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In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Martin McConnell, founder of Music for Seniors, a non-profit dedicated to bringing live music experiences to older adults. We explore the impact of music on wellbeing, Sarah's advocacy for creative aging, and the incredible journey that led her to this work. Plus, we discuss her personal musical path, her TEDx talk, and her upcoming album Love Songs to the Universe. Whether you're passionate about music, aging, or simply love inspiring stories, this episode is for you!Read about more inspiring, powerful podcast guest stories in my FREE download ➡️ https://bit.ly/8TopPodcastStories=====================Here are ways to connect and work with me at Living on the B Side:=====================

Today’s guest is Audrey Henson, founder of College to Congress, a DC based nonprofit working to create a more inclusive and effective Congress by empowering the next generation of public servants. College to Congress is disrupting the pipeline of congressional staff by helping students from rural, low-income, and disadvantaged backgrounds secure full-time internships in Congress/  In this episode, Audrey I are talking about her journey to Capitol Hill, about the lack of diversity in congress and how the organization that she created, College to Congress, is changing that.  Episode Highlights Audrey’s personal and professional story The barriers to interning on Capitol HIll The socioeconomic divide  The mission of College to Congress The perception of College to Congress  Having the best constituent services  The success of College to Congress  C2C University The vision for College to Congress Bringing positivity back About Audrey At 26, Audrey Henson founded College to Congress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to create a more inclusive and effective Congress by empowering the next generation of public servants. College to Congress is disrupting the pipeline of who becomes congressional staff by helping high-achieving, low-income students secure full-time internships in Congress and covering the true cost of an unpaid internship. In just three years Audrey has raised over $1.7 million from philanthropic foundations such as The Hewlett Foundation and Democracy Fund and corporations like Facebook, Google, Fox, BP, Toyota, Salesforce, Mastercard, Lyft, and more. The organization was also instrumental in advocating for the initial $14 million in appropriations to fund the House Internship Program. For her work, Audrey was selected out of over 11,000 companies for a WeWork Creator Award, Echoing Green’s 2018 Social Impact Talent Report, and is a 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. Audrey has been featured in The New York Times, CBS This Morning, CBS News, The Washington Business Journal, Politico, and more. Audrey grew up in Texas, but is a Floridian in her heart. She studied political science and theater at the University of South Florida and is currently a Socrates Aspen Fellow. Connect With Audrey College to Congress Website https://www.collegetocongress.org C2C University https://www.c2cuniversity.org College to Congress on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/collegetocongress/ College to Congress on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/collegetocongress/ Audrey Henson on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreylhenson/ Audrey Henson on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/audreyhenson_c2c/?hl=en --- Subscribe to the This or Something Better podcast! Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Did you enjoy today’s episode? If you enjoyed this episode, leave a review on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out! Do you know someone who might enjoy this episode? Share this episode to inspire and empower! Let's connect on social media! Facebook @thisorsomethingbetterpodcast Instagram @this.orsomethingbetter

This is Part 1 of a 2 part lightning talk series. "Are you naked right now? You’re not…because you’re using fabric. It’s everywhere! It’s where it’s supposed to be, covering things like us, and where it’s not supposed to be.” This was the opening 10 seconds of Stephanie’s award-winning pitch to Ashton Kutcher, Sean “Diddy” Combs, & Gary Vaynerchuk in 60 seconds at the WeWork Creator Awards where she scored a grand prize of $360,000. Queen of Raw then closed a $1.5M priced seed round led by True Wealth Ventures with minority investor MIT Solve. You’ll hear it in this episode along with insights on how to get funding for your tech start up with a winning pitch. Episode 31 is a 2-part lightning talk series exploring Stephanie Benedetto’s journey from corporate attorney, to sustainability tech entrepreneur. Her family has been in the fashion supply chain business for over 100 years! Benedetto saw the problem first hand and together they built the Queen of Raw solution: a B2B platform for businesses to recapture value from their wasted materials rather than burning them.  This episode provides: an overview of the fashion supply chain, its impact on the world we share and why textile production is the second biggest polluting industry in the world. Did you know that one tee shirt takes 700 gallons of water to produce? Bringing $120 billion worth of unused textiles back to life, the Queen of Raw has already saved over one billion gallons of water while saving businesses millions of dollars with supply chain efficiency. Why is an optimized supply chain the solution for people, for planet, and for profit? You’ll learn why sustainability and circularity are the answer in the future of fashion.  We also explore Stephanie’s journey including her advice to women-owned technology start-ups! Some of Stephanie’s awards include: Grand Prize WeWork Creator Awards, Cartier Women’s Initiative, Laureate MIT Solve Global Challenge Winner, LVMH Innovation Award, NASA/NIKE/IKEA/DELL Innovator Finalist, Google Women Who Tech Fashion Group International Rising Star, thredUP Circular Fashion Fund Recipient Learn more about Stephanie here -  http://www.queenofraw.com  Industry: SaaS Software, Supply Chain, Textiles, Blockchain, Machine Learning/AI, Marketplace Launched: Q3 2018 Find us, connect, and explore at https://www.supplychainrevolution.com/

In this episode, we have the honor of speaking with award-winning educator, speaker, and author, Erica Buddington. In our conversation, Erica shares her inspiration behind the founding of Langston League, her company's new partnership with Flipgrid, her current journey of starting her own school, and much more! To learn more about Erica's work, you can visit the Langston League website at langstonleague.org or her personal website at mostfireteacher.com. You can also connect with Erica and Langston League on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. BIO: Erica Buddington is an accomplished edupreneur, speaker and author, on a mission to curate culturally relevant curricula that defies and decolonizes the status quo. With a background in education and curriculum design spanning over 10 years, she launched the Langston League to address educational and opportunistic inequalities across the globe. Langston League specializes in teaching educators how to design and implement culturally sustaining instructional material through professional development, curriculum design, facilitation and coaching. Since inception, she has served clients across multiple states and two countries, with clientele including Google Code Next, Achievement First Schools, Medgar Evers College R.O.L.L. Program, Up Academy and Because of Them We Can. In 2021, she will be launching a middle school academy. Throughout her career, she has developed mastery in educational consulting, EdTech, instruction, restorative justice, social-emotional learning, and creative writing. Erica has authored two fiction books and through her trailblazing work in education, sparked international media attention, with features on The Steve Harvey Show, MTV's TRL, Forbes Magazine, Buzzfeed, and Black Enterprise. She was the recipient of the 2015 Harlem Children's Zone Innovation Award, 2017 WeWork Creator Award, 2018 Hampton University Most Notable Hamptonian in Hip-Hop, and 2019 Nike X WeAreCultivator Sneaker Designer. Erica attended Hampton University to pursue English/Performing Arts and received recognition during that time for spoken word performances, earning her performances with the likes of HBO's Def Poetry, Arrested Development, Mos Def, Dead Prez, and Lupe Fiasco. As a natural storyteller and performer, Erica uses responsive strategies, and vast knowledge of pop culture, to create engaging and transformational human learning experiences, like no other. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/identitytalk4educators/support

At 26, Audrey Henson founded College to Congress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is disrupting the pipeline of who becomes congressional staff by helping high-achieving, low-income students secure full-time internships in Congress and covering the true cost of an unpaid internship. Audrey was selected out of over 11,000 companies for a WeWork Creator Award and Echoing Green’s 2018 Social Impact Talent Report. Audrey Henson believes our democracy is only effective when it becomes the representative body it was created to be. She is dedicated to giving people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences a seat at the table, building a government that works better for everyone. We discussed finding your voice and confidence at a young age, how to own your story, harnessing the passion when faced with big challenges, and why it's vital to always stay true to who you are, no matter what. If you're looking to launch a big idea, this episode is for you. 

Samantha Kwok's passion is to help young graduates and professionals make genuine connections with potential employers, and empower them to take control of their own career development. She is the founder of JingJobs, an online and offline platform dedicated to connecting China-focused startups and fresh bilingual talent. Over the last four years, JingJobs has serviced over 800 companies and has provided countless job opportunities to young professionals based in Beijing and Shanghai. As the president of the Beijing Women’s Network, which has over 4,000 members, Sam facilitates events and workshops that provide training in workplace skills that are relevant across various industries. Five years ago, Sam moved to Beijing, where she founded JingJobs at the age of 22. She received a WeWork Creator Award in 2018 and was a TEDx speaker in Dalian in 2017. Ta for Ta is a biweekly podcast focused on capturing the lives of women in and from Greater China at the top of their professional game. Samantha Kwok 郭婷婷 JingJobs.com Website: www.jingjobs.com, www.hr-butler.com, and cn.hr-butler.com WeChat: getjinged Facebook: www.facebook.com/jingjobs Twitter: @JingJobs Instagram: @jingjobs WeChat: kwoksamantha  

Samantha Kwok's passion is to help young graduates and professionals make genuine connections with potential employers, and empower them to take control of their own career development. She is the founder of JingJobs, an online and offline platform dedicated to connecting China-focused startups and fresh bilingual talent. Over the last four years, JingJobs has serviced over 800 companies and has provided countless job opportunities to young professionals based in Beijing and Shanghai. As the president of the Beijing Women’s Network, which has over 4,000 members, Sam facilitates events and workshops that provide training in workplace skills that are relevant across various industries. Five years ago, Sam moved to Beijing, where she founded JingJobs at the age of 22. She received a WeWork Creator Award in 2018 and was a TEDx speaker in Dalian in 2017. Ta for Ta is a biweekly podcast focused on capturing the lives of women in and from Greater China at the top of their professional game. Samantha Kwok 郭婷婷 JingJobs.com Website: www.jingjobs.com, www.hr-butler.com, and cn.hr-butler.com WeChat: getjinged Facebook: www.facebook.com/jingjobs Twitter: @JingJobs Instagram: @jingjobs WeChat: kwoksamantha  

How To Get Paid Twice To Solve The Same Problem On a tour of South America, Robert Olivier was rattled by the level of agricultural operations demolishing the rainforests around him. He was struck by the feeling that he had to change the larger narrative of the farming industry. GrubTubs was created to initiate change in the toxic landscape of the corporate farming industry. “You don’t have to slash and burn the rainforests,” Olivier said. “You can integrate our cities and farms. And that is the key to a sustainable biological community. We take food waste from restaurants and use it to create grubs to feed to chickens, pigs, and rabbits instead of importing organic soy from other countries.” As Robert found his footing in formulating and distributing the perfect “tub” for restaurants to seal in food waste, he received unanticipated, yet key advice from the logistical juggernaut, UPS. He was advised to plan everything out with pen and paper, rather than software, until his product and procedure fully formed. From that point forward, bolstered by funding from the WeWork Creator Award and MassChallenge, Robert was able start building his team and focus on scaling GrubTubs to meet Austin’s growing need. In this episode of Voices of Impact, Robert talks about solving Austin’s $5 billion food waste problem. We discuss pivoting out of an early idea, avoiding software paralysis, and getting paid twice to solve the same problem. Robert also shares that the Austin-area is losing 9 acres of farmland per day to developers, and other not-so-known facts that we need to know urgently.

What happens when you pair a love for writing, travel, design, experience activations and more? You get today’s guest. Her name is Tracey Coleman, and she is a creator, writer, designer and visionary. She’s also a multi passionate entrepreneur with a myriad of hustles.Her main hustle is Show & Tell Creative, a boutique activation agency specializing in social media, event activation and multicultural marketing.Her various side hustles include being Event Director and Partner in Curly Girl Collective, the founders and producers of  the epic CURLFEST. She’s also the Brooklyn Travel Addict, a Witty storyteller and content creator through her legendary travel blog.   Finally, she’s is the Founder of Purpose Driven Passports - a nonprofit organization that identifies and creates opportunities for travelers to give back abroad. In 2017, less than 6 months after launching, Tracey won the WeWork Creator Award. In keeping with the theme of women who are redefining entrepreneurship, I’m happy to share Tracey’s journey today. She is living proof that if you work it right, you can be multi passionate and have a business and a life walking in your purpose.