People Helping People

Send us a text Today’s special, special guest is Suzy Bureau of GiveBackHack. If you listened to episode 50, you knew this would happen. I was encouraged to share a little more about my story, especially Wild Tiger Tees, and Suzy jumped in to share my experience starting a social enterprise. Wild Tiger Tees came together during a weekend at GiveBackHack in 2018. I, Adam Morris, am the co-founder o...

Send us a text Foodies will love this one! Tanya Vora of SpiceUp advocates for people impacted by the immigrant experience through food events. Each event highlights the culture of a chef impacted by the immigrant experience. Typically, this means an immigrant or first-generation immigrant. Tanya shares the story of their event with Bonifacio, hosted by a mother-daughter duo. At this point, SpiceU...

Send us a text Ryan Scott shared how Bonifier is helping children get better care during their journey in the hospital system. Working outside medical or physical components, Bonifier is developing a 24/7 digital imaginary friend. The tool uses emotional support, self-care, and data approaches to improve child patient experience.“Our mission is to assist chronically ill children overcome their fea...

Send us a text Jerry Valentine explains how Renter Mentor is transforming the search for affordable housing as a consulting service and tech platform. In a way, they streamlined the landlord-tenant relationship. While working through community partnerships, the organization is bringing accountability, clarity, and efficiency to the affordable housing market. Speaking from personal experience, this...

Send us a text Today, I’m sharing a bonus episode from my conversation with Sam Baddoo of [re]start, where we talk about some of the magic behind the social change that happens when connecting people. Sam Baddoo is a serial entrepreneur and an expert in social entrepreneurship. He is currently a co-founder of [re]start, a company helping people find and grow careers they will love. I admire his in...

Send us a text Today is special for more than a few reasons. One, you came to engage with the People Helping People podcast! Two, it’s a new year! Three, this is the 50th episode! I always have great discussions with impact-focused individuals on impact-driven initiatives. This episode was no different. Suzy Bureau and Louisa Lee flex their social impact muscles with Give Back Hack. At this event,...

Send us a text Finding a job, securing a job, and developing a skill for a job could seem like energy-draining tasks. Thankfully, Sam Baddoo is changing the perspective of the job ecosystem in his work with [re]start. As a workforce development company, this social enterprise helps people grow their careers through business sponsorships. Sam, along with co-founder Chad Silverstein, created a progr...

Send us a text David White IV founded the O2 Conference, which gives students an opportunity to bring their ideas to life. Based in Hilliard, Ohio, young people from grades 6-12 can use the platform to highlight a need in their community. Whether this is in their home or their school, David emphasized how the conference is designed to encourage and support the ideas behind each student’s endeavor....

Send us a text Heide Rembold is a conscious business activist here in Columbus, Ohio. She’s passionate about reducing waste, making purchasing decisions that have an impact, and social entrepreneurship. She’s just released her holiday guide to purchasing conscious gifts. Heidi runs @consciouscbus on Instagram - highlighting small businesses doing good in central Ohio, with a real focus on consciou...

Send us a text Stephanie Page started the Seize the Good in 2019 to share positive stories highlighting non-profit organizations, businesses doing good, social movements and success stories of people helping people. Talking to her, I realized we share a similar curiosity. We both want to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way… but weren't sure how. Podcasting became our mechanism to expl...

Send us a text Dave Parker has long been at the forefront of social innovation. He’s a former director of the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs, and in 1999, Dave founded CauseImpact, a consultancy that worked with nonprofits to develop social enterprises. Dave recently sold the consultancy to launch Rootstrike Labs. Rootstrike Labs helps agents of social impact increase their capacity to i...

Send us a text Following our conversation about Brilliance Inside, Mariette Fourmeaux had a sidebar discussion with me about having the courage to walk the path, and I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to share it as a bonus. There is no quick fix. No simple red pill that lets you face the harsh realities of your life with extraordinary ease and effortlessness. The deeper path in life takes effort and...

Send us a text Healing Society’s Cycle of ViolenceI dove into the heart of healing society's cycle of violence with Mariette Fourmeaux, founder of Brilliance Inside - a mission working with prison populations to do just that. Coming from the corporate world, this work was a complete shift for Mariette - from trusting business plans and corporate strategy to trusting the universe and her gut. She f...

Send us a text I sat down with CEO Joe Neri, and the Senior Lender of the Columbus Office, Omar Elhagmusa to talk about IFF - a mission-driven lender, real estate consultant, and developer that helps communities thrive. They are unique in that they lend specifically to non-profits, and provide the wrap-around real estate services that are generally outside a non-profit’s core expertise. IFF grew o...

Send us a text Lamar Peoples is the outreach coordinator at the Star House, a drop-in center for youth experiencing homelessness here in Central Ohio. Lamar’s has spent his career on the ground reaching out to people, and he’s put a lot of effort into something that has long been a mystery to me... politics.  Generally, political news drives me nuts, but I’ve always wondered how politics actually...

Send us a text Emily built the company Lilac Pack from the ground up - a true "moms helping moms" company, providing care packages to support women in their postpartum period (the first 6-8 weeks after childbirth), with their personal recovery and to help them get their best start nursing. It's a time when the attention is so focused on their newborn that quite often a new mother doesn't get the a...

Send us a text In this episode we dive deep into investment insight, on how to save for your future. The People Helping People podcast is back after a long break.  Over the last year, I went to Give Back Hack up in Cleveland, and pitched an idea to start a t-shirt screen printing company to employ youth experiencing homelessness.  The idea was selected, a team was formed, and we launched Wild Tige...

Send us a text In this episode, Jason Moore, founder, and principal of Fulcrum Creatives, explains what a Certified B Corporation is, how companies can qualify and what it means for not only businesses but communities. What is Fulcrum Creatives? Based out of Columbus, Ohio, Fulcrum Creatives is a design and creative studio with the goal of always working for clients that were doing something beyon...

Send us a text SEA Change—The Social Enterprise Accelerator—is an organization that supports social entrepreneurs by helping them develop a sustainable business model, access funding and solidify their meaningful impact. In this episode, we talk with Lauren Edwards, the Columbus director of SEA Change and owner and principal of Next Step Business Consulting. What does Lauren do? With Next Step Bus...

Send us a text Eleventh Candle Co is a social enterprise that seeks to redeem, restore, empower and equip those vulnerable to human trafficking, abuse, exploitation, and addiction. It is a way to employ women and empower them through work. How did they get started? Amber's interest in human trafficking was born during a trip to Ethiopia, where she witnessed human trafficking in broad daylight. And...

Send us a text There are so many issues for us to collectively tackle - but perhaps above all is the environment, because if we destroy our home, where are we going to live? What is Zero Waste? Zero Waste started as an effort with the Nelsonville Music Festival, to transform how they manage waste at their festival. A festival generally generates tons of waste from the vendors and sheer mass of att...

Send us a text Where do you go when you want to meet people, and yet do something good at the same time? Columbus Gives Back. Who are they? Columbus Gives Back is a non-profit which provides social volunteer and philanthropic opportunities throughout central Ohio. They organize events which are meaningful for both their volunteers and the groups they serve — and they have a nice twist of socializi...

Send us a text You’re in for a ride today. I know we’ve been digging into some serious podcasts around trafficking, but this podcast is about a different kind of traffic: transportation. Who is EmpowerBus? I met with Aslyne and Jerry of EmpowerBus - a social enterprise which strengthens the roads to social mobility. What does that mean? It means providing dignified, reliable, and on-time transport...

Send us a text Clean Turn is a cleaning company with a purpose -- not only do they provide quality cleaning services; they employ people who have been affected by trafficking, domestic violence, and other vulnerable populations and work to raise awareness about these issues. NOTE: When the podcast was recorded, they were called She Has a Name Cleaning, but have since adopted the name of their pare...

Send us a text Recently, we spoke with Paul Haines of Freedom a la Cart - a social enterprise bringing hope to survivors of human trafficking so they can build a new life of freedom and self-sufficiency. In this podcast, we dove deeper into this conversation with April Thacker, the caseworker at Freedom a la Cart, to hear her story as a survivor of human trafficking. What is Human Trafficking? If...