The Finding Impact Podcast

FIP 99: How local founders can attract foreign impact capital with Andreas Zeller

This episode shines a light on why local founders, who have excellent businesses, struggle to attract foreign impact capital. Open Capital Advisors has been advising in Africa for 9 years now, helping entrepreneurs grow, and helping advance economies, whilst also helping build a generation of business leaders in Africa. Based in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, covering 20 countries in Africa and have worked on 450 engagements to date. On this episode you'll learn: Village Capital studied the amount of...

FIP 098 Mental stress and isolation with Bedriye Hulya

This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are talking about burnout in the social sector, the third in our interview series, and we talk about Bedriye Hulya’s own experience, and how it took a very unique project that aims to promote the inner wellbeing for changemakers to help her get unstuck and make drastic changes in her life. Bedriye is founder of b-fit, which is a chain of women-only sport and health centers in Turkey, and uses a unique franchising model which empowers women. On this pod...

FIP 97: The dangers of being a Corporate Insurgent with Gib Bulloch

This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are talking about burnout, corporate insurgency and a mental hospital. This is the second in the series of podcasts that we are covering on burnout and mental stress in the social sector. We are talking with Gib Bulloch about his personal experience of what he calls the ‘event’ when he suffered from a burnout that put him in a mental hospital for 5 days and became the setting of his new book "The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent". The...

FIP 96: Burnout in Social Entrepreneurs with Ilaina Rabbat of Amani Institute

Today, we speak with Ilaina Rabbat (co-founder of Amani Institute) on burnout in social entrepreneurs--why it happens, what can be done to protect yourself from it, signs it’s happening, safety measure to put in place--which is so critically important when you’re doing this sort of work. She recently published a thesis on how to thrive in the social sector. On this episode you’ll learn: Ilaina focuses on thriving rather than surviving /burnout, although burnout is not usually a word used by soci...

FIP 95: The ingredients of an effective government partnership with Ruth Ngechu of Living Goods

This interview will help you put yourself into the shoes of government so you can work with them effectively. Ruth Ngechu is the Deputy Country Director in charge of partnership with Living Goods in Kenya. Ruth shares her strategies and tactics she's developed over the course of her 17+ year career working in Public Health, which includes some time within the Ministry of Health On this episode, you'll learn: A different engagement strategy is needed in every county or district you work in, becau...

FIP 94: Shannon May from Bridge International Academies

FIP 93: Scaling Pathways with Erin Worsham of CASE, Duke University

This week we're kicking of a three-part series on how social enterprises can partner with governments to achieve greater scale and impact. We're talking with Erin Worsham, Executive Director of the award-winning Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Erin shares her views and insights from the Scaling Pathways research study around scaling impact through government partnerships. The Scaling Pathways study, of which Erin is the ...

FIP 92: Helping People Make the Right Choices with Kevin Green from Rare

We have Kevin Green from Rare, who leads their Center for Behavior & the Environment. He's a whizz at qualitative and quantitative social research methods and behavior-centered design - and he's on the show to talk us through using behavioural design in practice, so a real life example of how it was put into practice to motivate fishing communities to conserve their fishing resources so they didn't deplete it and it would be around for future generations. On this episode you'll learn: When a...

FIP 91: Alexandra Fiorillo on behavioral science and social impact

On this episode: Alexandra defines behavioral design as the integration of the mindsets of the two disciplines of human-centered design and behavioral science. She explains how behavioral science is the study of action-taking and is often very focused on a single moment in time or decision while human-centered design is an empathy-based collaborative process which is used as a problem-solving tool. When these two are combined together, you have a discipline that addresses both how humans actuall...

FIP 90: Drones for Social Enterprise? Imagining What's Possible with Lauren Fletcher

Today we're doing a replay of my interview with Lauren Fletcher of Biocarbon Engineering - a social enterprise that is imagining what is possible with drones - and this, he describes, is about reforesting the planet at scale. This is the last in our three part series on high tech for development. Some of the things you’ll learn on this podcast include: How social entrepreneurs should always be stepping back to see how their product or solution fits within the bigger picture, which can, specifica...

FIP 89: High Tech Bio Tech for Development with Eddy Agbo of Fyodor Biotech

For the second episode in our high tech for development episode, I’m speaking to Eddy Agbo of Fyodor Biotech. We speak about early diagnostic methods that are changing the game for global health and the opportunities these represent for social enterprise. Eddy is the CEO of Fyodor Biotech, he's a PHD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands in molecular genetics and has a post-doctoral fellowship in medicine and infectious diseases at John Hopkins. Fyodor Biotech is building a portfolio of non...

FIP 88: Using Cryptocurrencies in Social Enterprise with Elizabeth Rossiello from BitPesa

This week we're kicking of a mini-series on high-tech for business within a developing country context. We're talking to Elizabeth Rossiello, who co-founded BitPesa Ltd in 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Elizabeth has worked in Kenya as a Microfinance Analyst and Investment Associate since 2009. She is an expert in East African financial product development and establishing best practices in risk, governance and IT for local banks. Prior to her work in East Africa, she served as ...

FIP 87: Audience Stories – Ravi Shankar from AcceleratED

Today, we speak with Ravi Shankar of AcceleratED on how Finding Impact has helped the company as it doubles its operations during its growth phase, for which learning from others’ mistakes has been critical. On this episode: Ravi noted that there had been multiple podcast episodes that have been helpful to his company. An episode that was particularly helpful to Ravi was Episode 78 with Raghu Krishnaswamy . Ravi took away Raghu’s focus on “casting” and building a diverse culture within a team. S...

FIP 86: Audience Stories - Rachel Sklar from Pit Vidura

Rachel Sklar takes the guest seat this week to tell us how the Finding Impact Podcast is helping her with her business in Rwanda. Rachel runs Pit Vidura, which offers pit latrine emptying services in dense urban areas where there are no sewers. On this episode you'll learn Apart from helping to improve her business, the podcast has helped Rachel get back into long distance running! When she's back at her desk Rachel listens to bits again and writes down the parts that were the most insightful an...

FIP 85: Audience Stories – Emily Woods from Sanivation

FIP 84: How to Build a Relationship with Your Core Customer Base with Lindsay Stradley

FIP 83: Marketing in Emerging Markets with Amanda Arch of Kasha

FIP 82: Building an Iterative Product Testing Platform with David Henia

FIP 81: What mobile data can do for social enterprise with Guilherme Lichand

FIP 80: The case for not collecting impact data – and what to do instead with Loïc Watine of IPA

FIP 79: Lessons from a data driven social enterprise with Mina Shahid

FIP 78: Finding Strengths to Let Managers Shine with Raghu Krishnaswamy

FIP 77: Company culture and ways to motivate and build cohesion with Julienne Oyler

FIP 76: KPIs, Cohesion, and Driving Performance with Gayatri Datar of EarthEnable

FIP 75: Board Effectiveness with Charity Chanda Lumpa

FIP 74: Gender Smart Investing with Suzanne Biegel

FIP 73: Men Who Champion Women with Isaac Fokuo

FIP 72: Funding 4/4 – Breaking Down Term Sheet Terms with Nina Gené of Jasmine Social Investments

FIP71: Fundraising 3/4 – Getting to First Close (Part 2) with Miora Randriambeloma of Chalkboard Education

FIP70: Fundraising 2/4 – Getting to First Close (Part 1) with Miora Randriambeloma of Chalkboard Education