The Social Change Career Podcast

The haves versus the have nots. Can you do good using the market? Can you produce structural, long -term positive social change using investing and private capital? "How do I even dare to ask such questions and heck yeah" are Howard Fischer's answers to my capitalist-skeptical questions. And watch me sweat as do an honest effort to understanding how you can change the world through impact investing. In Episode 16 of Season 6, Howard walks us through his successful career in the finance and investing world and then his shift into becoming one of the most influential figures in impact investing to date. Howard founded Basso Capital Management in 1994 and is currently its CEO and also he is co-founder of the Gratitude Railroad, an investing firm focused on educating, inspiring and capitalizing capital into positive impact investments. Howard is an avid biker and share a deep passion for compost and imperfect produce. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: Basso Capital Management Gratitude Railroad 1% for the Planet Harvard Advanced Leadership Initaitive Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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 Episode 15 of Season 6, Saji shares his "behind the scenes" account on the passing of the historic UN Security Council Resolutions 2250 and 2419 on Youth, Peace and Security. Don't miss this intimate, honest and very powerful conversation with one of the most outspoken and recognized voices in the youth, peace and security space. From his early years in Sri Lanka, to challenging times in LA, to building a high-impact career at the nexus of peacebuilding and youth. Since 2011, he has served as Search for Common Ground's Director for Children & Youth Programs. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: UN Resolution 2250 Search For Common Ground Youth Transforming Violence of Exclusion American University- School of International Service- Graduate Degree in Peacebuilding Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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 16k 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

Janet Murdock has 20 years of experience as an accomplished trilingual peacebuilding/conflict resolution practitioner with broad government and international experience. In Episode 14 of Season 6, Janet shares how she grew up in rural Brazil, raised a daughter by herself, worked and studied full-time to be one of Latin American's most recognized professionals in the conflict resolution space and eventually become the first female peace advisor for the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. Janet is currently the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund Coordinator in Guinea-Bissao. She is currently busy setting the first restorative justice system financed by the UN. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: George Mason Masters in Conflict Resolution United Nations Peacebuilding Fund Coordinator in Guinea-Bissau Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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

From school dropout to PhD. Meet one of the worlds tops experts in Peace Education: Phill Gittins. Phill has received multiple awards for his contributions to peace and social change, including the Rotary Peace Fellowship. In Episode 13 of Season 6, Phill shares how he has lived, worked, and travelled in over 50 countries across 6 continents and taught in schools, colleges and universities in 8 countries. He currently serves as the Education Director for World BEYOND War and is a Peace Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: World Beyond War New Gen Peace Institute for Economics and Peace Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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

If issues like structural inequality, race, class and gender deeply interest you, Erin William's career in feminist issues as a radical listener, trust-based grant-maker and change manager is exactly what you have been looking for. Erin Williams has over 15 years of experience fighting for social justice. In Episode 12 of Season 6, Erin talks about how she informs her trust-based grantmaking practice with her many years of direct field experience, grassroots and volunteer work in Canada, the US, Jamaica, Botwsana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. She currently is the Program Director for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the Global Fund for Women. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: Global Fund for Women World University Services of Canada Masters of Social Work Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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

How do you change the world through digital story-telling? While story-telling is as old as humanity itself, the job title Digital Story-teller wasn't even invented until a few years ago. Is digital storytelling just a fancy word for marking, or is it a more authentic form of engagement and how can use the process to advance positive social change? What are the key skills and careers paths for those who want to work at the intersection of technology, media and stories? In Episode 10 of Season 6, Matt Scott shares about how built a career as a digital storyteller. Matt has been fascinated by the role of narrative in driving global impact, stemming from his previous work in the sexual assault advocacy space. For the past five years, he has been involved in multiple social media for social change initiatives with some of the leading organizations in the world. Matt is also the creator of 180 of Impact a storytelling project to reverse engineer social change through conversations with 180 change makers and social entrepreneurs worldwide. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: Second Muse 180 of Impact Hotmommas Project Digital Advocacy Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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 15k 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

The heart wants what the heart wants. Even if you graduate from MIT as an electrical engineer. Nancy Chan found her way into the mission-driven field of social good. In Episode 11 of Season 6, Nancy shares her interesting career trajectory. From working for a while in the tech world to ultimately discovering her passion for good and starting a super comprehensive a search for her graduate degree to graduating with a Masters in Public Policy. Post graduation, Chan applied her analytical skills with her passion and excelled in the worlds of nonprofits, philanthropy, ultimately working for tech companies for social good. She currently works in Strategy and Evaluation at the Justice & Opportunity Initiative of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: Masters in Public Policy Arabella Advisors Catalyte Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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

Building a successful career as an anti-corruption expert can be seen as the enormous challenge of creating sustainable systems for accountability at a global level. Transforming the widespread and often accepted practice of corruption at many levels to systems based on transparency and accountability that foster increased participation and trust between citizens and public actors is an ambitious goal that Blair Glencorse is dedicated to achieving in his work. A seasoned international development professional and social entrepreneur with significant experience across issues of governance, accountability, institutional reform and political economy transitions, Glencorse is making governance work for people. Blair is an Echoing Green Fellow and also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Anti-Corruption, the Lead of the Anti-Corruption Working Group of the C20, the global civil society network affiliated with the G20; and a member of the World Bank's Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement. He has worked around the world with governments, the private sector, philanthropists and civil society to improve lives. In Episode 9 of Season 6, Glencorse shares with us how he fights corruption for a living and how he is disrupting the way anti-corruption work is conducted. A key innovation of his organization is moving away from a focus on only naming and shaming to change behavior and policy. Instead, the Accountability Lab, prefers to name and fame those that are giving back and working with integrity. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: Accountability Lab SAIS The World Bank Related topics 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 16k 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

Who is the best person to write about the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and Ethics? It is Flynn Coleman, one of the world's leading experts who is a writer, international human rights attorney, public speaker, professor, and social innovator. She recently released her groundbreaking cutting edge book: A Human Algorithm. In Episode 8 of Season 6, Coleman shares with us what are the key skills to be successful in this world of algorithms and AI and discusses the essential role of social impact professionals to help develop policies, laws and oversight as the impact of artificial intelligence on our lives and societies increases. To hear the episode click here. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: A Human Algorithm On Being Flynn Coleman Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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 16k 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

Andrew Russell has over three decades working at the UN in conflict-affected and transitional societies on peacebuilding, civil society development, crisis prevention, policy reform and strategic organizational change management. This is a very special edition of the podcast as many of the questions were audience-generated in the PCDN Social Change Career Helping Line. In Episode 7 of Season 6, we discussed many practical and ethical questions which Andrew patiently and wisely answered delivering a definitive guide to working for the UN. With topics that ranged from surviving bureaucracy; to opportunities and limitations for activism within the UN system; as well as difference between field and headquarters based careers, as well as many other key topics. To hear the episode click here. Check out our previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Key Links: CIDA- Canadian Development Agency How to contact Andrew Russell UN Junior Development Program Related topics Have you seen the new PCDN.global We love changemakers and our mission is to support your journey to change the world while making a living. 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 16k 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