Podcasts about Grameen Bank

A calming and helpful conversation for making sense of the very story of our time, and how that is coming to us and being powerfully shaped through media and journalism. The theory of change of journalism as it came out of the 20th century, David Bornstein says, is that shining a light on what is going wrong — what is dangerous and dysfunctional, catastrophic or corrupt — will mobilize and lead us to correct it. But this emphasis on the terrible and the extreme, from whichever side of our cultural trenches you inhabit, has helped fuel a paralyzing, dehumanizing fear and the collapse of trust in institutions and in each other. Many of us are turning away from the news altogether. Is that the answer? How to live in this world with this media and retain meaningful, reasonable hope and agency? And what are we not seeing and hearing that we can orient towards? There is no one wiser on these questions than David Bornstein.Krista spoke with David Bornstein before a small group of citizens of Minneapolis in November, 2024. Find an excellent transcript of this show, edited by humans, on our show page. Sign yourself and others up for The Pause to be on our mailing list for all things On Being and to receive Krista's monthly Saturday morning newsletter, including a heads-up on new episodes, special offerings, recommendations, and event invitations.BIODavid Bornstein is co-founder and CEO of the globally esteemed Solutions Journalism Network. Learn more about their work with news organizations around the world, and their solutions story tracker at solutionsjournalism.org. He has been a journalist focusing primarily on social innovation for three decades. From 2010 to 2021, he co-authored the “Fixes” column in The New York Times. He is the author of The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank and How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which has been published in 25 languages.Special thanks to Dana Mortenson, who created the event that brought Krista and David together. She is founder of World Savvy, an organization that seeks to reimagine education to build the global competence necessary to navigate a complex and ever-changing world.

durée : 00:59:23 - Entendez-vous l'éco ? - par : Aliette Hovine, Bruno Baradat - Muhammad Yunus, né en 1940, a pris la tête d'un gouvernement intérimaire au Bangladesh le 8 août dernier. Surnommé le "banquier des pauvres" et lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix en 2006, il a fondé la Grameen Bank et popularisé le système du micro-crédit. - réalisation : Françoise Le Floch - invités : Isabelle Guérin Economiste, directrice de recherche à l'IRD - Cessma (Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes américains africains et asiatiques); Charza Shahabuddin Doctorante associée au Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes (Cesah – EHESS/CNRS), enseignante à Science Po et à l'INALCO.

Vivan Norris, a documentary filmmaker, joins David and Rachel in the cafe to talk about her experience as a single mom living outside the U.S. , and that drew her to the story of Obama's mother. The film Obama Mama about the life of Ann Dunham and her work with microcredit was the result. (Vivan can arrange for free screenings of the film for DA chapters and country committees.) Vivan has begun thinking about a project centred on Americans who are considering leaving the U.S., or who have already done so, and has begun collecting their stories. (If you have specific concerns and a story to share, you can email her at vnorris@tulane.edu). Vivian has also recently returned to an earlier project about Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and a microcredit pioneer.

In this episode of Better Buildings for Humans, host Joe Menchefski welcomes Minjia Yang, Vice President of Investing for Health at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). With an impressive background spanning law, economics, and sustainable finance, Minjia discusses her role in advancing social sustainability and sustainable finance initiatives at IWBI. She shares insights on how WELL standards integrate human health, well-being, and equity into building design and operations across the globe. The conversation covers a range of topics, from sustainable finance innovations and ESG initiatives to balancing energy efficiency with occupant wellness. Minjia also highlights IWBI's work in aligning WELL standards with global sustainability reporting regulations, emphasizing the need for a people-first approach to building design. Tune in for a deep dive into the evolving world of healthy buildings and social sustainability. More About Minjia Yang: Minjia Yang is the Vice President of Investing for Health at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) where she leads the thought leadership platform to elevate the meaning of health, wellbeing and equity to organizations, communities and the investment landscape at scale. Minjia brings her interdisciplinary background in law, economics, finance and insights of global markets to partnership building, sustainable finance and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Prior to joining IWBI, Minjia worked with Delos, a wellness technology company, to establish over 10 subsidiaries and joint ventures in Asia as well as the first venture capital fund focusing on wellness technology for the built environment. Minjia has extensive professional experience across public, private and nonprofit sectors in Asia, Africa and North America. She worked with Inter-American Development Bank, Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, social enterprises in Lesotho, nonprofit organizations in Haiti, Malaysia Prime Minister's office and consulting firms in Asia. Minjia holds her Bachelor of Laws degree from Sun Yat-sen University in China. She was elected as a Chinese youth representative to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) and also as a W. T. Chan Fellow to participate in the Social Entrepreneurship Program at University of California in Los Angeles. Minjia received the Master of Public Administration degree with a concentration on economics and finance from Cornell University. CONTACT: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minjiayang https://resources.wellcertified.com/people/staff/minjia-yang/ Where To Find Us: https://bbfhpod.advancedglazings.com/ www.advancedglazings.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-buildings-for-humans-podcast www.linkedin.com/in/advanced-glazings-ltd-848b4625 https://twitter.com/bbfhpod https://twitter.com/Solera_Daylight https://www.instagram.com/bbfhpod/ https://www.instagram.com/advancedglazingsltd https://www.facebook.com/AdvancedGlazingsltd

Get Mara's book here: https://us.macmillan.com/.../wearenotabletoliveinthesky   In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In an act widely known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to forty-two women, hoping small credit would help the women pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus's Grameen Bank was born, and the idea of giving very small, high-interest loans to poor people took off. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize for “efforts to create economic and social development from below.”   But there's a problem with this story. There are mounting concerns that these small loans are as likely to bury poor people in debt as they are to pull them from poverty, with borrowers from India to Kenya facing consequences such as jail time and forced land sales. Reportedly hundreds have even committed suicide. What happened? Did microfinance take a wrong turn, or was it flawed from the beginning? Mara Kardas-Nelson's We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky is about unintended consequences, blind optimism, and the decades-long ramifications of seemingly small policy choices. The book is rooted in the stories of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Their narratives, woven through a deep history of modern international development, are set against the rise of Yunus's vision that tiny loans would “put poverty in museums.” Kardas-Nelson asks: What is missed with a single, financially focused solution to global inequity that ignores the real drivers of poverty? Who stands to benefit and, more important, who gets left behind?   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert

durée : 00:58:50 - Entendez-vous l'éco ? - par : Aliette Hovine, Bruno Baradat - Muhammad Yunus a pris la tête d'un gouvernement intérimaire au Bangladesh le 8 août dernier. Surnommé le "banquier des pauvres" et lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix en 2006, il a fondé la Grameen Bank et popularisé le système du micro-crédit. - réalisation : Françoise Le Floch - invités : Isabelle Guérin Economiste, directrice de recherche à l'IRD - Cessma (Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes américains africains et asiatiques); Charza Shahabuddin Doctorante associée au Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes (Cesah – EHESS/CNRS), enseignante à Science Po et à l'INALCO.

“Rather than marching into global warming and unemployment, we can create our world the way we want.” That's the message of our guest Professor Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, who says: “If we imagine that world, we can create that world. Imagination can make it happen.” As a pioneer of microfinancing with Grameen Bank, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has alleviated poverty for tens of millions of people and given them an economic lifeline, with small loans that look to bring out the entrepreneur in everyone. His ethos is driven by a view of human nature that is innately good, and a world view that critiques our economic structures as having suppressed people's natural selflessness and creativity. This interview is a story of how when a big idea takes hold, the impossible really does become possible.

This week, Southeast Asia's politics witnessed the dissolution of Thailand's most popular party (again), and strides in Indonesia's regional‑head elections to thwart the administration's rivals -- in which case, ballots in November may literally feature empty boxes for voters' only alternative to a nominee of a hegemonic alliance.  Also: Erin and Kevin discuss Sheikh Hasina's downfall in Dhaka, as well as a breakthrough Indonesian health reform and latest developments on the Nusantara capital project.For a free trial of Reformasi newsletter, go to reformasi.infoRead Erin's newsletter Dari Mulut Ke Mulut here: https://darimulut.beehiiv.com/

După săptămâni de proteste de stradă, prim-ministrul din Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, a demisionat și a fugit din țară. Laureatul Premiului Nobel pentru Pace, Muhammad Yunus, va conduce acum guvernul interimar. Iar presa internațională analizează situația din această țară, despre care spune că a devenit un câmp de luptă geopolitică între China, India și Occident. ”Căderea unei dinastii”, titrează Le Monde:”Fuga grăbită a premierului Sheikh Hasina marchează eșecul unei familii legate de putere de la obținerea independenței în 1971.Sheikh Hasina a fost atât fiica eroului războiului de independență împotriva Pakistanului, cât și una dintre figurile democratizării unei țări care fusese mult timp închisă. A fost văzută drept arhitectul creșterii economice relative a acestei tinere națiuni, cândva sinonimă cu suprapopularea și sărăcia – aceasta, înainte de a cădea în autocratism, ceea ce marchează ironia punctului culminant al sfârșitului său de domnie”.Süddeutsche Zeitung notează că „milioane de muncitori cu salarii mici din fabricile țării au cusut haine ieftine pentru nordul bogat al acestei lumi. Scăderea industriei textile de la pandemie a fost unul dintre factorii care au determinat protestele actuale, deoarece creșterea șomajului a alimentat resentimente față de ratele de ocupare a forței de muncă în sectorul public, unde descendenții luptătorilor pentru libertate din 1971 primesc locuri de muncă. Într-o societate globalizată, totul este conectat: fast fashion vândut în Europa, piața muncii din Bangladesh și un prim-ministru pus pe fugă.”Despre incertitudini vorbește The Economist:„Restabilirea ordinii constituționale va fi dificilă, parțial pentru că nu este clar cine va umple golul lăsat de plecarea bruscă a lui Sheikh Hasina. Partidul ei din Liga Awami este discreditat. Partidele islamiste, care au devenit mai puternice în ultimii ani, ar putea încerca să umple golul. Provocarea este cu atât mai mare cu cât Bangladesh este acum un câmp de luptă geopolitică între China, India și Occident.”În aceste condiții, ce va putea face Muhamad Yunus, laureatul Premiului Nobel pentru Pace, instalat ca premier interimar?BBC face o scurtă incursiune în activitatea sa:În 1983,, el a fondat Grameen Bank, autoproclamată „organizație de microcreditare de pionierat în lume”, care a acumulat de atunci peste nouă milioane de clienți.Schema domnului Yunus a fost atât de reușită încât până și cerșetorii au putut să împrumute bani.Unii analiști au criticat însă conceptul de instituții micro-financiare, spunand că percep dobanzi exorbitante și folosesc metode coercitive de colectare a datoriilor”.După cum amintește AFP, ”în timpul domniei lui Sheikh Hasina, Yunus a fost lovit cu peste 100 de dosare penale și cu o campanie de defăimare de către o agenție islamică condusă de stat, care l-a acuzat că promovează homosexualitatea.Yunus a putut călători în străinătate anul acesta în timp ce era sub cauțiune, după ce a fost condamnat la șase luni de închisoare pentru o acuzație despre care el a spus că era motivată politic și de care un tribunal din Dhaka l-a achitat miercuri”.Dar, după cum spun experții consultați de CNN, Yunus se va confrunta cu un drum lung și complicat.”Prima sa provocare va fi să restabilească legea și ordinea după protestele mortale din ultimele săptămâni și să abordeze deficitul de încredere care există în societate între oameni și stat, spune Mubashar Hasan, care studiază autoritarismul asiatic la Universitatea din Oslo.O altă sarcină presantă va fi să să convoace  alegeri libere și corecte – a căror lipsă este unul dintre motivele pentru care Bangladesh s-a scufundat în haos”.

Muhammad Yunus, economista bengalese e pioniere del microcredito, ha rivoluzionato l'accesso finanziario per i poveri con la Grameen Bank, vincendo il Nobel per la Pace nel 2006. Al Festival dell’Economia di Trento, ha portato la sua esperienza, criticando la struttura economica attuale e affrontando temi come il riscaldamento globale e la concentrazione della ricchezza. Non senza proporre, però, delle soluzioni per una nuova civiltà più equa e sostenibile.

In this second episode of Voices of Solutions, I am very proud and honoured to have been able to talk to Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder in 1976 of the first microcredit institution, Grameen Bank, and then, with Crédit Agricole in 2008, of the Gramen Crédit Agricole Foundation. He is literally the inventor of microfinance, microcredit and social business. Nicknamed the "banker to the poor", he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.During our discussion, he looks back at the origins of his work to help the most disadvantaged, women in particular, in Bangladesh, who simply could not access money. He also talks about his vision of a world with three zeros: zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions, and offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

In this second episode of Voices of Solutions, I am very proud and honoured to have been able to talk to Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder in 1976 of the first microcredit institution, Grameen Bank, and then, with Crédit Agricole in 2008, of the Gramen Crédit Agricole Foundation. He is literally the inventor of microfinance, microcredit and social business. Nicknamed the "banker to the poor", he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.During our discussion, he looks back at the origins of his work to help the most disadvantaged, women in particular, in Bangladesh, who simply could not access money. He also talks about his vision of a world with three zeros: zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions, and offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

In dieser Ausgabe des Goodcast ist Professor Heiko Hosomi Spitzeck zu Gast. Heiko lehrt an einer von dem Forbes Magazin ausgezeichneten Business School, der Fundação Dom Cabral, in Brasilien Intrapreneurship und ist zudem noch erfolgreicher Autor. Zu seinen Kunden gehören Unternehmen aus allen möglichen Branchen. Darunter auch Nestlé Petrobras und Unilever. Er sagt, große Unternehmen sind nicht nur schlecht. Denn überall gibt es Mitarbeiter*innen, die etwas bewegen möchten. Als Beispiel führt Professor Heiko - ab jetzt sein Superheldenname - Professor Muhammad Yunus an. Mit seiner Grameen Bank hat er Millionen von Menschen aus der Armut geführt und "ganz nebenbei" noch Milliarden an Umsätzen generiert. Das er dafür den Friedensnobelpreis erhalten hat, ist nur ein folgerichtiger Beweis seiner aussergewöhnlichen Arbeit. Darüber hinaus sprechen Heiko und Julius über die Unterschiede zwischen Deutschland und Brasilien. Heiko erzählt, warum es in Brasilien nicht abwegig ist, dass for profit Unternehmen soziale Projekte anstoßen und leiten, ohne dabei Greenwashing zu betreiben. Wir freuen uns, euch eine sehr interessante Folge des Goodcast präsentieren zu dürfen, welche mit vielen Anekdoten gespickt ist und Einblicke in das Unternehmertum außerhalb des Social Entrepreneurship gewährt. Musik: https://youtu.be/ BgPqNyqYDN4 ________________________________________________________ Eine Produktion von MAKIKO* für die Viva Equality gemeinnützige UG Gastgeber: Julius Bertram Redaktion: Jeanna Lee Miller; Jamie Tom Seeliger Mitarbeit: Martin Gertz Produktion: MAKIKO*

Barbara Becker has dedicated more than twenty-five years to partnering with human-rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace and interreligious understanding. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, and has participated in a delegation of Zen Peacemakers and Lakota elders in the Black Hills of South Dakota. she began a 365-day blog when my earliest childhood friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and was living out the last year of her life. During that time, she was completely absorbed by the question Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die?  That resulted in a beautiful book, “Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind.”  Join us in conversation about a key facet of the human experience!

Mint's Akshat talks to Neha Juneja, Founder & CEO of IndiaP2P a social lending cum women focused P2P lending platform. They discuss the gaps in social lending, microfinance, the Grameen Bank model, IndiaP2P's unique physical underwriting process and why women are the greatest asset class.

✅ Request A Customized Workshop For Your Team And Company:  http://assertiveway.com/workshops Ready to unleash your resourcefulness? Explore the power of being resourceful and share lessons from a true maestro of resourcefulness - Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. In this episode, we dive deep into the heart of what it truly means to be resourceful. It's not about having endless resources, but making the most of what you have and finding creative ways to leverage them. We unravel the different forms resources can take, from tangible assets to the often overlooked but incredibly powerful internal resources that lie within all of us. Tune in to this episode to discover: ✔️The true essence of resourcefulness and how it's much more than just a buzzword. ✔️Seven proven strategies to amplify your resourcefulness and use it to propel your personal and professional growth. ✔️The inspiring journey of Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of microcredit and founder of the Grameen Bank, and how he leveraged resourcefulness to make a global impact.   Plus, you'll get insider access to how: You can seize opportunities unapologetically as they arise. To harness your life experiences as a resource. To channel your passion with curiosity and action-taking. Embracing constraints can actually breed creativity. To develop clear beliefs to fuel your courage and assertiveness. Calculated risks can advance your ideas or validate them. To stay goal-focused and not be swayed by others' judgments.   ✅ Follow Ivna Curi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivna-curi-mba-67083b2/     ✅ Other Episodes You'll Like Don't Kill Your Opportunities- How to Avoid Assumptions That Hold You Back How Passion, Feedback, Persistence, and "Not Yet" Can Help You Achieve Your Dreams 24 Speaking Up Opportunities That Successful People Always Grab 18 Tips To Attract Endless Opportunities For Yourself The Secret To Creating Opportunites Your Yourself Where Career Opportunities Really Come From How To Find The Courage To Ask For What You Want   ✅ Free Resources Podcast episode lists by theme: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/speakyourmindunapologeticallytopics Podcast Summaries & More Email Newsletter: https://assertiveway.com/newsletter Our Linkedin Blog Articles:  https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6863880009879306240/   Women in Tech Leaders Podcast Interviews: https://assertiveway.com/womenintechpodcastguests/ TEDx Talk How To Speak Up Safely When It's Psychologically Unsafe: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/safespeak 10 Day free Assertive And Liked Challenge: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/beassertiveandliked Assertiveness free training: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/getahead Other Free resources: https://assertiveway.com/free/ Podcast page: https://assertiveway.com/podcast-speak-your-mind-unapologetically/   ✅ Work With Us Workshops: http://assertiveway.com/workshops   Services: https://assertiveway.com/offerings Contact me: info@assertiveway.com or ivnacuri@assertiveway.com Contact me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivna-curi-mba-67083b2 Website: https://assertiveway.com   ✅ Support The Podcast Rate the podcast on apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speak-your-mind-unapologetically-podcast/id1623647915 Ask me your question for the next episode: https://www.speakpipe.com/speakyourmindquestion   ✅ Podcast Topic Compilations 8 Real Life Examples On How To Deal With Difficult Coworkers (Compilation): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/8-examples-on-how-to-deal-with-difficult-coworkers Mastering Mentor & Sponsor Connections: Insider Advice from 5 Trailblazing Professionals (Compilation): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/mastering-mentor-sponsor-connections-insider-advice-from-5-trailblazing-professionals How To Find Courage To Speak Up (Compilation): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-find-courage-to-speak-up-4-examples 4 Examples On How To Get The Promotion You Want (Compilation): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/4-examples-on-how-to-get-the-promotion-you-want 4 Tips On How To Successfully Share Your Ideas At Work (Compilation): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/4-tips-on-how-to-successfully-share-your-ideas-at-work-compilation How To Cope With Stress At Work (Compilation): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-cope-with-stress-at-work-compilation     #SpeakYourMindUnapologetically #Resourcefulness #SelfGrowth #MuhammadYunus #Creativity #MindsetShift #PersonalDevelopment

Jenn speaks to Hong Kong based Krizia Li, founder and CEO of Vermillion Lifestyle, a B2B e-commerce platform in Asian luxury design and arts. Krizia shares her views on how one should enjoy the journey you are on in life and that the outcome is the path. With an BA from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard Business School with a resume experience at Fortune 500 companies, Krizia shares her story about how her experience interning at Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and Haiti in 2008 made her realize the power of social change. As well as her 2012 visit to The Met Costume Institute “Through the Looking Glass” exhibit made her realize how Chinese culture was misinterpreted. These specific experiences really inspired and shaped the foundation of Vermillion Lifestyle when she created it in 2020! (Recorded on December 28, 2022)About Krizia:Krizia Li is the Founder, CEO and GM of China for Vermillion Lifestyle. Responsible for injecting and catalyzing synergistic and harmonious ingredients into Vermillion's ongoing narrative, Krizia envisions growth opportunities by fusing bold ideas with extensive industry experience. She has a background in audit at KPMG, investment banking at Merrill Lynch, and strategy consulting at McKinsey & Company, and has worked in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh, across Hospitality, Consumer & Retail and Technology, Media & Telecommunications industries. Most recently, she led Marketing and Omni-Channel teams at DFS Group, Marriott International, and McDonald's Greater China. Krizia holds an MA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics + Economics from the Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is based in Hong Kong.Episode Resources:WebsiteIGFB Linkedin

In a season where you are exhausted, burnt out, or just can't seem to find the joy in life anymore?  Is your social impact journey causing you to feel drained?Only having leftovers for yourself, family and friends? Today we are joined by Alex Counts, Co-Founder of The Grameen Foundation, an organization created to raise funds for the Grameen Bank, an institution founded by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner for the social innovation of Microfinance.  Alex shares with us his years of wisdom from leading in the nonprofit, social impact space, while learning exactly what he needed to do to keep his mind, body and spirit healthy and able to serve in the long run.  Join us as Alex shares How to Change the World without Losing Your Mind!  You won't want to miss his incredible story and inspiring wisdom!

From her pregnancy losses to accompanying her parents and aunt through Alzheimer's to her work in human rights advocacy and the hundreds of people she's sat with at the end of their lives as a hospice volunteer, my guest Barbara Becker, shares what she's learned about the art of living with the end in mind. She is the author of the extraordinary book Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind which won the Nautilus Gold Book Award and was featured by Katie Couric Media in her "Books That Will Change Your Life."Both in her book, and in this episode, she offers us the wisdom she has gained as someone who has dedicated more than twenty-five years to partnering with human-rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace and interreligious understanding. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, and has participated in a delegation of Zen Peacemakers and Lakota elders in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She is an ordained interfaith minister who bridges the sacred and the secular and has sat with hundreds of people at the end of their lives. EPISODE RESOURCES:Pick up a copy of Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind at your favorite local bookstore or online here JUMP STRAIGHT INTO:(20:00) Barbara shares what she's learned about living with the end in mind from her colleagues in her work with global activism. I asked her to expand on a a particular story she shared in her book, about the lessons she learned from Console, a woman who survived the Rwandan Genocide. (42:00) When we come back, Barbara shares what's she's learned in her work as a hospice volunteer about what it means to show up alongside someone in their suffering, and how that conflicts with our notion that it's our job to fix, when it's not. STAY CONNECTED: SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST on your favorite platform so you don't miss an episode. If you love the show, I'd love to invite you to leave a rating and write a review. INVITE ME TO YOUR INBOX to get behind-the-scenes on the podcast and all the grief support offered by our host, Lisa Keefauver, by signing up for her Not-So-Regular Newsletter at lisakeefauver.com/newsletter. IF YOU'RE FEELING SOCIAL, you can find her on all your favorite social channels too.@lisakeefauvermsw on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. Check out her tweets @lisakeefauver Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Despite rapid changes in the environment, a healthy organisation continues to work well. Healthy organisations have clearly aligned, consistent, and engaging communication between all employees regardless of hierarchy, location, division, or function. Teamwork is not a virtue, it's a choice. A cohesive leadership team creates clarity, then over-communicates it - so it becomes a language within the organisation - and then underpins it with the systems and processes that reinforce these fundamental strategies.     RESOURCES MENTIONED: The healthy organization construct: A review and research agenda https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035611/   What makes an organization ‘healthy'? (The Mckinsey Podcast) https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/what-makes-an-organization-healthy   The Table Group (Patrick Lencioni Website) https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/organizational-health/   The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni https://www.amazon.com/Advantage-Organizational-Everything-Business-Lencioni-ebook/dp/B006ORWT3Y   Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-NIKE/dp/1471146707   Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change by Marc Benioff https://www.amazon.com/Trailblazer-Business-Greatest-Platform-Change/dp/1984825194   Fans First: Change The Game, Break the Rules & Create an Unforgettable Experience by Jesse Cole https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fans-First-Change-Unforgettable-Experience/dp/154452921X   Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank by Muhammad Yunus https://www.amazon.co.uk/Banker-Poor-Story-Grameen-Bank/dp/1854109243     ABOUT KYM HAMER: Kym Hamer is an international business coach, serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained business value. In 2020, just one year after launching her business, she was nominated by Thinkers360, the world's first open platform for thought leaders, as one of the Top 100 Women in B2B Leadership influencers. In 2022 she was nominated for the second time as one of the Top 25 in Marketing and in 2023, as one of the Top 20 Personal Branding Influencers globally. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders in Entrepreneurship. Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East & Co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd. as well as a member of the Strategy Faculty of Homeward Bound Projects, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people that is equipping women in STEMM to lead and shape the future of our planet. In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.   Building Brand You™: JOIN the BBY Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingbrandyou SUBSCRIBE to the BBY Podcast - https://podfollow.com/building-brand-you/ SIGN UP to the Brand You: Unlocked! Newsletter -  https://bit.ly/brand-you-unlocked DOWNLOAD our 90 Books to Unlock Your Greatest Asset…YOU - http://bit.ly/3yRCEDF   CONNECT WITH KYM HAMER: LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/kymhamer/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kymhamerartemis/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kymhamerartemis/ Schedule a Call - https://calendly.com/kymhamer/bbychat/     HOSTED BY: Kym Hamer     DISCLAIMER: The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Building Brand You™ podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved. They do not necessarily represent any other entities, agencies, organisations, or companies. Building Brand You™ is not responsible and does not verify for accuracy of any of the information contained in the podcast available for listening on this site. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute legal advice or services.  

Zainab Saeed is the Chief Strategy Officer of Kashf Foundation, which is one of Pakistan's leading specialised microfinance institutions which aims to economically mainstream and empower women in Pakistan by demonstrating that there is a business case for women's entrepreneurs. Time Stamps:  00:41 Intro 02:16 Dark Side of Micro Finance, IPO & Mission Drift  03:28 Unregulated Micro Finance in India 04:38 Explaining Micro Finance 05:54 Grameen Bank's Success and Dr. Yunus' Role  06:45 Social Collateral lending Model & Committee  08:35 Micro Finance Loans  12:26 Kashf's Appraisal Methodology & Loan Utilisation Checks  15:33 How a Micro Finance Institution Grows 16:13 Kashf's success 20:57 Why a Mission is important 21:24 Indian Government's Regulations that effected Micro Finance  23:42 Why Micro Finance is Expensive 25:05 Alternative Delivery Channel  27:21 Interest Rates in Micro Finance 29:27 Equal Monthly Instalments & Consumptive Loans  30:37 Unofficial Loan Sharks  34:14 How Kashf values Customers 36:07 Social Business & NGO 40:45 Why Micro Finance over other things 46:02 Inflation's effect on Micro Finance 50:07 How Kashf started, How it's going and Zainab's Journey  01:05:43 How Kashf provided awareness 01:06:27 Fund Rasising 01:08:07 Zainab's role and Gender Eqality at Kashf  01:09:58 Patriarchy's Role  01:10:59 Access of Internet to Women  01:13:11 Social Safety Nets  01:17:55 Fintech in Pakistan  01:19:01 Technology is Gendered  01:25:49 Biological Determinism of Gender  01:26:35 Female Support  01:28:29 Generalisation in Content  01:29:02 Outro

Sign up here for updates on impactinvestor.ioThanks to all the Causeartist Partners - Check them out here.Subscribe to our Causeartist newsletter here.----------------------------------------In episode 49 of the Investing in Impact podcast, I speak with Princess Aghayere & John Gough of ICA Fund, on working to close the gender and racial wealth gap in the Bay Area through investing in local entrepreneurs. ICA Fund is a nonprofit organization that works to close the gender and racial wealth gap in the Bay Area by providing coaching, connections, and capital to entrepreneurs who have been overlooked by mainstream funders.Through investment and mentorship initiatives, they help systemically underrepresented Bay Area entrepreneurs grow their businesses.They are also committed to building an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Bay Area. ICA helps business owners increase their knowledge about how to start a business, develop resources needed for success, establish networks with other entrepreneurs, secure financing options that meet their needs, and position themselves for growth.The ICA Impact Note: helping great business grow shared wealthThe new ICA Impact Note is an innovative investment structure that helps entrepreneurs prioritize social impacts–like good job creation, workforce diversity, and profit distribution–as they grow their business. Many founders set out to leverage their business to create change in their community, but those aims can be chipped away while growing and fundraising in a competitive landscape.When a company receives investment through the ICA Impact Note, the business must define the measurable social impact they want to create and the trade-offs they'll need to make in order to achieve them. The note is designed so that as impact milestones are met, the investor returns ownership percentages back to the company.Through this structure, the investor and the company are able to work in real partnership to scale social returns for the community by growing a profitable business. The design of this note builds off of ICA's 10 years of experience deploying capital for community-minded growth-stage businesses and is free to use by other investors working to prioritize social impact.About PrincessPrincess is an Investment Analyst at ICA and contributes to sourcing new investment prospects and conducting investment due diligence. She works cross-functionally across ICA, communicating portfolio company needs and identifying areas of growth.Princess has experience working in a minority-owned private equity fund called IMB Partners and co-founded a non-profit called Rebound Liberia. The nonprofit empowers young women through basketball and leadership development. Following the launch of Rebound Liberia, Princess had a short stint playing professionally in Spain in the LF2 league.Princess graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor's in Health and Societies and a minor in International Development. Outside of work, she loves traveling and is an avid basketball fan. She believes entrepreneurship is one of the most effective ways to promote economic growth and development. She hopes to facilitate ICA's mission of advising and providing capital for high potential businesses to address the gender and racial wealth gap.About JohnJohn serves as Chief Investment Officer at ICA, a venture-capital CDFI and 501(c)(3) non-profit investment fund, focused on creating good jobs, funding women and entrepreneurs of color, and driving economic opportunity and ownership for employees.   John leads the organization's Investment team, and oversees the development, funding, and implementation of the ICA Growth Fund and Seed Equity Fund. John has over 20 years' experience in corporate finance, international banking, impact investing, and has held executive leadership and operating roles in entrepreneurial ventures. John believes that supportive and patient capital can be used to reach, serve, and bring meaningful change to communities.Prior to ICA, John founded True North Capital Management LLC, an investment management business focused on public equities impact and essential services investing.  John also served as Head of Global Corporate Banking in Asia-Pacific for Wells Fargo, living with his family in Hong Kong for 9 years; Managing Director at LoopNet Inc (NASDAQ: “LOOP”), a venture capital start-up; Farallon Capital in San Francisco; and Grameen Bank, a micro-credit lender in Dhaka, Bangladesh.John serves as a Board observer for Firebrand Artisan Breads, and Advisor to NowHer.org focused on Philippines social impact and micro-enterprise investment/development. John holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (Haas School Scholar), and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis (Magna Cum Laude). ----------------------------------------Sign up here for updates on impactinvestor.ioThanks to all the Causeartist Partners - Check them out here.Subscribe to our Causeartist newsletter here.

Barbara Becker has spent the last 25 years collaborating with human-rights activists all over the world to promote order, stability, and interreligious understanding. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Bangladesh's Grameen Bank to promote human rights, women's health, education, and economic empowerment. She is an ordained interfaith minister who works to bridge the gap between the sacred and the secular. Barbara speaks on a variety of topics, including deepening our sense of meaning and spirituality, as well as career pivots in the middle. Prior to that, she taught communications for social change at Columbia for ten years. Barbara volunteers on a hospice floor, becomes a keen observer of the various ways people find meaning at the end of life. Her love for talking with people from various spiritual backgrounds about what is most important in their lives and how they can make a difference. She will discuss her new book Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind, Where she dives deep into the question of (Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die?)

Barbara Becker has spent the last 25 years collaborating with human-rights activists all over the world to promote order, stability, and interreligious understanding. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Bangladesh's Grameen Bank to promote human rights, women's health, education, and economic empowerment. She is an ordained interfaith minister who works to bridge the gap between the sacred and the secular. Barbara speaks on a variety of topics, including deepening our sense of meaning and spirituality, as well as career pivots in the middle. Prior to that, she taught communications for social change at Columbia for ten years. Barbara volunteers on a hospice floor, becomes a keen observer of the various ways people find meaning at the end of life. Her love for talking with people from various spiritual backgrounds about what is most important in their lives and how they can make a difference. She will discuss her new book Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind, Where she dives deep into the question of (Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die?)

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: FTX's collapse mirrors an infamous 18th century British financial scandal, published by Michael Huang on December 22, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Amy Froide, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, discusses the remarkable similarities between the recent FTX collapse and the Charitable Corporation Scandal of 1732. ...the management of both ventures was centralized in the hands of just a few people. The Charitable Corporation got into trouble when it reduced its directors from 12 to five and when it consolidated most of its loan business in the hands of one employee – namely, Thomson. FTX's example is even more extreme, with founder Sam Bankman-Fried calling all the shots... In both cases, the key fraud was using the assets of one company to prop up another company managed by the same people... News of both frauds also came as a surprise, with little advance warning. Part of this is due to the ways in which managers were well respected and well connected to both politicians and the financial world... I would also argue that in both cases the company's connection to philanthropy lent it another level of cover. The Charitable Corporation's very name announced its altruism. And even after the scandal subsided, commentators pointed out that the original business of microlending was useful. FTX's founder Bankman-Fried is an advocate of effective altruism and has argued that it was useful for him and his companies to make lots of money so he could give it away to what he deemed effective causes. It's worth noting that the Charitable Corporation's demise did not lead to the end of microlending. Pioneers in micro-credit, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. In the same way, FTX's demise does not necessarily lead to the end of cryptocurrency, or the end of effective altruism. It does support the case for more oversight and stronger regulations: After the Charitable Corporation's collapse in 1732, Parliament didn't institute any regulation that would prevent such a fraud from happening again. A tradition of loose oversight and regulations has been the hallmark of Anglo-American capitalism. If the response to the 2008 financial crash is any indication of what will come in the wake of FTX's collapse, it's possible that some bad actors, like Bankman-Fried, will be punished. But any regulation will be undone at the first opportunity–or never put in place to begin with. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

People talk about changing the world every day, but some actually make the mission a lifelong journey. The last time we spoke with author, professor and philanthropist Alex Counts on the Keys Weekly Podcast, we discussed his book, "When in Doubt. Ask for More: And 213 Other Life and Career Lessons for Mission-Driven Leaders.” During his most recent visit, Counts discusses his book, "Small Loans Big Dreams,” which shares intimate stories about how microfinance and the Grameen Bank have changed the lives of impoverished women and their families in America and across the globe. Counts discusses why we should rethink how the world approaches loans and how his microfinance approach, created by his mentor Muhammad Yunus, applies practical life tools and valuable lessons, in addition to the loans, to change the trajectory of poverty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Week:  Grameen Team Dream In his brand-spanking-new book, “Small Loans, Big Dreams,” Alex Counts recounts the story of Grameen Bank's wild success moving millions of people out of poverty by elevating microfinancing for the poor. Alex tells the story … Continue reading →

This the last of a 4 part series of an interview with Tom Eggert.  This is where we get to talk about an organization that is near and dear to his heart as it is one that he founded after having retired from his full time job as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.  Following the Haitian earthquake in January, 2010, Tom, with the help of his students at UW Madison, worked to raise money to help individuals in Haiti recover from the devastating impacts of the earthquake. Instead of donating the money to a non-profit, they formed Wisconsin Microfinance to explore the role that access to capital could play in improving the quality of life of desperately poor individuals. These small loans are managed by a partner in Haiti, with funding from the US. The program was designed using principles developed by Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank. The Haitian program has been immensely successful. Over 800 individuals are on the waiting list for future loans. The program has subsequently expanded into the Philippines after Typhoon Yolanda which destroyed large parts of the country. Lessons learned from Haiti were incorporated into program development in the Philippines. Thanks for listening. Please check out our website at www.forsauk.com to hear great conversations on topics that need to be talked about. In these times of intense polarization we all need to find time to expand our Frame of Reference.

5-DAY CHALLENGE - Never Struggle With Sales Again! https://sellingwithlove.com/challenge ===== How do you imagine the education of the future? what are the problems that humanity will face? Do you think we are preparing the future generation for that with the traditional school system? Nadeem Nathoo founder of The Knowledge Society doesn't think so either. TKS is an innovative educational approach that's focused on creating the next generation of innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs. In this fantastic episode, he explains to us how they work with coaches instead of teachers and implementation instead of theoretical information. Ready to expand your mind? Listen closely… =====

Susan Gibson brings her moxie to the volunteer world, sharing her observations and advice so others can discover how international volunteerism and travel, as well as local involvement, can change the world, their communities–and themselves. She is the author ofHow to be an Amazing Volunteer Overseas, a guide based on her 35 years of experience in the NGO (non-governmental organization) world. During that time, she worked and volunteered in 70 countries. In our conversation, Susan describes her early work in microfinance as a vehicle to empower people, particularly women, through small loans. She explains how those experiences abroad shaped her view on what it means to help others and how to do it in a way that they build capacity–and moxie–for themselves. In 1992, Susan went to Bangladesh, where she got her training in microfinance at Grameen Bank from Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. From 1992-2001, Susan was a consultant providing technical assistance and conducting workshops in team building, communications, and microfinance principles for NGOs, UN agencies, and donor governments. This episode of Main Street Moxie is sponsored by North East Ford and Elyse Harney Real Estate.For more information about Susan and links to additional resources, go to the episode's show notes on our website.

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In tonight's conversation with the Co-Founder of Qist Bazaar, Mr. Arif Lakhani. Diving right into Arif's different nodes of work? How does Arif manage everything? How much one can earn through film and drama production? How has he ended up on the production side with Hareem Farooq? What is the process of producing a drama in Pakistan? Has Arif focused on the Video on Demand-side? How can we pitch any series to Netflix? How Arif's journey has been with Qist Bazaar? What is Qist Bazaar? How transparent and Shariah-compliant are their processes? How is Qist Bazaar tackling the loan sharks scare among the masses? If someone loses their job, what are the payment terms at Qist Bazaar? Will we ever see data collaboration in partnerships in Pakistan? Tune in to know more about Grameen Bank, Arif's educational background, and how Arif envisions Pakistan of 2050! Do not forget to subscribe and press the bell icon to catch on to some amazing conversations coming your way! Connect with us: • https://www.instagram.com/thoughtbehindthings • https://www.instagram.com/muzamilhasan Arif's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariflakhani One8nine Media: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6akyz6EpkwyzBmKh0L2rSQ Support our podcast: https://anchor.fm/syed-muzamil-hasan-zaidi3/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/syed-muzamil-hasan-zaidi3/support

Muhammad Yunus gilt als Vordenker in Sachen Mikrokredite. Mit der von ihm gegründeten Grameen Bank vergab er Kleinstkredite an finanziell benachteiligte Menschen. «Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe», so der Gedanken dahinter. Zum 82. Geburtstag des Bangladeschers machte sich das Radio Corax in Halle Gedanken darüber, ob das Konzept der Mikrokredite tatsächlich aufgeht.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we're talking innovation in migration. My guest, serial entrepreneur, Sam Baddoo joins me from his current base in Columbus Ohio, shortly after a recent trip back home to Accra, Ghana where he was born and raised. Sam is all about empowering immigrants everywhere to show love with intention starting with healthcare. He is the founder and CEO of the healthcare insurtech start-up Fleri which ensures that the money immigrants send back home goes exactly where they intended while getting quality healthcare for loved ones in Africa and eliminating money transfer fees. Many words define who he is, but none more so than “immigrant” - and his story represents the stories of millions of brave, hopeful and selfless individuals, many giving up the comfort of familiar spaces to create a new life and future for themselves and those who depend on them. He is all “IMMIGRANTS” and his life's work is to see his us live more authentically - flourishing and thriving, not just surviving. This was such an inspiring conversation offering a thoughtful perspective on the type of agility that defines successful entrepreneurship. Tune in and for those of you migrants with loved ones check out Fleri (https://joinfleri.com/), there's a plan for your needs and the peace of mind we all seek when we can't always be a physical presence. Where to find Sam? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/skbaddoo/) On Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/ghanaboysam) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/skbaddoo/?hl=en) On Facebook (https://web.facebook.com/sam.baddoo) Fleri on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCqwwDBjZ6JUNrzgEGQo9uw/featured) What's Sam listening to? Tim Ferriss (https://tim.blog) Brene Brown (https://brenebrown.com) Esther Perel (https://www.estherperel.com) Other topics of interest: Oujda, Morocco (https://marocmama.com/oujda-morocco/) Grameen Bank (https://grameenbank.org) Heel the World Luxury Accessories (https://htwshoes.bigcartel.com/?fbclid=IwAR2RJBaEzzGorcZhud1D4n4TNcNNx5dQyDiaz4eih514hijOCa8jypoup4M) Makola Market (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwin19K-vOL3AhVBMewKHdcVBPcQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMakola_Market&usg=AOvVaw0QdCGD10svgukExPHxrGwG) Korle Bu (https://kbth.gov.gh) Teaching Hospital, Ghana Bohten Eyewear (https://bohten.com/pages/about-us) Sankofa (https://www.adinkrasymbols.org/symbols/sankofa/) More on Self-talk (https://www.healthline.com/health/positive-self-talk#_noHeaderPrefixedContent) Nguvu Health (https://www.nguvuhealth.com)

Currently based in Ibiza, Spain, Matteo Marinelli is the former CEO and Board member of Maha Agriculture Microfinance, an agri-focused-fintech-oriented-MFI based in Yangon, Myanmar, owned by Myanma Awba Group, and the International Finance Corporation. He began his career with Grameen Bank, in Dhaka, Bangladesh and after short term consulting assignments in Tanzania, Afghanistan, Serbia and Thailand, moved to Blue Orchard in Geneva. He then joined a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, Fullerton Financial Holdings, first as a Project Manager based out of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, responsible for the start-up phase of a greenfield MSME banking co-investment between Fullerton and Canadia Bank which led to the creation of Cambodia Post Bank, and then later as the Country Rep based out of Yangon, Myanmar, responsible for the set-up and launch of Fullerton Myanmar.  Here, he became interested in and familiar with the challenges faced by agri-businesses and small-scale farmers who lacked access to capital and markets, which led him towards Maha.Born and educated in Italy (Economics from Bocconi University in Milan), Matteo had academic exchange programs at the University of Niigata in Japan, at New York University, at the London School of Economics, and at the University of California in Berkeley. He also has an executive management diploma from INSEAD and speaks fluent English, Spanish and some French.In this episode Matteo describes in graphic and sometimes harrowing detail the genesis of the coup d'état in Myanmar, the true complexities of the socio-political situation and what it was like to manage an MFI under extreme crisis conditions. This podcast is brought to you by Financial Due Diligence Associates, a multilingual consulting partnership founded by Guy Rodwell and Zinaida Vasilenko, specialised in holistic, relevant and concise analysis of financially inclusive companies. FDDA also helps impactful asset managers access French institutions through an alliance with Oxondo, a leading Paris-based third party marketer. You can reach FDDA by contacting Guy Rodwell or Zinaida Vasilenko on LinkedIn, or by emailing us at info@fdda-consulting.com. 

Professor Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Laureate & Founder of Grameen Bank, and Badr Jafar, Founding Patron of the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, discuss the role of social businesses in solving global challenges.Also available on YouTube. Follow the link below:https://youtu.be/RSyckBo2EjI

Professor Muhammad Yunus is a leader who transforms visionary ideas into practical actions which benefit millions of people around the world. He is a social entrepreneur, banker, economist, civil society leader and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, globally recognised for pioneering the game-changing concepts of microcredit and microfinance. His revolutionary microloan system, designed to empower entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans, won Yunus and the Grameen Bank a joint Nobel Peace Prize for their ground-breaking contribution to economic and social development. Following a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University, Yunus returned to Bangladesh to head the economics department at Chittagong University. However, after observing the Bangladesh famine of 1974 Yunus found his true calling and became driven by his passion for impacting the poverty he witnessed. In 1976, during visits to the poorest households in the village of Jobra, he hypothesised small loans could make an exponential difference to those who would not qualify at traditional banks. Fueled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right, Yunus secured a personal loan to lend to entrepreneurs in Jobra. By July 2007, Grameen had issued US$6.38 billion to 7.4 million borrowers and today the Grameen Bank has advanced to the forefront of a flourishing world movement eradicating poverty through microlending. The success of the Grameen microfinance model has inspired equivalent organisations in almost every nation in the world, in developing and developed countries alike. Many microcredit projects retain Grameen's focus on lending to women who typically suffer disproportionately from poverty but are renowned for their natural entrepreneurialism and ability to pay back loans at record rates. Currently, the Grameen Bank has nine million borrowers, 97% of which are women. For his ground-breaking contribution to social development, Professor Muhammad Yunus is one of only seven people to have received the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal. He is also the recipient of numerous international awards for his ideas and endeavors, including the Mohamed Shabdeen Award for Science (1993), Sri Lanka; Humanitarian Award (1993), CARE, USA; World Food Prize (1994), World Food Prize Foundation, USA; lndependence Day Award (1987), Bangladesh’s highest award; King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Award (2000), King Hussien Foundation, Jordan; Volvo Environment Prize (2003), Volvo Environment Prize Foundation, Sweden; Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth (2004), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan; Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom Award (2006), Roosevelt Institute of The Netherlands; and the Seoul Peace Prize (2006), Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea. Yunus's visionary ideas and trailblazing fearlessness have been inspirational to countless people and have led to new systems and programs devoted to social causes all over the world. Yunus was named among the most desired thinkers the world should listen to by the FP 100, one of 12 greatest entrepreneurs of the current era by Fortune Magazine, one of Forbes “10 Most Influential Business Gurus” and is one of the most followed people on social media worldwide. Watch the interview: https://youtu.be/dlabloRGMkg Useful Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/yunus/biographical/ https://www.yunussb.com/prof-muhammad-yunus https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad-Yunus https://www.muhammadyunus.org/ https://grameenfoundation.org/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33785340-a-world-of-three-zeros Our Favourite Quotes: “Young people have to know about it. They should learn that there are two kinds of businesses in the world. One is a business which makes money, and the other solves the problems of the world. It’s an academic exercise and what they do with that in real life will depend on them.” “I was feeling terrible that here I teach elegant theories of economics, and those theories are of no use at the moment with the people who are going hungry. So I wanted to see if as a person, as a human being, I could be of some use to some people.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the last few years, the idea that “Smart Cities” were the inevitable next stage in the evolution of urban spaces has been the consensus among policy buffs. It stands to reason: city-based clusters are where creativity and innovation have always flourished, because of the collision and co-operation between diverse viewpoints and diverse backgrounds of densely-packed residents. In fact, chance meetings of people with different interests (sometimes called water-cooler conversations) were encouraged in some of the most innovative places in the world. I worked at Bell Labs, arguably then the most intellectually stimulating environment anywhere, and the deliberately long corridors to the cafeteria meant physicists, material scientists, electrical engineers, mathematicians and so on rubbed shoulders. The long-running games of Go in the cafeteria also encouraged random encounters among kibitzers.When you added Big Data and Machine Learning into the mix, it sounded logical that a heavily networked Smart City would be increasingly efficient, and could be optimized for smart mobility, zero carbon emissions, resilience, digital transformation, and so on. All this is quite true. But this vision struck me, as an observer at the UNESCO Netexplo Smart Cities Forum 2019, as overly skewed towards developed nations, as well as soul-less and clinical. From the point of view of a resident like me of a mid-sized city in a developing nation, these objectives were not very relevant to the issues that we faced, which are more elemental and basic: the preservation of heritage buildings and water bodiesproviding drinking water, reliable electricity and internet accesshygienic waste management and recycling/upcyclingthe husbanding of animal and bird populationsmanaging marginalized populations of migrants and the indigentdisaster mitigation and recoveryand the provision of traditional public transport such as buses and metros. So it was not a great surprise to me that Smart Cities failed the “crash test” provided without warning by the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, as described by Bernard Cathelat, eminent sociologist. Says he, further: Reading the conclusions of a CEPESS (Economic and Social Studies Centre) symposium (held in November 2016 in Louvain), we encountered the pioneering concept of ville réliante, which we borrowed to develop and model as Linking Cities. “Smart cities bring a technological dimension to sustainable cities associated with innovation and digital solutions [...] But in our opinion, Eco-cities and smart cities do not sufficiently take into account human, cultural and political dimensions [...] The CEPESS wishes to make its contribution by proposing a new vision of the city, that of connecting cities, of linking cities: a model which places the development of links at the heart of the urban project.” (Jérémy Dagnies and Antoine de Borman, CEPESS.)Furthemore, Cathelat (ibid, pg. 10) summarizes what might make a city more human-scale:more vegetationreduced concentration and decentralizationthe stimulation of social interaction… and solidarity initiativesmore interactive governance.In other words, a departure from the Cartesian, mechanistic point of view, and a call to a more humane perspective. I have written about the inadequacy of Cartesian thought and especially about the issue of emergent intelligence that arises from social interactions. We do need a more holistic perspective. What did surprise me upon listening in detail to Bernard Cathelet’s excellent presentation in April 2021 was that I had encountered in my own village and small-city life elements of what he described as Linking Cities: a human rather than a technology focus, which make them more responsive/resilient to shocks. Somehow, I had overlooked them, in the headlong rush towards ‘modernity’.Earlier, I had presented, at the conference on Disaster-Resilient Smart Cities at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi in 2019, a case study of the Smart Cities project where I live, Trivandrum, in southwestern India. It is a Tier-2 city with a population of about 2.5 million, the capital of coastal Kerala State, blessed with natural beauty and centered around an 1,800 year old Hindu temple, a grand historical monument. The official Smart City Trivandrum list of objectives is as follows:This bears little resemblance to the futuristic utopian vision typical of a Western Smart City. Furthermore, developing nation cities cannot afford the investments needed to get to the Western level. Surely their citizenry would protest at what they considered frivolous, ivory-tower expenditure while their real, day-to-day needs were not being met. My conclusion was that cities evolved to be Smart Cities, and it was not one-size-fits-all. This distinction has to be recognized, and a simple way would be to acknowledge that there were several levels to which a city could aspire, and be certified. The analog I used was the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for software developers, which has several levels. I thought a typical developing country city should aspire to Level 0 first, which would meet the basic needs of its citizens; once that had been achieved, it could move up to the next levels. What the 2021 definition of Linking Cities has given me, though, is a greater appreciation for the many things that my city and my village have (or had), which would handily allow them to be much better Linking Cities. In other words, we have, in the recent past, lost many good things, and pushed ourselves into urban dystopias in the single-minded pursuit of economic growth. “Prosperity comes with three terminal diseases: debt, obesity, and tourism”: according to public intellectual Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in Bed of Procrustes. To that, one could add, ‘anonymity’ and ‘modernity’. I can remember in my own lifetime how there were working farms and paddy fields within a mile of any point in Trivandrum; instead of high-rise apartment buildings, most of the pleasantly undulating city had neighborhoods of single-family homes. Linking Cities: Social Interaction and SolidarityI grew up in a cul-de-sac of about 20 homes (new ones were built over time), and every one of them had a small yard and a profusion of trees and vegetable gardens. Over time, the plot sizes grew smaller (initially most of them were 6 to 10 cents (ie. 6%-10% of an acre), later they were as small as 3 cents, more crowded and cheek-by-jowl with the neighbors. Some homes were turned into rentals, one tenant on each of two floors (there is only one three-floored structure, which is three flats).There was a community; it had a Residents’ Association, and every month the secretary would visit every house to collect the small dues, and that was an occasion to discuss any concerns the residents had. If there were major issues, a petition would be drafted and submitted to be municipal authorities. So there was a measure of self-governance and a sense of togetherness. Periodically, there were get-togethers on somebody’s rooftop terrace or yard, where children would demonstrate their skills at song or dance; a guest might deliver a lecture on household finance or the medical problems of women. Everybody knew everybody else, including the transient renters. In this enclave, only one household had a car; another household had a phone. All of us gave that single phone number to our friends and relatives in case of emergency, and it was a chore for the poor man with the phone to despatch his kids to the neighbors’ houses whenever someone called. In the evenings, the children would gather on the street and play cricket or run around in the vacant lots. A particular favorite was the haystack that would appear after the paddy harvest: it was a pleasure to inhale the fragrance and feel the rough rice-stalks on one’s face. Periodically a few wild rhesus monkeys from the nearby large Palace compound would traverse the tree-tops and wreak havoc on houses with unguarded windows, or on the fruit-bearing mango or coconut trees.The women would chat over their walls with their neighbors until it was dusk, and thus time to prepare the evening meal. Empathy and conviviality. There was no TV (literally), and this was their best form of entertainment. All this has changed now. Every house has a couple of cars; every individual has a mobile phone. The children are busy with their tablets; the men with their social media or cricket. Women watch soap-operas on broadcast TV, or Netflix or Amazon Prime. People know each other vaguely, but there is no intimacy or sense of community; everyone is wrapped up in their own little cocoons. Another aspect of urban blight is plastic waste. We simply didn’t have packaging when I was a child. Instead of cereals or vegetables packed in plastic in a supermarket, in the old-fashioned bazaar or corner grocery store they used to wrap up our purchases of lentils or tomatoes in old newspaper cones or pages ripped out of school exercise books. Meat was packed in banana or other leaves. Everything was biodegradable. Even the unglazed clay cups used to serve tea in trains were biodegradable: tossed out on the tracks, they degraded into mud shortly. Today our roadsides and especially railroad tracks are covered with plastic waste. Even worse, so are our urban water bodies: people unthinkingly throw trash into water, resulting in the gumming up of streams into fetid, disgusting pools which then overflow during the monsoons onto the streets. Plastic packaging is a curse, and whenever I segregate garbage, I am astonished at how much of it I have to haul to the recycler. And there is no guarantee that any of this is recycled. Given the unscrupulous nature of petty traders and corruption in local government, it is entirely possible that the waste that I have laboriously sorted is just dumped into some hole in the ground, to leach everything from heavy metals to other toxic waste into the groundwater. Without being mistily romantic about a past fifty years ago that definitely had its share of human suffering and environmental degradation, it is worth considering the hugely negative effects of the hydrocarbon economy: in climate change, in the proliferation of plastics, and the health effects.Earlier, the newspaper boy, the milkman, the postman, and the fish vendor, among others, used to ride their bicycles, with their goods strapped to the ‘carrier’. Today, every one of them uses mechanized transport, either a two-wheeler or a three-wheeler. It is likely that their health has suffered from the reduced exercise. There was ‘smart transportation’ then too, of a different sort. The produce from distant suburbs used to come by bullock cart: convoys would unhurriedly travel through the night, with the tinkle of a bell and a circle of light from their hurricane lamps. The bullocks knew the way, and the drivers would nod off. Now there are mini-trucks, often with loud two-stroke engines, that do the job: the bullocks are gone. They are no longer in much use in paddy fields, either. Linking Cities: VegetationIn fact, the paddy fields are gone, too. Every one of them within city limits has been paved over and turned into residential land, as demand soared with migration. In addition, well-meaning but highly damaging economic policies under left-leaning governments destroyed the very rationale for paddy cultivation. This is a warning for overly intrusive governments as in the San Francisco Bay Area: you can easily drive business away, as is already happening. When I was a child, my great-uncle made good money from farming a few acres of land in our home village about two hours away. Later, my uncle, who was an agricultural scientist, made decent money running his father’s fields that surrounded his beautiful house with an interior courtyard open to the heavens. But over time, he told me, he was forced to subsidize his rice cultivation with his salary as a scientist. So he stopped farming; and others had similar stories.Governments, with the intention of improving the incomes of agricultural laborers, pushed up minimum wages to the point it simply became uneconomical. Labor militancy meant that mechanisation was also not possible. Paradoxically, the end result was not that laborers got good wages: it was that agriculture disappeared. The laborers ended up migrating, and coincidentally, there was the post-1973 Persian Gulf oil boom: they became, in effect, slaves there with virtually no rights, toiling away in the blazing desert heat. Well-meaning Western commentators were impressed by the high quality of life in our villages but their extrapolations may not have anticipated the downsides of “radical reform as development” as they put it. The delicate equilibrium that had sustained some of the best, well-watered, fertile, rice-growing land in the world for millennia came to an abrupt end in the 20th century. The idea in Linking Cities of bringing vegetation and urban farming to cities, albeit with vertical farms or hydroponics, is appealing, because there’s something very old and deep in the human psyche that responds to crops, economics aside. There are two other aspects of village life in Kerala worth noting: community and health. Linking Cities: Family-centric CommunitiesThere has traditionally been a matrilineal system of inheritance in the area among Hindus (though not among Christians or Muslims). Descent was through the women, and therefore property also passed down the female side, and a child belonged to one’s mother’s family, not father’s. The sisters in a family would live together in a joint family, and that would be matriarchal as well: women gained power as they aged. The husband moved in with the wife’s joint family.This construct was particularly suited to an agrarian setup, because it ensured that landholdings remained intact with the joint family, and were not atomized through nuclear families splitting away. It was an economically sensible protocol, and women in Kerala were more equal than their sisters elsewhere in the country: they had economic freedom, and were not dependent on their husbands.My late mother, a professor, remembered with fondness the joint family she grew up in: there was always some aunt to take care of the children even if the parents were busy; and the old people in the household had children to spoil and pass on religious and cultural values to. Somehow, everybody was fed and taken care of. My mother was essentially an orphan, as her mother died young and her father had a traveling job, but she, too, was brought up by the family.Unfortunately, this system broke down when people started moving to the towns in search of non-agricultural jobs, thus setting up nuclear families of their own. Worse, in misguided zeal for ‘reform’, the princely state in the 1920s — possibly influenced by British prejudice, as about half of India was colonized by Britain at the time — abolished the matrilineal joint family. As Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has demonstrated, women are far more careful and sensible users of money for the welfare of their families than men are. Men, on average, spend a large portion of their earnings on themselves, including in gambling, drinking and other vices.This phenomenon is widely seen to this day. Every maid-servant in Trivandrum has the same story: they take an hour-long bus trip from the exurbs, and work for 2-3 hours cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes for middle class families. They might do this for two or three families, perhaps visiting them twice a week. It is a hard life, but it is one way to earn a living.Every one of them complains about their lazy, no-good husbands, and often, alas, their layabout sons, who are casual day laborers or workers without steady jobs, and it is up to the women to maintain the household. The woman-led joint family is far removed from single-mother-led nuclear families, and the sense of community and loyalty it engenders may have lessons for a world in which atomization, angst and anomie are major problems. How can that sense of togetherness be re-created?Linking Cities: DecentralizationOne of the consequences of the pandemic has been the increasingly tenuous links between geography and work. It turns out you can work — at least a lot of things can be done — remotely from anywhere. This is likely to be a lasting change. There are those who view this as an opportunity. For instance, there’s self-made technology billionaire Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho, sitting on a verandah (thinnai in Tamil) in a small village, from where he directs his global business.This trend is likely to become more widespread, as ‘digital nomads’ build up their ‘network states’, as articulated in a wide-ranging podcast by Balaji Srinivasan, a respected Silicon Valley venture capitalist, who himself has migrated to Singapore and India, reasoning that the future of technology will be in Asia.Similarly, a number of technology workers have moved from the crowded Silicon Valley, to Austin, TX, or Miami, FL, to remote Montana or Colorado where they could enjoy nature, or to places like Estonia or Bali. This, then, is the competition for Linking Cities: the good life is no longer confined to certain parts of rich countries. The truly global worker is now (almost) a reality. The age of decentralization is here; distributed systems, more robust and resilient, can now become part of de-globalization, and paired with blockchain and perhaps cryptocurrencies, can create an alternative model.Linking Cities: HealthFinally, on to health. The pandemic has shown the limitations of technological solutions of monitoring or surveilling the population. Track-and-trace systems, including the vaunted Apple/Google cooperative venture, did not prove up to the task of predicting, isolating, or directing resources to the worst-hit areas.Says Bernard Cathelat (ibid, pg. 40): “Smarter city” professionals have to look at the issue of the balance between the cold logic and phenomenal computational ability of artificial intelligence, and another type of intelligence, a human one, whose talents lie more in the “right brain” of intuition, imagination, creativity and improvisation.There is more. We may be reaching the limits of industrial medicine. Once again, the mechanistic Cartesian vanity of Western Science is reflected in the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia of the drug industry, although fundamentally its output is stochastic and not deterministic. There is only a certain probability of a medicine working on a particular person, and the gold standard, the Randomized Controlled Trial, is purely about correlation, and not about causation.There simply isn’t a Theory of Disease in Western medicine, or, as it is called in India, allopathy. Whereas traditional Indian medicine, Ayurveda, does have a theory of disease, which is about the balance among three doshas: vata, pitta and kapha. When an individual loses the natural equilibrium amongst these, diseases emerge; thus Ayurveda has a causal effect for systemic, long-term illnesses, and a physician provides customized health care that is unique to the individual.There is evidence, for example from the gut biome, that it is the disturbance of a balance (in this case between benign bacteria and malign bacteria) that causes much diseases. An Ayurvedic physician spends time with a patient, understanding his family history, his work stress, his food habits and his hobbies, because all that goes into a gestalt of what he is all about. The physician then prescribes a treatment which includes herbal medicines, diet restrictions, yoga and meditation. Sometimes all that the patient needs is a two-week course of rejuvenation. Can technology help in this personalized medicine? Of course, it can. An AI that can sift the Big Data about the individual and correlate his actions to his personality can help guide the physician. Tracking the effects of the course of treatment over time can also help. But most of all, what can help is that there is a system of medicine that treats you as a human being with emotions and a certain personal history, rather than a Cartesian machine. Ayurveda has dealt with pandemics in its millennia-old history, and baked into its protocols are insights on how to improve immunity to fend off pathogens. Unfortunately, in the mad rush towards vaccines and anti-viral drugs, even the Indian Government has paid little heed to Ayurvedic formulations, even those that have shown efficacy against the SARS-COV-2 virus.To sum it up, Linking Cities can indeed provide for better diagnostics and better healthcare especially if it takes into consideration traditional knowledge in medicine. Nobel laureate Octavio Paz once said of his country, Mexico, that it was “condemned to modernize”. Linking Cities suggests that there doesn’t need to be either-or. You can modernize, but also retain that which is valuable from the past. Japan, for instance, has modernized without losing its core values. Linking Cities give us hope that we can, globally, do the same. Those who manage them have to think deeply about the Ethics of Linking Cities, and ask “Whose cities are these?”April 19, 2021 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

Êtes-vous heureux dans votre job ? Avez-vous envie de faire ce job toute votre vie, vous vous faites partie du 1/3 des français qui veulent changer de job, mais qui n'osent pas. Chance, une psytech allie psychologie et technologie pour vous aider à passer le pas, et faire enfin ce que vous êtes. Aujourd'hui je reçois, Ludovic de Gromard, le CEO de Chance.co. Je suis fier de cet épisode, vous allez voir, on avait l'impression qu'on se connaissait depuis toujours. Dans cet épisode, Ludovic nous parle de :  son enfance, ses études, ses différentes expériences professionnelles, et en particulier chez Saverglass où il a recruté plus de 1000 personnes, et ce qui lui a permis d'imaginer Chance la création de Chance.co en 2015 à Rio au Brésil le pivot en 2018, où il change son business model complètement son burn out à la même période Dans une autre partie, nous élargissons la discussion, et nous parlons du travail, en général, bien-être ou malaise Enfin, nous terminons comme à l'accoutumé par des questions personnelles. Bonne écoute

The NgulDumbs are currently at home, with Bhutan into its second lockdown, which Thimphu and Paro are still under. We have decided to remotely record this podcast. NgulDumbs Namgay, Pelmo, Pema Seldon, Jigme Ugyen, Phuntsho and Srijana cover financial services – banks, borrowing, credit checks and insurance— to help you understand how it can be useful for you We are @shapersthimphu on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn Show Notes: 1. “The Bhutan Financial Inclusion Focus Group Survey (2012) states that Bhutan is still very much a cash based economy with informal savings and lending culture.” Source: http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/3745/1/Bhutan%20Connecting%20Disconnected.pdf 2. “Another report states that only 68% of adult population as of 2019 is banked!” Source: The Bhutan Financial Inclusion Focus Group Survey at https://www.rma.org.bt/RMA%20Publication/papers/State%20of%20Financial%20Inclusion%20Report%202019.pdf 3. A helpful guide on interest rate comparison among Bhutanese banks: https://www.diwaspuri.com/blog/bank-for-your-buck/ 4. Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank which pioneered the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. Read more about how microfinance lending empowers the most vulnerable and excluded people in society: https://medium.com/@chrisstatham_13858/101-an-introduction-to-microfinance-dd7988c38696 5. If you need a self inquiry credit check, get the form here [Either email it or drop it at their office at the NPPF building]: https://www.cib.bt/ProductAndServices/Downloads.aspx 6. Thinking of buying an insurance policy? Learn more about life insurance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBhy8iXjpI&ab_channel=TwoCents

In episode 58, Simon talks to John Elkington, Co-Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans. John is one of the founders of the global sustainability movement, an experienced advisor to business, and a highly regarded keynote speaker and contributor, from conferences to advisory boards. In 2008, The Evening Standard named John among the ‘1000 Most Influential People' in London, describing him as “a true green business guru”, and as “an evangelist for corporate social and environmental responsibility long before it was fashionable”. In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth: after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, and alongside Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank. John has addressed over 1,000 conferences around the world. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008. He has served on over 70 boards and advisory boards. John has won numerous awards and is the author or co-author of 19 books. The 20th book was published in April: Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism (Fast Company Press).

Our guest Holden Karnofsky joins us to discuss Givewell, the nonprofit organization he founded. Givewell is devoted to investigating charities and NGOs to determine how much of an impact they're having. You could call it “evidence-based philanthropy.” He discusses how Givewell evaluates charities, and what the research has to say about various controversies as well as the conventional wisdom in the nonprofit world: Can large charities be efficient? Is the percentage of the donation that goes to expenses really a useful metric? Should we focus on problems closer to home instead of giving to foreign countries? Do microfinance NGOs like Kiva or Grameen Bank live up to their claims? And should or can charities be evaluated objectively? Sped up the speakers by [1.0, 1.265404929577465]

Join us for a conversation with C2's Richard St-Pierre. We discuss how we can harness hope and creativity out of crisis. We discuss how to deal with the constantly changing challenges we all face. Richard believes that If you don't like what you see, build a different view. Solving the world's problems has creativity at its epicenter. He had the honor of being named one of the Top 10 Innovators of 2017 while leading C2. C2 was voted the most innovative event of North America four years running and most Kick A** event in the world in 2019. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he launched the Global Data Pledge in partnership with the UN. Richard is also a social business ambassador working with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Grameen Bank founder, Prof. Muhammad Yunus. Richard, with the support of his expansive team, uses business as a world change agent with the goal of propelling the economy and society forward.

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 33:Rakhi and Marco's social enterprise MicroHomeSolutionsMore on social enterprise and other things we discussed:Grameen BankBanker to the Poor by Grameen Bank's founder Muhammad YunusAshoka FellowsRhodes ScholarshipA Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack KornfieldTeaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire by Thomas DeLongFollow us on Instagram for more on Rakhi and everything we mentioned in this episode!

Adriana Machado, Founder of Briyah Institute, which focuses on the impact economy, and former President and CEO of GE Brazil, joins us for this episode. She highlights thought leaders around the green economy, the importance of digital literacy, of adopting a systemic approach to problem-solving, collaborating, and embracing an entrepreneurial mindset! We discuss the power of networks, and how everyone can and should be a leader! Tune in to minute 16:30 for her thread of advice! Show notes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianalmachado/ https://www.briyah.institute/ References mentioned: Grameen Bank (microfinance): http://www.grameen.com/introduction/ Muhammad Yunus (founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh + The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 Winner): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/yunus/biographical/ The Legatum Institute: The Prosperity Index: https://www.prosperity.com/globe Clayton Magleby Christensen of Harvard, Author of The Innovator's Dilemma, and a co-author of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty: https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life Ruth Cardoso: Philanthropist and wife of an ex-President of Brazil https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorraine-bolsinger/ Dorothea Werneck, former Minister of Trade and of Labor in Brazil John Elkington: creator of the phrase “Triple Bottom Line” John Mackey and Raj Sisodia: “Conscious Capitalism” Paul Polman ex-CEO of Unilever: Paul Polman, a 'Crucial Voice' for Corporate Responsibility: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/business/unilever-ceo-paul-polman.html and now founder of https://imagine.one/. Getting certified as a B-Corp. Certified B Corporations are a new kind of business that balances purpose and profit. They are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment. This is a community of leaders, driving a global movement of people using business as a force for good. https://bcorporation.net/ Bob Hacker from StartUP FIU Jocelyn Cortez Young from the Minerva Capital Group Pedro Suarez from Dow Chemical Don't forget to leave us a rating or review if you enjoyed the show! Email us at info@femaleempowermentmarket.com if you have awesome Female Founders that should be featured on our podcast and on our page!

James Bianco is a leadership and career coach and the founder of 16 Degrees Coaching. He spent 11 years working for the UK Department for International Development, working with ministers and introducing the Lean Start-Up methodology across DFID's development programmes. Then, a desire to really see the positive impact of his work led him to discover coaching. He hasn't looked back, clocking up over 2,000 hours of coaching in the first four years of his practice, including running career change webinars for thousands of people.In this episode, we talk about:- How learning the craft of coaching works and how ‘trying hard' to become a great coach in fact is not the way to become a great coach.- The power of the stories we have about our success: how the simple story he had about successful coaches – that they work only on recommendation – at first empowered him to create a thriving business… and then made him doubt himself.- What he learnt from running coaching calls for over 100 people at a time for career-change experts Careershifters.- Networking: how James used his network to create opportunities, recommendations and referrals, and the importance of dispelling the myths we have about our networks.And listen out for the beautiful - and surprising - answer James gives when I ask him how he filled all the time he had when he left his civil service role to coach full time.www.thecoachsjourney.comFor more information about James, visit his website: https://www.16degreescoaching.co.uk/ or find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bianco/For information about Robbie's wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQgThings and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):~10: The Grameen Bank: http://www.grameen.com/introduction/~10: Overseas Development Institute Fellowship Programme: https://www.odi.org/odi-fellowship-scheme~13: Marianne Craig: https://www.coachlifeandcareer.com/~18: Phil Bolton – Read about Phil here: http://phil-bolton.com/ or get to know him by listening to my interview with him in Episode #2: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-2-phil-bolton-from-forensic-accountant-to-the-go-to-career-coach-in-london-and-on-to-work-with-ceos-mds-and-founders~18: The Coaching School: http://www.thecoachingschool.co.uk/~22: Jim Dethmer: https://conscious.is/team/jim-dethmer~32: International Coach Federation (ICF) Competencies: https://coachfederation.org/core-competencies~38: Oxford Brooks Certification as a Skills and Performance Coach: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/coaching-and-mentoring-practice/~67: Jennifer Garvey Berger: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-garvey-berger-7b4a264 and her book: Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unlocking-Leadership-Mindtraps-Thrive-Complexity/dp/1503609014~72: Omidyar Network: https://www.omidyar.com/~72: Luminate: https://www.omidyargroup.com/pov/organizations/luminate/~74: Careershifters: http://www.careershifters.org/~75: The Careershifters articles Robbie most regularly shares with clients: https://www.careershifters.org/expert-advice/the-lean-career-change-how-to-reduce-the-risk-and-increase-the-speed-of-your-shift and https://www.careershifters.org/expert-advice/struggling-to-find-your-ideal-work-why-looking-for-your-career-umbrella-will-get-you~96: The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler: https://richlitvin.com/the-prosperous-coach/~104: OCHA: https://www.unocha.org/~104: Social Tech Trust: https://socialtechtrust.org/

In 2006, Professor Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing the Grameen Bank, which offered capital to people who were too poor to apply for bank loans so that they could start their own businesses and break out of poverty.Thirteen years on, the social entrepreneur and economist is attempting to use sport to stimulate the social business model through the Yunus Sports Hub alongside its co-founder and director Yoan Nogiuer.During this episode, Professor Yunus and Nogiuer explain the concept of social business, and how it relates to sport. They lift the lid on a couple of the Yunus Sports Hub projects: a sustainable procurement partnership with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in which the organisation will help social businesses win part of the Games' €7bn budget through tenders, and the Athlete 365 Business Accelerator – a platform for athletes to acquire the tools and training they need to start their own business after transitioning out of professional sport.Professor Yunus and Nogiuer also discuss the Yunus Sports Hub's overarching goal of “three zeros”: zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions.“The sports world has limitless power,” says Professor Yunus. “People in sport should be asking themselves ‘how am I going to use this power? What kind of purpose do I want to use it for?' Let's use it for creating a world of three zeros, where there will be no poverty, no unemployment and no net carbon emissions. We have to address these issues in a concrete way using the power we have.”

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Moira speaks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and microloans to the poor. He sees “A World of Three Zeros” – Zero Poverty, Unemployment, and Net Carbon Emissions. Then on Tech Nation Health, brain cancer in children. Dr. Rob Wechsler-Reya heads the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.

Featuring cameos from Keely Gerhold of Tinyfield Roofhop Farms and Corey Wood of Elixir Kombucha. My favorite charity*, Kiva, is a micro-finance platform based on Nobel-prize winner Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank.  On their platform, over $924,000,000 has been lent to over a million borrowers in 82 countries from over a million lenders! Kiva's awesome international work has a lot of publicity. But small U.S. businesses can also receive loans of up to $10,000 with 0% interest! We talk with their US Digital Marketing Manager, Adam Kirk. Plus, we hear from two startups that benefitted from a Kiva Zip Loan. This episode was so much fun and a great way to learn about low-interest money for your startup: Life in Albania and how it helped shape Adam's career How to get a 0% interest Kiva zip loan for up to $10,000 After a successful kiva loan what other funding platforms can we look at? Why food startups do well on Kiva How to use social impact to get loans at your favor Essential crowdfunding tips *Our company has already made 38 loans to Kiva borrowers in Colombia and Peru. Start a Kiva Loan Application Elixir Kombucha (Elixir Instagram) Tinyfield Roofhop Farm (Tinyfield Instagram) Tinyfield Kiva Video Adam Kirk on LinkedIn Square Capital Mission Economic Development Agency Urban Solutions Scrum Methodology Episode 88 – How to Crush Kickstarter & Business – Lisa Q. of NOMIKU Elixir Kombucha Kiva Loan Tinyfield Roofhop Farms Kiva Loan Tinyfield Roofhop Farms Indiegogo Campaign Peshkopi, Albania Banker to The Poor by Muhammed Yunus Nichols Industrial Art Strong Rope Brewery Amazon Smile Masters International Reach out to Adam    

It's Day 26 of our 30 Day Podcast Project. In today's episode, we meet Graham Brewster, a millennial social entrepreneur passionate about the intersection of social impact and real estate. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and traveled to Pakistan to serve as a microfinance intern at the Grameen Bank before joining World Housing as its Managing Director. World Housing provides homes to families living in slums around the world, fostering communities where families can thrive with safety, security, and hope for their future. More information and Show notes at: www.innov8social.com/podcast www.theimpactpodcast.com @innov8social