Planet Impact
Government
Planet Impact is a show on how non-conformist individuals are changing the world. In this show, we speak with the most impactful individuals such as the Ashoka fellows, Forbes 30 under 30 nominees, TED Speakers, and even Nobel Laureates. With support from Google-PRX, Bridge from Billions and Ashoka, this podcast aims to inspire everyone to become a changemaker. We support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Location:
United States
Description:
Planet Impact is a show on how non-conformist individuals are changing the world. In this show, we speak with the most impactful individuals such as the Ashoka fellows, Forbes 30 under 30 nominees, TED Speakers, and even Nobel Laureates. With support from Google-PRX, Bridge from Billions and Ashoka, this podcast aims to inspire everyone to become a changemaker. We support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Language:
English
Website:
https://planetimpactpod.com/
Episodes
Ep. 30. Louise Mabulo: Founder of The Cacao Project
10/30/2021
Louise Emmanuelle Mabulo is a 22-year-old chef, farmer, and entrepreneur. She is the Founder of The Cacao Project, which cultivates resilient and Climate-smart livelihoods, positioning farmers for sustainable success in San Fernando, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
Louise is a National Geographic Young Explorer, a featured honouree for Forbes Asia’s list ‘30 Under 30’, a Young Champion of the Earth under United Nations Environment Programme, an honouree of Tatler’s ‘Generation T’, and was...
Duration:00:23:31
Ep. 29. Satyajeet Tambe: President, Maharashtra State Youth Congress; Founder, Jaihind Yuva Manch
10/22/2021
Satyajeet Tambe is an educationalist, an entrepreneur, and a young Politician from Maharashtra, India. He attended Pune University and John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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Duration:00:33:49
Ep. 28. Ara Kusuma: Founder of Aha! Project, Co-leader at Ashoka Young Changemaker and a Nat Geo Young Explorer
10/15/2021
Ara is the founder of the Aha! Project (www.ahaproject.id | @aha.projectid ). It is a social initiative that provides quality and fun learning tools for young students at home. Within less than 12 months since its inception, her initiative has already impacted ~2,400 children across 13 provinces and 35 villages in Indonesia.
"We need every one of us to take action and solve the problems we face around us, instead of waiting for a hero and demanding the change from other people we all must...
Duration:00:30:51
Ep. 27. Mesut Keskin: Founder-CEO, E-Bursum, Turkey
10/8/2021
Mesut is an Ashoka Fellow, and founder-CEO of E-Bursum. E-Bursum is the biggest educational finance platform in Turkey that digitizes and democratizes financial opportunities for students.
Background:
Mesut established E-bursum to build a democratization and digitization movement aiming to make student scholarships and loans more transparent, fair, and impactful in Turkey. Mesut is turning a dysfunctional financial instrument in education into an empowerment tool and fundamentally changing...
Duration:00:38:44
Ep. 26. Layusa Isa-Odidi: Associate Partner at Dalberg
8/6/2021
Layusa Isa-Odidi is an Associate Partner, leading Dalberg’s presence in Melbourne, Australia. She focuses on strategic planning and financing across the areas of education, employment, agriculture, and gender.
Her recent work in Education to Employment includes working closely with the Secretariat and Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education to develop a new financing and funding framework and supporting a large private foundation on its 2018-2030 strategy, a realignment...
Duration:00:34:04
Ep. 25. Dr. Arunabha Ghosh: Founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
7/30/2021
Dr. Arunabha Ghosh is a celebrated public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. In this warm conversation, we chat about Dr. Ghosh's Inflexion Points, which is also the name of his monthly Business Standard column. From making documentaries with Jay Z, and working with the United Nations in New York, to coming back to New Delhi, and starting a policy think tank from scratch, Dr. Ghosh has done it all. While his TED talk crossed over 250,000 views, this...
Duration:00:43:53
Ep. 24. Caitlyn Lubas: 22-year old author of 'You Are Where You Go' and an Ex-Instagram Product Specialist
7/23/2021
Caitlyn is the author of You Are Where You Go: A Traveler’s Coming of Age Journey Through 70 Countries and 7 Continents During College.
She wrote this book to inspire others with her personal stories of how travel has changed her perspectives about the world. Her goal is to prompt readers to see travel as a tool for personal development and to spark readers’ desires to learn and grow outside of their comfort zones because everywhere you go becomes a part of you!
From visiting penguins in...
Duration:00:38:47
Ep. 23. Krishna Allavaru: Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee and National In-charge of the Indian Youth Congress
7/16/2021
Mr. Allavaru is a lawyer by profession who has been associated with student politics since his days at the University of Delhi. He deems the youth as the catalyst of societal and political change. He spearheads the Indian National Congress's initiatives on all fronts, be it in taking on the government on any issue or making outreach programs in different parts of the country.
He has an LLM from Georgetown University and an MBA from INSEAD. Formerly, he worked at KPMG in India, and The...
Duration:00:17:01
Ep. 22. Kiran Bir Sethi: Design for Change and Riverside School
3/25/2021
Kiran Bir Sethi is the Founder-Director of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India and the Design for Change organization. She has a design background, having received her diploma in visual communication from the National Institute of Design (NID). She is also the Founder of “aProCh” – which stands for “A Protagonist in Every Child” – an initiative that is attempting to make Ahmedabad more child-friendly, for which she was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2008.
Kiran ma'am developed a Design for...
Duration:00:18:03
Ep. 21. Felix Finkbeiner: Plant for the Planet
3/19/2021
Felix Finkbeiner is a German environmentalist and the founder of the international tree-planting and environmental advocacy organization Plant-for-the-Planet.
Starting in fourth grade, he attended Munich International School from which he graduated in 2015. After living in London for three years, he graduated with a BA in International Relations from SOAS, the University of London in 2018. Since September 2018 he is a PhD student of environmental sciences at the Crowther Lab of ETH Zürich,...
Duration:00:42:29
Ep. 20. Riddhima Yadav: Non-Resident Fellow, Aspen Institute; Sustainable Finance Group, Goldman Sachs
3/12/2021
Riddhima works with Goldman Sachs’ Sustainable Finance Group in New York, which partners with the firm’s global businesses to drive sustainable solutions related to climate transition and inclusive growth. She is also a Non-Residential Fellow at Aspen Institute for the Energy and Environment Program. Riddhima has experience working on climate policy at the United Nations, World Bank and the Global Commission on Economy and Climate. She graduated from Yale University in 2018 with a B.A. in...
Duration:00:30:43
Ep. 19. Dr. Girish Kulkarni: Life of a Changemaker (Part 2)
3/5/2021
Dr Girish Kulkarni is the founder of Snehalaya, an NGO based in Ahmednagar, India. Snehalaya means 'Home of Love', and was founded in 1989 to provide support for women, children and LGBT communities, who have been affected by HIV and AIDS, trafficking, sexual violence, and poverty. In India, 93 women are raped every day. It is estimated that 135,000 children are trafficked every year. Over 120,000 women a year will suffer domestic violence. There are 2.1 million people living with HIV, and...
Duration:00:23:18
Ep. 18. Dr. Girish Kulkarni: Snehayala
2/26/2021
Dr Girish Kulkarni is the founder of Snehalaya, an NGO based in Ahmednagar, India. Snehalaya means 'Home of Love', and was founded in 1989 to provide support for women, children and LGBT communities, who have been affected by HIV and AIDS, trafficking, sexual violence, and poverty. In India, 93 women are raped every day. It is estimated that 135,000 children are trafficked every year. Over 120,000 women a year will suffer domestic violence. There are 2.1 million people living with HIV, and...
Duration:00:23:10
Ep. 17. Gavin Thurston: Journeys in the Wild - The Secret Life of a Cameraman
2/12/2021
Gavin Thurston is the award-winning Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II cameraman who worked with Sir David Attenborough for over 20 projects. In this podcast, he shares with us the extraordinary and adventurous true stories of becoming a legendary cameraman.
I met Gavin in Dubai on his book tour at Emirates Literature Festival, and instantly I was moved by his stories and his kind personality.
Gavin has been a wildlife photographer for over thirty years. Against a backdrop of modern world...
Duration:01:25:35
Ep. 16. Melati Wijsen: Creating a Global Youth Run Movement
2/4/2021
Melati is an 19-year-old Indonesian/Dutch activist and an absolute change maker. She and her younger sister, Isabel, ounded Bye Bye Plastic Bags and have been leading the movement driven by youth since 2013. As of 2019, they successfully banned plastic bags, straws and Styrofoam on their home island Bali.
She has spoken at TED and the United Nations and has also been selected among FORBES top ten most inspiring women in the country. She is very passionate about protecting the ocean; Alumni...
Duration:00:21:54
Ep. 15. Sujay Santra: CEO and Founder of Ikure Techsoft Pvt. Ltd.
1/28/2021
Sujay worked in IBM & Oracle for over 12 years, before founding iKure in 2010. The social venture was incepted with the vision to provide affordable and accessible, quality primary healthcare up to the last mile using technology intervention. Realizing that there will never be sufficient doctors to treat patients in India individually, iKure led by Sujay is changing the public healthcare system from an individualized curative model to a community based preventive healthcare system to ensure...
Duration:00:34:56
Ep. 14. Taylor Reneau: Star Youtuber at YesReneau and Ivy Advise
1/21/2021
Taylor graduated from Harvard in 2015. When most of her friends were choosing jobs in finance and consulting, she decided to become a YouTuber. On her first channel, YesReneau, she uses poetry, storytelling, and sit-down talks to help her subscribers better navigate the “real world”. On her second YT channel, Ivy Advise, she shares the content that will enable anyone to get into the Ivy League or any top-tier colleges in the USA.
She has now created a course that prepares you for college...
Duration:00:40:55
Ep. 13. Vikra Ijas: Co-founder of Kitabisa 'Indonesia's biggest Fundraising Platform'
1/15/2021
Vikra Ijas is the co-founder and the Chief Marketing Officer at Kitabisa.com. His mission has been to leverage tech to connect and amplify kindness.
Vikra graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2012 with a Bachelor's in Commerce specializing in Marketing and International Business.
In 2013, along with his co-founder, Timur, Vikra established a social initiative called Kitabisa. It is an online fundraising and donation platform. When this podcast was recorded in 2019,...
Duration:00:36:12
Ep. 12. Aysha Baqir: Writing the best-seller 'Beyond the Fields' (Part 2)
1/8/2021
Ms Aysha grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 on a scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her time at college sparked her passion for development and she chose to return to Pakistan to work in the non-profit sector. She quickly learned that girls and women in villages needed access to economic resources before they could voice their demands for social justice.
After completing her MBA from LUMS in 1998, she...
Duration:00:23:00
Ep. 12. Aysha Baqir: Kaarvan Crafts Pakistan (Part 1)
1/1/2021
Ms Aysha grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 on a scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her time at college sparked her passion for development and she chose to return to Pakistan to work in the non-profit sector. She quickly learned that girls and women in villages needed access to economic resources before they could voice their demands for social justice. After completing her MBA from LUMS in 1998, she...
Duration:00:23:36