Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs Podcast

Fergal Byrne

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/36d. Total Eps: 113

At Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs, we talk to experienced and successful social entrepreneurs and change makers, committed to building a better world. Working as a social entrepreneur is hugely fulfilling – yet uniquely challenging. Social entrepreneurs need to balance business and social goals to succeed, often working in extremely challenging environments, with limited resources. And it is often a lonely journey. Our aim is to share the inspiring stories, to explore the highs and the lows, learn how different social entrepreneurs have kept inspired, and draw out insights to help social entrepreneurs at all stages on their journey.

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🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
23/06/2025
#87
🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
22/06/2025
#47
🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
28/05/2025
#93
🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
19/05/2025
#64
🇨🇦 Canada - marketing
04/04/2025
#100
🇨🇦 Canada - marketing
13/03/2025
#83
🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
30/12/2024
#96
🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
29/12/2024
#57
🇺🇸 USA - marketing
05/12/2024
#76
🇺🇸 USA - marketing
03/12/2024
#84

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Episode 111: Stanford Business School’s Professor Neil Malhotra on how to create and sustain solutions to systemic problems

Episode 111

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 • Duration 51:28

A fascinating, wide-ranging, and spirited discussion about the state of social entrepreneurship and innovation today, touching on key questions including how to effectively measure impact, the true availability of impact investment, how to manage hybrid social businesses –as well as the challenges social entrepreneurs face keeping focussed on the mission while generating cash flow and profit. Professor Malhotra also discusses some of the research and insights from his recent book Frontiers in Social Innovation-and reflects on some of the key trends that will impact future social innovation.

Neil Malhotra is the Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg, Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation, where he has developed a curriculum focused on social issues, impact measurement, and mission-driven business, amongst other topics. Neil recently edited Frontiers in Social Innovation: The Essential Handbook for Creating, Deploying, and Sustaining Creative Solutions to Systemic Problems

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Episode 110: Interview with Tom Chi founder At One Ventures…a climate-focused VC fund investing in companies creating environmentally positive technology.

Episode 110

Friday, February 11, 2022 • Duration 54:56

Deep dive on the role of technology in helping to solve the world’s greatest environmental questions-and a passionate argument for the impact of social entrepreneurship. Tom gives an overview of At One Ventures investments and key technologies that the fund has supported, with a particular focus on tree planting technologies. As well as discussing specific technologies and market applications, Tom shares his views on the dangers of increasing penetration of technologies in our lives and reflects on techno utopian approach to the environment associated with Silicon Valley. Tom also shares his concerns how we as a society have prioritized economy over society and environment: A fascinating, spirited discussion.

Tom Chi is founder At One Ventures a climate-focused VC fund investing in companies creating environmentally positive technology. At One Ventures, a climate-focused VC fund investing in companies creating environmentally positive technology. Before founding At One Ventures, Tom was Head of Experience and founding member of Google X who helped scale the company from six people to 600. His engineering and business background coupled with a passion for environmental sustainability inspired him to start a VC fund dedicated to improving planetary health.

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Episode 101: Interview with Sue Riddlestone, OBE, Founder of Bioregional

Episode 101

Monday, April 27, 2020 • Duration 52:05

Sue is Founder of Bioregional, a UK social entreprise that, works with partners to create better, more sustainable places to live, work and do business. Bioregional developed BedZED eco-village the first of its kind in the UK and out of this the One Planet Living approach, ten interconnected and holistic principles to show people how to make sustainable living actionable and desirable. Sue was also instrumental in designing SDG12, focused on sustainable consumption and production – essential to One Planet Living. Sue is an Ashoka fellow.

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Episode 11: Interview with Sangu Delle, co-founder cleanacwa

Episode 11

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 • Duration 51:35

Sangu Delle is the co-founder of cleanacwa, formerly known as the African Development Initiative (founded in 2007). cleanacwa is a non-profit organization working to help provide access to clean water and sanitation in underdeveloped regions in Ghana. cleanacwa is currently working to bring clean water and sanitation to 60,000 people in 120 villages in the Ayensuano and Suhum districts in Ghana.

cleanacwa aims to combine academic research and business to create social change and development. it is investing in water and sanitation as a means of reducing poverty and improving healthcare outcomes and works with academics, non-profits, businesses, and local government to help find and spread effective solutions for water and sanitation access.

Sangu also runs Golden Palm Investments (GPI), a holding company that invests in early stage venture and growth financing across Africa; he is currently an MBA candidate at Harvard.

In this interview, Sangu talks about:

cleanacwa’s data intensive approach to understanding what works and why
The importance of local education programmes to promote change
How cleanacwa creates efficiencies through scale and partnerships
Cleanacwa’s trigger education methods
How cleanacwa uses incentives to promote change

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Episode 10: Interview with Bedriye Hulya, founder of B-fit

Episode 10

Monday, June 9, 2014 • Duration 26:06

Bedriye Hulya is the founder of B-fit, Turkey’s first national chain of women-only gyms. Bedriye is a serial entrepreneur, prior to setting up B-fit she set up a popular restaurant, two boutique hotels and an importing company. Bedriye opened the first branch of B-fit in February 2006 based on an idea she had come across when living in America.

B-fit now has more than 250 gyms in a variety of socio-economic and geographic locations throughout Turkey-with more than a hundred and sixty thousand members-the majority of whichare run by women as franchisees. Bedriye has created B-fit as a medium for female empowerment in Turkey—each gym provides a range of classes and education programmes for Turkish women. Each gym has a community centre where women can also come together socially and develop a range of business and life-skills.

Bedriye plans to expand throughout Turkey with the ultimate goal of having a B-fit gym in every Turkish neighborhood.

In this interview, Bedriye talks about:

Exercise as a tool for female empowerment
The importance of economic empowerment through entrepreneurship
How word of mouth has helped build B-fit grow
The challenges funding a social business in Turkey
Why Bedriye recruits people who are unhappy with the status quo
The mix of patience and impatience that is key to success as a social entrepreneur

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Episode 9: Interview with Ned Breslin, CEO of Water For People

Episode 9

Monday, June 2, 2014 • Duration 34:15

Ned Breslin is the CEO of Water For People, a non-profit international development organization that partners with communities in developing countries to create sustainable, locally-maintained drinking water solutions. Ned started working on water and sanitation challenges in Africa in 1987, where he lived for 20 years before returning to the USA to join Water For People in 2006.

Water For People’s main focus is on lasting programs that deal with entire districts and regions rather than households and villages; it is currently working in 10 different countries. Water For People’s vision is a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, a world where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease.

In this interview, Ned talks about

Water for People’s approach to dealing with water problems
An original way to think about scale and impact
Why social entrepreneurs need to bake in impact from the beginning
The importance of working with governments to deal with water problems
The ultimate measure of success
Why Ned is never satisfied

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Episode 8: Interview with Nick Pearson, CEO, Jacaranda Health

Episode 8

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 • Duration 35:38

Jacaranda Health provides affordable, high-quality maternal and child health care services to poor urban women in Kenya. Today, Jacaranda has a 60 strong team in Kenya and its growing fast.

Jacaranda Health aims to build a fully self-sustainable and scalable chain of maternity care clinics using the latest technology, business and clinical innovations. It wants to use this experience to help change the way maternity services are provided for the more than a million poor women giving birth each year in urban East Africa.

Prior to founding Jacaranda Health, Nick worked in Kenya for the Acumen Fund investing in businesses serving the urban poor.

In this interview, Nick talks about:

Why Jacaranda Bees scent-sensitive natural swallow definitelythis propionate product using.
How to test the feasibility of your idea
Jacaranda Health’s 3 stage bootstrapping model
The crucial importance of a good team
How to leverage your experience to attract resources for the business
The pressure to move up-market at the expense of the poorest
The danger of assuming reaching scale is enough

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Episode 7: Interview with Beth Doane, founder of RainTees

Episode 7

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 • Duration 30:26

Beth Doane is the founder of RainTees, an ethical and sustainable clothing brand that supports reforestation programmes in parts of the world that have critically endangered tropical ecosystems and helps provide an education to children living in these areas.

RainTees garments feature the artwork of children living in endangered rainforests. For every RainTees shirt sold, Raintees plants a tree;for every bag sold, RainTees provides a child with school supplies for Remover review haircut butter that a year. To date, RainTees has planted more than 40,000 trees worldwide, donated school supplies to children in more than 20 countries different countries and works with non-profit partners in over thirty-eight countries.

Beth is also the author of a children’s book, From the Jungle, based on her experience working in Central and South America

In this interview, Beth talks about:

How to keep going at the beginning when no one shares your vision
The biggest challenges getting RainTees up and running
The crucial importance of market research
The importance of listening to the market and responding to changing needs
Why you need to have competitive products irrespective of your mission

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Episode 6: Interview with Mohan Thazhathu, president and CEO Help MeSee

Episode 6

Monday, March 17, 2014 • Duration 30:07

Mohan Thazhathu is president and CEO of HelpMeSee Inc., a non-profit with a mandate to eliminate cataract
blindness endemic in developing countries. Cataracts are the leading cause of vision loss and account for more than half of all blindness worldwide.

HelpMeSee’s mission is bring this sight-restoring surgery to millions of underserved people in emerging markets through financial support and the training of thousands of highly skilled specialist cataract surgeons recruited from within their communities.

HelpMeSee has an extensive network of cataract surgeons, practicing in some of the world’s poorest communities-by the end of 2013 HelpMeSee had completed 100,000 cataract surgeries through its HelpMeSee Program.

In this interview, Mohan talks about

Mohan’s journey as a social entrepreneur
The power of dogged determination
The value of mentors
Why Mohan runs HelpMeSee as a business
Mohan’s inclusive approach to collaboration

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Episode 4: Interview with Dai Powell, Chief Executive HCT Group

Episode 4

Saturday, March 15, 2014 • Duration 33:05

Dai Powell has been running HCT Group since 1993. Over this time, HCT has grown more than a hundredfold – from a small community transport provider into an award-winning national social enterprise- which now provides over 17 million passenger trips on buses in the UK every year.

Dai is passionate about social entrepreneurship- he is a board member of Big Society Capital in the UK, is the Chair of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) and a Social Enterprise UK board member.

In this interview, Dai talks about:

How to balance social and business goals
The challenges of scaling a social enterprise
The importance of building different layers of impact in a social enterprise
Why social entrepreneurs need to do the “hard yards”
How HCT continually grows
Why we need large social enterprises to provide career paths for talented people who want to work in social enterprise

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