How Might We

My guest this week is Nana Badu, Founder and CEO of BADU. BADU is a multi dimensional community development organisation. BADU is a non-profit dedicated to providing holistic and unconditional support to underserved communities. BADU engages with young people and their families through its key pillars: Sports, Mentoring and Education. Nana worked as a PE teacher and coach at numerous schools across Hackney, specialising in on-the-ground mentorship, trauma counselling and anti racist policy in some of the most deprived inner city estates. Nana now sits on the Sport England TRAVIS board (Tackling Racist and Racist Inequality In Sport) where he works to improve access to sport justice across the UK.  In 2021, Nana Badu won the first Cyrille Regis Award at the Football Black List awards for his work in grassroots and in the community. Nana was invited to the Kings Garden party in May 2023 for his 15+ year dedication to community empowerment and was one of the late Queen Elizabeth’s remarkable Batonbearers entrusted to carry the Baton at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. “Through my work at BADU, I’m the most fulfilled I’ve ever been in my life. Myself and our team are the lucky few who get to live our passion by supporting and serving our community everyday. We believe in the whole child. We believe in equality and human rights. We believe in championing social change. Special thank you to our wonderful team of volunteers, donors and corporate partners for believing in me and our mission. It’s through your efforts that we’re able to make a difference.” 🔹 Follow Badu Sports here 🔹 Find out more about Badu Sports here 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt

Stacia Bedford, is an accomplished, dynamic and disruptive repeat entrepreneur, who pioneered the bridal tech space with the innovative e-commerce platform she co-founded, Prim & Clover — a first-of-its-kind online wedding dress builder and marketplace. Stacia specialises in coaching founders through the launch and scale of their start-ups and MMEs in fashion, tech and the creative industries by establishing operations, commercialising products/services, implementing audits and benchmarks to stimulate and accelerate growth. Stacia runs the MA Fashion Entrepreneurship & Innovation course, at the prestigious London College of Fashion, where she leads and coaches budding and extant entrepreneurs in various creative industries through the development and scale of their brands and businesses. 🔹 Follow Stacia Bedford | LinkedIn 🔹 Follow Stacia on Instagram 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt

Cri (pronounced "Cree") deconstructs and reshapes as part of her creative process, seeking to arrive at synthesis while making (and embracing) a lot of mess. Messwork facilitates a multidisciplinary yet holistic approach to trauma recovery and abundant living. With her Bachelor of Psychology and Business from Northeastern University, a Master of Fine Arts in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, and her ongoing education at the Institute of Core Energetics as a practitioner in training, Cri integrates complex skill sets into a full-bodied foundation upon which to reinforce her work and practice. As a creator, practitioner, and educator, Cri's psychological and design expertise fuels her methodological and theoretical frameworks and approaches, exploring the inherent nature and connection across somatics, psychology, design, and mess. Currently teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Communications Design at Pratt Institute, Cri expands her name-sake practice, Cg Studio, into Messwork, an offering employing and leveraging somatics, design, and the transformative power of mess as a catalyst for growth. In her own Messwork, Cri navigated various academic and personal therapeutic territories before finding somatics. A health crisis in her late twenties catapulted her inquiry into more robust healing modalities, punctuating the significance and impact of being treated as a whole rather than a series of fragments. As a result of her own experience, Cri recognises the acute urgency and need to create more vigorous, holistic practices toward growth and healing, an offering she now extends to her clients, meeting them in their fullness, complexity, and humanity. 🔹 Find out more about Messwork here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.messwork.com 🔹 Book a 30-minute complimentary consultation session (online) or a 50-80 minute personal transformation session (online or in-person) with Cri here - https://www.messwork.com/book 🔹Follow Messwork on Instagram here - Messwork (@messwork) • Instagram photos and videos 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt

Ellen O'Hara is a business coach, consultant, facilitator and researcher with proven ability to enable enterprise, innovation and leadership capabilities. Over the past 20 years, she has worked with hundreds of creatives, social entrepreneurs, cultural leaders and researchers to design and grow sustainable businesses that make an impact - creatively, socially and commercially.  Ellen has designed and delivered innovation and enterprise programmes for British Council, Nesta, Warwick Ventures, UAL, Clore Leadership, Innovate UK, Creative United, Crafts Council and Frontline.  Together with Gill Thewlis, she is Co-Creator and Director of Modfin, providing business and financial modelling support to purpose led businesses, and Co-Founder of Wild Working, a startup platform for remote workers.  She is passionate about the role that creativity can play in fostering a more entrepreneurial approach to leadership and change; current interests include the role of creative hubs, community ownership and regenerative entrepreneurship. She is also Co-Chair of Powered by Can, a social enterprise that works with children, young people and young adults to make them feel powerful, valued and connected, and Co-Chair of Fifth Word who create and tour new plays by new writers.  Ellen is based in Derbyshire and works internationally. 🔹 Connect with Ellen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenohara1/ 🔹 Find out more about Ellen - www.ellenohara.com🔹 Learn more about Modfin - https://modfin.co.uk/ 🔹 Learn more about Powered by Can - ⁠https://www.poweredbycan.org/🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt

Alpesh Patel began working in retail at the age of 16 and ended his corporate career as the COO of a business with over 1000 employees. Through lockdown Alpesh founded two companies with some associates which both continue to evolve and thrive. Through the Refill Therapy business, Alpesh has improved his knowledge of the climate crisis and has developed a passion to help people shop in a more sustainable way. At Refill Therapy their on a mission to help everyone reduce waste and remove single-use plastic from our everyday lives, through accessible refilling and reusing. Their aim is to provide a zero waste environment that takes the effort out of sourcing environmentally friendly, sustainable, ethically produced bulk food, organic fruit & veg, household cleaning and personal care products. 🔹 Connect with Alpesh - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alpesh-patel-4212b031/🔹 Learn more about Refill Therapy - https://refilltherapy.co.uk🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt

Edward Brial is the CEO and Co-Founder of Materra and oversees strategy and business development. Proudly supported by H&M, Kering, Bestseller and PVH amongst others and based between London and India, Materra’s mission is to transform natural fibres into a force for environmental and social prosperity, starting with cotton. Ranging from experimental hydroponics to mass-market regenerative practices, Materra’s seed-to-bale solutions and proprietary technology enable brands to source climate-resilient, future-proof cotton with new levels of transparency while confidently progressing towards their sustainability goals. Ed is passionate about fighting the climate crisis and addressing inequity in the fashion industry by shining a spotlight on the agriculture sector. His work focuses on building sustainable, long-term partnerships with progressive brands of all sizes keen on investing in their supply chain through regenerative agriculture that benefits both people and the planet. Ed has a background in human-centred design and mechanical engineering with MEng, MSc and MA degrees from the RCA and Imperial College. He previously worked on sustainable agriculture innovation in Kenya and behaviour change design in Tanzania designing with new and emerging technologies and working with startups, academia and government to address impact challenges in developing economies. Along with his co-founders, Ed was part of the Forbes 30u30 Europe list for Manufacturing and Industry, in 2021. 🔹 Learn more about Materra - https://www.materra.tech/ 🔹 Connect with Patrick - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-scally/ 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt⁠⁠

Johnny Drain, since receiving a Ph.D. in materials science from Oxford University, has helped create delicious things for the world's very best restaurants, bars, and brands. He has a particular focus on using fermentation to unlock deliciousness, circularity and nutrition.As co-founder and CTO of WNWN Food Labs he is harnessing the power of fermentation to create sustainable, ethical alternatives to unsustainable, unethical foods, starting with chocolate.He writes and speaks about the future of food and challenges in global food systems through his work with @thisisMOLD, a critically acclaimed editorial platform about designing the future of food. 🔹 Connect with Johnny - https://drjohnnydrain.com/ 🔹 Learn more about WNWN Food Labs - https://wnwnfoodlabs.com/ 🔹 Learn more about MOLD Magazine - https://thisismold.com/ 🔹 Connect with Patrick - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-scally/ 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt⁠⁠

Kamila is an Interior Architecture graduate, and shortly after graduating worked within External Facade and Cladding sector post-Grenfell tragedy, closely working with the Executives as a Senior Associate for several years. Born in Uzbekistan and raised in London; Kamila has been passionately promoting her culture and roots through her art work, her own personal brand ‘Arty Numpty’ and communities in London. Kamila focuses on spreading the roots of rich Uzbek culture and has been connecting and helping like-minded individuals and business owners throughout her journey. She has recently been appointed as a Cultural Lead for Cultural Fashion and Arts organisation providing insight and consultancy to ensure Uzbek representation and participation.  🔹Connect with Kamilla - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamila-erkaboyeva-0905 🔹Shop Arty Numpty https://instagram.com/artynumpty?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA== 🔹 Find out more about the Hackney Wick and Fish Island Creative Enterprise Zone - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.hwfi.zone⁠⁠⁠ 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt⁠⁠

Mona Bani is the founder and MD at Revoke⁠, a non-profit advocating for the rights and welfare of young displaced people, and co-founder of the award-winning media platform Untelevised⁠, which produces media from the grassroots to explore possibilities for social change. She has over 10 years of experience in the socio-political sector, ranging from the Cabinet Office, to the refugee camp in Calais, and she's particularly passionate about bridging the gap between those affected by policy and those who shape policy. Her own parents were political refugees and she grew up in Denmark before migrating to the UK as a teenager, and she's appeared on much media speaking against the hostile environment. She's been awarded as one of the 2020 Clore Lived Experience Leaders in the Refugee and Migration sector; a Thirty Percy Changemaker; and an Aspen Leadership fellow. 🔹 Connect with Mona - https://www.linkedin.com/in/monabani/ 🔹 Find out more about the Hackney Wick and Fish Island Creative Enterprise Zone - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.hwfi.zone⁠⁠⁠ 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt⁠⁠

Naomi is the CEO of Footwork Trust. Their purpose is to create effective, more collaborative models for how places are made and remade that are locally rooted and led; and informed by local knowledge and experience. By identifying, supporting and learning with local social innovators and the communities they serve, Footwork uncovers the barriers to successful placemaking and how best to overcome them. Naomi is originally an architect, graduating with Distinction from University College London. She worked as a designer in Copenhagen, New York & Chicago before settling in London. Throughout her travels, Naomi witnessed the importance of social justice in building community resilience. Not least in London, where her award winning thesis uncovered the reality of life for older people living in a North London housing estate. 🔹 Connect with Naomi - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/naomi-rubbra-9b39a9104 🔹 Find out more about Footwork Trust - https://www.footwork.org.uk/ 🔹 Find out more about the Hackney Wick and Fish Island Creative Enterprise Zone - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.hwfi.zone⁠⁠⁠ 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt⁠⁠