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episode 70: How to Innovate, Adapt, and Grow Your Business - The Journey of Brandi DeCarli (Social Entrepreneurship)
What does it take to create powerful change? To disrupt an entire industry? To improve the lives of people in every corner of the globe?
The simple answer: innovation. The more complicated answer, however, is a mix of innovation, strategy, adaptability, experimentation, and commitment to social change.
That’s what entrepreneur and innovator Brandi DeCarli tapped into when she set out to disrupt the agriculture industry as we know it.
Today, I interview Brandi about her revolutionary business idea, Farm From a Box, and how she grew the company into the global change-maker it is now. You’ll learn how to build social change into a business model, why it’s important to stay true to your goals, and how you can use different types of financing to your advantage.
About my guest:
Brandi DeCarli is the co-founder of Farm From a Box, a company that empowers communities around the world to grow their own food using clean technology. Before starting her business, Brandi was running her own nonprofit and working with the UN to build a youth empowerment center in Kenya. When she realized the community didn’t have easy access to healthy food, she had the idea to equip them with the tools necessary to grow their own food. Now, Brandi works with farmers, government officials, and experts in agriculture across the globe to provide communities with the resources to sustain themselves nutritionally and economically.
In this episode we talk about:
➤ How Brandi came up with the idea for the Farm From a Box (5:24)
➤ What the Farm From a Box concept means (7:40)
➤ How the farming industry changed (15:01)
➤ How to improve economic sustainability within communities (18:03)
➤ How to balance profit with impact (19:47)
➤ Why building localization into the business model matters (23:23)
➤ Taking things into your own hands as a business owner (26:14)
➤ How non-dilutive financing works (27:33)
➤ How Brandi’s business evolved after COVID-19 (28:38)
➤ The importance of reviewing your finances (32:02)
➤ Brandi’s financing solutions (37:51)
➤ What equity crowdfunding means (39:11)
➤ What to think about before you get financing (41:08)
➤ Brandi’s advice to other women business owners (43:14)
Keep Listening
Curious to learn more about how to balance between mission, financing, and profit?
Check out my conversation with the Honourable Mary Ng about the importance of expanding opportunities and resources for women business owners, Neige and Pippa Blair on growing a passion project into a successful international brand and Kim Aitken on what it takes to finance capital-intensive businesses.
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Connect with Brandi DeCarli
➤ Website
➤ Linkedin