Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Nairobi-based photographer and founder of Exposing Hope, Alissa Everett.

Alissa’s career journey from the Peace Corps in Sengel to investment banking in California, coupled with her desire to authentically connect to communities, led her to pack her bags and cameras in 2003 and head to Iraq to begin an extraordinary career in photojournalism.

Join women17 in conversation with Dr Bettina Palazzo, Ethics Expert, as we discuss how “ethics is a collaborative conversation between diverse people trying to figure out how to act, live and make good decisions.” We dive into how Bettina found her way into business ethics and the imperative for start-ups as well as large companies need to keep ethics at the centre of their business strategy well before ethical issues arise.

Let this sink in….a baby needs 4,500 diapers before it learns how to use a toilet.

Have a listen to my conversation with Ayumi to learn how DYCLE has created diaper inserts that become nutrients for plants creating fertile soil. DYCLE is truly an example of a circular economy.

Did you know that on average, a woman owns six bras, but only wears two and worn bras only last 6-9 months!?The average American throws away 81 pounds of clothing a year and 95% of these textiles can be recycled, but only 15% gets donated or recycled. That is just astonishing!

I invite you to have a listen to my conversation with Elaine to learn about how you can recycle your own bras- even if you are living outside of the US.

Imagine carrying 10 litres (2.64 gallons) of water for several kilometres. Now, put that water pot on your head and walk the same distance- multiple times per day. This is the drudgery that many women and girls endure in the Global South- harming not only their health, but also excluding them from getting a formal education.

This is where social entrepreneur Cynthia Koenig, Founder of Wello, an award winning social venture that co-creates disruptive innovations designed to provide better, more reliable access to safe water stepped in.

How many companies can celebrate eliminating over 3 billion single-use items (and still counting!)? Me thinks not many, but LastObject can and boy, am I a big fan!

Today I am thrilled to share my conversation with Isabel Aagaard, Founder of LastObject, whose mission is to eliminate single use items by creating reusable sustainable alternatives.

Happy New Year and welcome to our first podcast of 2022!

Today I am speaking with Dorothée Schiesser, Social Entrepreneur, Founder and President of SapoCycle, Europe’s first non-profit organisation that collects discarded soaps in hotels and turns them into life-saving products.

Today I am happy to be speaking with Nishi Dharia, a high school senior from California and the Founder of the non-profit, Impact Incubators, whose mission it is to enable access to affordable incubators and save the lives of premature babies across India.

I am so happy today to speak with Padmini Govind, Partner of Tharangini Studio! The Studio specialises in sustainable and responsibility made organic hand block printed fabrics and is fact the oldest and last surviving hand block print studio in Bangalore, India. Tharangini Studio is ISO 26000 compliant which focuses on social responsibility and helps businesses and organizations translate principles into effective actions to operate in a socially responsible way.

Hi listeners! Today we are shaking things up at women17. I’m journalist Jess Carter and after featuring 25 women on the podcast, I think it’s about time we put Darcy under the spotlight! So, welcome, Darcy.

Today I am very excited to speak with Olivia Choong, writer, communicator and environmental activist based in Singapore. Olivia is a communicator, nature lover and believer of a sustainable society. She connects people to nature and environmental topics through her gardening and self sufficiency blog and YouTube channel, The Tender Gardener, and facilitates dialogues on sustainability issues through Green Drinks (Singapore), where she is the President.

Thrilled to be speaking with Charlotte Aschim, the CEO & Founder of TotalCtrl, a global food waste prevention software company that helps consumer-facing businesses optimize their operations, cut costs and prevent food waste. TotalCtrl focuses on SDG 12- responsible consumption and production and specifically on indicator 12.3 that focuses on cutting global food waste by half by 2030.

Very happy to be speaking with Natalie McIntosh today, founder of Nautical Waters, an organisation whose mission is to repurpose discarded fishing nets, known as ‘ghost nets’, and fishing gear from the east and west coasts of Canada. Natalie is 15 years old, in the 10th grade, and lives in London, Ontario, Canada with her family. Welcome, Natalie!

Today I am happy to be speaking with Anna Polatschek in São Paulo, Brazil. Anna is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at Moving Worlds, a Social Purpose Corporation that builds leaders and doers behind grassroots, world-changing ideas whilst supporting the Sustainable Development Goals.

Hi listeners and thank you for joining us today. The SDGs we are focusing on today are SDG 6 and 17 with Sarika Saluja, General Manager, of the World Toilet Organization (WTO) headquartered in Singapore.

I am very happy to be speaking with Traci Lewis, Co-founder and Director of Catalyse Change CIC (Community Interest Company), a social enterprise supporting girls and young women to develop sustainability skills and knowledge for ‘healthy, happy and green’ communities, empowering and creating tomorrow’s sustainability leaders and change makers.

Traci helps brilliant purpose-led women to save the world :-) She is a social business consultant and runs online training courses and coaching for women who are starting up their own sustainable businesses.

Today I am happy to be speaking with Anna Zahedi-Lamarche, the founder of Nana & Rose, a circular fashion startup based in Luxembourg. We explore how her academic credentials in Marine Biology at St Andrews and her Masters in Rural Estate Management from the Royal Agricultural University in Sirencester, coupled with her work experience in the wilds of Scotland managing land and estates and at the UK’s DEFRA (Dept.Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) have culminated into her start-up.

Today’s conversation is with Dr Ying Ying Liu, the founder of LumiVoce which means ‘illuminating with sound’. LumiVoce, based in Hong Kong, inspires and educates youth to fall in love with wildlife and nature through the power of music, arts, and education, because “we protect what we love“.

Today's interview is with Dr Crystalle Crain, a social and political critic with academic roots in sociology, political science, and psychology who has developed curriculum and taught courses at universities for over 14 years. Crystallee specializes in uncovering the layers of institutional inequity while supporting communities to shift ways of being and practice to improve life chances.

In today's episode we meet the inspiring Lindsay Sobel, founder of Shoes for Souls, a charity that collects and donates shoes to various homeless shelters throughout Southern California, USA.

Welcome everyone. Today I have the pleasure of introducing you to Geeta Solanki, founder of Unipads India, an organisation that sustainably manufactures and distributes reusable sanitary pads to underprivileged women in rural India.

Today I am happy to speak with Axelle Jorcin, the co-founder of People and the Sea, an organisation dedicated to building a sustainable future for island communities in the Philippines. The organisation articulates its work around two interconnected topics: marine resources management and socio-economic development for communities.

Today's podcast interview is with Shanta Bloemen, a 20 year veteran of UNICEF, filmmaker of ‘T-shirt Travels, The Story of Secondhand clothes and Third World Debt in Zambia’ and founder of Mobility for Africa, a social enterprise that brings green mobility solutions to rural women.