The Global Shuffle

Teo joins the podcast to give his take on Greece today as a former youth leader in the country. He recently spent time in the army as part of Greece’s mandatory enrollment for males and shares what that experience was like.

He then details how the economic challenges came to be, and how the country is dealing today with economic and immigration issues. Teo also explains the hopes he has for the future of Greece.

Michael joins The Global Shuffle from New York and tells his story of growing up in Australia, and how his upbringing shaped him to enter into advocacy and to dedicate himself to the fight against extreme poverty.

He details the founding of the Global Citizen movement (formerly known as The Global Poverty Project) and explains how their impact model works, how they measure success and how they gamify activism. Global Citizen today has engaged millions of people around the world as well as celebrities like Beyonce and Rihanna, and global figures like Michelle Obama, Malala, Bill Gates and Justin Trudeau.

If you’re wondering how you in your day to day actions can be a global citizen and fight for a better world, this is the episode for you.

Keep your eye out for the upcoming festivals in Montreal (Sept 17) as well as the flagship event in New York (Sept 24).

To check out more about Global Citizen check out globalcitizen.org or on Twitter at @GlblCtzn and @GlblCtznImpact

To connect with Michael, follow him on Twitter at @micksheldrick

Hugo Pereira joins The Global Shuffle for a wide-ranging discussion. He shares his experiences growing up in Portugal, becoming the President of AIESEC International, leadership lessons he's learned, his entrance into the startup world and his recent shift into sustainable mobility at EV-Box

We discuss the global shift towards electric vehicles including adoption challenges, upcoming opportunities as well as misconceptions that exist today.

You can follow Hugo on Twitter @hugospereira, or LinkedIn https://nl.linkedin.com/in/hugosbpereira

You can also follow EV-Box on Twitter @evbox or at facebook.com/evboxbv

Tala tells stories of her experience growing up as an American with Palestinian heritage, her time working with Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and her work to battle polio today with UNICEF.

She has a deep family connection to this issues and the work that she does today, which she opens up about. In addition, she leads a multi-dimensional life on the side working to provide values-based career coaching with her organization CORE, as well as working to spread awareness of Middle Eastern culture through the organization afrika.

You can check out her organization at talamansinyc.com

Danha calls in from Venezuela and tells her story of how she grew up in the era of Hugo Chavez and was part of the political protest movement.

Today ordinary Venezuelans are having trouble finding enough food and medicine to live their lives. Political gridlock and poor economic decisions have led to these dark days, and Danha details what it is like to live through it.

Throughout all this Danha remains incredible positive and hopeful. To that end we also discuss her growing startup Pago Flash, that is looking to enable e-commerce and digital transactions amongst small and medium-sized businesses and Venezeualans.

If you would like to make a donation to help Venezuelans through this difficult time, please visit the following link - www.ilovevenezuela.org

Sheena Melwani tells stories related to her non-conventional background studying and working within religion, health and technology in East Africa, the UK, Malaysia and Canada.

She provides her take on how eHealth can contribute to patient-centric healthcare and patient self-management, and how this has led to her startup Silvr Movement (http://www.fortheagingpopulaton.com). The startup works to make life more accessible for seniors, and in a recent health hackathon was awarded a top prize which resulted in a trip to Facebook’s HQ in Silicon Valley.

Kate Wharton calls in from Washington DC, where she works for Deloitte’s consulting practice for the public sector. Since graduating she helped to found D2international, an initiative to pair Deloitte’s consulting resources with development organizations around the world. She is also the COO of Refugee Open Ware, an organization that looks to achieve “moonshot humanitarian innovation” by applying advanced technologies to areas of need in order to disrupt and improve the way we deliver humanitarian assistance.

In an age where different sectors of society are colliding and new disruption technologies are emerging, Kate provides a thoughtful take on how big business and new technology can be used to contribute to international development.

Christian details his experiences volunteering in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2015 World Junior Hockey Championships and soon to be at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.

He explains what it’s like to actually be a volunteer, his best memories, the craziest moments and why he wrote a book on volunteering at the Olympics. He also provides some advice to anyone thinking about volunteering at an Olympic Games in the future!

To follow his experiences at the upcoming Rio 2016 Summer Olympics follow him at his blog at http://www.christianfortin.com/

AIESEC Alumna Akira Sakano is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Zero Waste Academy, the Co-Founder of RDND and the Curator of the Osaka Hub of the Global Shapers Community.

She provides a snapshot into the tremendous work being done to create zero waste cities and more integrated communities in Japan. She also comments on the big trends Japan is going through as a country, and how she believes impact begins at the local level.

Nick and I are both massive basketball fans, so we continue our conversation with a chat about basketball, the NBA offseason, his beloved Milwaukee Bucks and my Toronto Raptors.

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