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Karin Cooke is on the leadership team at Freedom Church based in Hereford. Her and her husband have been married for 34 years and have 3 children, 2 of whom are married and she also has 2 grandsons.  Chris and Karin oversee some of Freedom Churches pastors and leaders in different locations around the world. Karin's professional background is a childcare social worker but is currently running a pe...

Lilly Bekele-Piper is an international education and communication strategist, speaker and  activist and is the Executive Producer and host of the Up/Root podcast. After completing  her BA at Wake Forest University and a Masters in Higher Education at Harvard  University, Lilly moved back to her homeland of Ethiopia with her family in 2007 and then to Nairobi in 2011. In 2018, Lilly launched Up/Ro...

Ashley Gardner started Printable Wisdom in 2012, while in her second year of medical school. Her work features hand lettering, and she is passionate about sharing the art of calligraphy with others. After almost ten years in business, Ashley now continues to create art for Printable Wisdom, and is also a practicing Psychiatrist at her clinic, Pathway Psychiatry, opened in her hometown to serve the...

Femida and Carol play an integral role in the leadership of Imani Collective. Together, they run the holistic department that is the pivot of the organization's cogwheel through facilitation of programs like childcare, tea and lunch breaks, character building classes, home visits, birthdays, to mention but a few.  They create so much impact by overseeing the fulfilment of Imani Collective's vision...

Matt Trotman, together with his lovely wife Scarlett Trotman are the founders of Surefooted Media, a business that majors in videography, photography and graphic design. They provide you with bespoke imagery that captures who you are and communicates your message with such a professional yet friendly demeanor.  Matt has taken his hobby and turned it into a business that he is very passionate about...

David Pierre is humorous, passionate and has a strong burning desire to be a huge help to people. He has created an orphanage, started an organization for the disabled and also built a business, Lavni Products, with the sole purpose of Impacting Haiti and hopefully other underserved countries. In this episode, David passionately talks about consciously embracing the identity of God in us and allow...

With his expertise in rural innovation and economic geography, Daan works as the regional fundraiser officer for Cordaid in Eastern and Southern Africa (including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa) Cordaid is a Netherlands based non profit that works towards digitalisation in agriculture and linking it to the hospitality sector. The organisation has just recently ventured into the health and...

Danielle Anderson is an international business coach and strategy consultant.   After 10 years in financial services, where Danielle managed strategy at some top tier investment banks, she broke away from her corporate chains and founded Step & Stone . Since 2013, she's been helping business owners make a living, doing what they love by getting focused, getting confident and getting customers.  An...

Tabz is a freelance accountant, part time math tutor and the outgoing program coordinator at Imani Collective. She is passionate about family, friendships and loves God above all. When she is not working on numbers, she is cooking, reading a book, watching a movie or laughing about something. In this episode, Val and Tabz talk about taking a step of faith and wholly diving into the unknown by anch...

Dan Mugambi is the CEO and Founder of Dankiz Arts and Creations Ltd. Along with being a fine artist and a life skills coach, Dan is recognized as a Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneur. He has been featured in many streams of media and has commissioned projects all over Kenya. In this episode, Jenny and Dan talk about the journey of entrepreneurship and the ability to say no to opportunities that...

Being a visionary or a goal oriented individual can make us too focused on the next big thing that we forget to purposefully step back, reflect and see the bigger picture that allows us to strike a balance in the fulfillment of our ambitions. In this episode, Jenny and Kevin talk about how intentionality drives purpose and the investments we make with ourselves and our communities.

For the past 3 seasons, the Moxie Podcast has provided a space for our guests to be vulnerable with the lessons they have learned in life and allowed us a chance to get education from these raw and authentic stories. As a community motivated for change, we are bringing these lessons home by focusing on holding intentional, courageous and topical conversations. In this episode, Jenny and Val talk a...

David Pierre was raised in a very large Christian Haitian family. In a family of 6 brothers, he is the youngest and was mostly picked on but also the most loved. He is very humorous and passion driven. As he grew up he saw the need in the community and developed a strong burning desire to be a huge help and voice for his people. He took action by creating an orphanage and started an association fo...

Praise Santos is the founder behind the photography studio ComePlum and has a love for puns, pretty things, and people. She lives in San Francisco where she does silly dances to loosen up female entrepreneurs during their Personal Brand photoshoot, builds her Google map locations of colors around the city to create eye-catching content for brands such as Lululemon and Adidas, and leads workshops f...

Taylor Mae is the founder of TMCo — a portfolio of brands + engagements focused on guiding people to live out their Aligned Brilliance™.  Herself and a small team of passionate, inspired, and entrepreneurial creatives create unique experiences to empower more people to make their dreams, their life. Including Say It Studios™ —a marketing communications agency for soul-driven entrepreneurs to find...

Monica DiCristina is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than a decade of experience in individuals and couples therapy. She walks with people as they process difficult experiences, helping to bring healing to their relationship with themselves and others. It's Monica's wholehearted belief that everyone is worthy of becoming more emotionally free, and that individuals of every age, race, b...

Small acts of kindness do make a huge difference in the lives of people. Creating a global platform like Giving Tuesday that unleashes the power of people and organizations to transform the community gives a greater chance for people to share incredible words and actions of support and love. In this episode, Jenny talks about spreading joy in simplicity by showing these acts of generosity, radical...

Molly Stillman is the founder and creator of Still Being Molly, a life and style blog started in 2007, and the host of the Business with Purpose podcast, started in 2016. She is a speaker, teacher, writer, and loud laugher with a passion for inspiring women to know that they were created on purpose, with a purpose, and for a purpose. Molly's writing has appeared in publications such as Patheos, Ch...

Tessa is a mental health advocate and cheerleader for the underdog. Her own story has been marked by brokenness and pain turned into redemption, restoration, and miracles. She is passionate about helping women get free from shame and live a life of authenticity. She believes there is nothing more powerful and healing than embracing your story.  In this episode Tessa and Jenny talk about mental hea...

Ché believes that you were made to come alive in your unique gifts + calling — or at least, that's the belief driving Come Alive Co, a Brand Story Copywriting Studio she founded. As an in-demand speaker and an award-winning Strategist and Copywriter, Ché leverages over 12 years of experience growing brands like Toyota, King's Hawaiian, and Cartoon Network to now help impact-driven female founders...

Claire A. Pettibone is the founder of Madison Grace - a social impact accessories boutique for women who give-a-care about people and the planet.  Every purchase in the boutique supports a cause - whether its their candles hand poured in Los Angeles by adults challenged with disabilities or some of their jewelry made by survivors of human trafficking. This boutique with purpose is for good people...

Kristina Lucia is a storyteller!  Since she was a young child, she has been intrigued by the element of pretend and well known for her vivid imagination.  As children toys are one of our first tools that serve our needs for pretend and similar explorations. Her goal with these creations is to further facilitate the art of play, a crucial part of a child's development, while also giving the child a...

Holly Williamson, the founder of The Women of Pader Uganda, resides in Austin, Texas with her husband. She is a mother of two boys and a grandmother to two grandchildren that she adores deeply. Holly first visited Pader in 2013 where she felt an immediate connection and call from God to help the women restart their lives after a 20-year war in Northern Uganda. In 2017, Holly converted the organiza...

When the fire to leave a mark behind burns in our hearts, it becomes very difficult having to wait to see that vision come to fruition. We want to be purposeful and live an adventurous life. In this episode, we revisit episode 15 of season 1 with Jenna Nyanje as she talks about waiting and her fear of living a mundane and predictable life and how she is currently living her life in purpose and kin...

Societal anxiety and fear of others' reactions to us can stifle our voices and make us shy from making an impact. The best way around this is knowing who you are and understanding your best you. This aids in being able to push away those negative remarks that could otherwise pin you down. Find you, understand you and act with compassion and an immense amount of love for the people around you. This...