Money Mission & Me: Stories From Social Entrepreneurs

This podcast is for the mission-driven entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur, and social enterprise enthusiast. Join me as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. For episode 9, we're joined by David Paull, Chief Impact Officer of CompostNow. Inspired to do something about the declining health of soil across the country, David started Compost Wheels as a college student to provide a composting service that addresses organic waste and creates healthy compost to bring soil nutrients back to urban gardens and farms. Later, Compost Wheels joined forces with another enterprising composting startup called CompostNow to scale their combined impact. Today, CompostNow is servicing about 5,000 customers and expanding rapidly, while creating jobs and improving the health of our soils. Find more resources and details on the website www.moneymissionandme.com.

This podcast is for the mission-driven entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur, and social enterprise enthusiast. Join me as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. For episode 8, we're joined by Florence Hardy, CEO of truCrowd Illinois. Florence dives into how truCrowd, a crowd-funding platform, makes investing into private businesses accessible to everybody. At the same time, it makes raising capital (debt or equity), easier for small businesses and startups. By "democratizing investing", truCrowd's platform challenges the traditional private equity investing model that had traditionally only been available to a small fraction of the population. Find more resources and details on the website www.moneymissionandme.com.

This podcast is for the mission-driven entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur, and social enterprise enthusiast. Join me as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. For episode 7, we're joined by Ryan Jeffery, Founder and Co-CEO of Ignite. Ryan shares how he is redesigning the typical corporate leadership or employee development training to incorporate collaborations with community organizations in local and international trips to provide long-term benefits for both parties. We dig into the challenges of introducing a completely new service to corporate clients and the mission to develop more aware and purposeful leaders in the workplace. Find more resources and details on the website www.moneymissionandme.com.

This podcast is for the mission-driven entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur, and social enterprise enthusiast. Join me as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. For episode 6, we're joined by Mollie Dowling, Executive Director of OAI, Inc. Mollie shares her experience starting two social enterprises - High Bridge L3C and Retention Plus - within a nonprofit workforce development organization. We explore what workforce development organizations do in general, and both the benefits and challenges of starting a social enterprise business within a nonprofit. Some resources that Mollie recommends: The Mission-Driven Venture: Business Solutions to the World's Most Vexing Social Problems (book) by Mark Lane, and the Social Enterprise Alliance which has regional chapters across the United States. Find more resources and details on the website www.moneymissionandme.com.

This podcast is for the mission-driven entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur, and social enterprise enthusiast. Join me as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. For episode 5, Tiffany Williams shares her experience with starting a mobile app startup, Givly. Tiffany is a development consultant for nonprofit organizations full time, and started Givly to help nonprofits engage with millennial donors. Givly is an app that makes it easy for millennials to donate to causes they care about, and allows nonprofits to engage with these donors with pictures and updates about impact of their donation. At this time of posting, Givly is about to launch a Beta version of the Givly app for pilot testing. You can sign up for Givly’s newsletter to stay in the loop! Tiffany mentions two incredible resources for entrepreneurs in Chicago - 1871, a tech incubator and hub; and WiSTEM, an accelerator for women entrepreneurs of tech startups. Find more details on the websit

This podcast is for the mission-driven entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur, and social enterprise enthusiast. Join me every two weeks as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. For episode 4, Amanda Neely shares the funding and finances behind the first company she co-founded, Overflow Coffee Bar. Overflow Coffee is a coffee shop that serves responsibly sourced coffee and also doubles as a community meeting space for Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood.  While this episode focuses on Overflow Coffee, the brick and mortar coffee bar, Amanda and her co-founder and husband, Brandon, are also certified coaches and financial consultants. These two additional growing businesses allow them to work more closely with impact-driven entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs under their new brand, Business Activist Entrepreneur. Check out Amanda and Brandon's Business Activist Entrepreneur podcast!

This podcast is for YOU - the mission-driven entrepreneur, aspiring entrepreneur, or conscious capital fan. Join me every two weeks as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. Their stories about getting funded and becoming profitable, are a great resource for us all. Listen in to learn how these social entrepreneurs have built their businesses to make a bigger impact, faster.

This podcast is for YOU - the mission-driven entrepreneur, or aspiring entrepreneur. Join me every two weeks as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. Their stories about getting funded and becoming profitable, are a great resource for us all. Listen in to learn from others on how to jump-start your social enterprise and increase profits sooner to make a bigger impact, faster.

This podcast is for YOU - the mission-driven entrepreneur, or aspiring entrepreneur. Join me every two weeks as I interview entrepreneurs from all over the world who are pursuing both profits and positive impact. Their stories about getting funded and becoming profitable, are a great resource for us all. Listen in to learn from others on how to jump-start your social enterprise and increase profits sooner to make a bigger impact, faster.

For this first episode, Nassim Abdi joins us to talk about her startup journey with Docademia, a social enterprise she founded to create educational materials to help expand the worldviews of college students in North America. Docademia provides students, faculty, and universities access to a vast library of social documentaries from all over the world, and opportunities to speak directly with the filmmaker.