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In today’s episode of the Good Business Podcast I am talking with Amy Keller who is co-founder of Pure Plus+,  a startup that saves produce destined for landfill and turns it into “delicious, healthy, candy made out of the most climate impactful, nutrient dense fruits and vegetables.” Amy knows a thing or two about candy because her family sells 2 billion world's most popular lollipops each year. But Amy is also a 7 time ironman and ultra-marathoner and therefore health, nutrition and the environment are very important to her. In this episode I talk to Amy about her company's way-above-the-Arctic-Circle birth story and how she and her team plan to disrupt and improve the $80 billion candy market. For resources to help you change the world visit www.bluetribe.co/podcast To learn more about Pure Plus visit https://pureplus.us/ 

In today’s episode of the Good Business Podcast I am talking with Paul Hellier who is CEO and founder of Fair Food Forager. Now Paul founded Fair Food Forager as a side hustle in 2015 with 15 listings on a website.   Now, this world-first, global, ethical food directory and app has grown to now include 6,000 featured cafes, restaurants, and providores in 20 countries around the world. Many impact entrepreneurs start out with a side hustle that grows into a viable business but you won’t often hear the backstory about what they did to make it happen.  In this episode we will hear one of these stories as we talk about Paul’s journey from that initial idea and some of the key lessons he learned along the way. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast To get the Fair Food Forager app  visit https://fairfoodforager.com/

In today’s episode of the Good Business Podcast I am talking with Kanika Joshi who works in International Development and is passionate about delivering solutions for the world most important to do list - the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She is also passionate about helping young entrepreneurs through her work as a senior advisor to the Youth Solutions Program at UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Through her work she helps to empower young people globally to create sustainable solutions through education, communities, and innovation - everything from Urban farming in Kenya to community development in Argentina. In this episode you will hear about the great projects she is working on and see why she believes that if we are to achieve the future we want we need to support the custodians of this future - our youth. To learn more visit www.bluetribe.co/podcast To get your copy of the Youth Solutions Report  visit http://www.youthsolutions.report/ 

Today I am talking with Robert Pekin who is the founder of Food Connect - a dynamic multi-farmer food distribution enterprise with an innovative community-based distribution system. As a dairy farmer he felt a huge disconnection between his milk and the people drinking it.  After a series of life changing events he went on a journey that triggered a passion for creating a fairer food system for all farmers and for exploring ways to help people connect to those who grew and processed their food. As a former organic dairy farmer and market gardener he has become known as a practical and hands on social entrepreneur working at the systems end of changing the way business can change the way that the current food system works. Rob is a well known speaker in the Fair Food movement. He loves his blended family of four children, and his favourite foods are beer, butter and good bread.   Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast To learn more about Food Connect at www.foodconnect.com.au 

Today I am talking with Varun Bhanot who is the co-founder of Unhoused.org.  Unhoused.org is a social impact startup focused on using technology to help the homeless. Varun founded Unhoused.org after he recognised the rising problem of homelessness and wanted to use his tech skills to make an impact. Varun realised that many people don’t give money to homeless people because of doubts about where the funds might end up. So he set up Unhoused.org to link an everyday purchasing activity to positive impact - anyone can visit the online store and shop for clothing. For every piece bought, one is donated to a member of the homeless community. Today more than 100 000 items of clothing have been distributed and they have designed a new product that is the world’s first self cleaning hoodie, powered by nanotechnology.  In this episode you will hear about Varun’s journey from tech to social impact and all of the things he has learnt along the way.  Let’s get to my interview with Varun Bhanot Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast To learn more about Unhoused.org at www.unhoused.org

In today’s episode I’m talking with an impact entrepreneur whose product you may well have nearby or you use regularly because today I am talking with Abigail Forsyth who is the co-founder of KeepCup. Abigail first started developing KeepCup after she became frustrated with the amount of waste she saw being created from disposable coffee cups - unable to simply find a solution she developed her own. Little did she know she would start an international phenomenon, with people worldwide using and loving her products.  Today KeepCup is Australia’s leading reusable barista standard coffee cup helping its customers divert millions of disposable cups from landfill every day. In this episode you will hear about Abigail's journey from lawyer to cafe owner to creating a product that defines an entire product category as well as her views on the future.  Let’s get to my interview with Abigail Forsyth from KeepCup. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast To learn more about KeepCup https://au.keepcup.com/

My guest today is Christina Delay, CEO and founder of Altina Drinks.   Now have you ever been at a party or work function where everyone was enjoying a glass of wine or a beer and you were the only one without a drink in your hand and it feels really awkward and you kind of feel a little bit left out.  Alcohol consumption is often linked to social events we all enjoy, getting together with friends or a wedding for example,  But what if you don’t want to drink alcohol - how do you participate in the social rituals we enjoy without the alcohol.   This is where Christina and Altina drinks come in.  As a passionate impact entrepreneur, she is combining her science skills and business brain to help shake up the Aussie drinking culture and re-invent methods used in traditional alcohol production by creating innovative Zero Proof Craft Cocktails.   So if you want to find out how to create unique and memorable alcohol free experiences and learn how you can develop a great product that is also a vehicle for change then you should listen to this episode of the Good Business Podcast.   Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast   To learn more about Altina Drinks visit www.altinadrinks.com

In today’s episode I am talking with Johannah Maher who is the CEO and Cofounder of Impactr, an impact-tech startup company with a mission to inspire millions of people to do small things that together make a big impact. Prior to becoming an impact-entrepreneur, Johannah was an executive at the world's largest wind energy company, specialised in high-tech product development and value engineering. Johannah is a recognised industry expert in renewable energy and a fierce advocate for equality and social change. In this episode you will hear about the life changing moment that caused Johannah to pivot from a future in aerospace engineering and wind energy technology to becoming an impact-entrepreneur in the digital technology space. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast Check out Impactr's website to learn more www.impactr.world

In today’s episode of the Good Business Podcast I am talking with Justine Curtis who is the Founder and CEO at Inspired Adventures. So you know whenever you have supported someone raising money for a cause like walking the Kokoda track or hiking to the Everest base camp have you ever wondered who makes this all happen? Well that is what the team from Inspired Adventures do. Inspired Adventures is the leading adventure fundraising agency in Australia and New Zealand, working with Australian, New Zealand and international charities to create inspiring fundraising adventures around the world. To date Inspired Adventures has raised over $37 Million through 6,900 fundraisers across 600 or so adventures around the world from camping high in the Himalayas; seeing Machu Picchu for the first time; trekking the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border; camel-riding through the Rajasthan desert and trekking through the highest tea plantations in the world. In this interview we talk about that ah-ha moment that led Justine to creating Inspired Adventures, the challenges she faced along the way and most recently to the impact of COVID-19. And as you will hear Justine came up with the idea for Inspired Adventures at the top of the highest single free-standing mountain in the world so to see how good your geography is you are just going to have to listen to find out what mountain that was. Let’s check it out... Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

In today’s episode of the Good Business Podcast I am talking with Sam Schatz who is the Managing Director and Global Head of Farm Development for AeroFarms. AeroFarms is a leading clean-technology company that builds and operates responsible, state-of-the-art indoor vertical farms around the world, enabling local production and transforming agriculture. A Certified B Corporation, AeroFarms has been recognised by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for Food two years in a row and by Inc. as one of the Top 25 Disruptive Companies. In this episode I talk with Sam about his background in venture capital and how he came to take a leading role in one of the most innovative urban farming businesses in the world, the challenges of building a disruptive company and we get a glimpse of the future of farming. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

In today’s episode of the Good Business Podcast I am talking with Kim Lim who is the Co-Founder of PichaEats, a food business rebuilding lives for refugees in Malaysia. PichaEats has a simple mission - to serve you great food. But as you enjoy your meal, you are also providing an opportunity for refugees in Malaysia to start a new life. Their chefs have all been forced to flee to Malaysia for a variety of reasons and PichaEats specialise in delicacies from the homeland of these chefs – from Iraqi Falafel, Palestinian Hummus to Afghani Dumplings & Syrian sweets. Through PichaEats, refugee families who are forced to flee to Malaysia can get a chance to rebuild their lives, regain their dignity, and provide for their family. In this episode I talk with Kim about what caused her to establish PichaEats with her co-founders, we will hear the stories of the refugees they are helping and the many challenges she has faced along the way. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

As we all buckle down to ride out this Coronavirus pandemic it is more important than ever to remember that there are some amazing businesses doing amazing things in the world. And as we come out the other side of this pandemic, and we will come out the other side of this, there will be no shortage of issues that will need to be addressed by change-makers just like you. So I hope that the conversations we have here on the podcast keep you motivated for all of the amazing impacts we can create together because solving the environmental and social issues facing our communities is a team sport and we can achieve great things by working together. With that having been said, today I am talking with one of these change-makers, Lauren Bukowski who is the Impact Director at Hey Tiger, a social enterprise chocolate company. Hey Tiger is a premium, handmade, Australian chocolate brand and social enterprise, on a mission to make change in the cocoa industry and partner with the Hunger Project to positively impact cocoa farming communities in Ghana, one chocolate block at a time. A do-er by nature with a passion for fair, Lauren is drawn to projects and work with meaning. Lauren has been with Hey Tiger since it started 2017 and she is currently the Impact Director working to make Hey Tiger a gold-standard impact business. Lauren is a new Mom, a nature lover, and is always up for a good laugh or a chat with a friend. In this episode we talk about the very beginnings of Hey Tiger from the initial idea through to the excitement of the very first sale. It is a good business story to help inspire you during these exceptional times. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

In today’s episode of the Good Business Podcast I am talking with Kimberly White who is the Founder and CEO of The Planetary Press. The last time I spoke with Kimberley was a little over a year ago after she had just launched The Planetary Press so I thought I would check in to see how it was going, what lessons she has learnt along the way and her hopes for the future. The Planetary Press is an international news source focused on reporting in sustainability, environmental advocacy, corporate social responsibility, and climate change. They highlight sustainable solutions around the globe that inspire others to make a measurable difference. In this episode Kimberley and I discuss her background growing up in Alaska and Florida, how she is trying to reshape online media by focussing on good news stories, the challenges she is facing in creating a new online news service, and how she wants to be part of everybody's hope budget - oh and Steve Irwin gets a mention also. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

Our guest today is Kelly O’Shanassy who is the CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation. The Australian Conservation Foundation is Australia's national environment organisation. Their more than 600,000 members speak out for a world where forests, rivers, people and wildlife thrive. They embody the philosophy that “The power of the people is greater than the people in power”. Kelly is at the helm of this dedicated movement. Growing up as the daughter of a police officer and a teacher, Kelly learned early on not to judge people for where they are in life. If they want to do better; she doesn’t judge and sees her role as helping people change - this applies equally to an individual who wants to make a difference in the world to the CEO of a billion dollar resource company. In this episode we hear about Kelly’s upbringing growing up in a fairly tough neighbourhood where people had little money but were rich in courage and community spirit and how this shapes what she does today. We also talk about the lessons she has learnt in trying to move the dial on big businesses performance on protecting the environment and what she does today to get businesses to be part of the solution - and it is not what you think.. The show notes are available www.bluetribe.co/podcast

Today’s guest is Paul Warburg who is just getting ready to launch a new e-commerce company, Wendigo that is focused on sourcing sustainable products. Paul has been starting small businesses since high school. Prior to founding Wendigo, he owned an eBay consignment business, ran a small digital marketing agency, and has been a church planter, founding a small church in his hometown. Now, he's looking to combine his passions for business and charity by building a business that has sustainability as a natural part of its everyday operations. Paul believes that the best way to tackle the world's problems is to build self-perpetuating movements that combine profit and purpose. When I interviewed Paul he was just 2 weeks away from launching his new business - in fact the business was planned to go live around the time this episode goes live. So this interview is the first of two- this one is before the launch and then we will check in with him in a few months to see how it is all going. In this episode we talk about his background and what is driving him to set up a new sustainable e-commerce business, we discuss church planting (seriously this is a thing), we talk about the challenges he has faced so far and his expectations for the future. Show notes available at https://www.bluetribe.co/podcast

Today’s guest is Tony Rinaudo who is World Vision’s Climate Action Advisor, but he is more famously known as The Forest Maker because Tony helped transform millions of hectares of dry land in Niger it what has been described as "probably the largest positive environmental transformation in all of Africa". You see over 25 years ago, with the help of the local farmers in Niger, Tony began implementing a conservation farming system which is known as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) which basically involves growing trees as an integral part of agricultural land. This approach has been so successful that it has been applied in at least 24 African countries. For many people, Tony is certainly an environmental hero, after making a positive impact on food security, and environmental sustainability and resilience for thousands of vulnerable communities around the world. In this episode we talk with Tony about his 'mindscaping' super powers, the challenges of getting farmers to change their practices in Niger and how he overcame them resulting in the growth of 200 million trees on five million hectares of degraded farmland in that country alone. This episode is about how to engage with communities to create positive change and proves that not all superhero’s wear capes. Show notes available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

One of things we like to say here at the Blue Tribe Company is that every-time someone does business with us that something great happens in the world. And one of the reasons we can say this is because of today’s guest. In this episode I am talking with Paul Dunn, who is the Chairman of B1G1: Business for Good, which is a Global Giving Initiative that’s enabled businesses to create over 200 Million giving impacts globally. Not only is he an all round good guy but Paul is also a 4 times TEDx Speaker and award-winning entrepreneur. He has received a stack of honours for his work. He’s a Senior Fellow of one of the world’s leading business think-tanks and is now a Fellow of Singapore’s Social Innovation Forum – an honour he shares with film-star Jet Li and Walmart Chairman, Rob Walton. He has been featured in Forbes alongside Sir Richard Branson in a global feature on disruptors in business and he is even the recipient of a Global Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Accounting Profession – and he is NOT even an accountant! In this episode we hear about how a humbling moment associated with the 2004 boxing day tsunami led Paul on a mission to create a movement that harnesses the power of small. To access the show notes visit www.bluetribe.co/podcast

In this episode I am talking with John Pabon, who is the Founder and Chief Advisor at Fulcrum Strategic Advisors. Now I would describe John and as an expert on China but as you will hear, John would say that if anyone tells you they are an expert on China then you should run the other way because there is just so much to learn about this 5000 year old culture. Before founding Fulcrum Strategic Advisors he worked with the United Nations, McKinsey, A.C. Nielsen, and as a consultant with BSR, the world’s largest sustainability-focused business network. He is passionate about the opportunities in China and for the past decade he has chronicled the societal impacts of China’s economic rise in his blog, John’s Little Green Book and has been named one of the world's top 100 voices on modern China. He is a regular contributor to major magazines, and speaks to an array of global audiences on issues of sustainability, policy, and societal change. In this episode we hear about his journey from dreams of a career in music in California, to his move to China and the opportunities he sees for business and sustainability as the world pivots for the Asian Century. He is also a gladiator for good (although as he says a very pragmatic one) and so he fits in here perfectly on the Good Business Podcast. Shows notes are available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

In this episode I talk with Jeremy Meltzer from i=Change. Jeremy is a social entrepreneur and advocate for women’s rights globally. He created i=Change to help accelerate the impact of extraordinary development projects, focused on empowering women and girls. As you will hear in this episode,As a young man, Jeremy was moved to action while living in Cuba where he was shocked at how violence against women seemed accepted and was even considered 'normal' across Latin America. This left him with a burning question... Why is such abuse so common in some communities while abhorrent in others? This question led him on a 20 year journey to develop a solution which lies in engaging men, challenging the dominant versions of masculinity, modelling respectful relationships to children, and funding best-practice NGOs. Part of that solution was the creation if i=change that is weaving philanthropy into everyday purchases. From refugee camps to retailer leadership summits, Jeremy shares a journey that has crossed continents. We discuss disruptive models of business, the business of giving back, and how investing in women and girls will be the greatest drivers of growth and stability this century. Shows notes are available at www.bluetribe.co/podcast

In this episode I talk with three young chemical engineers who are literally at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey to change the world. Constantine, Bijil, and Kushal recently formed team P2X to compete in the Peter Farrell Cup, the University of NSW's most prestigious competitive ideas program that has helped to fast-track the next generation of entrepreneurs and start-ups for the past 19 years. The cup culminates in a final pitch competition where participants get the opportunity to win a share of a $20,000 cash prize pool to help take their ideas to the next level. As part of the competition teams get allocated industry mentors who volunteer their time to help the teams develop their ideas and I was assigned as the industry mentor for P2X. Whilst the outcome was not what they expected, my conversation with the guys is a great example of how to craft a compelling message to get people to buy into your ideas. So if you have ever had an idea to change the world but didn’t know where to start or you have ever been frustrated that people just don’t get it or you have struggled to get people to support your idea then this episode is for you. In this episode we find out what happens when you mix three young eager chemical engineers together with an electrocatalytic oxidiser, some explosive gas, an entrepreneurship competition, a no BS industry mentor (that would be me), and a vision to change the world - what could possibly go wrong?! To access the show notes visit https://www.bluetribe.co/podcast