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find your cause

by Joseph Smalzer

"find your cause" is the official podcast of Greater Than Zero Percent (GTZP). GTZP is 501(c)(3) non-profit on a mission to find people and organizations that are changing the world and sharing their stories. We believe that however big or small of a positive impact you have, every bit counts. As long as you are adding greater than zero percent, the momentum you build is already changing the world.

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  1. Why a NICU Mom Can't Give to NICU Charities with Maria Bryan

    Maria Bryan is the Partnership Marketing Manager at DonorBox, where she runs the ambassador program after spending two years as a DonorBox ambassador herself, and the founder of When Bearing Witness, a trauma-informed storytelling training program and podcast for nonprofit storytellers and...

  2. The Typhoon Haiyan Airlift and the Gap After It with Weanne Estrada

    Weanne Estrada is the Mental Health Specialist at ADRA International, the global humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ADRA serves in about 120 countries across roughly 1,000 projects in health, nutrition and water, education, livelihoods, and disasters and emergencies, with a...

  3. Did 1 Fund Push "Apple Inc." to Drop Leather Watch Straps? with Claire Smith

    Claire Smith is the founder and CEO of Beyond Investing, a firm that builds investment products for vegans and environmentalists. After more than three decades in finance, including years at UBS and as a research analyst and partner at Albourne Partners, she left her hedge fund analyst role in…

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  4. Why Do Women Need Seven Conversations to Run for Office with Sarah Jakle

    Sarah Jakle is the founder and executive director of DemocraShe, a national nonpartisan nonprofit that gives historically underserved high school girls free online training in resiliency skills, public policy leadership, and civic engagement, paired with a stipend so cost is never a barrier to...

  5. 80% Return to Their Trafficker. Empowered Network Changed That with Kristy Norbert

    Kristy Norbert is the co-founder and executive director of Empowered Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2017 that partners with survivors of human trafficking to achieve economic independence. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of experience, Kristy didn't set out to work...

  6. $112 Stops One Trafficking Victim with John Molineux

    John Molineux is the founder and CEO of Love Justice International, a Christian nonprofit that fights human trafficking through a method called transit monitoring: training volunteers to intercept potential victims at borders, airports, bus stations, and other transit points before they are...

  7. Stage 4 Cancer Led Her to Build a Search Engine for Good with Dvora Inwood

    Dvora Inwood is co-founder and Head of Product at Samaritan Scout, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that built the first AI-powered search engine dedicated to connecting people with local, in-person volunteer opportunities. The idea started with her daughter, a high school freshman who kept running into a...

  8. The Cowboy Myth Every Activist Believes with Shane Lukas

    Shane Lukas is the owner and creative strategist of A Great Idea (AGI), an LGBTQ+-owned brand communications agency he founded in 2015, based in Greensboro and Durham, North Carolina, working with purpose-driven nonprofits and for-profit companies in healthcare and education across the country.…

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  9. Why Do Only 1 in 30 People Say Thank You with David Homan

    David Homan is the founder and CEO of Orchestrated Connecting, LLC, a private global community of connectors spanning thousands of family offices, investors, artists, and impact leaders across dozens of countries. He is also the founder of SOAR Connect (Strength of Authentic Relationships), a...

  10. He Lost His Language When He Immigrated to America with Vladimir Baranov

    Vladimir Baranov is the founder of Human Interfaces, where he coaches science and tech executives and founders on the leadership and communication skills their technical training never covered. His path there was not direct. He spent years in financial services before co-founding a wealth...

  11. Don't Let AI Write This For You With Jermaine Ee

    Jermaine Ee built a chatbot to help his mother put her life into words: her belongings, her memories, the people she loved. A few months into the project, she had a stroke and passed away. Before that, on a family trip back to Oklahoma, she stood in a remodeled Burger King and finished a story...

  12. Giving At-Risk Kids Their First Passport With Omari Davis

    Home economics. Wood shop. Music. The enrichment classes that taught a generation how to actually live got quietly cut from schools, but the kids still need them. Omari Davis built an organization to put them back. Omari Davis is the founder and executive officer of Get Out And Learn Something...

  13. 45 Years Fighting for the World's Most Forgotten People With Steven Muncy

    Steven Muncy was 23 years old, had never left the US, and couldn't speak a foreign language. He bought a ticket to the Philippines anyway. Forty-six years later, he leads Community and Family Services International, a 500-person organization working with hundreds of thousands of displaced people...

  14. How 91% of Illinois Wetlands Disappeared With Peter Goodspeed

    Illinois has already lost between 80% and 91% of its wetlands over the last 200 years. Most of that land is now farmland, and most people have no idea it happened. Peter Goodspeed, Restoration Program Director at The Wetlands Initiative, has spent his career working to reverse that loss, one acre...

  15. The Jersey That Changed a Life With Lesley de Jonge

    Lesley de Jonge is the founder and executive director of Let's Keep the Ball Flying, a nonprofit connecting the global volleyball community to spread access to the sport. In this conversation he and Joseph Smalzer get into the moment in Nepal that started it all, why a jersey can be a bridge into...

  16. What Wealthy Donors Think During Your Pitch? With Bill Crouch

    Bill Crouch spent two decades as a college president before founding BrightDot, a consulting firm that has worked with over 150 nonprofits to fix the one problem most of them refuse to name: they do not know how to talk to the people who have the money. In this episode, Bill and Joseph dig into…

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  17. What LGBTQ+ Youth Actually Need With Brian Wenke

    Brian Wenke has spent over a decade as Executive Director of It Gets Better, one of the most recognized LGBTQ+ youth organizations in the world. What started in 2010 as a single video response to a wave of youth suicides became a global storytelling movement reaching young queer people across 19...

  18. He Fights for Forgotten Crime Victims With David Thiruselvam

    Sponsorship Inquiries: https://calendly.com/gtzp/gtzp-impact-alignment When a crime happens, the system focuses on putting the perpetrator away. The victim testifies, helps the prosecution, and then gets forgotten. There are no programs, no financial support, and no path forward for people whose...

  19. The Nonprofit Fighting America's Division With Adam Mizel

    Sponsor inquiries: https://calendly.com/gtzp/gtzp-impact-alignment/ In May 2020, Adam Mizel was yelling at his television. His wife turned to him and said, "You've been screaming at the TV about the Yankees for thirty years and they never hear you. If you feel this way, what are you going to do?"...

  20. She Built A Foundation From A Hospital Bed with Gladys Ijelu

    She was 15 years old and in the hospital for five months when she made a promise to herself. When she got better, she would pour that same love back out into the world. She kept that promise. Now she runs the Gladys Giving Foundation, bringing inclusive holiday celebrations, essential resources,...

  21. The Death Claim That Changed His Career With Tony Holland

    He grew up in a railroad town in a single-parent household, channeled his anger into football and grades, got into Johns Hopkins, failed at stockbroking, and lived out of a conversion van. Two years into the insurance business, making $124,000 a year, buying Corvettes and getting magazine…

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  22. The Missing Piece in Most Nonprofits With Tania Rempert

    Sponsorship Inquiries: https://calendly.com/gtzp/gtzp-impact-alignment Tania Rempert has spent her career inside nonprofits that are doing real work but cannot prove it. As founder and board president of Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation Org (P.I.E.), she helps mission-driven organizations...

  23. Heavenly Cynt Youth Org: Mentorship, Exposure, and Cindy the Cowgirl Teaches Kindness | EP. 192

    In this interview, Cynthia Manuel, executive director of Heavenly Cynt Youth Org, explains the organization’s mission to empower youth through mentorship, literacy, life skills, sports, and positive community connections, rooted in her brother’s 1998 death from street violence and her desire to...

  24. He Turned Cybersecurity Into Plain English with Cyber Matters | EP. 191

    Partner with us: https://calendly.com/gtzp/gtzp-impact-alignment Saaim Khan spent 20 years inside some of the world's largest cybersecurity consulting firms before stepping away to build something he could not find anywhere else. Not a bigger firm. Not a flashier one. Just an honest one. As...

  25. There's a Crime Scene In Her Block. She Stayed. | LaTanya Johnson & the Youth of Englewood

    A shooting happened right next door to her youth center. She closed for one day. Then she opened back up on Monday. LaTanya Johnson is the Executive Director of LaTanya and the Youth of Englewood, a 501(c)3 that has been serving children ages five and up in Inglewood, Chicago since 2013....

  26. She Quit to Give Kids With Disabilities a Team | Open Door Sports

    Sarah Albus was a college soccer player at Vanderbilt, a mom of four, and completely done with her first career when her daughter Hannah, born at 25 weeks with cerebral palsy and visual impairment, asked where her skis were. That question changed everything. In this episode, Sarah shares how she...

  27. This Law Hates Gay People | EP. 188

    Is the Philippines actually "Gay Friendly," or is that just a myth? In this episode, Eljay Bernardo, Executive Director of Rainbow Rights Philippines, reveals the shocking legal reality for the LGBTQ+ community. From "gayness" being used as a legal ground to lose your property in annulment cases…

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  28. E187: I Was 6’1” at 12… Here’s How It Shaped My Leadership

    How does basketball shape confidence, identity, and leadership in young women around the world? In this episode of Find Your Cause, Joseph speaks with Angela R. Lewis, founder of Angela Lewis Basketball, about using sport as a platform to build confidence, character, and courage on and off the...

  29. E186: 2025 in Review: Voices That Shaped the Year

    As we step into a new year, we’re taking a moment to look back at some of the most meaningful conversations from 2025. This New Year reflection episode revisits standout moments from Find Your Cause, highlighting voices that challenged narratives, strengthened communities, and grounded hope in...

  30. E185: Can Doctors Outshine Health Influencers

    In this episode of Find Your Cause, Joseph talks with Dr Spencer Lalk, founder of Med Story Studio, about how evidence based medical stories can compete with fear based health influencers. Spencer shares the story of his mom’s cardiology scare, why she left a long awaited visit more confused than...

  31. E184: How LifeSpheres Helps People Heal Through Presence, Not Advice

    In this episode, Diana M. Canant, Executive Director of LifeSpheres, shares how people heal through presence, guided dialogue, and community support rather than advice or isolation. She explains the Peer Community Co Care Program, a process that helps individuals resolve trauma safely, rebuild...

  32. E183: How the World Music Foundation Uses Music to End Racism

    What if music could break down racism? John Gardner, Executive Director of the World Music Foundation, has dedicated his life to proving that it can. In this episode, John shares how music creates real human connection across cultures, dissolves prejudice, and opens doors to understanding that...

  33. E182: Using Hip Hop to Heal Communities and Save Lives

    What if hip hop could heal communities?In this episode, Joseph sits down with Khafre Jay, Executive Director of Hip Hop For The Future, to explore how he’s using hip hop to tackle public health, misinformation, and systemic inequity across the Bay Area. From raising nearly $250,000 to fund...

  34. E181: Helping Chicago’s Girls Escape Human Trafficking

    Most people think human trafficking looks like the movie Taken. Dr. Kisha Roberts-Tabb says it’s often much closer to home. In this episode of Find Your Cause, host Joseph Smalzer talks with Dr. Kisha, community psychologist, founder of the Social Butterflies Foundation, and creator of Girls…

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  35. E180: Using Hip Hop to Educate 50,000+ Youth

    In this episode of the Greater Than Zero Podcast, Joseph speaks with Marlon Richardson, Executive Director of Hip Hop For Change, Inc. Based in Oakland, this nonprofit uses grassroots activism and hip hop culture to educate about socio economic injustices and advocate solutions. For over 12…

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  36. E179: BGiving turns sneakers into scholarships

    What if generosity could be part of your daily life, not just a once-a-year act? In this episode, Joseph Smalzer speaks with the founders of Bgiving, a social impact platform designed to make giving simple, transparent, and personal. The team shares how they are using technology to connect…

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  37. E178: Impact Behavioral Health Partners

    What happens when housing, mental health, and employment come together under one mission? In this episode, Joseph Smalzer speaks with Patty Capouch and Vince Henigan of Impact Behavioral Health Partners, an organization helping people with mental illness live independently through safe housing,...

  38. E177: Global Impact Initiative

    When families are forced to flee their homes, starting over in a new country can feel impossible. In this episode, Joseph Smalzer speaks with Shawn Smith, Executive Director of Global Impact Initiative, about how his team helps refugees rebuild their lives in Central Texas. From finding housing…

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  39. E176: What Happens When Businesses and Nonprofits Unite?

    In this episode we interview Livi Kerszenbaum, Senior Director of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Orange County United Way. Orange County United Way’s mission is to improve lives in Orange County by delivering measurable long-term solutions to complex issues in education, financial...

  40. E175: What Happens When Youth Are Taught to Save Lives?

    In this episode we interview Isaac Esene, Founder/Director at GoodWorks. GoodWorks’s belief is clear: to create safer communities, we must foster a more informed and proactive generation. Beyond just witnessing, we are cultivating a generation equipped to act, ensuring fewer preventable deaths…

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  41. E174: What Can You Do to Help End Homelessness Today?

    In this episode we interview Robb Munger, Founder & President of Exodus Place. Exodus Place’s mission is to Glorify God by meeting each man where they are. We provide a hand up rather than a handout by equipping these men with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual tools for successful...

  42. E173: How Does Play Impact a Child's Academic Success?

    In this episode we interview Elizabeth Cushing, CEO at Playworks. Playworks’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play. Playworks is the leading national nonprofit leveraging the power of play to...

  43. E172: Resolving Trauma Through Community Programming

    In this episode we interview Diana Canant, Founder and CEO at LifeSpheres. LifeSpheres’s mission is to To build resilience that empowers people to thrive by resolving trauma in peer-communities globally. LifeSpheres, a California 501(c)(3) Public Charity and a South African NPO, facilitates…

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  44. E171: Addressing Clothing Insecurity for Children

    Lynn Margherio, founder and CEO of Cradle to Crayons, discusses the mission of the organization to end clothing insecurity for children. She shares her personal inspiration for starting the organization and the initial activities they undertook to understand the needs of families. Lynn highlights...

  45. E170: Breaking Barriers: How High Jump Prepares Students for Success

    In this episode we interview Nate Pietrini, Ed.D., Executive Director at High Jump. High Jump equalizes access to education for Chicago middle school students who have exhibited academic ambition and potential and who are of limited economic means. We provide academic enrichment, counseling and...

  46. E169: Advocating for Aid to Reach Ukraine

    In this episode we interview Ausra Tallat-Kelpsa Di Raimondo, Board President at Blue/Yellow USA. Blue/Yellow USA's mission is to provide medical care, humanitarian, and non-lethal aid to Ukraine. Blue Yellow USA's mission is to provide non-lethal medical aid and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They...

  47. E168: Empowering 1 Million Educators with Emerging Technologies

    In this episode we interview Vriti, Co-founder & President and Mike Peck, VP at Ed3 Dao. Ed3 DAO’s mission is to empower educators with the knowledge and tools in emerging technologies like AI & Web3, ensuring every student is equipped for the future workforce. Ed3 DAO is a global community for...

  48. E167: The Impact of Culinary Training on Refugees and Survivors of Human Trafficking

    In this episode, Joseph interviews Kerry Brodie, the Founder and Executive Director of Emma's Torch. Emma's Torch is an organization that empowers refugees and survivors of human trafficking through culinary training and workforce development. Kerry explains that she founded the organization…

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  49. E166: Reimagining Community Service: The Movement Street's Impactful Approach

    Lyric Amodia, Founder and Executive Director of The Movement Street, joins Joseph in this episode. The Movement Street is a nonprofit organization that redefines community service through impact and style. Lyric was inspired to start the organization after witnessing the effects of the Flint…

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  50. E165: Addressing Violence and Advocating for Equity

    In this episode we interview Tony Woods, Founder & Executive Director at Public Equity. Public Equity’s mission is to improve the quality of life and access to resources for the most vulnerable communities. Public Equity believes that community members are the experts on their neighborhoods…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

"find your cause" is the official podcast of Greater Than Zero Percent (GTZP). GTZP is 501(c)(3) non-profit on a mission to find people and organizations that are changing the world and sharing their stories.

We believe that however big or small of a positive impact you have, every bit counts. As long as you are adding greater than zero percent, the momentum you build is already changing the world.

HOSTED BY

Joseph Smalzer

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