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In this episode, Liz chats with Jane Chikapa about the Bloomers learning initiative and her experience as a participant in the first cohort of the His Highness Muhammad Sanusi II SDG Challenge, a program of 1 Million Teachers. Jane shares her story of what motivated her to create Bloomers, the challenges she’s encountered as an entrepreneur, and how she has overcome them. She also provides advice on how to navigate the entrepreneurial journey based on her experience.

Jane Chikapa is the Deputy Headteacher at Mpherere Secondary School, Ntchisi in Centra Malawi and Founder of the Bloomers learning initiative. The goal of Bloomers is to free youths and girls from illiteracy through reading and writing.

Connect with Jane on LinkedIn and Facebook

Learn about the Bloomers Learning Initiative: Facebook

Learn about 1 Million Teachers and HHMS II’s SDG Challenge

About the Founders on Purpose Entrepreneurship Academy:

https://www.7ofakind.com/founders-on-purpose-entrepreneurship-academy

Podcast Credits:

🎙️Edited and Produced by: Erik Parkin

🎵Music by: Christoph Winterbach – follow him on LinkedIn

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About Dr. Melanie Rieback

Dr. Melanie Rieback is the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit computer security consultancy company. She is also a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Amsterdam (VU) who performed RFID security research (RFID Virus and RFID Guardian), that attracted worldwide press coverage and won several awards (Mediakomeet, ISOC Award, NWO I/O award, IEEE Percom Best Paper, USENIX Lisa Best Paper). Melanie worked as a Senior Engineering Manager on XenClient at Citrix, where she led their Vancouver office. She was also the head researcher in the CSIRT at ING Bank, where she spearheaded their Analysis Lab and the ING Core Threat Intelligence Project. For fun, she co-founded the Dutch Girl Geek Dinner in 2008. Melanie was named 2010 ICT Professional of the Year (Finalist) by WomeninIT, one of the 400 most successful women in the Netherlands by Viva Magazine (Viva400) in 2010 and 2017, one of the fifty most inspiring women in tech (Inspiring Fifty Netherlands) in 2016, 2017, and 2019. She was also called the Most Innovative IT Leader by CIO Magazine NL (TIM Award) in 2017 and one of the 9 Most Innovative Women in the European Union (EU Women Innovators Prize) in 2019. Her company, Radically Open Security, was named the 50th Most Innovative SME by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (MKB Innovative Top 100) in 2016.

Connect with Melanie on LinkedIn

Watch her TedTalk

Check out her company Radically Open Security

Melanie’s recommended reading list for impact entrepreneurs:

Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You by Rob Fitzpatrick
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

Website mentions:

Y Combinator: website

https://nlnet.nl/foundation/

About us:

www.7ofaKind.com

Founders on Purpose Entrepreneurship Academy: https://www.7ofakind.com/founders-on-purpose-entrepreneurship-academy

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In this episode, Francisco shares his experience, expertise, and views on the common pitfalls of entrepreneurship, the importance of connecting with others and being clear on your purpose (including what you need from it), how coaching can support entrepreneurs, and why love and power need to be interchangeable in business language.

About Francisco Santolo

Francisco Santolo is CEO and founder of Scalabl, an online course in entrepreneurship and innovation. He is an economist and MBA graduate who studied at prestigious universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Chicago Booth, Singularity, Kellogg and MIT. In 2017, Forbes magazine featured him as "the startup hacker". A serial entrepreneur with over ten years experience in global corporate business, he has co-founded 50+ companies and helped launch more than 500 startups through the Scalabl methodology.

Connect with Francisco on LinkedIn

Read the Forbes article Portuguese, English

Learn more about Scalabl

About us:

Learn more about our mission and who we are, and to subscribe to our mail list at 7 of a Kind

Learn about our Founders on Purpose Entrepreneurship Academy

We are grateful for the support creating this podcast:

🎙️Edited and Produced by: Erik Parkin

🎵Music by: Christoph Winterbach – follow him on LinkedIn

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Welcome to the introductory episode of our podcast, Founders on Purpose! In this episode, we introduce you to Andrew, Liz, Sandra and Stefan, the four co-hosts of this podcast and the members of 7 of a Kind. We dig into why we’ve created this series, how we hope to improve the experience and success of changemakers and impact entrepreneurs, and much more!

About us:

7 of a Kind – LinkedIn, Website

Andrew Moss - LinkedIn, website, Instagram

Sandra Winterbach - LinkedIn, website

Liz Parkin - LinkedIn, website, Instagram

Stephan Dohrn - LinkedIn, website

About the Founders on Purpose Entrepreneurship Academy:

https://www.7ofakind.com/founders-on-purpose-entrepreneurship-academy

Subscribe to the 7 of a Kind mail list to learn about this and upcoming courses: https://www.7ofakind.com/

🎙️Edited and Produced by: Erik Parkin

🎵Music by: Christoph Winterbach – follow him on LinkedIn

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