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The Point
by La Pointe Foundation | Callie Himsl
An in-depth, intimate, and sometimes humorous look into combating some of the world’s toughest problems through the experiences of some of the world’s most influential people. We offer a straight talk approach to examining education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of social justice.
Episodes
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David Gaines: Use your work to change the world
David Gaines is the author of the forthcoming book, “Radical Business: The Root of Your Work and How it Can Change the World.” He is also the CEO and chief visionary for La Terza Artisan Coffee Roasterie, and serves as the board chairperson for the Social Enterprise Alliance. His company, La…
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Jason Porterfield: Holy Week
After feeling the call to be a peacemaker, Jason Porterfield moved to one of Canada’s poorest neighborhoods known as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Coming face-to-face with the realities of drugs, prostitution, violence and murder, he was forced to wrestle with some life changing questions. And,...
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Moto Meds: Saving Lives Through Nighttime Intervention
Moto Meds: Before the morning: Saving Lives Through Nighttime Intervention Did you know that in low-income countries, there is only one doctor for every 10,000 people?* Here are some other stats that will blow your mind: 50% of people across the globe lack access to essential health care.* 99% of...
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Shawn Duncan: How to Disrupt Systems of Oppression
How do we disrupt systems that protect promote and perpetuate social and inequality? This is not a small task or an easy thing to discuss but if we are serious about bringing social justice to the surface, it is a conversation that we must have and not just today, but ongoing. And here to lead us...
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Urban Farming: Mill Creek Farms
Mill Creek Farms: Farmer Levi & Farmer Tosheena Here’s 5 food facts I am sure you didnt know Twenty-five million Americans live more than a mile or 15-minute drive from a grocery store The average item on grocery shelves travels an astounding 1,500 miles to get there People living in the poorest...
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Natalia Bondarenko: Ukraine-Russian War, A Mother’s Story
Natalia Bondarenko: Ukraine-Russian War, A Mother’s Story One day your life is as normal and the very next day Russian soldiers have taken over your home, bombed your car, and destroyed your business. That is the devastating reality for thousands of families including Nata and her 13-year-old son...
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Callie Himsl: Top 5 New Essentials to Social Justice
Callie Himsl: Top 5 New Essentials to Social Justice When I first stepped foot in the Caribbean country of Haiti, just an hour and a half flight from Florida, it was about a year after the unfortunate 2010 earthquake that brought the country back to the front minds of the world. I jokingly tell...
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Craig Greenfield: Discover a New Way to do Missions: Subversive Mission
Growing up in an affluent life, he wanted what a lot of us wanted; the picture-perfect life. Maybe a mansion, or a 6 figure income, or just a low-key Ferari. And, by working as a corporate executive during the dot-com boom, he was well on his way to achieving this. Until…a trip to Cambodia…
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Jennifer Talansky: Using Data for Justice & Racial Equity
In the nonprofit space, we tend to think about things like; feelings and relationships, movements and revolutions, and this glamorous view of how we are changing the world. All of that can be great, but how do we know what is really going on? If we can’t measure we can’t manage. The truth is we...
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Chuck Mingo: Changing the Narrative of Racial Justice
In this episode, we cover a topic that makes many of us uncomfortable and inevitably brings tension. But according to one man, that tension is part of the call to healing. The healing we are talking about? Racial reconciliation Join our conversation with Chuck Mingo, the founder of Living...
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Lisa Stueckemann: Fundraising Rebel
If you have worked in the nonprofit space for any amount of time, then you have likely felt the cringe-worthy word “fundraising”. It can feel daunting, discouraging, and exhausting. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Fundraising Rebel Lisa Stueckemann joins us to share her knowledge on...
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Stephanie Bowman: From addiction to Advocate
Stephanie Bowman: From addiction to Advocate From homeless to head of her own nonprofit, One Heart for Women and Children. Stephanie bowman is a force to be reckoned with. She candidly shares with us her personal story of overcoming addiction and trauma and how it has fueled her to help thousands...
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Lauren Neal: A Guide to Ethical Storytelling
Lauren Neal is an international photographer and writer whose 10+ years’ experience in the non-profit sector largely influences how she chooses to celebrate the beauty of family and the value of connection through her work. After spending four years in Haiti working with a local NGO, she…
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BREAKING STEREOTYPES & EMPOWERING MUSLIM WOMEN with Fatima Sadaf Saied
Fatima Sadaf Saied is the Executive Director of the Muslim Women’s Organization (MWO) based in Orlando, Florida. As the daughter of Pakistani immigrants and a native Floridian, she witnessed her parents build and dedicate their lives to inclusive Islamic institutions including mosques, schools…
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Twenty-One Senses: Invisible Disabilities
Twenty-One Senses (501c3) was founded in 2018 by a Chicago mom struggling to raise two special needs kids in a community that consistently misunderstood them, and sometimes punished them, for taking a slightly different approach. She could relate to what her kids were going through. As a mother,...
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Terri Sorensen & Thomas Lee: Friends of the Children
Research has shown that to break the cycle of generational poverty children need long-term, relationship-based support. This support helps them to graduate from high school, remain free from involvement in the criminal justice system, and wait to parent until after their teen years, and that is...
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Breauna Dorelus: Community Centered Service
⚉ Join our conversation with Founder + Chief Cause Consultant Breauna Dorelus of Connecting the Cause ⚉ Breauan gives us insight into identifying and uprooting harmful volunteer practices, specifically in Black and Brown communities. She helps us unpack volunteer-centered service and shows us how...
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Brandon Stiver: Winning the battle to get orphaned kids home
Brandon has worked in the child welfare and nonprofit sectors for over ten years. Before joining 1MILLIONHOME, he led a family based care and advocacy program in Tanzania for several years. Brandon has also worked at a Tanzanian orphanage, in the Californian foster care system, at various…
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Erik Hanberg: Fundraising for Small Nonprofits
Erik Hanberg has spent nearly 20 years working with nonprofits. In addition to serving as the director of two nonprofits, he has worked for nonprofits in marketing and fundraising, and served on boards and committees for more than a dozen organizations, often in leadership roles. He is the author...
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Jennifer Perry: Foster More: Because No Child Makes it Alone
Jennifer Perry has been Executive Director of the Children’s Action Network (CAN) since its inception. By marshalling the immense communications power of the entertainment community, CAN inspires the public to take action on behalf of children. CAN is now involved in a national campaign devoted…
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Brian Mavis: Change who waits. Ending the crisis in foster care.
Brian serves as co-founder and President of America’s Kids Belong (AKB). Hundreds of thousands of kids in the US foster care system are unseen and suffering, left to feel like they don’t belong. We dramatically improve their experience and change their outcomes by fighting for belonging in safe,...
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Dr. Scott Larson: From Lock-up to Leadership: Juvenile Justice
Dr. Scott Larson is president and founder of Straight Ahead Ministries, an international faith-based organization working with juvenile offenders in more than 300 juvenile detention centers in 15 states and five countries with a myriad of aftercare programs when youth return home. Scott has...
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Kayla Raymond - Community Development
Kayla Raymond is a wife, mama, social entrepreneur and dreamer. She has lived full-time in Haiti for 7 years while establishing and growing a nonprofit alongside her family During this time she also founded a successful social business called Rosies But what she considers her greatest success is...
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Julie Colombino-Billingham: From Death to Dollars
To sustainably fight poverty in Haiti, Julie Colombino-Billingham created a social business that provides consistent and dignified jobs. Deux Mains is a Haitian owned and operated business that handcrafts high-quality, footwear, handbags and accessories. 97% of all raw materials in production are...
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Disaster Relief & Beyond: Kent Annan
He’s an author, a director, a founder, and a professor. He has lived and worked around the world in areas like Yugoslavia, Kosovo, India, Iran, Sierra Leon and Haiti where he partnered with local communities, refugees and nonprofits in areas of social justice Not only has he written three books…
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Ethical Storytelling + Trafficking Prevention: Rachel Goble
Rachel Goble grew up in an interconnected and multicultural world. Whether traveling to Central America with her family to survey land for the founding of a non-profit or trudging through the Sierra Nevadas as her parents sought to awaken Christians to our role as creation’s caretakers, Rachel...
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Elisa Bachmann: Trauma is the True Connection
Elisa Bachmann is a Marriage and Family Therapist. She spent years in Haiti developing programs for the orphaned and elderly. She believes that brokenness is actually what connects us. In this episode she tells us about her own journey with trauma and how we can all use trauma-informed care to...
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Wariara: HIV/AIDS Advocacy in Kenya
In this episode we are talking with one of Kenya’s most brilliant women who is a true warrior for justice. Her name is Wariara She is the Advocacy Manager at world renowned nonprofit where she has spent the last 20 years advocating patients with HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis, and has had a large…
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Liberation is Here: Nikole Lim
The Background Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and author of Liberation is Here. As a storyteller, Nikole shifts paradigms on how stories are told by platforming voices of the oppressed—sharing stories of beauty arising out of seemingly broken situations. Her heart beats for young women whose...
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Trailer: Social Justice Podcast
Join your La Pointe Foundation friends, and international social entrepreneur Callie Himsl as we explore the intriguing and complex world of social justice. ✔️Together we examine education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of social justice. ✔️We interview experts in the field and...
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The Beginning; La Pointe Foundation Founders
Website: https://www.lapointefoundation.org Charlotte Whitmore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charwhitmore/ Caleb Whitmore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebwhitmore/ Our first episode is an interview with the founders of La Pointe Foundation. At La Pointe Foundation, we believe sustainable…
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Grassroots Public Health in Haiti: capracare + Jean Pierre-Louis
Website: www.capracare.org Contact & Social: @capraJPL @capracare | FB, IG, Twitter, Linkedin Jean Pierre-Louis, MPH, is an accomplished global health and strategic leader with a passion to improve the quality of healthcare for communities at risk in countries such as Haiti, Ghana, and other...
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Saving lives in rural Haiti: CMB Haiti
Website: https://www.cmbhaiti.org CMB was founded in the 1940’s and now serves a population of 700,000+. Facilities like CMB are vital when only 8% of the the rural population has access to quality healthcare facilities. With a life expectancy of 63 years old, and less than half of Haitian…
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An in-depth, intimate, and sometimes humorous look into combating some of the world’s toughest problems through the experiences of some of the world’s most influential people. We offer a straight talk approach to examining education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of social justice.
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La Pointe Foundation | Callie Himsl
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