Women are becoming the dominant driving force of many economies. From education, to salaries, to being the decision maker on purchase: women are turning the tables. But business is slow to catch on, with many brands still connecting to the masculine over the feminine. Bec Brideson is helping to correct this.
Subtle Disruptors
There is a gender imbalance amount female entrepreneurs and business founders. One Roof is a coworking community designed specifically to help correct this, designed with intentionality to meet the needs of women in business leadership.
Xian Han has decided to take on the momentous trend of ever increasing personalisation we all experience in our digital world. She has founded Refni, a start-up aimed to help people become aware of, and expand the boundaries of, their filter bubble.
Matt Devine and his family are living off-grid in a way that enables them to connect to the land, connect with each, and become net contributors to this ecosystem we are all part of.
Are the restrictions on expression, and involvement in activities outside of work, actually good for the organisations that impose them, or the people that are part of them? Ruby Lee thinks not, and is a living example of how removing them can help both individuals and organisations flourish.
This century it is estimated there will be 1 billion tobacco related deaths globally. Many of us unknowingly support this through the investment of our superannuation in tobacco related industries. Dr Bronwyn King is going about denormalising this practise.
There are options for spending well over the holiday seasons – spending so that you get something that benefits not just the person you are buying for, but others in need as a positive social by-product. Cliff Moss talks about The Good Xmas Trail, a social enterprise helping promote other social enterprises this Xmas.
To have a sustained positive impact through business, it is paramount to get the business foundations right. Ben and Harvee are partners in an accounting firm helping purposeful businesses get their profits sorted so they can continue to positively impact people and our planet.
The cross-over, or overlap, between art and business is dicey territory. It is this borderland that this week’s guest seems to have been playing in his whole life.
If you were an equity holder in a startup business with a lot of success, and a lot of upside, would you be willing to give back a big chunk of your allocated equity because you felt you did not deserve it? Because you had not been able to do all that you committed to doing when your equity was first allocated to you?