Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.

Devin: What do you see as your superpower that’s enabled all this success? Will: Yeah, I think curiosity is a little bit of one and then just maybe a slightly unhealthy desire to succeed in, quote-unquote, the game of life. I know, obviously, there’s a lot more that goes into life than building a business and being successful at building a business. But I think in my career right now, that’s reall...

Devin: What is your superpower? Evan: Something that I’ve always tried to do—it sort of happened naturally and unconsciously in the beginning of my career, and now I’m a lot more conscious and sort of deliberate about it—but it’s finding the synergies between organizations, between teams, among technologies, among problems. There are not a lot of people that are working on water access in Africa a...

Devin: Rebecca, what is your superpower? Rebecca: It’s an interesting question. If I were to put it in a word, it would be “storm.” So the ability to create the storm and then the ability to have calm once the storm is brewing all around you . Mark, what is your superpower? Mark: My father was a theater professor, so I grew up deeply immersed in the theater. And probably my favorite thing about th...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Ross: I’m fairly modest, so I don’t necessarily consider it as a superpower. Although I have goals and objectives and long-term aims, I am often so focused on what’s in front of me that I take each [step] unintentionally. It’s just the way that my mind works. I just kind of focus on what’s immediately required in front of me, which means that I’m, without...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Dominic: I’ve been told this. I didn’t recognize it myself necessarily, but I think it’s kind of a very specific trait: the ability to take what is a somewhat complex subject and break it down into its core elements and be able to explain it in an intelligible way to a large group of people. Social entrepreneur Dominic Kalms, CEO and founder of B Generous...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Lindsay: One of my weaknesses is loving myself. What’s funny is my dear friend Henry Ammar says that our weaknesses are just our strengths with fear attached. So, when I think about my superpower, I believe that I have an incredible superpower and ability to love and especially love other people. I think that for years I’ve struggled with loving myse...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Laura: Oh, my superpower. When I'm with artists, I'm the business person in the room, the investment person in the room. Now, the impact investing person in the room, when I'm with impact investors, management consultants, these more financially oriented types, I'm the representative of creatives and creativity and creative economy, and I'm the artist whi...

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Sandra Rey, 29, was participating in a student design competition with the theme “biology” and got to watching videos on YouTube of bioluminescent sea creatures when she thought there must be a way to replicate that natural technology. Five years later, her startup, called Glowee, is creating brilliant luminescent art installations for hotels and public spaces. While she admits, “We'll never repla...

Note: as I explained yesterday , this will be the last fresh podcast of October. I’ll share some “best of” episodes over the next few weeks, and I’ll see you in November. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Chris: My superpower, lifelong, has been I’m extremely diverse. So I grew up as an artist, an illustrator. I got inspired by Stan Lee. I got my first comic book when I was six, Spider-Ma...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Denise: I think my superpower is communication and being a catalyst, a networker. So connecting people together is probably my most important superpower. “The inspiration was actually my husband’s kung fu group, believe it or not,” says Denise Hayman-Loa, CEO of Carii, which operates Connective, of the company’s origin, eight years ago. “It’s a kung fu gr...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Cathy: My husband was given a fatal diagnosis—a cancer diagnosis—about three years ago. Told he had six to 18 months to live, which, by the way, puts everything in perspective. Because of all the work that I’ve done with myself and with my own self-inquiry, we were able to be with that diagnosis and continue work in the world. And my husband is now–we jus...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn an affiliate commission. Devin: What is your superpower? Liz: Well, I think my biggest superpower is magnifying good. Liz H. Kelly, founder of Goody PR and author of 8-Second PR , says, “We only work with clients who are making a positive impact.” “We created the new Goody Business Book Awards to honor 100 percent social i...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Diane: I think it is a capacity to be visionary and to see a little bit around the corner. Like I heard a quote by a hockey player that I don’t go where the puck is. I go where the puck is going to be. And that’s kind of what I have the capacity to see a little bit where the puck is going to be. “I always say crowdfunding is not rocket science, but it is...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Rob: I don't know that I have a superpower. I wonder that every day. I think the most important thing that I've clung to over the years is a willingness and a desire to learn and to keep learning, to be self-critical. Robert Steven Kaplan is the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) co-chair, a leading player in the accelerating venture philanthropy mov...

This week, I’m hosting SuperCrowd22 , so will only share one podcast. We’ll be back to two next week. Devin: Tell us what you see as your superpower. Corinna: I could say that my superpower essentially comes from my roots. I have been closely connected to food my whole life, and I look at connection as one of my most valued assets. I see the connection between things in my past, but also just the...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn an affiliate commission. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Robert: The thing that gets the neurons firing and a great deal of satisfaction is this desire and ability to connect people and to connect ideas in ways that have a happy serendipity to them. Robert Gehorsam, a contributor to the bestseller The Carbon Alm...

Devin: What is your superpower? George: Ever since I found out that you were having me on, which I was really excited about, I’ve been thinking about this question. I’m a young queer man who grew up in a pretty conservative, pretty religious household. I think my superpower is my ability to really see someone and intuit what they need from me. I mean that on an emotional level, a level of service...

Devin: What is your superpower? Phil: I didn’t see homelessness, at least in person, and I didn’t see that extreme wealth.   I went to Harvard for college, where I saw both for the first time as an 18-year-old, and both were equally shocking to me. I saw this tremendous wealth. I had classmates whose last names were the same as the buildings where I was going to class because their parents or gran...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn an affiliate commission. Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Franz: For me personally, I think it comes down to hard work. And that may sound cliche, but there was nothing special about me coming out of undergrad and focusing on politics and linguistics that got me a position on the Obama campaign back in 2008. It r...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn an affiliate commission. Devin: What would you say is your superpower? Rich: My superpower is that I have empathy. “Very little hope is inside of America’s prisons,” says Rich Jacobs, founder of Get Free and Stay Free Publishing . “The solution is to saturate the prison system with stories of hope and transformation told o...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Moshe: I think something I have realized about myself is my power of empathy, really being able to be in the mind and heart of the person you’re speaking to when you’re talking to them or dealing with them. Moshe Hecht, founder and CEO of Hatch , remembers working to help nonprofits reach their crowdfunding goals. I've been through it with them when they...

Devin: What superpower would you say you have learned from President Jimmy Carter? Jan: The greatest thing that I carry with me today and try to use in all my life and share with my children and other people is when he spoke one Sunday, he said if everybody would be kind and giving to the person in front of them—if we all did that, would we have a better world? Jan Williams and Zac Steele know Pre...

When you purchase an item after clicking a link in this post, we may earn a commission. Devin: What is your superpower? Mark: You need to design a culture that’s best for your organization to grow and scale and create an impact and be an amazing place to work. Some of my natural tendencies, I’ll be honest, don’t lead to that. The reason I share that is to say, I think what I’ve learned—and it’s ta...

Devin: What is your superpower? Chris: We collectively as a group here, the marketplaces, ourselves, folks like yourselves, associations, marketing agencies—all of us are working collectively to build an industry out of thin air. This did not exist six years ago. There were no online marketplaces to go and invest in alternatives like startups. We are building something from nothing. And when peopl...