Women own less than 20% of all the land on the planet but produce most of the world’s food supply. Juliette Roy, founder of Be Your Change media, talks to Vava Angwenyi about the importance of empowering women coffee growers. By being aware of where the coffee we drink comes from, we can critically impact women’s financial independence in Africa an…

In this episode of Be Your Change podcast, you will learn how Alice Bosley, co-founder of 51 Labs Labs decided to move to Iraq to launch the first social impact incubator. So I'm very excited for her to speak about what is and her mission. Read our full blog post. "These are incredible people, right? I mean these are people with college educations …

My guest today on Be Your Change podcast is Wingee Sampaio. She is the global director of the Cartier Women's Initiative. In February, they organized a breakfast in Boston to discuss how to design an ecosystem that empowers women as a force for good. The event brought together a panel of powerful women and attendees who are changing the funding nar…

On this episode of Be Your Change podcast, I sit down with the host and co-producer of the One in Four podcast Beatrice Spadaccini. One in Four podcast looks to educate, humanize and elevate the conversations about previously the incarcerated population re-entering society (This interview has been edited for the purpose of this article). “We…give v…

In this week’s episode, we are celebrating International Women’s Day by talking with women from an organization named RefuShe. It’s an organization that works with refugee girls in East Africa. We sit down with Jailan Adly who is the president of Refushe and Esperance Gikundiro who is a refugee herself and now a board member of the organization.…

In today’s episode, we travel to one of the Parisian neighborhoods named Montreuil to talk with Rebecca Dry, founder of the media platform Love Montreuil.Montreuil is to Paris what Oakland is to San Francisco, a vibrant multicultural young dynamic and creative suburb of Paris. (This interview has been edited for the purpose of this blog post) One o…

In this episode, you'll learn how we can help homeless people with the innovative approach of Casa Milagro in New Mexico. Co-founder, Meryl Lieberman, discusses how her model could be an example to follow to help homeless people. About 2 percent of the global population or 150 million people are homeless. In the United States alone in 2019, more th…

Dianne Calvi is the CEO of Village Enterprise. She started with the non-profit in 2010. She has grown the organization from 13 employees to now 200 and overtime she has helped over 1 million people transition out of poverty. Village Enterprise works towards achieving the United Nations’ first sustainable development goal...to end extreme poverty by…

In 2015, the United Nations introduced seventeen sustainable goals to transform the world by 2030. These goals provide a framework to build a conscious world. They cover a lot of ground from poverty to sustainability and education. Today, we are introducing goal number 5 to address gender equality which is also tied up to decent work conditions and…

Today, we are taking a look at the social impact space. Our guest Neetal Parekh is a long-term advocate and expert in social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is a new type of business that is growing fast.By Juliette Roy

Today we are taking a look at social entrepreneurship and media. These emerging economies bringing new players in the media space while promoting investment in mission driven companies and building a new Exciting media ecosystem.By Juliette Roy

Today we are talking about Fair Trade with Karrie Pukstas from Kroger and Abby Ayers from the certification organization Fair Trade USA. You'll learn how we can all contribute to provide decent conditions for workers and get them out of the poverty cycle just by how we shop.By Juliette Roy

In this episode, you'll learn how Lubiana found her voice through an unusual encounter with the Kora. Kora is called the African guitar but is much more than a traditional musical instrument. It ties the world of music to spirituality and oral tradition. Traditionally played by male, Lubiana is one of the rare women who has emerged as an uprising s…

Podcasts. You hear them everywhere. And everybody talks about them. Yep, there’s even an international podcast day – that’s September 30, in case you are wondering. You want another sign that podcasts are trending? Celebrities have their own podcasts, from Shaquille O’Neal to Gwyneth Paltrow. But, as is true with every broadcasting industry, podcas…

In this new season of ‘Be Your Change podcast, we are looking at what is fair trade and what role do we play to accelerate the transformation of our society to a better world. We are talking to many women who are impacting the world with the creation of sustainable and good jobs. From our new hometown in Los Angeles. we are excited to be now based …

In this episode, you'll learn about how Eunice and Sabrina Moyle used their design company Hello Lucky to create positive change and engage the youth to get their voices heard. You will also learn how their experiences growing up outside of the U.S have influenced their work. Photography by Zoe Larkin. Keep In Touch Follow our Facebook page here In…

In this episode, you learn about Laina Raveendran Greene, the co-founder of Angels of Impact, a company investing in responsibly produced goods made by women living in poverty.By Juliette Roy

Rosa Lee Harden: Rosa believes that the entire world stands a better chance if we focus on impact investing. Fair trade and changing the world starts by looking at how we spend money, from daily purchases to long term pension funds. Today on Be Your Change, we explore impact investing. The term has different meanings for different people, but ideal…

In this episode, you’ll learn how social therapy grew out of a movement for social change. Social therapy is a group-oriented model that looks at patients as social performers, people capable of being change-makers. I am talking to Joyce Dattner, a leader in the social therapy community. She will explain how practitioners of this therapy relate to …

In this episode, you will learn how Anna Lecat and Melanie Viallon co-founders of Les Lunes are building an eco-friendly fashion line made of bamboo fabric. Follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/beyourchangepodcast Follow our Facebook page here Join our Facebook group here Subscribe to our newsletter here…

In this episode, you'll learn how to have an impact on the planet by developing some simple habits and changing your mindset. I am talking with Stephanie Regni, a French entrepreneur based in San Francisco who decided she needed a change and wanted to be part of the solution to living on a more sustainable planet. From a training workshop at Recolo…

Create the world you want to live in. Be Your Change is about empowering people to create a sustainable, healthy, eco-friendly supportive world, where success means we live a fulfilling life in harmony with our family, friends, communities, and values. Find out more at beyourchange.coBy Juliette Roy