YouMeWe Amplified - Conversations w Wave-Making Women: Transforming Lives with Social Solutions

Sara Dunkley is the Founder of Beautiful World Canada (BWC), as well as the President of Stellar Outdoor Advertising and Santa’s Village. She founded BWC in 2011 as a Canadian non-profit organization with a mission to help passionate and dedicated students excel in their high school and University or College education, enabling them to create a bright future for themselves, their communities, and their countries.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Gain insight on how to start a foundation
• What is required to uplift girls in Africa out of poverty?
• Discover how local and international collaboration can make a vision a reality.
• A leadership strategy that gives you the bandwidth to manage two businesses, a charity and family
• The increased challenges of starting a foundation and alternatives to contribute

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Jennifer Harper is the Founder and CEO of Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC. Cheekbone Beauty is a digitally native direct-to-consumer brand that is helping Indigenous youth see themselves in a beauty brand while using the concept of Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) fused with Indigenous wisdom in the brand's ethos and in developing products. She strives to educate as many people as possible about the Residential School System and the effects it has had on her family and friends through decades of generational trauma. She regularly speaks to university, college and high school students about social entrepreneurship, empathy, and the history of her First Nations family.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• How you can build a brand on one value.
• How to bake your social impact into your brand
• Insights into the power of partnerships and how to gain them
• Advantages of entering an industry you know nothing about
• How to engage your customers in development and impact

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In 2005, after 6 years as the President & CEO of Junior Achievement of London and District, she launched her own agency, High Altitude Thinking Inc. Since then, Cynthia has continued to provide organizations, both private sector and nonprofit, with effective business development and growth strategies. She has carved a reputation for her presence, leadership and record of results as a successful business and relationship builder. Cynthia and High Altitude Thinking Inc. also founded the Power of the Purse Women's Conference in 2007. After a successful decade of presenting Power of the Purse Women’s Conferences, Cynthia was seeking a new way to profile the accomplishments of women making an impact around the globe. To this end, she created IMPACTwithCynthiaO, an Youtube show featuring her in conversation with these remarkable women.

Interview Highlights:

• How to create a mentee program
• How to create a white-label social impact
• How to measure the social impact of a new initiative
• What are you doing now that is exposing a social gap, and what can you do about it
• How to engage sponsors

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Kathy Willis has always been a strong feminist advocate in the anti-violence movement. She is Executive Director of Huronia Transition Homes (HTH), a charitable organization in Simcoe County, working to end all violence against all women. Under Kathy’s leadership, HTH has grown from a single program woman’s shelter to a multi-program county-wide organization. They offer a women’s shelter with specialized services for women who have been sex trafficked, a sexual assault counselling and advocacy centre, a children’s program for children exposed to abuse against their mothers, and most recently, a social enterprise Operation Grow (OG)
INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• How a not-for-profit can generate income for sustainability while providing stakeholders opportunities
• What compounds violence against women and children
• How to lead a team in challenging times or highly charged situations
• The day we will know stereotypes no longer plagues our social construct
• What abused women crave most

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Kanchan’s skills draw on over 25 years of senior organizational experience, including operations, strategic planning, team development, and relationship building, to support her coaching and facilitation. Kanchan coaches and supports C-Suite executives, Senior Management and High Potentials.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Transforming your business into having a social impact
• Collaborating strategies – the challenges and opportunities.
• What you can do to make diverse leaders feel more welcome
• The importance of self-reflection
• The value of a diverse network

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Jenny Sawanohk is a Truth and Reconciliation Specialist, educator, advocate, and motivational speaker. She developed and coordinates the first-of-its-kind programming for Indigenous youth-in-care to ensure they receive culturally sensitive and culturally competent identity-based healing opportunities.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Why are half the youth in care Indigenous?
• Learn about the Remember Me Ceremony – June 30th.
• Where can you go if you want to help with truth and reconciliation?
• How to engage indigenous healers and elders
• How connecting to your calling can transform your life.
• Gain insight into an Indigenous worldview and how we all can heal if we adopt it.

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Chenny Xia played a leadership role at multiple design consultancies for over a decade before deciding to focus on one big, hairy challenge: creating a more equitable healthcare system through decolonization.

Interview highlights:

• What is the biggest challenge of home care, and what can increase the quality?
• Gain insight into how co-create to launch a service to have a social impact
• The Benefits of becoming a social enterprise.
• The importance of measuring your impact
• Using the ‘Theory of Change’ to meet your desired social impact
• One of the biggest hurdles as a social entrepreneur and how it can hold back your impact

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Amy Tung, Founder, I AM LOVE PROJECT is for women who are restarting their lives to build something better. I AM LOVE PROJECT provides extra financial assistance to women when they need it most.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Something you must do at the beginning of your social initiative
• The advantages of being a social enterprise rather than a charity
• The advantages of pay-per-piece social initiatives and how to collaborate

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We spend so much time at work, on average of 1,700 hours a year. Although many people enjoy their occupation, society is trending toward living a more meaningful life. What if you could have both?

During and post-pandemic, what was once a choice to answer the call is now a rallying cry to take a proactive role in our time’s social, economic, and environmental issues. With the increased acknowledgement that the vulnerable, marginalized, and unrepresented people have suffered the most during the pandemic, now is time to make your contributions count.