Be Your Change

Juliette Roy
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Be Your Change

We amplify the voices of women change makers who are building a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive world one episode at a time. In our show, we take you on a journey across the globe to understand the solutions women are creating to impact the world. We also look at gender equality in media and how to support women social entrepreneurs.

  1. How Drinking Women Coffee Can Reduce The Gender Gap with Vava Angwenyi

    04/27/2020

    How Drinking Women Coffee Can Reduce The Gender Gap with Vava Angwenyi

    Juliette Roy talks with Vava Angwenyi, founder of the social enterprise Vava coffee, about her work helping women gain confidence and financial independence in Kenya.

    17 min
  2. How To Launch A Social Impact Incubator in Iraq with Alice Bosley

    04/14/2020

    How To Launch A Social Impact Incubator in Iraq with Alice Bosley

    Alice Bosley is the co-founder of 51 Labs, the first social impact startup incubator in Iraq. Based in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, they support young people from all of the diverse communities in the Kurdistan region to launch scalable and innovative businesses.

    37 min
  3. How Cartier Really Support Women Social Entrepreneurs With Wingee Sampaio

    04/11/2020

    How Cartier Really Support Women Social Entrepreneurs With Wingee Sampaio

    My guest today is Wingee Sampaio. She is the global director with the Cartier Women’s Initiative, an international program to support women's social entrepreneurs as a force for good. Her role is to coach women entrepreneurs in the early stages of their business to make sure they are driving social change and reaching their full potential in partnership with many other organizations.

    31 min
  4. How Mass Incarceration Impact People’s Life In The U.S With Bea Spadicini

    03/25/2020

    How Mass Incarceration Impact People’s Life In The U.S With Bea Spadicini

    In today’s episode, we sit down with the host and co-producer of the One in Four podcast Beatrice Spadacini...One in Four podcast looks to educate, humanize and elevate the conversations about previously incarcerated people re-entering society. The criminal justice system is no better, Minorities, and especially men of color, are targeted more compared to their white counterparts...Just to give you an idea of what we are dealing with, 1 in 3 black men and 1 in 6 Latino men are incarcerated in the U.S...compared to 1 in 17 white men. 1 in 18 black women compared to 118 white women but Beatrice thinks criminal justice was designed that way. We discuss with Beatrice with staggering numbers, her podcast and what we can do to help this incredibly tragic problem is Beatrice Spadacini…

    37 min
  5. How To Create A Safe Environment For Refugee Girls

    03/10/2020

    How To Create A Safe Environment For Refugee Girls

    In this week’s episode, we are celebrating International Women’s Day by talking with women from an organization named RefuShe. It’s an organization that works with refugee girls in East Africa. We sit down with Jailan Adly who is the president of Refushe and Esperance Gikundiro who is a refugee herself and now a board member of the organization.

    37 min
  6. Looking For New Exciting Things To Do In Paris? Montreuil Might Be Your Next Stop

    03/04/2020

    Looking For New Exciting Things To Do In Paris? Montreuil Might Be Your Next Stop

    In today’s episode, we travel to a town east of Paris named Montreuil. Montreuilis to Paris what Oakland is to San Francisco, a vibrant multicultural youngthe dynamic and creative suburb of Paris.Montreuil is also well-known for its left-wing politics, with a rate close to 26% ofimmigrants, the city has been led by a succession of Mayor affiliated with theFrench communist but also the Green party. The result is an incredible meltingpot of culture, diverse languages, and deep artistic cultures that goes back to theearly century with the movie industry.

    25 min
  7. How Social Innovation Can Have An Impact On Homeless People With Meryl Lieberman

    02/27/2020

    How Social Innovation Can Have An Impact On Homeless People With Meryl Lieberman

    Meryl Lieberman is the co-founder of the non-profit Casa Milagro aka House of Miracles. Meryl shared with us her innovative approach to end homelessness and address mental health in Santa Fe, New Mexico. About 2% of the global population or 150 million people are homeless. In the United States alone in 2019, more than 500 000 people are homeless…and the number of people experiencing homelessness in New Mexico is on the rise. From 2018 to 2019, the number of people living on the streets rose by 27 % one of the largest increases in the country.

    37 min
  8. How To Lift 20 Million People Out Of Extreme Poverty By 2030 With Dianne Calvi

    02/19/2020

    How To Lift 20 Million People Out Of Extreme Poverty By 2030 With Dianne Calvi

    Dianne Calvi is the CEO of Village Enterprise. She started with the non-profit in 2010. She has grown the organization from 13 employees to now 200 and overtime she has helped over 1 million people transition out of poverty. Village Enterprise works towards achieving the United Nations’ first sustainable development goal...to end extreme poverty by 2030. And the UN defines extreme poverty by people living on less than one dollar and 25 cents a day. As of last year, more than half of the world’s population living in extreme poverty is located in sub-Saharan Africa...and that is who Village Enterprise works with. Juliette Roy talks with Dianne about her work as the Ceo of Village enterprise and how the non-profit has been making strides in lifting people, mostly women, out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

    27 min
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We amplify the voices of women change makers who are building a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive world one episode at a time. In our show, we take you on a journey across the globe to understand the solutions women are creating to impact the world. We also look at gender equality in media and how to support women social entrepreneurs.

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  • Creator
    Juliette Roy
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2020
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Juliette Roy
  • Show Website
    Be Your Change

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