The Redemptive Changemaker Podcast: Recent Episodes
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This is The Redemptive Changemaker Podcast, a show about how the way of Jesus shapes people to make a redemptive change in the world.
This week, JB sits down with a long time friend, Amber Hawkes to talk about her journey from her early days as a commercial lawyer into working and trying to release people from bondage and slavery in India through to then launching and founding International Justice Mission in Australia and then back into the commercial world to work for the giant Facebook in their cybersafety space in Asia Pacific. It's a fascinating story we know you'll enjoy!
Tabitha Mathew and Tim Jacob are an inspiring couple from Melbourne who both lead socially-minded organisations from a deep faith in God and the belief that our work can be redemptive and workplaces can be a space where God's love is alive and active.
Who Gives A Crap
Ministry of Work
Greig Whittaker is the General Manager for Innovation at the Salvation Army. We've been working with him for over 2 years now, helping him establish the Innovation program at the Salvos. In this conversation, we learned a lot more about Greig and his faith journey that led him from the heights of business to losing it all and finding his way into innovation.
3:30 - A journey of faith
4:00 - Is there a disconnect between staff and corps in the army?
7:00 - What is the essence of the Salvos?
12:00 - Greig's journey owning multiple Video Ezy stores.
27:00 - Engaging in the community and church.
40:00 - Primary place for formation.
55:00 - Innovation in the Salvos and how it started.
Episode 3 of the Redemptive Changemakers Podcast is with Mark McCrindle and Sophie Renton from McCrindle Research. Listen as they discuss how they both found their way into Social Research, the power that can be found in the data and how the understanding of people and culture from a moment in time can be used to create redemptive impact for God's glory.
To find out more about Mark McCrindle and the work of McCrindle Research, click here >
Highlight points of the podcast:
2:20 - Introduction, how JB and Mark met, what drew Mark and Sophie into the world of Social Research.
5:15 - How do you make the leap from psychology to social research? What's the connection there?
6:37 - McCrindle's purpose
7:50 - The importance of purpose
9:20 - What makes for a flourishing team
11:30 - How have you found stepping into an established organisation and finding your place and aligning it with your personal purpose?
14:30 - Imagination - what is the change you want to be part of?
19:30 - Analysing what is, in order to understand what could be.
23:00 - What trends do you currently see? And what would you want to see for the future?
28:00 - Unity, the key challenge we need to address
36:00 - Do you ever get cynical or jaded?
43:45 - 3 Leverage points
45:00 - What have been the things that have been most helpful for you in terms of forming you for the journey?
In this episode, we chat with Hailey McQueen and Yannick Lawry, Alumni of our Seed Incubator Program and founders of Clock & Spiel Productions, an amazing theatre company committed to distinctive works that are culturally daring and truly human. Listen as we chat about their journey in starting a theatre company, the challenges they have faced along the way and the inspiring stories they are preparing to share (hint: it has to do with a certain word scrawled on the side walk).
If you would like to know more about Momentum Labs (formerly Incubator) go to www.seed.org.au/momentum-labs
Check out the latest productions from Clock & Spiel here: https://www.clockandspielproductions.com/
For more information on the work of Seed, go to www.seed.org.au
In the first episode of the Redemptive Changemaker's Podcast, John Becket (JB) chats down with Michelle Farrall and Anthony Sell to discuss the origins of Seed and Redemptive Design with two people who have been on the journey with JB from the start. The core focus of Seed is to provide a new formation pathway for Christians to create change within the context God has placed them. In this episode, you'll hear how this concept was birthed and what was the driving force behind it.
Michelle, Ant and JB all share how they came to be involved with Seed.
Ant provides a breakdown of what Redemptive Design is and how it applies within the Christian context. (15:37)
Michelle discusses how the Church's role in society has shifted and changed. (23:46)
Ant shares a story of how some participants used Redemptive Design to re-think their idea after the pandemic hit. (45:45)
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