Ripples of Radical Generosity

Ilana Ben-Ari was working on a design-school project when she learned there was a huge social and emotional gap between the visually impaired and the sighted community. What began as a university project grew into Twenty-One Toys, which teaches 21st Century Skills with the Empathy Toy and the new Failure Toy.  In this episode:  How Twenty-One Toys got started  Ilana’s early days of bootstrapping t...

What if we measured the success of our cities not by traffic or air quality, but social connection and cultural life? Neighbourlytics is working on building cities that are designed for all of us to thrive in, thanks to co-founder and unlikely tech entrepreneur Lucinda Hartley.  “We do know that when public spaces exhibit certain kinds of activities and behaviour then they’re more likely to be inc...

Barbara “BE” Alink is transforming the “sick care” industry with The Alinker, the walking bike designed for an active life.  "If you design for people, you're not solving problems. I reverse design everything. That means I don't focus on problems. I don't have problems. I don't fix anything. I design for humans and, in that effort, you realize how much is problems-fixing out there and completely m...

As a young girl growing up in Hawaii with a love for the ocean, LOLIWARE co-founder Chelsea Briganti didn’t dream about inventing an alternative to plastic straws. After discovering that design could be used as a tool to create a better world, a cold email to the CEO of Pepsi ignited her career in innovation. Today, Chelsea is on a mission to replace 36 billion plastic straws with edible seaweed....

BioCellection co-founders Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao met in their eighth-grade recycling club. Today they are innovating chemical recycling of plastics, transforming packaging waste material into valuable chemicals and performance materials that stay in the economy longer.  "We're contributing to a new type of circular economy that is more beneficial because it just gives more opportunities for t...

At the end of 2014, Abeego  inventor Toni Desrosiers had to lay off almost her entire team just before the holidays. Two weeks later, Abeego was selected as a SheEO Venture. Today Abeego is leading the global beeswax food wrap trend, creating zero waste and paying employees a living wage. "SheEO gave me posture and that posture came from all the women around me that were standing with me and encou...

Working as a marine biologist opened Brianne Miller's eyes to the link between our food system and the health of the ocean. Now Brianne is the Founder and CEO of Nada , a package-free grocery store in Vancouver, BC that is reducing food and packaging waste, while also creating a just, sustainable food system. "We were able to learn what containers are people bringing, where are they coming from, w...

Six years ago Patrice Mousseau began making all-natural eczema cream for her daughter, at home in her crockpot. Today she is the owner and operator of Satya Organic Skincare which makes USDA Certified organic, NPN approved eczema relief cream. "Business and money has the power to influence our entire society in a way that’s almost unrecognized; how powerful having your own business can be in insti...

In the wake of losing her home in the 2013 Calgary flood, Hannah Cree (now Hemphill) set out to create a business that would close a systems gap, addressing poverty and homelessness, while also disrupting an outmoded industry. The result is CMNGD - a for-profit business that employs people facing poverty through a sustainable commercial laundry service.  In this episode: How Hannah and her pa...

What does it mean to be radically generous? Komal Minhas, investor, entrepreneur and SheEO Activator, sits down with SheEO founder Vicki Saunders to define what radical generosity is and why it's so important to the SheEO model; SheEO's challenging beginnings and why Vicki never gave up on her dream of creating a legacy; and how Activators and Ventures both benefit from being a part of the network...

Beany is changing the accounting industry by offering flat-fee, online accounting services to small businesses. And it's not just what they do that's innovative, but  how  they do it. CEO Sue De Bievre built a self-managed "pod" structure, that offers employees flexible, autonomous working arrangements that also allows the business to scale.  In this episode: Sue's entrepreneurial journey from bun...

When you're a bootstrapped entrepreneur how do you grow your business when writing cheques isn't always an option?  For Emily Bland, SeedEO of SucSeed and Yasmin Grigaliunas, co-founder of World's Biggest Garage Sale, that meant learning to ask for what they needed, while also offering what they did have in exchange. Both Emily and Yas use Ask-Gives to create meaningful, strategic partnerships tha...

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