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The Ripple Map
by The Ripple Map
Ever feel like the world's problems are too big, too broken, for anything you do to matter? The Ripple Map says otherwise. We go behind the scenes on the social, environmental, and economic problems that won't quit — honest conversations with the people who lived them, the ones doing the ground-level work, and the founders, CEOs, and policymakers from around the world trying to fix them at the root. What failed. What's actually working. What they learned the hard way. No hero worship, no polish. Real change starts with one ripple — and this is where you find out how to start yours.
Episodes
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What Really Causes Poverty? │ Martín Burt │ Fundación Paraguaya │ Poverty Stoplight │ The Ripple Map
Why do so many fights against poverty fail? For decades, governments measured poverty in money and asked economists what it meant. Dr. Martín Burt and his team asked the families. Dr. Martin Burt is the founder and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya and the Poverty Stoplight, the tool families use to…
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Housing Crisis: Who Made Homes Unaffordable? │ Leilani Farha, The Shift │ The Ripple Map
Why is housing so expensive? From Madrid to Vancouver, rent is out of reach and people are taking to the streets. Leilani Farha can tell you who made the housing crisis, and how communities are fighting back. Leilani is Global Director of The Shift, the 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer, and former UN...
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He Came for His Teeth. She Saw the Whole Person. | Amber Lombardi, Mainely Teeth | The Ripple Map
Amber Lombardi sees the whole human being, and teeth are just the door. Amber was almost born in her dad's dental office, learned "street dentistry" beside her dad in Haiti, and later, as a young single mom, needed help she couldn't find. In 2020 she founded Mainely Teeth in Maine, where every...
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Where Do You Go When You Need Help, and Who Connects You to It? | Erine Gray, Findhelp
Where do you go when you need help, and who connects you to it? At 17, Erine Gray watched his mom lose her memory almost overnight, and later spent 24 years as her legal guardian navigating the system. He tried to fix it from inside government; when that wasn't fast enough, he started Findhelp…
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Introducing The Ripple Map
Our world is facing some really hard problems. The Ripple Map is a conversation series with people tackling them at the root — two parents on opposite sides of a war, people who know poverty from the inside, and people going deep into people and systems. Not hero stories: honest conversations…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Ever feel like the world's problems are too big, too broken, for anything you do to matter? The Ripple Map says otherwise. We go behind the scenes on the social, environmental, and economic problems that won't quit — honest conversations with the people who lived them, the ones doing the ground-level work, and the founders, CEOs, and policymakers from around the world trying to fix them at the root. What failed. What's actually working. What they learned the hard way. No hero worship, no polish. Real change starts with one ripple — and this is where you find out how to start yours.
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Ever feel like the world's problems are too big, too broken, for anything you do to matter? The Ripple Map says otherwise. We go behind the scenes on the social, environmental, and economic problems that won't quit — honest conversations with the people who lived them, the ones doing the...
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