Benefit & Impact Stories
Our stories of what we do while making the world a better and more equitable place
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Your Spending Is a Change Tool: Using Purchasing With Purpose for Impact-Led Buying with Rebecca Dray of Purchasing with Purpose
Rebecca Dray, Executive Director of Purchasing With Purpose, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about how spending can drive systemic change through impact-led purchasing. Dray shares her journey from corporate hospitality to mental health advocacy to founding UK workforce social enterprises with open hiring, then moving to the US and launching Buy Social USA…
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Making Hiring More Human: Networking, Informational Interviews, and Strategic Job Searching with Mac Prichard of Mac’s List
Mac Prichard, founder and CEO of Mac’s List, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about how hiring works and how job seekers and employers can navigate it. Mac shares his communications career and periods of unemployment that taught him the value of job-search skills, networking, and referrals. He argues that while tools like “easy…
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Embodying B Corp Certification: The Next Economy, Financial Gravity, and Mission-Locked Business with Ryan Honeyman of Lift Economy
Ryan Honeyman of Lift Economy, co-author of the B Corp Handbook, about “embodying” B Corp certification and aligning stated values with lived leadership and culture – joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Ryan shares his path from criminal-justice-focused psychology work to sustainability consulting and early B Corp advising beginning around 2010, helping over 100 companies certify and…
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Accountability, Certification, and the Triple Bottom Line with Tom Hering of Benefit Corporations for Good (BCFG)
Tom Hering, co-founder and managing partner of Benefit Corporations for Good (BCFG), joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about whether small businesses truly reflect their values and how to communicate them with accountability. Hering shares his three-act career journey from advertising to purpose-driven business through the Benefit Corporation structure, and describes BCFG’s work since…
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Building Trust, Representation, and Opportunity with Titonian Wallace Sr.
Titonian Wallace Sr., founder of Nesace Media, community leader, and the first Black chair of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about building trust, representation, and opportunity. Wallace shares his upbringing in Benton Harbor, Michigan, his mother’s “never say you can’t” lesson, leaving the University of Michigan, and…
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The ROI of Vulnerability and Building Cultures of Wellbeing with Adam Nemer of Simple Mental Health
Adam Nemer, founder of Simple Mental Health and author of “Simple Mental Health: The ROI of Vulnerability,” joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about creating workplace cultures of mental wellbeing. Nemer recounts leading at Kaiser Permanente for nearly 20 years while struggling with severe, undiagnosed depression and anxiety after finding his father’s suicide and…
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Building Healthy, Inclusive Cultures Without Burning Out with Mikaela Kiner of Reverb
Mikaela Kiner, founder and CEO of Reverb, an HR consultant, leadership coach, and B Corp that helps organizations build healthy, inclusive cultures – joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Kiner shares her path from 15 years in corporate HR at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, and Amazon to launching Reverb over 10 years ago, influenced by her parents’…
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Why Climate Capital Isn’t Flowing – and How to Fix It with Sean Penrith of Gordian Knot Strategies
Sean Penrith, CEO of Gordian Knot Strategies, a climate finance consultancy aiming to mobilize $1B per year by 2030 (and having mobilized $1.67B to date) joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Penrith shares his path from entrepreneurship in Argentina to founding a sustainable glass company, then moving into climate policy, carbon markets, and impact investing in Portland…
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Teaching What Technology Can’t with Tracy Hooper of The Confidence Project
Tracy Hooper of the Confidence Project, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to talk about building confidence and real connection in an increasingly device-driven world. Hooper traces her values to a large, welcoming family and her TV news experience, where introducing herself with her full name and treating people as significant helped create trust. She says the…