The Impact Ambassador Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mohit Mishra
The Impact Ambassador Podcast, hosted by Mohit Mishra, features interviews with amazing social entrepreneurs, impact creators and thought leaders, from small social enterprises to policy making bodies around the globe, who share their journey, insights and learnings. Mohit takes up some the most pressing global challenges of the times, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice with these impact ambassadors and how they are helping build a better and more sustainable future for all of us.
In this episode, our Impact Ambassador is Rewa Misra. Rewa holds a Masters in International Development Policy at Georgetown University and is a consultant in the area of financial inclusion. Previously she worked as a Senior Program Manager, Financial Inclusion at the MasterCard Foundation in Toronto, Canada managing their agriculture finance portfolio. She is a Multilateral and Policy Advisor at HarvestPlus that facilitates the global effort to end hidden hunger caused by a lack of essential vitamins and minerals in the diet.
In today's episode, Rewa helps us understand the challenges faced by a farmer, especially a small-holding farmer and how it impacts everyone. Later in the episode we dive into what is called Hidden Hunger. About 2 billion people on this planet lack access to essential nutrients in their nourishment. 1 in every 2 women in India is potentially anemic. Rewa further talks about biofortification and how this technology can help solve the problem of essential nutrients in the staple food across multiple geographies.
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In today's episode, I am joined by Kai Whiting, an author, lecturer, researcher and expert in Stoicism and Sustainability. He holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering. If money were no object, he would plant enough trees to tackle climate breakdown, rescue foxes and red pandas. His research interests are in sustainable resource utilization, particularly from a service perspective. He writes and frequently talks about the application of Stoic philosophy to matters linked to sustainable development.
In this episode Kai and I touch down upon Stoicism and how it can help build a collaborative and impactful community. We talk about his new book he co-authored, titled as 'Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living In'.
You can find the book on Goodreads at www.goodreads.com/book/show/57649435-being-better.
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Thanks for listening and make sure to subscribe to The Impact Ambassador Podcast to catch up on our next episode. You can also check out the Instagram page @theimpactambassador to stay updated. If you want me to cover the story of an Impact Ambassador you know of, you can write to me at theimpactamabassador@gmail.com.
In the first episode, our Impact Ambassador is Joris Smulders, Co-Founder of Fynch Smart Mobility, an impact driven startup in The Netherlands. About 27% of the global greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to how we move goods and people from place to place. Reducing carbon emissions from transportation requires a shift to active transportation and low-carbon public transport, but getting people to break their established habits and shift away from private vehicles remains a key challenge for policy makers. How can we achieve this? Today's Impact Ambassador on the episode, Joris, helps us break down the problem and his approach towards achieving sustainable mobility behaviour change in people.
Joris is a Dutch social entrepreneur whose vision is a clean and carefree mobility for all. He is my friend, my work colleague, my mentor and a father-like figure to me. He has been instrumental in developing my own purpose to help build a better and more sustainable future. He is the co-founder of Fynch Smart Mobility, an impact driven startup in The Netherlands with a mission to reduce 0.5 million metric tonnes of carbon emissions annually by 2025 by spearheading sustainable mobility behaviour change in people.
If you would like to know more about Fynch and its work, visit www.fynchmobility.com. You can find the link in the description of this episode. Thanks for listening and make sure to subscribe to The Impact Ambassador Podcast to catch up on our next episode. You can also check out the Instagram page @theimpactambassador to stay updated. If you want me to cover story of someone you know is an Impact Ambassador, you can write to me at theimpactamabassador@gmail.com.
The Impact Ambassador Podcast, hosted by Mohit Mishra, features interviews with amazing social entrepreneurs, impact creators and thought leaders, from small social enterprises to policy making bodies around the globe, who share their journey, insights and learnings, on building a better and more sustainable future for all of us.
In this podcast, Mohit takes up some of the most pressing topics surrounding the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice with the impact ambassadors.
And the hope from this podcast is that the audience will take away with insights and inspiration to build a better future, be the change makers in their own personal capacity, because together we can.
Make sure to subscribe to this podcast to stay updated and catch up with the latest episodes.