2021 Podcasts
Today I am happy to be speaking with Nishi Dharia, a high school senior from California and the Founder of the non-profit, Impact Incubators, whose mission it is to enable access to affordable incubators and save the lives of premature babies across India.
I am so happy today to speak with Padmini Govind, Partner of Tharangini Studio! The Studio specialises in sustainable and responsibility made organic hand block printed fabrics and is fact the oldest and last surviving hand block print studio in Bangalore, India. Tharangini Studio is ISO 26000 compliant which focuses on social responsibility and helps businesses and organizations translate principles into effective actions to operate in a socially responsible way.
Hi listeners! Today we are shaking things up at women17. I’m journalist Jess Carter and after featuring 25 women on the podcast, I think it’s about time we put Darcy under the spotlight! So, welcome, Darcy.
Today I am very excited to speak with Olivia Choong, writer, communicator and environmental activist based in Singapore. Olivia is a communicator, nature lover and believer of a sustainable society. She connects people to nature and environmental topics through her gardening and self sufficiency blog and YouTube channel, The Tender Gardener, and facilitates dialogues on sustainability issues through Green Drinks (Singapore), where she is the President.
Thrilled to be speaking with Charlotte Aschim, the CEO & Founder of TotalCtrl, a global food waste prevention software company that helps consumer-facing businesses optimize their operations, cut costs and prevent food waste. TotalCtrl focuses on SDG 12- responsible consumption and production and specifically on indicator 12.3 that focuses on cutting global food waste by half by 2030.
Very happy to be speaking with Natalie McIntosh today, founder of Nautical Waters, an organisation whose mission is to repurpose discarded fishing nets, known as ‘ghost nets’, and fishing gear from the east and west coasts of Canada. Natalie is 15 years old, in the 10th grade, and lives in London, Ontario, Canada with her family. Welcome, Natalie!
Today I am happy to be speaking with Anna Polatschek in São Paulo, Brazil. Anna is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at Moving Worlds, a Social Purpose Corporation that builds leaders and doers behind grassroots, world-changing ideas whilst supporting the Sustainable Development Goals.
Hi listeners and thank you for joining us today. The SDGs we are focusing on today are SDG 6 and 17 with Sarika Saluja, General Manager, of the World Toilet Organization (WTO) headquartered in Singapore.
I am very happy to be speaking with Traci Lewis, Co-founder and Director of Catalyse Change CIC (Community Interest Company), a social enterprise supporting girls and young women to develop sustainability skills and knowledge for ‘healthy, happy and green’ communities, empowering and creating tomorrow’s sustainability leaders and change makers.
Traci helps brilliant purpose-led women to save the world :-) She is a social business consultant and runs online training courses and coaching for women who are starting up their own sustainable businesses.
Today I am happy to be speaking with Anna Zahedi-Lamarche, the founder of Nana & Rose, a circular fashion startup based in Luxembourg. We explore how her academic credentials in Marine Biology at St Andrews and her Masters in Rural Estate Management from the Royal Agricultural University in Sirencester, coupled with her work experience in the wilds of Scotland managing land and estates and at the UK’s DEFRA (Dept.Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) have culminated into her start-up.
Today’s conversation is with Dr Ying Ying Liu, the founder of LumiVoce which means ‘illuminating with sound’. LumiVoce, based in Hong Kong, inspires and educates youth to fall in love with wildlife and nature through the power of music, arts, and education, because “we protect what we love“.
Today's interview is with Dr Crystalle Crain, a social and political critic with academic roots in sociology, political science, and psychology who has developed curriculum and taught courses at universities for over 14 years. Crystallee specializes in uncovering the layers of institutional inequity while supporting communities to shift ways of being and practice to improve life chances.
In today's episode we meet the inspiring Lindsay Sobel, founder of Shoes for Souls, a charity that collects and donates shoes to various homeless shelters throughout Southern California, USA.
Welcome everyone. Today I have the pleasure of introducing you to Geeta Solanki, founder of Unipads India, an organisation that sustainably manufactures and distributes reusable sanitary pads to underprivileged women in rural India.
Today I am happy to speak with Axelle Jorcin, the co-founder of People and the Sea, an organisation dedicated to building a sustainable future for island communities in the Philippines. The organisation articulates its work around two interconnected topics: marine resources management and socio-economic development for communities.
Today's podcast interview is with Shanta Bloemen, a 20 year veteran of UNICEF, filmmaker of ‘T-shirt Travels, The Story of Secondhand clothes and Third World Debt in Zambia’ and founder of Mobility for Africa, a social enterprise that brings green mobility solutions to rural women.
Today I am thrilled to be speaking with an extraordinary woman today- Yesmien Bagh Ali, a business woman, activist, advocate, and now children’s book author.
For over 25 years Yesmien has worked with communities and professional agencies to break down barriers to implement policy change for vulnerable people.
I invite you to listen to today's podcast with Kady Duffy as she shares her journey from performing arts in NYC to working in France for some of the world’s top outdoor apparel companies. And to where she is today as a producer and director of the translated play, 'The Wolves', by Sarah DeLappe (the play was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for drama) that focuses on gender and issues facing young, adolescent women.