The social enterprise sector comes of age
From businesses doing good to charities running businesses and everything in between, social enterprise as an industry is growing up and holding its first national conference.
Dr Pleayo Tovaranonte on social enterprise “Beyond the Stethoscope”
Dr Pleayo Tovaranonte explains the social enterprise Beyond the Stethoscope that he co-founded sending Doctors to other parts of the world. We also discuss his many other entrepreneurial adventures, such…
Seeds Takeover! Tim Jones & Mark Ambundo discuss … everything!
Two former podcast guests have become great friends in the last year and as I respect each of them so highly I invited them to come back and chat about…
A Blessing
Inspired by Mark Ambundo. If our purposes are like arrows pointing in the way we should goI see you have a quiver full and carry with you a strong bow May they…
Bonus: Governance tips for Boards
This is a short talk given to about 50 people who were all involved as board members and so was sharing a list of top 10 tips for good governance. Thought some of…
Dr. Cheryl Doig on the Future of Learning
Cheryl is a leadership futurist and expert in education and in this interview we combine the two into a far reaching discussion about what is to come in relation to…
A privilege denied to many
Inspired by Cheryl Doig. That child, you saidwas killed for stealing five dollars.Decades ago now,yet grief still fresh in a mother’s eyes. What was his name?No response could truly reflectthe value…
Simon Mbonyinshuti on being a Refugee from Rwanda
Simon fled Rwanda aged 16 in 1994 and never saw his home again. This is one of those really deep episodes where we really explore what it even means to…
Identity
Inspired by Rwandan Refugee Simon Mbonyinshuti. Your identity stripped awayin a gunshot moment.Carrying with you only your name.Clinging to it as you hid in the dark,under beds, under chairs,emerging from…
Dr Sharon McIver on interviewing music icons like Radiohead and founding social enterprise ‘Our Daily Waste’
Dr Sharon McIver founded social enterprise ‘Our Daily Waste’ and in this conversation we talk about her entrepreneurial journey. Before getting to that though we discuss her childhood as well…
Reuben Bijl on designing apps and co-founding Smudge
Reuben is a co-founder and Managing Director of Smudge which has been developing apps since the iPhone first came out. In this interview we start with a discussion about his…
Bonus: Start-up key issues (structures for social enterprises, governance, key documents, IP and other common questions…)
To celebrate getting to 15,000 listens this “Legal Mashup” is a bonus episode recorded at XCHC recently. In this I presented along with Kris Morrison about key start-up issues including…
