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See Full Show Notes here: Julia Chung is the rockstar CEO of both and . Spring Financial Planning is a financial planning firm that offers advice-only financial planning services to Canadians. Admin Slayer is a virtual assistant company that...
See Full Show Notes here: Madeleine Shaw is the co-founder of Lunapads, a multiple-award-winning East Vancouver-based social enterprise that is dedicated to creating sustainable solutions for positive periods. With the help of their customers,...
See Full Show Notes here: Before Tara-Nicholle truly recognized her soul’s calling, she spent much of her life in shadow careers, getting a Masters in psychology, working as a lawyer, and acting as the Chief Marketer for MyFitnessPal before...
See Full Show Notes here: Frederick was born an entrepreneur. He launched and sold his first business at the age of 19 while on active duty in the Air Force. After an honorable discharge in 2005, he went on to …
See Full Show Notes here: In this episode of the Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast, host Cory Ames shares his experience of attending his second annual gathering of the B Corporation community. Whether you are familiar with this event...
See Full Show Notes here: and met working at a corporate company, but both realized the corporate culture was not for them. 10 years ago, when Claire founded , she knew that the first person to bring on board to …
See Full Show Notes here: While was unsure of what exactly he wanted to do, he knew that he wanted to become an entrepreneur in order to make an impact on the world. He didn’t feel he had the skills …
See Full Show Notes Here: While competing as a runner in college, took a class on social entrepreneurship that gave him insight into that space. He thus developed an interest in creating a company that melded a socially conscious mission …
See Full Show Notes Here: While obtaining her Masters in Environmental Engineering, developed a keen curiosity for how the toxic chemicals in our cleaning products and detergents affected our natural environments and personal health. Kate...
See Full Show Notes here: Founder James Christie works as director of user experience at , which partners with the likes of inspiring companies like Cigna Health and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to make their interaction with clients more...
See Full Show Notes Here: https://growensemble.com/better-practices-01 On this episode of The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast, we will be introducing a completely new segment, titled, “Better Practices.” With these segments...
See Full Show Notes here: https://growensemble.com/michèlesoregaroli Michèle Soregaroli is the founder and CEO of Transformation Catalyst. Her company coaches and consults with entrepreneurs and business founders who want their business to...
See Full Show Notes here: https://growensemble.com/amylooper. Amy Looper is co-founder and COO of One Seventeen Media, an AI tech ed. company that is making waves (or maybe calming them…) in the mental health space. Amy, along with her...
See full show notes here: Mark Cuddigan is the CEO of the number one baby food company in the UK, Ella's Kitchen. After reading an article He had a full professional life before joining the Ella’s Kitchen team, but the …
We at Grow Ensemble are focused on getting more eyes on better businesses and better business people. How do we do that? In addition to walking clients through the Grow Ensemble Framework and providing courses like our accelerator, we like …
After traveling and studying yoga and meditation in the East, Bernie Geiss returned to work in North Vancouver. Transitioning back to Western life, he entered the insurance field, where he eventually founded his own financial services company. But...
Sarah Woolsey is the founder of the —a co-working, event, and community organizing space based in San Antonio, Texas. Sarah’s journey started in the nonprofit world, which piqued her interested in whether there may be more a financially...
Peter Dering—founder and owner of Peak Design—quit his job in construction in pursuit of professional autonomy and, by scratching his own itch so to speak, he was able to create just that. Peak Design creates cutting edge bag and camera …
After graduating from college, facing a less than promising job market, Hannah Davis—founder and president of BANGS Shoes—ditched her plans to go to law school and went to teach in China. During her travels, she discovered a pair of shoes …
In this episode of the Grow Ensemble Podcast, Grow Ensemble Founder, Cory Ames, makes a few announcements regarding Grow Ensemble's changing role in the social business community. As well, he offers up an AWESOME bonus for listeners of the...
Manish Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Matr Boomie, a fair trade company that empowers artisans in rural India to create and sell handcrafted products to international retailers. With a background in engineering, Manish relied on the design...
Thomas Querton is the co-founder and CEO of atlasGO, a company that allows sweaty change makers to use fitness to raise funds and awareness for causes they care about. With over 1 million kilometers and $600,000 raised since its launch …
Emily Lonigro is the President & Founder of LimeRed, a purpose-driven design firm and Certified B Corporation based in Chicago. Bridging the gap between design and impact, LimeRed helps meaningful brands and businesses showcase their unique...
Paul Bain is both the CEO and “Chief Tea Captain” at JusTea, where a group Canadians have partnered directly with Kenyan tea farmers to provide ethical, sustainable (and delicious!) fair trade tea. On this Grow Ensemble Podcast, Paul shares the...