Practice GOOD

Today we have Anna Ashie, the Housing Operations Manager for the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida, joining us today.  

We have an incredible conversation about the details of persons being precariously housed: what contributes to the problem, what could be potential solutions and more!  

Jump in to discover exactly what we can do to partner with these powerful efforts that change lives! 

Want to make the world a better place but come home to children experiencing anxiety or depression?  

Not sure what to do?  Feeling overwhelmed with the weight of creating a better world and also figuring out how to support your own children in their own mental health journey? 

Right now anxiety and depression are on the rise in America, and it is starting earlier and earlier than we ever understood before.  

Join us as we welcome mental health advocate, community organizer, public school assembly speaker, and train-the-trainer coach, Connie Jakab as she tells us her story through parenting, anxiety and depression, and what she is now doing to make an practical impact in her community!  She also shares some self-care tricks she practices for her own wellbeing!  You won't want to miss this. 

Today we get the honor of speaking with Rooshy Roy, the CEO and co-Founder of Aavrani a skincare brand celebrating Indian heritage, culture, and ingredients.  Choosing to us for-profit business as an avenue to disrupt an entire industry and create social impact is one of our favourite conversations!  Join us, as we learn more about Aavrani's journey from idea to the cover of Vogue India!  

Is quiet quitting happening with mission-driven organizations?  YES!  What is it?  Is it the same thing as employee disengagement?  What do we do when we see it happening?  And, how do we prevent it in the future?  Join us on Practice GOOD podcast as we dive deep into this concept of quiet quitting and its relation to social impact organizations.  Let's be take social impact inward.  It is no longer good enough to just have a compelling mission and vision of social impact.  Employees want to see that impact lived internally in the organizational culture.  So let's talk about it! 

Are you passionate about your faith and justice?  Join us for a conversation on the intersection of faith and justice in our every day lives.  

Lorraine Lam, social worker in Toronto, Canada, specialising in working with the precariously housed joins us for a dive into this much needed conversation.  

Lorraine is a Chinese-settler Canadian community worker, a musician, a writer, a speaker, a community cultivator, an advocacy organizer, but mostly she's a social worker, a consultant, and a bridge builder. I love following along on her journey of social justice, poverty, and homelessness. She works a lot with deescalation and crisis intervention, as well as faith in action, and we get the privilege of having her with us today.

In a season where you are exhausted, burnt out, or just can't seem to find the joy in life anymore?  

Is your social impact journey causing you to feel drained?

Only having leftovers for yourself, family and friends? 

Today we are joined by Alex Counts, Co-Founder of The Grameen Foundation, an organization created to raise funds for the Grameen Bank, an institution founded by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner for the social innovation of Microfinance.  

Alex shares with us his years of wisdom from leading in the nonprofit, social impact space, while learning exactly what he needed to do to keep his mind, body and spirit healthy and able to serve in the long run.  

Join us as Alex shares How to Change the World without Losing Your Mind!  You won't want to miss his incredible story and inspiring wisdom!

So you have been listening to this podcast for a while now but you are not yet working in social impact?  Maybe you are aspiring to start your own thing or maybe you are hoping to join a nonprofit that fits your values and passion!  

Today, the CEO of Audacious Resumes, Lorrenza VanDiver joins us to talk about the nitty gritty details of resumes, cover letters, networking and interviewing for social impact leaders.  

Join us as we explore exactly what we all need to know to join or shift careers into a mission-driven organization!  This is your personal social impact career coach!  

Welcome back to Practice GOOD podcast!  This episode is going to give you a sneak peek about what to expect this season and also share with you a little bit about what has been happening in our lives since Season 2.  Join us to get the inside scoop!  

Alina Timofeeva was born and raised in Russia by her uneducated grandmother living in poverty in the most mafia area of Russia.  Her grandmother's greatest aspiration for her was to become a housewife.  But Alina had another dreams.  Dreams that were so persistent she refused to give in to 497 rejection letters. 

Join us as we get an inside view of a Russian woman's immigration story to the UK, how she became an Associate Partner by age of 30 in a male dominated technology industry, her perspective on failure, how she gives back to those who come after her, her perspective on the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine and her thoughts on how we can make a difference for those effected. 

Love what you hear?  Check out her TEDx talk called Fail But Never Give Up.  

Dr. Peter Small was one of the founding leaders at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is currently serving as the Chief Medical Officer at Hyfe, a company creating public health innovation through AI.  Join us as we discover how AI for humans can save lives, eradicate disease, and stop the next pandemic.  Dr. Peter Small shares not only about this compelling social innovation but also about his personal journey towards tracking trends of something so elusive as a cough.  Join us for a very interesting discussion that will feed your hunger for creating social GOOD.