [email protected]