Impact Hustlers - Entrepreneurs with Social Impact
Impact Hustlers features entrepreneurs and changemakers solving the world's biggest problems and creating massive social impact. Hosted by Maiko Schaffrath this podcast shares the stories of those who connect impact with profit and build businesses and solutions that solve problems such as climate change and poverty. Learn how entrepreneurship can be the solution to the world's biggest environmental and social problems.Learn more: www.impacthustlers.com
Episodes
136 episodes
The Major Impact of Mental Health on Startup Success - Sançar Sahin of Oliva
Sançar's Sahin, Co-founder at Oliva, a B2B2C startup that provides on-demand therapy, coaching, and classes. It has previously worked with employees of companies like HubSpot and Sifted. Oliva focuses on effective process matching to build a va...
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Community Finance Platform for Underserved Communities - Rodney Williams of SoLo Fund
In today's episode, I speak to Rodney Williams, who's the co-founder, chairman, and president of SoLo Funds, which is a B-Corp-certified community finance platform that's now used by more than 1 million users. Members can borrow and lend money ...
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Creating partnerships between social entrepreneurs and corporations - Mark Horoszowski of Moving Worlds
Mark Horoszowski, the CEO and co-founder of Moving Worlds, a platform that's supporting social enterprises by connecting them to corporate content and pro-bono professionals that can really help them get ahead.In today’s episode, we disc...
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Conflict-free Engagement Rings - Krish Himmatramka - Founder of Do Amore
In today's episode, I speak to Krish Himmatramka, the founder of Do Amore, a direct-to-consumer startup that sells engagement rings with conflict-free diamonds. Each ring also funds water projects, which can be traced using GPS coordinates and ...
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Supporting the Next Generation of Diverse Investors - Eleanor Kaye, Executive Director of Newton Venture Program
Eleanor Kaye, Executive Director of the Newton Venture Program. Program helping people from underestimated and overlooked backgrounds break into the venture capital industry and also advance their careers once they are in the venture capital in...
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Capturing CO2 profitably using cooling towers - René Haas of NeoCarbon
Rene Haas, the co-founder, and CEO of NeoCarbon. A company that has created a product that removes CO2 from the atmosphere by retrofitting industrial cooling towers with direct air capture devices. Direct air capture has been promoted as one of...
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Inspiring a future without smartphone addiction - Max Stossel of Social Awakening
In today's episode, I speak to Max Stossel—an award-winning poet and filmmaker, as well as the founder and CEO of Social Awakening. Max has spent the last year speaking in front of more than a hundred thousand students, parents, and educators, ...
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Episode 129
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Affordable at-home fertility treatment - Tess Cosad of Béa Fertility
Tess Cosad, the co-founder and CEO of Bea Fertility. A company making fertility care more convenient and affordable. The company is leveraging a method called IntraCervical Insemination or ICI, which has proven to actually have a 50% success ra...
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Episode 128
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Off the Record: Acquiring B2B customers & growing traction - Chieu Cao of Mintago & Perkbox
Chieu Cao is the co-founder of Mintago, a financial wellbeing platform for employees offering financial education, financial planning tools and pensions through salary sacrifice. He’s worked for many years at some of the world’s most renowned b...
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Episode 127
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Waste-free parcel delivery - Matt Semmelhack of Boox
In today's episode, I speak to Matt Semmelhack, the co-founder and CEO of Boox, reusable boxes, and shipping bags, eliminating single-use plastic and cardboard from eCommerce shipments. The rise of eCommerce has been massive in the ...
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Episode 126
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A bias-free future of recruiting - Khyati Sundaram of Applied
In today's episode, I speak to Khyati Sundaram the CEO of Applied, a platform helping businesses to take bias out of their recruitment processes through anonymized recruiting, and algorithms that help them predict which candidates will be perfo...
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Episode 125
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Alternatives to VC in ClimateTech - Erin Davis of Enduring Planet
In today's episode, I speak to Erin Davis, co-founder, and COO of Enduring Planet, which is a revenue-based financing platform for climate tech startups. The platform allows climate tech companies to raise funding without dilution, without givi...
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Episode 124
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Off the Record: How to build an impact unicorn with intention - Tom Foster-Carter of Lollipop
Tom Foster-Carter, the founder of Lollipop, (online shopping assistant ) is on a mission to help solve the health and obesity crisis and reduce the food plastic waste on the planet.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS[00:13] Tom's perso...
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Episode 123
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Can wheat replace plastic? - Amee Ritchie & Jake Elliott-Hook of S'wheat
Amee Richie and Jake Elliot-Hook, the co-founders of S'wheat Bottle. S'wheat Bottle has developed a reusable plant-based water bottle made from sustainably sourced bamboo and wheat straw For every bottle sold. The company plants a tree and remo...
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Episode 122
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Making farms more profitable & sustainable - Robin Saluoks of eAgronom
Robin Saluoks, the CEO and co-founder of eAgronom, a platform helping farmers adapt to sustainable farming practices and increase revenue through the voluntary carbon market.In today’s episode, we discuss how he built his company fro...
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Episode 121
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Building Glassdoor for blue collar jobs - Anna Maybank of Breakroom
In today's episode, I speak to Anna Maybank, co-founder of Break Room, a platform with a mission to improve working conditions for low-income jobs by creating transparency, sharing salaries, working conditions, and employee ratings publicly. Br...
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Episode 120
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How to raise funding in ClimateTech - Peet Denny of Climate VC
Peet Denny, the founding partner at Climate VC, which is a new venture fund investing in climate tech ventures, and the fund is based in the UK. Climate VC is planning to actually fund a hundred startups over the next three years.
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Episode 119
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Making the plant-based diet convenient - Martin Holden-White of Grubby
Martin Holden-White, the founder of Grubby, (one of the highest-rated recipe kits in the UK) is on a mission to make plant-based cooking more accessible across the world.In today’s episode, we discuss how he built his company from the g...
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Episode 118
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Climate Intelligence For Superior Business Decision-Making - Iggy Bassi of Cervest
With the increasing severity of the climate problem, thankfully, there are organizations like Cervest that offer their climate intelligence program to empower companies and individuals to analyze their climate risk and make climate-informed ...
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Episode 117
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Backing Up Startups To Generate Impactful Solutions For Global Issues - Alex Farcet of Rainmaking
Alex Farcet is Founder of Rainmaking and Startupbootcamp, and these are just two of the many hats he wears. Rainmaking harnesses the power of entrepreneurship to help corporate companies implement innovation and impact initiatives, and Start...
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Episode 116
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Cultivating Carbon Negative Food Ingredients For A Better Planet - Marcela Flores & Angela Newton of Tierra Foods
Today, we were joined by not just one but two co-founders: Marcela Flores and Angela Newtons, who are the brains behind Tierra Foods, a startup with a mission to change the way we feed the planet. Through agroforestry and regenerative farmin...
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Episode 115
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Restoring The Health Of The Planet And Its People Through Climate Candy - Amy Keller of FAVES
Think of candy, but in this case, it’s made out of upcycled fruits and vegetables (yes, you read that right) and it helps the environment, so it’s not only good for you but it’s good for the planet too! That’s what FAVES by Climate Candy is,...
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Episode 114
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Personalized Vitamins For Better Health & Wellness - Melissa Snover of Nourished
Tailor-made nutrition. That is the tagline of Nourished, a company dedicated to personalized nutrition supplements that are vegan, friendly, not to mention, delectable, and are made through patented 3D printing techniques and sophisticated e...
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Episode 113
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Scaling Impact Through Zero Waste Packaging System - Safia Qureshi of CLUBZERØ
Reusable packaging has been around for a while already as an alternative to single-use plastic or disposable packaging, but if there was a way to level this sustainable experience up? That’s where CLUBZERØ, formerly known as CupClub, comes i...
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Episode 112
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Collectivizing Our Climate Change Actions Through Sustainable Investing - Zach Stein of Carbon Collective
What if you could invest your retirement fund into companies that are sustainable and working towards solving climate change? That’s hitting two birds with one stone and exactly what Carbon Collective does. One of Carbon Collective’s founder...
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Episode 111
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