The Social Change Career Podcast

What happens when the inner markers of success do not match your calling? This is how Mariette Fourmeaux du Sartel initiated her counterintuitive and yet profound transformational journey to transforming the U.S. prison system. In Episode 5 of Season 8 listen how a profound meditation session led to a prison visit, which led to organizing TEDx Talks with inmates and ultimately creating a project to break cycles of violence within the US prison system. Mariette is a 2020 Rotary Peace Fellow, she has over 2 decades in corporate and start-ups.  A dual bachelor in engineering and economics from Brown and an MBA from Berkeley.  Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.  ***Episode recorded on February 4rd, 2021 Key Links: Brilliance Inside TEDx Talks at Donovan Correctional Facility Mariette’s Linkedin ***New product*** PCDN.global is launching our first ever online workshops on all this career of change. First workshop was February 1st, stay tuned for more information on the next career PCDN.global career workshop.   Join our free PCDN Impact Career Chats Book a session PCDN Coaching Services Become an insider and join the PCDN Career Helping Line   Subscribe to PCDN.global’s Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

Now more than ever we need all hands-on deck to deal with and heal from deep-rooted divisions in our societies.  From practitioners with formal training in conflict transformation to every day folks, we need the tools to navigate the waters of disinformation, fear and intolerance. In Episode 4 of Season 8, I sit down with Melody Stanford Martin who have made this topic her career of choice.  Social ethicist and communications expert; author, conflict transformation specialist, fellow podcast host, educator and blogger.   Melody shares her personal journey into why she has dedicated her professional endeavors to having “difficult conversations”.  She will talk about her latest book Bravetalk and her upcoming projects on helping to heal the great divide. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. *My apologies for saying Episode 3 on this recording.  Oops.  Lost count it is Episode 4. **Episode recorded on February 3rd, 2021   Key Links:   BraveTalk Book Free Download of a Difficult a Conversation Game Contact  Melody     **New product*** PCDN.global is launching our first ever online workshops on all this career of change. First workshop was February 1st, stay tuned for more information on the next career PCDN.global career workshop. Join our free PCDN Impact Career Chats Book a session PCDN Coaching Services Become an insider and join the PCDN Career Helping Line    Subscribe to PCDN.global’s Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

Burnout, grief, stress, grief.  These are the core of the issues that Jenn Weidman’s social enterprise, Space Bangkok, is dedicated to solve/transform in the social impact professional community.   In Episode 3 of Season 8, listen how after 17 years of being a peacebuilding professional, Jenn “jumped” into the unknown and founded Space Bangkok.  How scary and fulfilling it has been to start a social enterprise and to open up a difficult but very timely conversation in our field.  Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. **Episode recorded on January 31st, 2021 Key Links Space Bangkok Jenn’s Linkedin @spacebkk **New product*** PCDN.global is launching our first ever online workshops on all things career of change. First workshop was February 1st, on how to become a Linkedin Sensei. Stay tuned for more information on the second one. ***coming soon*** Join our free PCDN Impact Career Chats Book a session PCDN Coaching Services Become an insider and join the PCDN Career Helping Line   Subscribe to PCDN.global’s Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships    

After 2020 we all know a thing of two about disasters.  But there are folks like Yotam Polizer who have built amazing careers providing humanitarian relief at a global scale. Yotam Polizer is CEO of Israel’s biggest humanitarian NGO active in 15 counties including Israel, U.S., Italy and currently very busy with Covid-19 victims.  Under Yotam’s leadership, IsraAID have participated in several contexts including the Syria and Yazidi refugees, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala and Colombia. In Episode 2 of Season 8, listen to how Yotam initiated his passion for helping disaster victims in Nepal.  How he considers disasters opportunities for peace; why he calls his work “active anthropology” and what should you do if you want to enter the field of humanitarian aid.    Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. **Episode recorded on January 25th, 2020   Key Links: ISRAaid Tedex Tokyo Teachers Yotam’s LinkedIn   **New product*** PCDN.global is launching our first ever online workshops on all things career of change. Click here for more information.  First workshop starts February 1st.  Limited spaces. Join our free PCDN Impact Career Chats Book a session PCDN Coaching Services Become an insider and join the PCDN Career Helping Line   Subscribe to PCDN.global’s Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

How can you study electro-mechanical engineer to then found a construction company focused on historical renovations to end up leading a cutting-edge research and policy driven organization focused on developing frameworks for peace? In Episode 1 of Season 8, listen to the interesting life and career story of Michael Collins, who leads the Institute of Economics and Peace in the Americas. Learn how Michael started as an engineer, worked in disaster management to how he uses Positive Peace Framework as a training tool and many other interesting initiatives and partnerships at IEP. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. **Episode recorded on December 14th, 2020   Key Links: Institute for Economics and Peace Michael’s Linkedin Steve Killelea’s latest book   **New product*** PCDN.global is launching our first ever online workshops on all this career of change. Click here for more information.  First workshop starts February 1st.  Limited spaces. Join our free PCDN Impact Career Chats Book a session PCDN Coaching Services Become an insider and join the PCDN Career Helping Line   Subscribe to PCDN.global’s Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships            

Dr. Young is an independent author, trainer, consultant, with many years practical and academic experience in the area of negotiation, mediation and conflict management skills. In Episode 19 of Season 7, listen to why Dr. Mark Young believes that humans urge to play is greater than humans urge to fight. Dr. Young has been thinking about and playing games for the past 19 years.  He is the founder and CEO of Rational Games Inc. Rational Games is a social enterprise that uses games to teach about and engage in the transformation of conflicts.  At Rational Games they teach negotiation, develop games and app and also are engaged in philanthropical ventures to help about peace and conflict transformation through games. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. **Episode recorded on November 27th, 2020   Key Links: Rational Games Inc. Dr. Mark Young Ted X Dr. Mark Young LinkedIn   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career. Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

In the U.S., a remarkable respected civil rights attorney; professor; inequality expert started his journey in difficult circumstances, escaping the horrors of war and international sanctions; being buried in quicksand and facing layoffs as well as rejection from grad school.  This is the story of Ehsan Zaffar. In Episode 18 of Season 7, Ehsan shares how he grew up in poverty as a refugee in the U.S. That didn’t stop him from becoming a lawyer; a civil rights advocate and inequality thought leader; a civil servant for the Federal government; and a professor. Take a listen to Ehsan Zaffar’s incredible and humbling life story.   He will soon be joining the faculty and starting a Center on Inequality at Arizona State University. Also and very importantly, another fellow podcaster. Ehsan podcast is called Unfair Nation- Ehsan’s podcast on power, inequality and civil justice (take a listen on  Apple Podcasts). Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. **Episode recorded on November 13th, 2020 Key Links Arizona Center on Inequality Ehsan Podcast Unfair Nation Ehsan’s wiki   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals. PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult. Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career. Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships      

She is a female CEO and President of one of the biggest International Development/Education NGOs worldwide, IREX.  How did Dr. Kristin Lord arrive to the top? If you think she planned it all carefully, please listen how you can get to the top without planning every second of your life or having a 10-year plan.   In Episode 17 of Season 7, Dr Lord’s explains how she worked full-time while finishing her PhD in International Development; her leadership style/philosophy as well learning what are the top three skills that all International Development professionals should have.   If you are looking at a career in International Development/Education; or are curious to learn about the experience of being a female professional at the highest levels in leadership, you need to listen to this episode.   Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.   *Correction: Podcast show host Catalina wrongly described USIP.  It is the United States Institute for Peace.  My apologies for this.  United Nations Institute of Peace was just a typo.   **Episode recorded on November 12th, 2020     Key Links:   IREXDr. Kristin Lords LinkedIn    The George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals. PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult. Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career. Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships          

For the past 3 years, Jessika Portney was a manager of Leadership Programs at the prestigious Brookings Institution. That is, until 2020.  If this year is a lemon, let’s hear what type of lemonade Jessika made.  Far from letting her layoff define her, she used this adversity to fulfill her dreams of becoming a leadership and life coach. In Episode 16 of Season 7 Jessika shares her story, what happened after she lost her job and what how she decided to leap and build her own coaching business. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. *Episode recorded on November 2nd , 2020 Key Links: Jessika’s Leadership Coaching Jessika’s Linkedin Flow Coaching Institute Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships        

Wai Wai Nu has global notoriety as a champion of democracy and human rights as attested by her many accolades including Time Magazine Next Gen Leader; Hillary Clinton Awards; Young Global Leader; Impact Hero by Earth Company, among others.  In Episode 15 of Season 7 Wai Wai shares her story as a political-prisoner in her native Myanmar. Far from letting her own personal and her family’s ordeal under military dictatorship define her; Wai Wai tells us how she became a lawyer, founded two NGOs and how she has built a career of service championing democracy and human rights for all. Find out how she uses her Instagram to mobilize Myanmar’s youth for social impact and freedom. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. *Episode recorded on October 28th , 2020   Key Links: Wai Wai’s Instagram Wai Wai’s Linkedin  #myfriend campaign (selfies for tolerance)   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals. PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult. Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career. Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships