Benefit & Impact Stories
Our stories of what we do while making the world a better and more equitable place
-
Your Business Is Not Stuck – Your Systems Are, with LaToya “Patrice” Seawood of Level Up Management
LaToya “Patrice” Seawood, founder and principal consultant of Level Up Management, MBA professor, and Mighty Impacts instructor, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss the theme “your business is not stuck; your systems are.” Seawood shares how she started Level Up during COVID after leaving her job to care for her children and evolved it into…
-
The Power of Stories We Haven’t Shared with Shanti Joy Gold of Grow with a Pro
Shanti Joy Gold, a former corporate leader turned entrepreneur and coach who supports LGBTQ+ and other underrepresented professionals, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss how stories reconnect people. Shanti describes hiding her relationship at work for a decade, later coming out in workplace conversations and on LinkedIn, and how allies’ responses sparked her podcast, Stories…
-
The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough with Laurie Lane-Zucker
Laurie Lane-Zucker, founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Laurie Lane-Zucker, who coined “impact entrepreneur” and whose upcoming book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy (Sept. 1, 2026), argues for transforming an extractive economy into a regenerative one. Lane-Zucker traces his systems-thinking roots to environmental writers and…
-
Sustainability in Practice and the Evolution of Triple Bottom Line Businesses with Lisa Geason-Bauer of Evolution Marketing
Lisa Geason-Bauer, founder and president of Evolution Marketing, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss sustainability/ESG consulting, impact storytelling, ethical marketing, and environmentally responsive design. Lisa describes founding the firm on Sept. 15, 2007 to prove a professional services company can succeed using a triple bottom line lens – people, planet, and profit – while navigating…
-
Language Access, Impact Measurement, and B Corp V2 with Jeffrey D. Stewart of Enharmonic Encounters
Jeffrey D. Stewart, founder and executive director of Enharmonic Encounters, joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Enharmonic Encounters helps companies measure impact and amplifies non-English speaking stakeholders through language access. Stewart describes becoming the first company in the United States to certify under B Lab’s new standards (V2) and explains the need for real case studies to…
-
Radical Self-Care as Resistance with Heather Beiden Jacobs of Transformative Wellbeing Coaching
Heather Beiden Jacobs, a Portland-area wellbeing coach who supports organizers, nonprofit leaders, and mission-driven change makers with “radical self-care” as strategic infrastructure and inner work of resistance – joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Heather shares her background of childhood trauma, a severe diabetes diagnosis at age eight, years of self-destructive behavior, and a near-death hospitalization at…
-
Do Your Part: Sustainable Social Impact Leadership in a Time of Polycrisis with Tessa Bridge
Tessa Bridge joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a follow-up discussion about her book “Do Your Part: Bold, Sustainable Leadership for Social Impact Leaders in a Time of Polycrisis.” Bridge describes writing the resource she needed when she felt overextended in vulnerable leadership roles and couldn’t find guidance at the intersection of values-based work and exhaustion.…
-
Human Composting and Transforming Death Care with Katrina Spade of Recompose
Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Seattle-based Recompose, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about her work creating “human composting,” a system that transforms bodies into soil. Spade describes how a personal realization during graduate school led her to design an urban alternative to conventional burial and cremation, combining engineering, biology, and navigation of…
-
Strengthening Portland’s Socioeconomic Fabric: Strategy, and Community with Anja Taylor of Kinesis
Anja Taylor, president of Kinesis, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about her journey from international studies and work in Berlin to focusing on local community impact through owner-operated businesses. Taylor explains Kinesis’s long-term approach to helping companies thrive through strategy, creativity, leadership development, employee engagement, and relationship-based marketing, often partnering with clients for…