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

Devin: What do you see as being your personal superpower? Cody: I am a scientist, but I’m also very good at abandoning science that I don’t see a path forward with. And I think that many other folks want to commercialize the science that they’re really passionate about. I’m much more interested in the very, very big picture of greenhouse gas emissions. How do we reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Th...

Devin: Dave, what is your superpower? Dave: I spent 30 years working with forgotten communities around the world where economic grievances drove political conflict. What I learned is that you have to listen to the local people, that if you don’t include the local people, you can’t accomplish anything. For instance, climate change or the pollution within the Chesapeake Bay or questions of overfishi...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower, the superpower that enables all of your success? Conrad: Superpower is something that. I don’t think about it a whole lot, but I think part of what drives me to success is just the willingness to take risks with a focus of helping others. I grew up in a family of—my parents were always taking in people. We were always taking a meal to someone. I reme...

Devin: What is your superpower? Filip: I’ve always been a dreamer. I’ve always been a visionary, always been someone who has had big ambitions and grand ambitions. I have become extremely focused on breaking things down, taking a big vision and saying, OK, so we’re going to be the biggest electric vehicle supplier on the African continent, perhaps for the full global south. How does that break dow...

Devin: What is your superpower? Sam: I’m honored that you have interviewed Bill Gates, and you are interviewing somebody from Africa [whose] mother did not have anything, and he was able to travel around the world. I’ve even had jobs that I was not qualified for, but people believed that I could do them. And at the end of it, I accomplished the tasks. So my superpower is to express integrity, the...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Ben: I think I had a really interesting experience coming out of college. I grew up in, you know, upper-middle-class suburbs in New York of New York City. Then after college, my first job I got by happenstance was as an intern for the National Office of the NAACP. I was often the only white person in the room, which is just not an experience that I t...

Devin: What do you see as the superpower you’re using today? Isabelle: I would say I’m so grateful for your book because it’s actually has helped quite crystallize. I read about all these other amazing impact leaders in your book and what they were featuring and realized that maybe I’ve also been evolving my own superpowers, if you like, adding to my own skill set and where I would like to go. I’m...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Daniella: Yeah. So I was reflecting on this a bit. I think my superpower is actually resilience. “Part of why I took this role is we have an ambition to expand access to everyday health for one hundred million people, particularly with a focus on underserved communities,” Daniella Foster said. She explained her decision to accept the position of glob...

Thank you for reading Superpowers for Good. This post is public so feel free to share it. Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Steve: I think it’s—my wife would say it’s my ability to close my eyes and sleep anywhere. I learned that from the army. But I would say something else I also learned from the army is the ability to deprive myself of any comfort, or sleep, or food or whatever is...

Devin: What do you see as your superpower? Ali: I think my superpower is honestly that I’m a dreamer, and I just bring people into my dream world, and a lot of them stick. Ali Hogan is the founder and board chair for an innovative nonprofit called Rung for Women that provides intensive training for women struggling with poverty, helping them to realize their full potential. A granddaughter of the...

Devin: Stephanie, what is your superpower? Stephanie: I feel confident that my superpower is my ability to network and network in a way that is both for good and impactful. Devin: Kevin, what is your superpower? Kevin: I think over time, I’ve learned to follow strong, smart women who put things together well. Devin: Steven. Your superpower? Steven: I don’t give up on the folks that I’m working wit...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Emily: I love this question because I often think about it as I build internally our teams. I want us all to work cohesively together and very much so. My strength is building client relationships. I have what I call a spidey sense. So I have a very good ability to anticipate the needs of clients, employees, people in general once I build that relati...

Devin: Kathleen, what do you think of as being your superpower? Kathleen: I knew you were going to ask me this, and I have to tell you, I sat on this for weeks and came up with a lot of things. I think it’s transformation. I’m really persistent and patient. To me, there’s change, and there’s transformation, and we can legislate a change, but transformation takes time. Kathleen Minogue leads Crowdf...

Devin: Michelle, what is your superpower? Michelle: I would say above all else, probably I’m a connector. And that I’m very introspective. I’m an introvert. I really enjoy this one-on-one conversation and the connections that can happen. I want to meet in person. I don’t want to meet digitally, but I connect people, whether it’s to another person or to a book that I’ve read or to this, you know, t...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Chip: My superpower. Gosh, maybe the way to to to talk about it is sort of actionability, especially when there’s a really hard problem. So coming up with an idea or solution that’s not just theoretical, but something that’s actually doable and workable. Chip Walker joined me to talk about his successful transition from “being a sales agent to being...

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower? Andrew: I would say that I do have some, some skills that are useful, and one of them is I have the ability, I think, to connect things in ways that make them easier for other people to understand, to be able to take, say, a story in this area and use that story to illustrate maybe a more complex or nuanced concept in another area. I think I’m a pret...

Devin: As you reflect on your career and include the work you’re doing today and the success you’re having and have had, what do you think of as your superpower? Jeffrey: Wow, that’s that’s an interesting and challenging question. Certainly one thing that I reflect on. And by the way, reflection is part of that superpower. I think we don’t do enough of it—as is staying in the moment and living in...

This is an excerpt from Superpowers for Good and a replay of a podcast from 2017. Happy Thanksgiving! Devin: Liz, what is your superpower? Liz: I would say, if this counts as a superpower, probably gratitude. To get through something really hard in life, as we went through with Alex and losing Alex, you have to be able to feel grateful. You have to be able to feel grateful for what you have curren...

Devin: Abhi, what do you think of as your superpower? Abhi: Devin, I have no idea... What is my superpower? Something I’ve heard often is actually the ability to have these kinds of open, hard, vulnerable conversations with people and see that turn into something meaningful for the other person and myself. “Just because this person is wearing a hat that has the opposite message of what I believe d...

Devin: What is your superpower? What do you think of as that singular strength that helps you to be so incredibly successful? Jill: You know, I have a really good friend, Marion Fredman, who told me once when I was a young leader at my first nonprofit Museum of Children’s Art, she said, “Jill, we’re many different people in our lives.” I think similarly, we have many different superpowers. I think...

Devin: Well, Lee, what is your superpower? Lee: So I love that you ask people this question. I'm going to say my superpower is making mistakes, and I say that a little bit tongue in cheek because I really want to share for your viewers that everybody has a superpower and everybody can join me in making mistakes and feel empowered. You know that they can also do these things because we're all very...

Devin: What do you see as being your superpower?   Mark: Well, I hesitate to use the word superpower. I mean, I’m proud of the stuff I’ve been able to accomplish. It’s all been done with great teams at great organizations by and large, so there was always a team effort behind it. And so perhaps the smartest answer and the most honest one would be, I think I’ve done a pretty good job of harnessing...

Devin: Justin, what is your superpower? Justin: What is my superpower? Oh, man, you know, if I was a fundraiser, I’d answer this differently than if I was the founder of a company. So, I would just say, and I’ll kind of explain this a little bit more, but I’m an incredibly optimistic person, which allows me to make big bets and take big risks without the consequence—without the fear of what the co...

Devin: Laurie, what is your superpower? Laurie: I think if I have—I’ve succeeded in anything to a certain extent, I think it is by helping to start movements. You know, social movements, professional movements, educational movements. Laurie Lane-Zucker’s success comes from his ability to build a movement. After 30 years working in sustainability and a decade after launching his Impact Entrepreneur...

Devin: What is your superpower? Mark: I don't know if I have one, but I would say it's what we just talked about; it's a focus on return investment when applied to giving that I execute on. Mark Gerson is the husband of Rabbi Erica Gerson and is devout in their shared Jewish faith. They are raising their four children in that model; they attend Jewish day school. It is notable, therefore, that he...