The Good Problem

Today's guest is Professor Andrew MacLeod: corporate director, futurist, writer, speaker, humanitarian and traveller. Andrew and I explore his fascinating career working with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the United Nations in conflict and natural disaster settings including the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

This episode offers a fascinating perspective of life as an aid worker, and the personal and professional lessons learned throughout Andrew's career. Stay tuned for Part 2 next week.

You can find Andrew on Twitter: @AndrewMMacLeod

On today's episode, Lonny Grafman of Humboldt University and I talk community centred design, service learning, and how important failure is.

Lonny's work is prolific - check it out here.

Lonny is reading: UNFU CKTHE WORLD by Cabot O'Callaghan, and Sinai: a novella by David Gallagher

Lonny is listening to: 99% invisible by Roman Mars

Today's episode features Erika Cramer, Queen of Confidence. In a bit of divergence from our regular programming, Erika brings a different perspective to doing good. We follow Erika's life journey through all its traumas and challenges to where she is today as a mother, entrepreneur and confidence coach, and what she's learned along the way: authenticity, congruency and being a good human.

Find out more about Erika here: www.thequeenofconfidence.com

Erika is listening to the Goop Podcast with Gwyneth Paltrow and Elise Loehnen

Erika is reading Loving What Is by Byron Katie and Big Magic: Creating Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Today Natalie Jesionka, a professor, media professional and human rights advocate joins me to discuss what the development sector might look like in a post-covid-19 world. What will international development work look like? Will the ways we work and program change for good?

Natalie is reading The Overstory by Richard Powers

Natalie is listening to the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast, and The Longest Shortest Time Podcast

Today's episode features Dr. Delia Pop, Director of Programmes at Hope and Homes for Children, and soon to be Director of Tanya's Dream Initiative Fund. We explore how Covid-19 is affecting children living outside of family care around the world, in orphanages, institutions, and foster care arrangements. With tourism halted, funding for orphanages is drying up and children are being sent 'home'. Will we see an increase in the number of children requiring care? Will we see an explosion of people wanting to help these children once tourism resumes?

Delia is reading Donut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist by Kate Raworth

Delia is listening to The Guardian Podcast, and the Tortoise Podcast.

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Today's episode features Leigh Barnes, Chief Customer Officer at the Intrepid Group. We explore how Covid-19 has affected the tourism sector: How will tourism survive this? What responsibility does the tourism sector hold toward communities they have profited off, or those reliant on tourism for survival? What will tourism look like once this is over? We also unpack how the tourism sector might take this opportunity to rethink how they engage with destination communities to create mutually beneficial experiences.

Leigh is reading Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Do/ Story/: How to Tell Your Story So the World Listens, by Bobette Buster, and 10 Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink, by Kevin Cook.

Leigh is listening to the ABC Conversations Podcast, and The Secret To Happiness Podcast, by Lewis Howes.

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Mat Tinkler from Save the Children Australia and I unpack what Covid-19 means for the most vulnerable members of our society - children. We chat about the challenges in keeping 'eyes on the child' in the middle of a global pandemic, the extra risks posed by Covid-19 in places like Cox's Bazar, or Al-Hawl refugee camps, and how NGOs are trying develop new ways of working to support children in this unprecedented time.

Mat is reading: Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe

Shawn Humphrey is a man of many ideas, many projects and many thoughts! Shawn and I chat about the 'Do Gooder Industrial Complex' and Shawn's projects including the Sidekick Manifesto, Two Dollar Challenge, and Imagine Social Good.

Shawn is reading:

Find out more about Shawn and all his projects here.

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2!

Today's guest is Peter Mares - lead moderator at the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership, and journalist of over 25 years.

Peter and I talk ethics in the time of Covid-19 and what an ethical framework looks like in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic.

What Peter is reading: Solved, by Andrew Wear

Links to interesting articles mentioned in this episode:

The final episode of Season 1 features ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Often called the "world's most influential living philosopher", Peter is credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, and the concept of effective altruism. He is also known for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life ethics in bioethics.

Peter talks to us about the importance of applying logic, reason and evidence to decision-making around giving and puts forward effective altruism as the methodology to do the 'most good'.