Podcasts about global grassroots

In this episode, Kirsten Gelsdorf speaks with Gretchen Ki Steidle the founder of Global Grassroots, a mindfulness-based social venture incubator for women in East Africa. She shares evidence and examples of how applying the concepts and practices of conscious social change can help us more effectively and compassionately engage in crisis contexts.  She also leaves us with a mindfulness practice we can all use.

Gretchen Ki Steidle is the founder and President of Global Grassroots, a mindfulness-based social venture incubator for women in East Africa whose mission is to catalyze women and girls as leaders of Conscious Social Change in their communities.Conscious Social Change is a design methodology that employs mindfulness throughout the process of designing a social solution. Through their programs, women emerge as change agents who learn to leverage their own assets, gifts, and passions to benefit the common good. Their solutions are designed to be innovative, sustainable, and impactful at the systemic and root levels of a social issue.She is also founder of Circles for Conscious Change, LLC, which works with social entrepreneurs, non-profits, and corporations on the use of mindfulness as a design tool for social innovation. Gretchen is author of Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation (2017 MIT Press). Gretchen is also a producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary film, The Devil Came on Horseback, and co-author of the memoir of the same name (2007 PublicAffairs). **************Gretchen holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, where she attended as a Jefferson Scholar. She is a certified Integrative Breathwork Practitioner and Breath-Body-MindTM Practitioner, which she has utilized for trauma-healing in Haiti, Rwanda, US, and Uganda among natural disaster and violence survivors. In 2007, Gretchen was honored by World Business Magazine and Shell as one of the top International 35 Women Under 35. In 2010 she was chosen as a CNN Hero working in Haiti after the earthquake. In 2011 she was chosen one of seven Remarkable Women of the World by New Hampshire Magazine. In 2018 she was named to Inc.'s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. She regularly lectures and offers workshops on mindfulness for social change at conferences, wellness institutions, universities, and organizations globally, including the Skoll World Forum, Omega Institute, Tuck School and AshokaU Exchange.IG: @themindfulchangeagent Twitter: @ConsciousChangeFacebook: www.facebook.com/global.grassrootsglobalgrassroots.orgconsciouschangestudy.org**************What is a Social Enterprise?A Social Enterprise is an organization created for impact. It uses a sustainable and earned income business model with a governing structure focused on stated social or environmental goals. It invests a significant portion of its revenue, profit or assets into expanding this stated mission.socialenterprise.usinfo@socialenterprise.ustoastinggood.com**************KINDNESS FOR COMPASSIONHumans feel good when we are kind to one another. Feeling good is the basis for happiness, justice, and peace. Treating each other kindly unlocks our collective and individual success.

In this episode, Arthi is joined by Gretchen Ki Steidle, the founder and President of Global Grassroots, a US based NGO that operates a mindfulness-based social venture incubator and women's leadership program in post-conflict East Africa .Gretchen gives us insights into her journey of self-discovery, from the young age of 9, knowing that her privilege needed to be used for the better of humankind and specifically women. Through her travels across the world, she transformed herself by turning away from a traditional path in terms of career, to leading a purposeful life as a social change agent, catalysing others to push boundaries and grow beyond their circumstance.Gretchen helps us understand mindfulness and the intersection between mindfulness, leadership and social change. She also offers simple ways which we can become social change agents too.About Gretchen:She is also the founder of Circles for Conscious Change, which is a transformative education-based organization working with social entrepreneurs, non-profits, and corporations on the use of mindfulness as a design tool for social innovation. Gretchen believes that cultivating inner awareness and contributing to the common good are both necessary to advance the greatest level of positive social change.From being an author, an emmy nominated documentary producer and an MBA graduate, to being a certified breathwork practitioner assisting women and children to heal from the trauma from war, disaster and gender-based violence ravages in countries such as Rwanda, Haiti, the US and Uganda, Gretchen’s experience is so multi-faceted. She is purposeful in her work and her insight into human nature, suffering and potential for excellence is undeniable. It’s no wonder she has been named on various lists for her remarkable work and is sought after globally for talks and workshops about mindfulness and social change.If you enjoyed this episode, then do rate, write a review and share with others. Share too, your own insights from your journey based on themes from the episode - what has worked or hasn't for you. We can all learn from each other.#findyourprerna #prernaadvisory #bebold #bebrave

Wendy Anderson and Cristina Ljungberg are the Co-Founders of The Case for Her, a philanthropic investment portfolio addressing the key women’s health issues of menstruation and sexual health and pleasure through grants, investments, convenings, and advocacy. Founded in 2017, The Case for Her brings together decades of experience working and investing in women’s health and rights. This dynamic and flexible portfolio spans the globe and includes investments in product companies, tech innovations, research initiatives, and grassroots organizations. Wendy is a graduate of Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Wendy Anderson spent over a decade working in the financial industry before transitioning to strategic philanthropy. In 2009, she became founder and director of Futura Foundations, Social Initiatives. Wendy chairs the board at Be Girl, a mission-driven menstrual products company, is an active board member of Women Moving Millions and sits on the advisory board of Saral Designs. Cristina Ljungberg has a Master’s in Biotechnology from Northwestern and an MBA from Dartmouth College and this combined expertise in business and healthcare has propelled her nearly two-decade journey in health and philanthropy. Before The Case for Her, Cristina spent five years on the Board of Directors for Global Grassroots and established the nonprofit foundation Giving Wings in 2010. In 2016, Cristina became a founding member of the Maverick Collective, an initiative to eliminate extreme poverty created by Population Services International (PSI) in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition to her work with women’s health, Cristina is also a Partner at Influence Film—a foundation, investment fund and online platform that supports feature-length documentary film production. She is also an active board member of Acumen, a leader in the impact investment space and AFRIpads, a Ugandan manufacturer of reusable menstrual pads. Check out The Case for Her at thecaseforher.com Rate, Review & Subscribe!

Jamie Henn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his role as co-founder and strategic communications director of 350.org -- an organization focused on building a global grassroots climate movement, and pressuring political leaders to heed the warnings from the scientific community. | Episode 248

Kathryn interviews Break Free Together founder Linda Kay Klein, author of “Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free”. Klein has been advocating for change in the realm of the American Evangelical Christian Church for over a decade. She was taught that a women's sexuality is viewed as shameful in the eyes of the church. Conversations with other young women coping with these same identity issues facilitated her own healing and lead her to write this book. Kathryn also interviews Global Grassroots president Gretchen Ki Steidle, author of “Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation”. Steidle argues that personal investment in self-awareness helps to shape leaders who are able to inspire change in others, build stronger relationships, and design innovative and more sustainable solutions. She offers a roadmap for integrating mindfulness into every aspect of social change.

Kathryn interviews Break Free Together founder Linda Kay Klein, author of “Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free”. Klein has been advocating for change in the realm of the American Evangelical Christian Church for over a decade. She was taught that a women's sexuality is viewed as shameful in the eyes of the church. Conversations with other young women coping with these same identity issues facilitated her own healing and lead her to write this book. Kathryn also interviews Global Grassroots president Gretchen Ki Steidle, author of “Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation”. Steidle argues that personal investment in self-awareness helps to shape leaders who are able to inspire change in others, build stronger relationships, and design innovative and more sustainable solutions. She offers a roadmap for integrating mindfulness into every aspect of social change.

May 9, 2018 Global Grassroots Gretchen Steidle, Revolutionary Conversations Mark Fowler and Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher

Gretchen Steidle is the founder and President of Global Grassroots, an international organization that leads a social venture incubator and mindful-leadership program for women and girls in East Africa. Among many other awards, she's been named a CNN Hero in Haiti. Her new book is Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation. Resources: * http://www.conscioussocialchange.org/ – Website * http://globalgrassroots.org/ – Website * @ConsciousChange – Twitter * Buy her book, Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation Sponsored by: * LEADx.org – subscribe to become 1% better every single day Subscribe on iTunes to join our Ambassadors Club: Please click here to subscribe on iTunes, and leave a quick rating. Nothing matters more for bringing the podcast to the attention of others. After you subscribe and leave a review, send an email to info at leadx dot org to let us know, and we'll invite you into the private LEADx Ambassadors Group on Facebook. Group members are eligible for ridiculously good prizes each month, have special access to me and LEADx guests, discounts on live events, and of course it's a great forum for peer-learning and support. Share: And, by all means, if you know someone you think would benefit, please spread the word by using the share buttons below. — What is LEADx and The LEADx Show with Kevin Kruse? Imagine if you could have the world's best executive coaches and leadership mentors whispering into your ear every morning on your way to work. Every weekday, there will be a new episode of The LEADx Leadership Show with an interview from a different thought leadership or business expert. Many of these guests are thought leaders, famous authors or high-profile CEOs from innovative startup companies. Others are creatives, artists, entrepreneurs or corporate career leaders. They have all achieved extreme success and they are willing to share practical advice on how to advance your career and develop your leadership and management skills by offering daily career tips on time management, productivity, marketing, personal branding, communication, sales, leadership, team building, talent management and other personal development and career development topics. There will be a new episode waiting for you every day just in time for your morning commute, morning treadmill session or whatever else it is you do to start your day. LEADx isn't just the name of this new podcast, it's the name of a digital media and online learning company that is re-imagining professional development for millennials and career driven professionals looking to break into manager roles or excel in current leadership and management roles. If you're looking for management training or professional development that is delivered in a fun and engaging way, sign up for our daily newsletter at LEADx.org. It's packed with life hacks, daily career tips and leadership challenges that will turn you into a high potential leader in no time. What does LEADx stand for? We are exploring leadership. We are about NEXT GENERATION leadership. We believe that professional training and workplace education has not kept up with advances in digital media. Today's emerging leaders and management professionals just don't find 5 day workshops or eLearning modules to be very compel...

Gretchen Steidle is the Founder and President of Global Grassroots, a nonprofit organization that works with women and girls to be leaders of conscious social change in their communities. Gretchen gives lectures and workshops worldwide. We can experience our own little workshop by reading her new book: Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation. It's filled with stories of Gretchen's personal experiences, her work in the world, particularly in Africa. www.globalgrassroots.org

Gretchen Steidle and Global Grassroots looks for change agents in the most marginalized communities in post-conflict East Africa. Their mission is to catalyze women and girls as leaders of conscious social change. They provide mind-body trauma healing, a conscious social change curriculum, mentors and seed capital. In Conscious Social Change, Global Grassroots emphasizes five key areas: Cultivating presence. Becoming whole Ensuring balance Staying attuned Leading from within Social Entrepreneurship Quotes from Gretchen Steidle: “I was intrigued by what it takes to scale and replicate the best ideas.” “I recognized that this is where change was happening. It was happening from the grassroots level up.” “I wanted to find a way to finance more social innovation in the world.” “I found change agents among illiterate farmers who had escaped genocide.” “Here was the niche I felt I could serve best, where rebuilding efforts had already begun, but where grassroots needs were still not being met.” “Everything we do is extremely experiential.” “We incorporate trauma healing work with our change agents.” “Conscious social change is the intersection of mindfulness with social entrepreneurship.” “We teach mindfulness as a leadership principle.” “For example, a water venture might sell water to those who can afford to pay for it, but that underwrites orphan school fees and women’s heath fees and their programming on domestic violence.” “Do not assume you know what is needed.” “Go there, listen, ask questions, engage and support local solutions.” “The more you can recognize that every stakeholder has wisdom that is valuable to the whole, the more quickly you can clearly and accurately define the issue and design a solution that is going to result in long-term transformation.” “Constantly evaluate if what you are doing is really alleviating the underlying social issue.” “The most important thing that we can do is work on our own self-awareness.” “Start with your own breath – by taking three breaths.” Social Entrepreneurship Resources: Global Grassroots: http://www.globalgrassroots.org Conscious Social Change Toolkit: http://www.conscioussocialchange.org Last week to grab our free eBook: Five Key Traits of Successful Social Entrepreneurs: http://tonyloyd.com/socent Try Audible and Receive Two Free Audiobooks: http://tonyloyd.com/books

Gretchen Wallace began her Global Grassroots foundation to support women and girls in war torn countries. What she found is, the women in these communities know what they need and they know how to do it.  They come up with astoundingly creative solutions none of us would ever think of.  But they don't have the resources to do anything.  Global Grassroots teaches the women business skills, leadership skills, whatever else they need to learn. They give them all the start-up money and other needs. These communities become self-sustaining. They have increased the number of girl graduation high school from 17% to over 80%, they have had an effect on sexual violence, and much more.

Our first guest is Gretchen Wallace, President & Founder of Global Grassroots. GGR's purpose is to catalyze the development of conscious communities of change agents who will work independently, collectively and systematically to advance the rights and wellbeing of women: www.globalgrassroots.org Catinca Tabacaru, Executive Director & General Counsel, Women's Voices Now, which has a film festival in Hollywood, California, March 17-19, 2011 at the Los Angeles Film School, 6363 Sunset Blvd. joins us to talk about her organization. Visit http://womensvoicesnow.org Torange Yeghiazarian who founded Golden Thread Productions in October 1996, which has a current production, "What Do the Women Say?", March 9, 2011, at La Pena Cultural Center, 3150 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley wasn't able to join us, so we will reschedule. Visit www.goldenthread.org We close with Raja Rahim and Thomas Simpson, founder of AfroSolo presenter of the concert featuring Ms. Rahim Sunday, March 13, 2011, 4 PM, at the African American Art & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street, San Francisco. Visit www.afrosolo.org or call (415) 771-2376. Today we have a pair of tickets for the 10 PM McCoy Tyner show at Yoshi's San Francisco, Thursday, March 10, 2011, 8 PM. Mr. Tyner features Bobby Hutcherson. Visit www.yoshis.com If you'd like the pair of tickets send me a message here or email to wandaspicksradio@gmail.com with your contact information.

On this edition, we are joined by our good friend George Barber, who was the first performer to ever play on the program back in November, and to whom we owe A LOT of thanks. George performs under the name Likewise, amongst a casual Q&A session and a brief discussion of Keene, NH's local music scene. The show opens with a section of the Builders and the Butchers' track "At the Bottom of the Lake", chosen by George himself. This edition was originally the promotion show for the Grassroots Benefit Show, which was held in the Mabel Brown Room of the Keene State College Young Student Center on Friday, March 27th, and featured the following bands: Informnation, Lonesome Lake, The 123s, George Barber, Tell Stories, Affirmative Jackson, and Amargosa. The show was presented by WKNH and the Genocide Awareness Club, and raised around $225 in soley donations, all of which went to Global Grassroots (www.globalgrassroots.org).