#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good

In this episode of #impact, we hear from Sarah LaPham, director of A Different Story in Amsterdam.  A Different Story was born out of our experience of parents to a little boy living with a rare neurological disease. From obtaining a diagnosis to finding quality care to fighting for accessible education and to building a supportive community, their experience in this journey is the foundation of A...

How are you making an impact? What are you building, creating, or changing in the world? And how can we support you? Between our in-depth conversations, we want to make space for more voices from around the world. Here are a few Voices of Impact we've received recently. We'd love to hear yours too. Share your voice at www.hashtagimpact.com/more . We got a voice note! Thank you for being a voice fo...

What does it actually take to see yourself as a changemaker? In this episode of #impact, you meet  Stephanie Cox, Country Director of Ashoka Austria. Ashoka is the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs. But this conversation isn't just about titles or achievements. It's about a girl growing up in a small Austrian village who kept asking questions. Who didn't quite accept "that's just how...

Share your voice note with our listeners at www.hashtagimpact.com/more We are so curious to hear how you are making an impact.  Thank you for making an #impact, Johannes & the andererseits team! About andererseits:  We are changing journalism! ACCESSIBLE We are a magazine about disability and society. People with and without disabilities work together. Together, we create the kind of journalism th...

Share your voice note at www.hashtagimpact.com/more   Thank you for making an #impact, Regina. Regina shared: "Motherhood is really beautiful and really hard. Care work is still so often overlooked, underappreciated, and uncompensated in many ways. Yet raising the next generation of kind and caring humans will impact every aspect of our future. This moment captured at bedtime, the voices, laughter...

Share how you are making an impact at www.hashtagimpact.com/more   Thank you for making an #impact, Forrest. Forrest shares:  'This matters to me beyond media. Wine isn't just a product — it supports farmers, small businesses, tourism, and entire local economies. But the industry is losing market share, especially with younger consumers, and when they disengage, those communities feel it first. Wh...

Share your voice note with us at www.hashtagimpact.com/more   Thank you for making an #impact, Andreea! Andrea is an advocate for multicultural, cross-border storytelling. She is also founder of HerTime Romania, a non-profit dedicated to young women's leadership and development. Andreea is also Co-Founder of PodVision as well as Founder and editor of Eurowaves, the go-to European podcasting newsle...

Share your voice with any throught or question you are pondering around impact making at www.hashtagimpact.com/more   Thank you for making an #impact, Taylor! 20 Years old, Global peace builder & connector. Traveled across 5 continents doing peace and youth development work. Serving as Deputy Director of KidsKonnectUkraine. Connect with Taylor Thigpen at Kids Konnect Ukraine:  https://kidskonnectu...

Share your voice with us at www.hashtagimpact.com/more  Thank you for making an #impact, Jimmy!  I am first and foremost a curious soul that has been searching for what makes us human my entire life. Growing up feeling like an outsider, falling down into the whole of loneliness to the point where I was fortunate to survive and from there sparking into exploration of the world to seek answers. I ha...

Share your voice message at www.hashtagimpact.com/more   Thank you for making an #impact, Sarah! Sarah LaPham brings over 20 years of experience in advocacy, lobbying and communications to the role of the Director of 'A different story'. She is also the mother to a young son with a rare disease. Her experience is rooted in advancing the rights of vulnerable and marginalised people in society, incl...

Share your voice at www.hashtagimpact.com/more Thank you for making an #impact, Fyiona! Fyiona Yong is an Inclusive Leadership Coach, Consultant, author, and host of The Thriving Misfits Podcast. With 14 years of corporate leadership experience at a Fortune 500 and 9 years running her own business, she helps organisations build more inclusive, psychologically safe, and human-centred cultures. Thro...

Send your voice note in now ==> www.hashtagimpact.com/more We got a voice note! Thank you for making an impact, Nina! Connect with Nina here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninamartindasilva/  

A little update on what is happening on the #impact podcast feed. Did you notice these little clips 💬 in the feed?  We want to collect 1000 voices for #impact and air Episode 1000 by the time the podcast turns 10 in February 2027. And we would love for you to be part of it! You can share your voice note at www.hashtagimpact.com/more   We can't wait to hear how you are making an impact and spreadi...

Share how you are making an impact and send us your voice note at  www.hashtagimpact.com/more    

Share your voice note at www.hashtagimpact.com/more   We got a voice note! Thank you for being a voice for #impact! I'm Aziph, a senior leader, culture architect, and communications expert with over 30 years of diverse leadership experience across industries. My background includes C-level positions at National agencies to founding and running tech startups for over a decade, giving me a unique pe...

For almost 10 years, this podcast has been about voices. About people who care. People who are building something. People who are trying—every day—to make a real impact. Big or small. Global or local. It all counts. And maybe that's you. Maybe you're doing the work quietly. Maybe you've been thinking about sharing your voice… but haven't yet. This is your space. Not polished. Not perfect. Just rea...

Today you meet Dr. Shirley Gallagher. She's an Irish scientific communicator and sustainability professional with over 25 years of experience, someone who has spent her entire career asking one core question: how do we actually make systems more sustainable? Her journey started early. In 1986, the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl sparked her awareness of environmental issues, a moment that would go o...

In this episode you meet César González Fernández , the founder of CSFN (Clean Something for Nothing) and an EU Climate Pact ambassador. César's journey started in 2018 with something so simple yet powerful: picking up litter on his daily dog walk.  What began as a small personal habit quickly grew into a global movement inspiring thousands to take action for a cleaner planet. Through the CSFN app...

In this episode, you get to follow #impact host Regina to Café François in Vienna, where she met up with some of her favorite podcasters and storytellers in town to celebrate 9 years of #impact. What better way to celebrate than by asking the oracle a few important questions about the future of this podcast? The answers were surprising, funny, encouraging and at times downright outrageous. Stay un...

Sandra Ulrich and Sabrina Kusternik are two of the wonderful people behind Creative Mornings Vienna, a community that has become a creative home for so many. We talk about how it all started, what keeps it alive, and why showing up month after month actually matters more than doing things perfectly. Creative Mornings began in New York in 2008 and has since grown into a global movement across more...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? All the unspoken courage. The boundaries you drew. The softness you protected. The stories you carried without applause. What we'll do together: We start with a grounding pause I'll share a short teaching You'll have time to reflect + journal If you want quiet over hustle, depth over doing, and a moment to hear your own voice again, this space is yours. Come as yo...

Many years ago, we sat down in Hong Kong to talk about purpose, education, and creating change. Today, we're reuniting in Vienna,  a full-circle moment, to look back on how far Own Academy has come and where it's heading next. Meet Natalie Chan In this conversation we talk about the lessons learned from a decade of building an impact-driven movement. We talk about the realization that the referenc...

What if the greatest impact you'll ever make isn't measured in headlines or global reach but in the way you show up for the people right around you? In this episode, Jimmy Westerheim, founder and CEO of The Human Aspect, returns to the podcast for a conversation that will shift how you think about leadership, impact, and community.  Jimmy is someone who has seen the world up close, from growing up...

Every year on  October 10 , people around the world pause to shine a light on mental health: its struggles, its strengths, and its urgent importance. That's  World Mental Health Day , created in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health to raise awareness and reduce stigma.  But it's not just one day. For us at  #impact , this topic has been part of our heartbeat from the very beginning, beca...

Constant change, acceleration, ambitions and aspirations, so many of us are trying to balance the many layers of living in a complex world and creating our own meaning through impactful work. Mabel Sieh's story is allowing us to take a big collective breath. Maybe even a sigh of relief.  From her beginnings as a teacher and journalist to leading impactful initiatives in Hong Kong and most recently...