13 episodes
ImpACTivist Maria Latorre & Andres Neira
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The impactivist podcast brings you the stories of social innovators who are solving market failures and have demonstrated more sustainable models to build inclusive economies. They walk us through how they started, what helped them succeed, their key learnings, how to raise funds, why sticking to their purpose and values is fundamental and much more. Our hope is that these individual stories will provide you a better understanding of how we can solve our collective problems from the perspective of pragmatism and hard-earned experience. Join us on this journey.
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A look into the identities of a positive leader with Jean Philippe Courtois
In this episode, we speak to Jean Philippe Courtois (JP) who is one of Microsoft's top executives. His focus is on transforming national economies, helping to create sustainable and inclusive economic growth through digital transformation. He was key in the creation of Microsoft's social entrepreneur program. He also co-founded Live for good with his family in 2015 after a tragic event. Live for good aims to unlock the potential of young people from all walks of life through social entr...
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How The 1st family office in Europe dedicated to impact investing is helping families invest with Tangible Impact
Today we speak to Julien Lescs, co-founder of Kimpa, the first family office in Europe dedicated to impact investing. Julien and his team are actively helping wealthy families and family businesses align their family values with their impact investment Strategy in order to invest for good, innovate to keep their family quest alive and win with the next generation on board.He recently published a clinical perspective on ‘how the environmental urgency affects the psychodynamics between family m...
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Catalyzing the Climate Tech ecosystem
Today we speak to Manuella Cunha Brito, the co-founder of CLIMATESCAPE, the go to platform for the low carbon economy: https://climatescape.org/about Manella’s mission is reversing climate change and reducing inequalities. She co-founded Good Tech Lab and co-authored “The frontiers of impact tech”: https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5ebc463e30e8bd69378b5c117cf5d677ad8a2efc.pdfWe speak about her initial path towards a diplomacy career, her journey to becoming a researche...
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Creating a second home in rural areas though social emotional education
Today we speak to Yessica Flores, Founder of Kantaya. In this episode, Yessica shares her corporate journey, why she chose this cause and how it has brought meaning and purpose to her life.Kantaya brings education to rural areas in Peru. 5 and 15 years old receive a holistic curriculum that allows them to keep being children in a safe space. The results have been astonishing and this in part to the focus on social-emotional skills.You can be part of this cause in many ways:https://kanta...
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Learning to See- Bonus episode Season 1
Andres and Maria have a conversation about their most important takeaways to finish the season. They speak about values, reconnection, rethinking, awareness, developing the left hemisphere of your brain, a new version of capitalism and much more. All this was inspired by the impACTivists that have been in the show.The impACTivist podcast crew will take a break and come back in September. Thank you for listening."So who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe, with manual dexterity...
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The Power of Scientrepreneurship to bring access to water and sanitation as a universal right.
Today we speak to a young leader who started to fight for sanitation as a universal right at 17 years old. We speak about how people like Marie Curie and books inspired her to be a scientist. We also speak about her experience as a young woman entrepreneur with investors, gaining credibility as a young innovator, how she decided to unfocus from her set of solutions to help society during the COVID pandemic, her new blockchain project and much more.Anna has won numerous awards like t...