Social Good Podcast

Global Mobility in the AI Era: Why Hiring Still Needs Humans w/ Sonam Haider #36 What really happens when a company moves talent across borders? In this episode of the Social Good Podcast, Rose talks with Sonam Haider, founder of Aethra Advisory, a talent mobility firm based in Dubai. With more than a decade in global mobility at companies like Amazon, Uber and Deel, Sonam explains why employee re...

How Green Is AI? The Environmental Impact of AI w/ Nina Benoit #35 What is the real environmental impact of AI, and how can you use AI sustainably? Nina Benoit, Director of Sustainability at Brightest, host of The AI Sustainability Podcast and author of the upcoming book How Green Is AI?, joins Rose to break down the AI carbon footprint and AI water footprint, why generating images and videos weig...

Sue Rizzello, founder of **Remedy Marketing**, joins the Social Good Podcast to share 35 years of marketing wisdom, from launching Bluetooth globally to running her own B2B agency for two decades, including surviving advanced ovarian cancer while keeping the business alive. She breaks down why case studies and thought leadership are the real proof engines of B2B marketing, why AI can speed up the...

Logan Brown, founder and CEO of **Soxton**, joins the Social Good Podcast to talk about building an AI-powered law firm for startups after seeing her Big Law clients turn to ChatGPT for legal answers. She breaks down how Soxton handles incorporations, financings, and contracts at a fraction of Big Law prices, why founders should be careful with VC side letters, and what she looks for when hiring l...

Effective Altruism Sweden's Dr. Ysaline Bourgine de Meder on (1:36) Effective Altruism as an international movement, (3:59) finding areas to work on that are neglected, (6:00) celebrating 10 years at EA Sweden, (8:38) career advising at EA Sweden in fields including nonprofits, government and corporations, (13:40) following through with EA members throughout their career advising, (15:15) what ins...

Buena Vida Specialty Coffee's Gally Meyer on (0:50) running one of the top coffee shops in North America, Central America and the Caribbean regions, (1:36) starting Buena Vida Specialty Coffee 6 years ago, (2:40) defining regenerative farming, (5:27) measuring regenerative farming at Buena Vida Specialty Coffee, (8:14) understanding regenerative agriculture and the ecosystem in which it works incl...

Mallory discusses (1:00) spending 10 years in San Francisco, (2:33) working in community brand and content marketing at Tumblr in 2010's, (3:00) starting a blog to connect with other gamers, (3:37) working at Discord as an early employee after her blog took off, (4:50) starting whatever studio, (5:37) joining Bolt.new as a fractional marketing officer, (6:30) raising money for kindasorta after lea...

Nicole discusses (0:55) her time studying Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University, (1:28) dealing with mental health issues at Columbia and trying to help others once she healed, (2:48) reaching people with mental health issues through Soul Health, (4:18) helping people reconcile their professional lives with their personal lives, (5:26) helping entrepreneurs avoid burnout, (7:43) dream...

Mhraf discusses (1:04) growing up in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa; then attending Trinity College in Connecticut in the U.S., (1:34) studying Economics and International Relations with a concentration in African Studies at Trinity College, (2:43) attending African Leadership Academy in South Africa with a tight-knit group of 100 students for two years, (12:47) working in education for 8 years,...

The Second Chance Project's Louise Prashad discusses (0:16) celebrating her birthday and anniversary with family this week, (1:40) growing up in York, U.K., (2:22) experiencing a coma mid-birth from a rare liver condition which led to the stillbirth of her twins in 2016, (3:04) waking up a month later from the coma and having had undergone a liver transplant, (3:50) coming to terms with the organ...

In episode 26, Sarah Jakle discusses (0:26) supporting historically underserved high school girls in going to public service, (0:52) teaching perseverance and positive self-talk, (3:35) vastly underestimating the high school girls that she works with, (4:29) showing, not telling, leadership from young women through peer-to-peer mentorship and leadership programs, (6:20) building a pipeline for rec...

Where Tu’s Anna Luzader on starting One Heart Africa in 2011 (1:15), learning to be adaptable (2:34), receiving 200K USD in annual donations through her non-profit (4:09), working with villages in Mozambique and navigating ethical challenges of employing and supporting community members (6:06), resorting to hiring out (8:04), focusing on being a good reporter and providing accountability for their...

Enterprise Nation and Girls in Movement’s Polly Dhaliwal on (1:05) supporting startups and small businesses through Enterprise Nation, (1:45) matching businesses with support in less than 3 clicks, (2:53) growing Enterprise Nation, (3:47) supporting female founders looking for funding, (4:15) how Enterprise Nation works and operates, (4:28) capturing data from small business applicants to present...

Ecopreneur's Philip Toussaint on (2:47) pivoting his business from a media platform, (4:57) gathering feedback for a volunteer tracking platform, (7:51) the role of volunteering in students' lives, (9:56) working with user feedback to improve the platform, (12:23) reforming the team and rebuilding the tech stack, (13:38) transitioning to a new tech stack, (15:30) leading his team in a linear manne...

Nora Chiu discusses (1:54) discovering the startup ecosystem in Korea, (4:05) bringing Lydia AI to the Asian market, (6:42) Lydia AI's product offering, (8:15) partnering with financial institutions, (9:13) analyzing the government health cloud in Asia including Taiwan, (10:50) comparing health insurance plans in the West vs. the East, (14:12) delivering the message of Lydia AI and educating consu...

Ashley Werhun of Mentorly discusses (1:15) starting her career as a ballet dancer, (2:36) her aspirations to be a ballet dancer as a child, (5:13) her transition into tech, (6:41) the seeds of Mentorly being planted through mentoring relationships with ballet students, (9:47) the evolution of Mentorly in the early years, (11:20) the pivot from a B2C to B2B product, (12:49) a defining encounter wit...

Josh Collin discusses (2:08) starting Crescent Health from his dorm room, (4:41) moving to a founder house called the Atmosphere House with his co-founder Jason, (10:24) picking up funding from angel investors, (11:40) building Crescent Health from scratch, (13:52) bringing on big name coaches to Crescent Health, (17:40) early growth, (19:04) building for two different marketplaces, (25:22) path t...

Ricardo Alanis describes his work at Nowports including (5:50) visibility with data in shipping logistics, (7:14) increasing trust in data points for his customers, (15:12) providing financial data like inventory financing, (17:40) representation of goods imported from and exported out of Latin America, (19:48) his role at Nowports, (21:10) the role of AI in his work, (22:30) the Nowports platform...

Cristina Vanko discusses her journey to building Arrow, an audio dating app. Cristina discusses (0:30) her upbringing and her early experience as a designer and advertiser on the agency side, (3:32) jumpstarting her freelancing career and how an article about handwriting her text messages went viral, (5:00)(32:20) getting picked up by Penguin Randomhouse to write books on handlettering and adultin...

Chris Baek discusses how he got to working to provide IoT software services for domestic electrical goods manufacturers in Japan with his company InCloud. He discusses (3:01) his beginnings and reinventing himself at USC, (8:53) his first experience at a corporate job after college and what it taught him, (12:02)starting InCloud and his relationship with his cofounder, (15:00) InCloud's IoT servic...

Alana Karen (@alanatkaren) discusses getting her start at Google, making a switch from sales and marketing to the engineering team, the scrappy go-getter mentality in the early days at Google and leading the Google Fiber and Search platform teams. She also discusses finding work-life balance and documenting stories of women in tech along with their successes and challenges in her book The Adventur...

Shriya Nevatia (@shriyanevatia) discusses joining On Deck with Erik Torrenberg in the early days and growing the On Deck community through the pandemic. Shriya talks welcoming the second cohort of the On Deck Catalyst program, learnings from the first cohort including hitting ceilings and growing from Build Weekend and catering to an ambitious and younger audience. Links: https://twitter.com/shriy...

Catherine Winfield (@winfield_c) discusses her transition from architecture to design, working in healthcare design to take care of people with chronic health conditions and creating opportunities for students to thrive in education design. She gives us the scoop on what inspires her day-to-day design work, her philosophy on design leadership, measuring success in a nonprofit plus building Along,...

Julian Rachman (@julrach) discusses Two Sigma Ventures’ investment in Remote including the benefits of remote hiring in companies like managing data governance and healthcare across countries. He also touches on data-driven companies working to improve everything from autonomous vehicles to collaborative machine learning principles and open source data projects, as well as data privacy issues vs t...

Taylor Burton (@TBurton86) discusses creating smarter spenders through a collaborative banking app for kids. He talks over (3:05) how his experience with his first lease motivated him to create an app that increases your credit history, (15:45) creating an app that releases financial agency from parent to child, (17:58) partnering with banks to hand off teenagers in the Launch Offers Market after...