Rodney Campbell & Keith Richardson are Co-Founders of More In Common and creators of the More In Common Podcast, a social experiment to prove that we have more in common than that which divides us and prove its beneficial to have conversation with people of disparate points of view. On their podcast they explore a variety of tough and controversial topics such as  race, politics, mental health, child abuse, parenting, and many others with guests ranging from Kristen Bell to Jason Primrose. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODEWhy we currently have so much disconnection and divide among people in our societyWhy conversation is one of the foundational skills that underlies all other problemsHow to have a compassionate conversation without having to agree with the other side or even like themThe power of podcasting to effect othersHow to talk about controversial topicsand much more...Full show notes, transcripts, and resources can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/66 TIMESTAMPS(00:00) - Introduction(01:02) - Rodney & Keith's Mission(01:39) - Why Compassionate Conversation is a Metaskill?(05:06) - How Evolution has Influenced Conversation(09:54) - How Lack of Connection has Increased Loneliness and Depression(15:29) - Self Awareness and Conversations(19:11) - What is a Companionate Conversation and How Does It Feel?(27:15)  - What it the M.O.R.E. Approach?(31:48) - Why Did Rodney & Keith Start a Podcast to Demonstrate Compassionate Conversations?(35:49) - How has the Podcast Changed Lives?(39:53) - How To Help Others Open Up to Vulnerability(42:36) - Rodney & Keith's First Discussions about Controversial Topics(53:11) - Labels of Others and Us vs. Them(59:04) - What They are Teaching Their Children About Human Connection(1:03:20) - Call to Action(1:05:04) - How To Push The World To Evolve

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Rodney Campbell & Keith Richardson on Compassionate Conversations to Heal Society, Discussing Tough Topics, & Podcasting as a Social Experiment | Evolve 066

Andrea Malone is the Founder of Humble Teacher, a full-service online course platform centering liberation and anti-oppression work. Originally launching with only 5 courses, they quickly received over a hundred course signups within a month and have expanded their offerings to over a dozen courses addressing racism, diversity, equity, activism and more. Andrea’s passion for anti-oppression and liberation work emerged early on. Now she helps online instructors that share ways in which anyone can join in the journey to end systemic racism, bias, and white supremacy culture specifically in commerce and education.Today she shares the two sides of dismantling oppression through anti-oppression and liberation, her journey from corporate America to becoming a founder, and how she used her unique skills that tackle a problem she deeply cared about and how you could too.  Full show notes can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/65

Andrea Malone on Education to Dismantle Oppression, Finding One's Self, and Liberating Society | Evolve 065

Sidney Haitoff is the Founder and CEO of mishe, the Pay-As-You-Go Healthcare™ company that puts consumers in control of their care by connecting them directly with providers on the basis of transparent and affordable pricing; no insurance needed. Since launching in the fall of 2020, mishe has already welcomed more than 125 providers across seven specialties to the marketplace in just three months of active recruitment in San Diego. They are continuing to build out our provider network and plan to offer a full suite of essential medical services to their community and other major metropolitan areas across the country. Today he shares his expertise in the medical industry, how he approached building a two sided marketplace, the secret tool he uses to overcome challenges being a founder, and how he is bringing healing back to healthcare through price transparency, equity, and access. Full show notes can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/64

Sidney Haitoff on Affordable Healthcare without Insurance, Disrupting the Healthcare Industry, & Building a Marketplace | Evolve 063

Jaison Morgan is the Founder and CEO of Carrot, a competition platform that puts many brilliant minds to work solving tough problems. As the market leader in the design, development, and operation of large-scale incentive programming, Carrot has over 10 years of experience and 100% success rate in allocating over 500 million dollars to teams developing solutions in wide variety of areas.Jaison shares how he built Carrot, his unique skills as founder for over a decade, and his mission to create open, transparent, and fair processes of granting awards, prizes, fellowships, and other forms of incentive-based programs to people like us, the innovators solving the worlds greatest challenges.Full show notes  can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/62This episode is brought to you by Purpose Talks! Purpose Talks, created by the Business of Purpose and Hosted by Izzy Ahrbeck, sits down with business leaders to discuss the new business world where purpose talks over money. Each episode spotlights, not one, but multiple companies focused on one business element, jam-packed with insights and topics such as brand activism, giveback models, open hiring practices, transparent supply chains and more. They even host Q&A events with their guests like the upcoming event on July 20th featuring Lynn Johnson, Founder + CEO of Hella Social Impact, talking about Racial Justice. So if you enjoy the Evolve podcast, then give Purpose Talks a listen. 

Jaison Morgan on Incentives to Change The World, $100M Challenges, & Cooperation vs Competition | Evolve 063

Moe Abbas is Co-Founder and CEO of Acadium, an apprenticeship marketplace on a mission to accelerate economic mobility by making access to a new career accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Acadium started with the belief that anyone, anywhere, should be able to get the skills and experience they need to start their career without barriers like price, schedule, or location getting in their way.  Acadium has raised $1M from top angel investors, and it has launched more careers in digital marketing than any other platform to date. The company has been featured in Forbes as one of the leading companies building the bridge to remote employment. And the best part, it is completely free for the students and apprentices.Moe went from a poor, refugee family and selling chocolate bar at 10 years old to help support his family, to founding or co-founding over a dozen startups which over the last 10 years have employed thousands, in industries ranging from real estate, construction, web development, marketing and mobile applications. In his early 20's he was Co-Founder of Ottawa General Contractors which In 5 years, he led the group from doing deals in a Starbucks into Canada’s leading residential design build company with 20 million in sales and design centers across the country.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/62What You Will Learn In This Episode:Why an apprenticeship is more effective at creating careers than traditional higher educationHow one Acadium apprentice switched careers and doubled her income in 3 months for freeA scrappy funnel growth hack validate your marketplace ideaWhy supply and demand liquidity is important when building a two-sided marketplaceHow to determine a revenue model for your startupHow to decide between horizontal and vertical growth in your business

Moe Abbas on Apprenticeships for Economic Mobility, Building Marketplaces, & Education | Evolve 062

Turi Munthe is the founder of Parlia, the encyclopedia of opinion. Turi is a media entrepreneur, venture partner, former journalist, author, and political analyst who is on a mission to empower civil discourse by mapping the entirety of the worlds opinions on one platform. So far, they have 5,000 members who have voted over 150,000 times 1500 opinions and 5,000 arguments all aimed at helping each other understand one another better on the issues most important to our time.And who better to discover how the world thinks, than this founder who has dogged bullets in the middle east and attacks of his ideas in the board room. He began his career writing for magazines like The Economist, The Nation, & The TLS, published a Reader on Saddam Hussein, covered the 2nd Gulf War as a journalist, and eventually launched the Beirut Review of Books, a joint venture with the Lebanese Daily Star and The International Herald Tribune.In 2007, he jumped into the tech game as cofounder of Demotix which was as a grassroots news wire, providing freelance reporters and photojournalists around the world with a platform to share their stories and images with the world’s media. Demotix won numerous awards for innovation in media both in the US and UK, and built a giant network of 75,000 photojournalists around the world before selling to Bill Gates’ Corbis Corporation in 2012.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/61What You Will Learn In This Episode:Why business can be more effective at solving social issues at scale than non-profitsTrade-offs social entrepreneurs have to make to purpose before profitHow we humanize other's opinions and how they are not that different than yoursWhy your opinions are arbitrary and don't really belong to youThe 3 ways to stop polarizationHow to build a self sustaining community of crowdsourced information like Wikipedia

Turi Munthe on The Wikipedia of Opinion, Saving Democracy From Polarization, & Building Media Startups | Evolve 061

Stephen Kosslyn is the founder of Active Learning Sciences & Foundry College. Stephen is a serial founder, psychologist, neuroscientist, and expert on the science of learning with over a 40 year career in transforming education. After having written or co-authored 15 books, publishing more than 300 papers, receiving numerous awards, and being a center director at Stanford and a dean at Harvard, this brilliant researcher jumped at the opportunity to put his ideas into practice by becoming the founding dean and chief academic officer of Minerva, a startup to reinvent American higher education.  However this ambitious educator wanted to help more learners at an even larger scale. So he went on to become founder and chief academic officer of Foundry College, which was recently named a Top 100 Ed Tech company in North America. This online two-year college is designed to help working adults develop skills and knowledge that will not be automated in the foreseeable future.  Within the midst of the 2020 global pandemic and the need for online education, he published a new book Active Learning Online: Five Principles that Make Online Courses Come Alive and started Active Learning Sciences, as he realized the best way to fulfill his mission in life is not to teach students directly, but to help others to use the science of learning to design new, cutting-edge educational programs and courses.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/60What You Will Learn In This Episode:How to turn years of research into a startupHow to scale successful solutionsThe 5 principles of active learningOpportunities for entrepreneurs in education

Stephen Kosslyn on Building Education Startups, Active Learning, & The Future of Education | Evolve 060

Emily Kennedy is Co-Founder & President of Marinus Analytics. Emily went form college researcher to tech founder helping thousands of victims in the $99 billion black market industry of sex trafficking, forced labor and slavery. What started off as a college research thesis on human trafficking turned into an internationally recognized AI and machine learning technology to identify and locate victims trafficking sold online and dismantle organized criminal networks.  In their seven years of operation, they've assisted over 2,500 law enforcement and nonprofit users analyze over 400 million records to date. Their technology is 60 times faster than manual identification and saved law enforcement over 70,000 hours of investigative time in 2020 alone. To continue their impact of solving society's most pressing problems, they've applied their technology to include human services and cyber fraud. And in early 2021, they were announced as a finalist in the IBM Watson AI X PRIZE, which is a $3 million competition to build artificial intelligence for good.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/emily-kennedyWhat You Will Learn In This Episode:How to take university research and turn it into a startupHow to secure early stage funding without taking venture capitalHow to grow your customer base in early stagesHow to attract passionate and skilled talent to a mission driven startupHow to set boundaries as a founderHow to be a thermostat, and not a thermometerIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

Emily Kennedy on AI Technology for Good, Turning University Research Into a Startup, & Sex Trafficking | Evolve 059

Today's Featured Founder is is Collin Tate, Founder of Kind Find which is a weekly brand discovery email series that introduces everyone everywhere to 100% vegan companies, crowdfunding projects, trends, job listings, and more. They are on a mission to help ethical eCommerce thrive and support the mass adoption and global growth of the vegan lifestyle.Full show notes and transcripts can be found here: evolvethe.world/community/collin-tateIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

Collin Tate's Kind Find: Beyond Food To A Vegan Lifestyle | Founder Fridays on Evolve

Kathy Hannun is Co-Founder & President of Dandelion Energy. Kathy has spent the last decade focused on finding “Moonshots,” which are business opportunities that harness technology for large-scale positive impact for millions, even billions, of people. Starting as a rapid evaluator at Google X's moonshot factory, she took the leap at a moonshot idea for reducing fossil-powered heating costs and carbon emissions with earth powered geothermal energy.Most recently, this innovative startup has raised $30 million in funding from top venture capitalists like Bill Gate's Breakthrough Energy Ventures, set a new standard for geothermal quality and cost-effectiveness, and empowered homeowners to avoid over 100 million pounds of carbon emissions and counting.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/kathy-hannunWhat You Will Learn In This Episode:How to identify and validate moonshot ideasHow to create an MVP for a moonshot ideaDandelion's 3 innovations that make it successful in the energy marketHow much a founder should disclose about their personal life during fundraisingWhy risk taking is necessary to solve global problemsIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

Kathy Hannun on Going From Moonshot Idea To Startup, Geothermal Energy, & Google X | Evolve 058

Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/landon-brandWhat You Will Learn In This Episode:How to create ideas your passionate aboutWhy to fund existing solutions rather than reinvent the wheelHow to find your first users & turn them into a passionate communityHow to use fun, identity, status to fuel extreme growth adoption in your productThe Magic of Public Benefit Corporations for mission driven startupsIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

Landon Brand on How To Personally Tackle Climate Change, Public Benefit Corporations, & Entrepreneur Education | Evolve 057

Today's Featured Founder is is Rob Girling, Co-Founder & CEO of Artefact which an award-winning responsible strategy and design firm which helps leaders harness the power of design to make change and do good. Full show notes and transcripts can be found here: evolvethe.world/community/rob-girlingIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

Rob Girling's Artefact: Doing Good Through Responsible Design | Founder Fridays on Evolve

Tom Dawkins is the Co-Founder & CEO of StartSomeGood. Tom has been the founder of 5 nonprofits and social enterprises and built the leading platform in cause-driven crowdfunding, innovative partnerships and social entrepreneur education. Since its conception in 2010, the platform has enabled more than 1000 projects to raise over $12.5 million to make a positive impact in the world. Their projects have an outstanding 53% success rate compared with 39% on Kickstarter and 9% on Indiegogo. In addition to their technology platform, they created a one stop shop for social entrepreneurs with accelerators, a social enterprise design course, live crowdfunding pitch events, a network community, and everything to help people design and launch social enterprises and impact projects.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/tom-dawkinsWhat You Will Learn In This Episode:The little known secrets from over a 1000 successful crowdfunding campaignsHow to fund ideas facing the innovation paradoxHow to convene, not convert, your idea’s first audienceThe 5 heart grabbing hooks to get people raving about your crowdfunding ideaWhy the world’s biggest challenges are the biggest business opportunitiesThe 4 phases of social entrepreneurshipIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

Tom Dawkins on Start Some Good, Crowdfunding, & The Future of Social Entrepreneurship | Evolve 056

Jeffrey Hollender is Co-Founder of Seventh Generation, The American Business Council, & Hollender Sustainable Brands. Jeffrey went from dropping out of college and selling skill classes like the “art of flirting” or “how to marry money” to building one of the most successful sustainable product brands in the world, Seventh Generation, which sold to Unilever in 2016 for over $600 Million. Their line of over 100 products is distributed in most leading retailers including: Target, Whole Foods, Kroger, Safeway and Amazon. And for the last 30 years, from its humble beginnings as mail order catalog till now, the brand has been focused on nurturing the health of the next 7 generations.But after being ousted by his own company in 2010, he took his idea of doing good to a whole another level becoming a leading authority on corporate responsibility, sustainability and social equity. He created a coalition of over 250,000 businesses called the American Sustainable Business Council which drives progressive public policy. In 2013, with his wife and daughter, he created Hollender Sustainable Brands, which started Sustain, Sustain Natural, a new brand of female-focused, all natural sexual wellness products that sold. The company has rapidly grown and was acquired by Grove Collective in 2019.Full show notes and worksheets can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/jeffrey-hollenderWhat You Will Learn In This Episode:What Jeffrey's first business was after dropping out of collegeThe first business Jeffrey sold to Time WarnerWhy Jeffrey's guilt ended up leading him to Seventh GenerationHow Seventh Generation started from a failing mail order catalogueHow Seventh Generation got it's first customersThe troubles in Jeffrey and Alan Newman's co-founder relationshipWhether it is right for you to have a co-founderThe absolute must haves before entering into a co-founder relationshipHow Jeffrey made a key decision to cut 80% of Seventh Generations revenue sourceWhy educating your customers can have positive effectsHow to create company cultureHow Jeffrey took being fired from Seventh Generation and what he learnedHow Jeffrey practices the art of reflectionWhy businesses need to do good rather than less badHow Jeffrey got into the condom business and built Sustain NaturalsWhy to be truly sustainable we need to implement a whole systems approachHow Jeffrey navigated selling three companiesThe most important lessons he teaches social entrepreneursHow to fuel innovation in your startupHow we can solve major global issuesIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

Jeffrey Hollender on Building Seventh Generation to a $600 Million Social Enterprise, Co-founder Relationships, & Whole Systems Thinking | Evolve 055

Today's expert is James Bidwell, Co-founder of next generation strategy consultancy, Re_Set and owner and Chair of the world's leading source of global innovations, Springwise. Both his companies are members of 1% for the Planet and certified B Corp companies - committed to business as a force for good. His book, Disrupt: 100 Lessons in Business Innovation is an Amazon bestseller and explores how meaningful innovations are changing the way we live and work and how we can best look after our planet #innovationthatmatters. He is also Chair of the UK Steering committee for 1% for the Planet.In today's lesson James reveals how to innovate and thrive in a disrupted world. 2020 has been a powerful wake up call for all of us. We have seen a seismic shift in that last 12 months and the pace of change has accelerated faster than ever before. It is vital that we adapt, find new ways to stay relevant and most importantly, innovate.  There is a huge opportunity now to be brave and bold.Today's lessons:The importance of an MVPThe importance of agility and flexibilityThe vital role of real time intelligenceYou can download this expert's playbook at https://www.evolvethe.world/learn/how-to-innovateIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!

How to Innovate in a Disrupted World with James Bidwell | Experts on Evolve

If you like Mixergy, Tim Ferris, Startup Therapy and other podcasts that focus on the the intense struggles entrepreneurs & startup founders face both personally and professionally, you'll love Evolve. Focused on evolving the world through evolution of the individual, the show is a masterclass in life and business diving into the world's most thought provoking leaders and successful business founders to educate, inspire, and empower your success in leaving impact on the world. The show is hosted by Brandon Stover, entrepreneur and coach, sharing proven strategies and tactics so you, too, can achieve massive results in your business, relationships, health and finances.

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