Goodie CiTR & Discorder Magazine

Jennifer Chiu and Jean Parsons are the wonderful duo that form the self directed studies film collective. Their award winning films touch on important and complex issues from a humanistic perspective. Today I talk to them about how they met, started making films and what film making has taught them. Their films include, CABBIE, Memories of the Peace and Madre de Dios and can be found at https://www.selfdirectedstudies.com/.

Did I also mention this is the last episode of the first season of Goodie? Thank you so much for your support and listener-ship! It's been good!

Laila is the designer behind the local, sustainable and ethical fashion line Harly Jae. Listen for stories about following dreams and reconciling fashion and sustainability. She is amazing!

https://harlyjae.com/

Naitik Mehta is the CEO and co-founder of Next Billion. NextBillion.org connects talent with disabilities to inclusive employers in tech. Their mission is to build the largest community of people with disabilities in tech. Although Naitik is now a CEO, he was a designer for most of his life. On the show, I talk to him about finding design at a young age, immigrating from Pune, India to Vancouver and how he started Next Billion.

He is using technology and community to do good in the world.
https://www.nextbillion.org/

Iva Jankovic is an urban planner, tech designer and all around people person! I will talk to her about graduating from university at 18, how she found her niche interests and how they have come together for her, in her two start-up positions. She is somebody that is using creativity from all fields to make change.

Trixie is the founder of Flavours of Hope, social enterprise that supports and empowers newcomer women to earn a living wage and build social connections in communities through cooking and sharing culinary traditions and stories. Trixie uses business as a way to fill the needs of newcomer refugees. She was inspired to create Flavours of Hope after witnessing the challenges of being a newcomer, through her own immigration story and through her work in social services.

https://www.flavoursofhope.com/

Grace is a lawyer tackling climate change with fearlessness and creativity. In addition to earning her PhD in climate law, she is also a talented storyteller. She has written a trilogy of YA novels, the Ava of the Gaia series, that feature empowering stories about women and climate change activism. She is currently working on producing a podcast called Planet Potluck to cultivate a narrative of positivity and inspiration behind the climate movement. http://planetpotluck.com/