SproutCast – Social Enterprise | Changemakers | Social Entrepreneurs | Positive Impact | For Purpose

In this episode Julia chats with Stacey Price about financial foundations for start-ups and entrepreneurs and the key skills you need for managing your organisation's finances.

In this episode Julia chats with Isaac Jeffries about why social enterprises need to be doing good, not just donating for good and some solutions to common mistakes made by new organisations.

In this episode of SproutCast social entrepreneur Geoff Gourley chats with Julia about pitching for investment and impact investing – what it is, how it differs from traditional investment, why it is important and the types of organisations that will benefit from it. He outlines what a successful pitch looks like, what investors are looking for and how you can present your organisation or company in the best possible light when engaging with investors.

Felicity Green, Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor at Spark Strategy, chats to Julia about partnerships, becoming part of the B-Corp movement, creating shared value and much more.

Stephanie Woollard CEO of Seven Women chats with Julia about how Seven Women started, what Stephanie has learnt in 10 years of running the organisation, international development, grassroots change, setting up a non-profit, running an organisation in two countries and applying lessons from programs in Nepal in Australia.

Chris Raine CEO of Hello Sunday Morning and Oxford MBA Skoll Scholar chats with Julia about what it takes to build successful partnerships, the downsides of using the NFP structure for social enterprise and his thoughts on finding purpose and meaning in your work.

Alicia Darvall, Executive Director of B Lab Australia & New Zealand, talks to Julia about the B Corporation model, how some Australian non-profits or social enterprises can now become B Corps alongside their corporate and private brethren, how the B Corp Impact Assessment can help non-profits of all shapes and sizes to improve their triple bottom line (society, the environment, profit) and their transparency, plus they chat about the exciting project that B Lab is working on to create an entirely new type of company structure in Australia.

In this interview Julia and Dr Jason Fox, bestselling author and motivation design specialist, discuss pioneering leadership, how to lead a quest, how to rethink your organisation's strategy, culture and future as well as how Jason makes his ideas happen, avoiding the Inevitable Kraken of Doom and a range of other awesome ways to help your organisation achieve its quest.

In this episode Julia chats with Alicia Curtis, founder of Alyceum, about how serving on a non-profit board can mean your big ideas have big impact, leadership and governance in the non-profit, social enterprise and for-purpose sectors and much more.

Steven Speldewinde founder of IdeasHoist and The Social Deck shares lessons learned by interviewing over 100 entrepreneurs, insights from his own entrepreneurial successes and failures in Australia, USA and Sweden, as well as advice for crafting your social enterprises' business model using the business model canvas. Join Julia and Steven as they chat about all of this and much more on this episode of SproutCast.