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Social Founder Stories
by Caroline Diehl
Social Founder Stories interviews the leaders who make social change happen, who use their passions, skills and entrepreneurial drive to make a difference, and to make our world a better place. You’ll hear what makes social founders tick, how they create impact, what they struggle with, and how they overcome their challenges. Be inspired by their drive, creativity and resilience, as well as their impact story. Caroline Diehl is the founder of the Media Trust, Together TV and Social Founders. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/social-founder-stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Changing Faces founder, the late James Partridge OBE, shares his story
How wonderful that we captured James Partridge OBE talking about his founder story before he so sadly passed away in 2020. James founded Changing Faces, the UK charity, in 1992, using his own personal experience of facial disfigurement, his work in Health Economics, and his entrepreneurial skills...
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Eden Project Founder, Sir Tim Smit's story: Part 1, Childhood to Eden
For anyone who loves magic, transformation, risk and fun - and also wants to learn so much about how to make BIG things happen - Sir Tim Smit's story is for you. In Episodes 8 & 9, you'll hear about Sir Tim's curiosity and sense of adventure, from a young child through to his ongoing…
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Eden Project Founder, Sir Tim Smit's story: Part 2 - innovation, learnings & replication
For anyone who loves magic, transformation, risk and fun - and also wants to learn so much about how to make BIG things happen - Sir Tim Smit's story is for you. In Episodes 8 & 9, you'll hear about Sir Tim's curiosity and sense of adventure, from a young child through to his ongoing…
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Citizens UK founder Neil Jameson CBE tells his story
Neil Jameson CBE is Founder of Citizens UK, the charity that inspired and successfully campaigned for the UK Living Wage. Setting up Citizens UK as his vehicle, Neil launched and grew the Community Organising movement across the UK, bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds, from faith...
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Women for Refugee Women founder, Natasha Walter, shares her story
Natasha Walter is Founder Director of Women for Refugee Women, an influential charity providing support for refugee women seeking asylum in the UK. Natasha is a feminist, a human rights activist and an experienced journalist, with a double first from Cambridge University. She is an author of…
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Pragna Patel, iconic Founder of Southall Black Sisters tells her story of tireless campaigning for justice
Pragna Patel is the founder and director of Southall Black Sisters, one of the UK's leading women's organisations campaigning for the rights of black and minority ethnic women. In 1982, Pragna resurrected a local initiative, turning it into an established advocacy charity, a national helpline and…
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Giles Duley, founder of the Legacy of War Foundation, tells his powerful life story
Giles's reaction to unimaginable physical and mental trauma has been to become a social founder, setting up the global Legacy of War Foundation using his award-winning photography and media skills to document, and counteract, the legacy of war across the world. Giles' physical and mental…
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Craftivist Collective founder Sarah Corbett talks deeply about gentle campaigning
Sarah Corbett, founder of the iconic Craftivist Collective, with her 50,000 global followers, tells us that she is at heart an introvert and a 'reluctant social founder’! Sarah Corbett's founder journey, her brilliant use of social media, her ground-breaking creative campaigns, Craftivist…
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Hubbub's CEO Trewin Restorick on how to start up, scale and let go
Trewin Restorick is the founder of two innovative and high-impact UK charities, Global Action Plan and Hubbub. Trewin's interview for Social Founder Stories is full of advice and insights on how to create and scale, not one, but two successful social enterprises. Trewin talks about what he calls...
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Help Refugees & Choose Love CEO Josie Naughton's founder journey
The story of how Founder CEO Josie Naughton ‘accidentally’ launched and grew the charity Help Refugees and its iconic brand Choose Love to become the largest grassroots distributor of aid in Europe is fascinating and inspirational. And it all happened incredibly quickly. In this in-depth…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Social Founder Stories interviews the leaders who make social change happen, who use their passions, skills and entrepreneurial drive to make a difference, and to make our world a better place. You’ll hear what makes social founders tick, how they create impact, what they struggle with, and how they overcome their challenges.
Be inspired by their drive, creativity and resilience, as well as their impact story.
Caroline Diehl is the founder of the Media Trust, Together TV and Social Founders.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/social-founder-stories.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Caroline Diehl
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Social Founder Stories currently has 10 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Social Founder Stories interviews the leaders who make social change happen, who use their passions, skills and entrepreneurial drive to make a difference, and to make our world a better place. You’ll hear what makes social founders tick, how they create impact, what they struggle with, and how...
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Social Founder Stories is created and hosted by Caroline Diehl.
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