Care More Be Better: Social Impact - Sustainability - Regeneration

In this episode, Corinna Bellizzi guides a conversation about food scarcity, hunger and community stress. These are challenges many people face every single day -- and problems that have only been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rhiannon Menn, founder of Lasagna Love joins the show to talk about caring for people in our communities and showing love through making and giving food to those that need help...

Disclaimer: In this episode we are going to cover some sensitive topics from race relations to social justice and everything in-between. Please use your discretion when listening, especially if you have young children present or if you’re listening in the company of others.

About Courtney Stewart, Founder & CEO of LipRevoltThrough LipRevolt, Courtney encourages people to fight for what they believe in and to speak up for others...

In this episode, we delve into the shady world of payday lending and novel disruptors in financial technology (fintech) that seek to change this $11 billion dollar industry for the better. We share sobering statistics while discussing the needs of the working poor...

In this episode, our first focused on the topic of sustainability, we discuss the path to becoming and supporting sustainable businesses. You’ll learn how B-Corporations focus on building more than profits, with a triple bottom line approach that puts people and profits at the same level of importance with profits...

In this episode, since most podcasts “podfade” by episode 7 (and since this is #7 if you count our trailer episode) we honor the podcasts that helped us get started, from the friendly podcasters who offered advice to those who offered air time. A big shout out is due to Carolyn Kiel of Beyond 6 Seconds, Anne Marie Cannon of Armchair Historians and Mathew Passy of Causepods (links to each show are below this intro).

This episode is special in another way...

If you want to hear more about women helping women, this episode is for you! We explore the intricate lives that women lead -- with circuitous paths or “trails” that aren’t necessarily the most linear. In this discussion, Rebekah Bastian, whose personal and professional roles include author, tech executive, mother, wife and aerial acrobat invites women to help one another through mentorship, support and solidarity...

In this episode we invite you to “Keep Rolling” with DeAndre Wilson, a serial entrepreneur and activist from Southern Indiana who became notorious for rolling a 230 pound tractor tire around town to increase awareness around the struggles of those with cancer and to help raise funds to support them financially. You’ll hear the story of how his father once rolled that very same tractor tire around town with the simple message “cancer sucks” before he passed...

In this episode we dig into the concept of paying it forward. You’ll hear the story of Henry Darby, a high school principal in South Carolina, who took a part-time graveyard shift at Walmart, so he could pay his salary forward to students in need.

We bring home the pay-it-forward concept as we tell the sweet story of The Giving Cake, a cupcake company that donates 100% of their profits to community charities...

In this interview, you meet Genevieve Smith, an expert in social and organizational change, values alignment and data for social good who is also affectionately known by colleagues and work friends as a “professional bummer”. You’ll learn how and why she has earned that title as we talk about managing difficult conversations about polarizing topics, and how “nothing is neutral”...

In this interview, we meet Kayra Martinez, the founder of Love Without Borders For Refugees In Need. You’ll hear how ONE woman harnessed her desire to help refugees in need to form a not-for-profit that has since helped thousands of refugees living in camps in Greece.

Kayra learned by apparent accident when she supplied crayons and paper to kids living in the refugee camps...