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Where Ideas Launch – The Podcast for the Sustainable Innovator. Where Ideas Launch is Inspired by everyday people who do extraordinary things, and influence thousands, maybe even millions with the insights they bring and work that they do. We all need to access our creative genius in solving some of the worlds more complex challenges. We need to innovate sustainable solutions for every human activity - which opens up immense opportunities. This podcast explores modern-day innovation in the a ...
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Keeping families healthy is an ongoing effort and a passion for Rayne Guest, an innovative and forward-thinking female entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of ArrowClean. While living in Los Angeles, Rayne was inspired to launch her career in the green industry, developing customised recycling programs for hotels and other commercial properties. Vo…
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I don’t know anyone (they may exist, but I don’t know them) who endured the last 3 years, without some significant pain alongside it. That said, we can’t always live in the pain, and as I advocate to my clients, gratitude goes a long way to healing and pulling the threads together again. Those of you who know me, know that I juggle many things in m…
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Jen is a copywriter and editor for sustainable businesses and those that are heading that way. If you’re saving the world but struggling to write about it, Jen can put your actions into words that get noticed. Jen is pivoting into copywriting after 16 years as a German-to-English translator and editor for clients working on climate change. She’s a …
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Jaime Snell is the founder of Eco Crates of America and The Eco Mama Podcast. After taking time off from her career to focus on her family, she put her energies into developing her own company, Eco Crates of America. This organization provides a monthly subscription program of carefully curated items for your home that are safe and non-toxic, and e…
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Katie Skelton, founder of Little Green Duck, is a business consultant and strategist who helps impact-led entrepreneurs to untangle their ideas, manage projects and maximise their impact. Katie works on a personalised basis, and will always get to the heart of the areas of support that her clients need, before suggesting a solution. She loves to di…
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Irete Hamdani is a female solopreneur and founder of askBelynda, a greentech startup helping reduce our carbon footprint. askBelynda offers a Google Chrome extension that recommends sustainable products to consumers while they’re shopping online. She has a Computer Science MSc. with honours from Tel Aviv University and is an AWS Certified Associate…
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Tara Pigott is a freelance Graphic & Brand Designer. She helps sustainable and positive impact businesses visually communicate their mission, values, and messages through intentional branding and design. Her mission is to be able to help such businesses create strong visual presences so that they can powerfully speak to their target audiences and m…
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Selina is the Founder & CEO of Recloseted, the first one-stop consultancy for sustainable fashion. Recloseted launches + scales sustainable fashion brands and helps existing brands become more conscious through their programs and consulting services. Selina leverages her experience working at startups and Fortune 500s, and now leads an all-star tea…
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Nancy Hyne is a sustainability advisor and founder of True Horizon Sustainability Strategies. Her mission is to support SMEs with no-nonsense strategy and support. Getting to the heart of your sustainability goals, Nancy helps impact driven companies revamp their business model to balance people, profit and the planet. She’s based in the beautiful …
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Russ Avery is an eco entrepreneur, sustainable marketer, and CEO of purpose-driven brand consultancy Avery & Brown. With over a decade’s experience of marketing sustainable brands, including six years in-house at two large corporate sustainability consultancies, Russ not only has a deep knowledge of sustainable and ethical marketing practices, but …
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Davey and Daphnah help Eco-minded, sustainable conscious, and changemaking businesses maximise their impact through virtual assistance that goes beyond the basics. They help you get organised, connected to your customers, visible to your audience, and take on the mundane tasks eating up your day, as well as offer advice and tips on how to improve o…
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Michelle Miles is the Founder of the Sustainable Wedding Alliance, a purpose driven business with the singular aim of making the wedding industry more sustainable. The Alliance works with businesses of all sizes to help them to understand sustainability and develop long term sustainable strategies that will benefit the triple bottom line. In additi…
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They are our present and our future, although it’s not quite in their hands. This is the generation that’s already bringing change to pale, male and stale boardrooms around the world, but will they run out of time? We talk about careers, sustainability and the journey of these young women to create a future they want to be a part of. Serena Cocciol…
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Kate Hall is the Founder of The Full Freezer™ and author of the e-book ‘The Full Freezer (Save Food, Save Time, Save Money)’. Kate helps households to reduce their food waste and cook from scratch more easily by using their home freezers more effectively. Unlike batch cooking, The Full Freezer Method is completely flexible and allows families to ea…
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Sara Udin is a client, friend and absolute go getter and one for youth voices in celebrating on the podcast. Sarah is the founder and CEO of Amala Periods, Cambodia’s first sustainable period underwear and education company. She spoke to me about what it's like being a Brit starting a business based in Cambodia. "These were all huge things for me t…
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" I think my favourite exercise when I started this book with my book coach was to write the publishers headline, and think about what I'd want people to say about the book. I'm going to share this with you now - let me know what you think!! "Insightful, unconventional, structured, and providing the reader with a framework that flexes to their need…
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Belinda Ng, is a client, friend and inspiration to me. she shares her thoughts on employment at major corporations, and on food security in this episode. "The question that comes up for me is how much of this is really embedded within what they're doing? And it's true to their core purpose? Or is it really just, you know, controversial greenwashing…
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Abortion ESG is a term I've coined to describe the implications of abortion on the environment, the societies that form us, and the governance tha's meant to protects us. A friend introduced me to the term Cognitive Polyphasia where different knowledge and rationales live side by side in one person. And this is definitely something we are all exper…
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Sarah Almond Bushell is an award-winning Registered Dietitian, ex NHS Consultant child nutritionist of 22 years and founder of ‘The Children’s Nutritionist’ who is working to reduce the stress around mealtimes for parents and is passionate about helping to cut the ties of generational eating habits, fuelled by misinformation and desperation tactics…
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The three engineers are on a mission to supply a book to every Primary school in the UK and encourage readers and children to join Scout’s team (the book protagonist) to help better the planet. Let me introduce you to the 3 Engineers. They are: Nick – Chartered Senior Systems Engineer - 10 years at Babcock International Matt - Chartered Assistant C…
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Marie Lockwood is a teacher and the founder of Rebyl Vybes Rebyl Vybes - Helping you to enjoy life's little pleasures in a sustainable way. She and her mom prepare and ship home kits for those looking to start on their eco journey and pamper boxes so that you can indulge in some guilt free pleasure on a subscription model basis. Sam Pitman is an oc…
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Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Transition Engineering at Herriott-Watt University, Susan Krumdieck is also an Author, Podcaster and Documentarian on Transition Engineering. She brings some incredible insights. Before this recording, Susan said to me, the interesting thing emerging from her sustainable energy journey is that the role of e…
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Jenny Wright has been either working or volunteering with migration and migrants since 2001. She has relied on her project management, research and communications skills to dedicate over a decade of her life to consulting for non-profits and international organisations worldwide. She is currently working for the International Organisation for Migra…
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Heather Burns is an independent ESG and sustainability consultant who for the past 15 years has helped global companies and NGOs find ways to improve and report on their social, environmental, and corporate governance performance. She has also helped to develop global ESG certifications and standards, and is the founder of a nonprofit business asso…
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Roz Edwards has been a business owner now for 30 years, initially in African Art and now with a collection of thousands of mannequins rescued from landfill. Roz started Mannakin from nothing, not even the mannequins, but she was determined to use her business acumen and creativity to create a meaningful sustainable business. Whilst researching mann…
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Sally Dear is the founder of Ducky Zebra, a childrenswear brand that challenges the outdated gender stereotypes found in high-street kids’ clothing. She was frustrated by the impact of gender stereotypes on her children. The language they were hearing, TV they were watching, games they were playing, and the clothes they were wearing, so she decided…
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Before Joining SYSTEMIQ, Tilmann worked with EY sustainability consulting and auditing - working for several globally leading corporations, smaller companies, and the German Government to support better transparency and trust in sustainability reporting. Previously he worked at Volkswagen Corporate Foresight, where he developed a Master Thesis on a…
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Karen made her first garment at the age of seven. Having grown up with a black and gold singer sewing machine in the house, watching fabric come to life in her Mother's hands, she marveled at how a flat piece of fabric could be transformed and engineered into 3d clothes worn by the family. At 19, she started a small fashion business. She studied fa…
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Lola Fernandez was born in Spain, but considers herself a citizen of the world as she’s lived and worked outside of her home country for more than half her life. As a girl she always had a love for nature, and grew up with anxiety about the future of the planet, and she became an activist at an early age. During the nearly 25 years she built a corp…
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Tessa Clarke is Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO, a free app tackling the problem of waste by connecting neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food & other household items can be given away, not thrown away. OLIO has grown to 5 million users in just over 5 years, and its impact has been widely recognised, most no…
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Sarah Barnes-Humphrey is a logistician turned supply chain mogul; passionate about collaboration, transparency, diversity – and doing better business. As the host of popular podcast, Let’s Talk Supply Chain, Sarah puts people right at the forefront of an industry that’s traditionally been about stats and numbers. From thought provoking questions an…
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Alice Schmidt is an advisor, advocate and author on global sustainability & social transformation, passionate about gathering, collating and distilling deep insights on global systemic challenges and solutions regarding environmental and economic sustainability as well as social justice. In her latest book The Sustainability Puzzle - which she co-a…
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Growing up in Idaho with two business-owning parents, Gordon Olson learned the value of hard work early on. He has always been fixated on technology and how people interact with it, and his problem-solving nature led him to found Torii Industries. Torii offers tankless water heaters through a subscription-based model. Their unique service aims to r…
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‘Marc Wheatley is Head of Channel Sales at Full Power Utilities, an energy consultancy focussed on helping SMEs reduce their energy costs and begin their journey to net zero. Marc has been involved in the energy industry since 2014 and has led the development of Full Power’s ‘Future Net Zero’ service offering’…
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A communications consultant with a love for nature and the ocean, Melissa is passionate about making a positive difference to our planet and to people’s lives. Combining her passion for the ocean with her extensive PR, communications and copywriting experience, she helps charities, B Corps and mission-driven organisations achieve tangible results. …
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Sally Giblin is an Eco Founder, Climate Reality Leader, and Environmentalist. Her purpose is to inspire others to take dramatic action on our climate and biodiversity crisis - the most important issue of our lifetime. She’s the CoFounder of Be The Future, which inspires parents of young children to raise heroic leaders for environmental change, dra…
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I’m supposed to have hope. To be an activist for change, an advocate for better ways of living with the flora and fauna and other humans on the planet, you have to believe a new future is possible, instead of being on track to hit 2.7 degrees of warming. As much as I’m a hopeful optimist, I am nagged by the pessimism of doubt, understandably becaus…
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Miriam Dorsett is a serial entrepreneur, a full-time artist, and a community activator. Her passions are the arts, our community, technology, and sustainability. In 2016 she founded the connection company Chibur. In 2018 they launched their first product IA. IA is a digital platform providing writers with an easy-to-use system to monetize their con…
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Mairead Taylor is an active supporter and advocate of businesses, across the Dorset and Solent area, Having been part of NatWest for over 30 years and working with small, medium and large businesses for the past 20 years Mairead brings experience, knowledge and has built a strong internal and external network that helps deliver a better customer ex…
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Austin Kasso is the CEO and Founder of Striver, creator of Sustainable Living Facebook group. He moved to Indiana from New York after graduating high school in 2009 to pursue his passion for agriculture with a vision set on revolutionizing local food systems. Through his campaigns and contributions, he was named Top 10 Local Food Hero in the State …
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Kate Davis is a leadership coach for business founders. She believes passionately that everyone should be able to do work that makes them happy, in an environment that makes them feel valued and heard. Happy people are motivated, energized, more efficient and more profitable – happy people make for better, more sustainable businesses. Kate is an IC…
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Becoming the CEO is more of a mindset than a title. In this session we cover: the framework for the transition The teams and systems and structures you need. The big picture considerations that need to become more central to your view. This session is about the hard elements of leadership, and in a subsequent session, we talk about the softer eleme…
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Meet Katy from Piece of Cake Coaching, the business ImpleMentor, and today we are talking about Operations and Growth. Katy’s natural ability to break things down and explain them simply means she can help her clients cut through the overwhelm, gain clarity in their business, and take action to get the life they want. Using her Business MOT she wor…
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This podcast aims to: Challenge the status quo: show you how to speak truth to power, in a way that sparks momentum for change. We will explore creativity from the eyes of educators, business people, entrepreneurs, and artists. We will examine sustainable clothing brands, sustainable business models, and other ways to support the UN sustainable dev…
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Because business should be good - For you and for the planet! If you own a sustainable business but you're struggling with the fine balance between getting customers and your business ethics this episode is exactly what you were looking for. The EGBC incubator will help you: Plan, Brand, Market Convert, Sell, Grow Automate, Improve Resonate with im…
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My Next Guest is Nicole Broad Owner and Designer at The Fruit Moth clothing and accessories with a conscience. Having launched in 2020 with a range of statement pussy bows and detachable collars, The Fruit Moth now offers shopper bags, reversible sun hats, dresses and reworked blouses handmade in her home studio in Manchester. All of The Fruit Moth…
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