Social Good Podcast

Iris Guo (@IrisGuoo) shares her journey as the founder of Neutrify informing consumers about decreasing their carbon footprint through food choices. She describes her current journey managing a growing team, seeking partnerships with grocery stores and food startups and exploring different ways to align people with health consciousness through her product including nutritional information, purchase history and food carbon footprint. Iris also touches on her journey at OpenMeal working with influencers to increase distribution and her experience with adapting to remote work. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-guo/ https://devpost.com/software/neutrify https://linkt.ree/irisguo Subscribe to the Neutrify newsletter: https://bit.ly/neutrify-newsletter Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpod

Kurt Daniel (@kurtodaniel) of Ubersmith reflects on his experiences at Kearney, Microsoft and MongoDB leading to his role as CEO of Ubersmith, a subscription business management solution for the cloud. Kurt discusses the evolution of the cloud services market, shares his insights on effective leadership styles and proactive ways to incorporate social responsibility in the workplace and be an inclusive employer today. Links: www.ubersmith.com www.twitter.com/kurtodaniel https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtdaniel/ Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Gemma Bull (@GemmaCBull) and Tom Steinberg (@steiny) address the challenges that modern grantseekers and grantees face in the grant application process including website accessibility, an open and equitable application process and open data for the grantmaking process. Drawing on their own experience, they wrote Modern Grantmaking to address the lack of advice in the field that can cause the preventable mistakes for grantmakers and pain and upset for grantseekers. Links: www.moderngrantmaking.com www.twitter.com/GemmaCBull www.twitter.com/steiny Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Chloe Duckworth (@duckworthchloe) comes on to talk about her work creating a product to help neurodivergent people communicate at Valence Vibrations. She got her start doing an internship at Stanford during high school and participating in a contest run by David Eagleman of Neosensory (@neosensory). Valence Vibrations is an iPhone app that operates on the Neosensory wristband to augment emotional perception for people with neurological conditions like autism through vibrations. Chloe discusses the onboarding training process for Valence Vibrations, current clinical trials to create more nuanced emotions and plans to launch in 2022. Links: www.chloeduckworth.com www.valencevibrations.com www.instagram.com/valencevibrations Contact Me: www.twitter.com/soojunghan_ www.twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast

Philip Toussaint (@ecopreneurphil) comes on the first episode of the show to talk about his work with Ecopreneur Media. We have an excellent discussion covering: his mission for leveraging media (particularly video content) as a platform for environmental activism, working with brands to create incentivized activism, sustainable fashion as a hot industry, the appeal for environmentalism in marketing for brands, the rising role that Gen Z plays in environmentalism, the definition of an ecopreneur, shifting priorities for brands to embrace environmentalism and more. Links: http://twitter.com/ecopreneurphil http://twitter.com/EcopreneurM www.ecopreneurmedia.com Contact Me: http://twitter.com/soojunghan_ http://twitter.com/_socialgoodpod anchor.fm/socialgoodpodcast