Lets Break Good

Could sustainable energy by the key to eradicating poverty and fighting climate change? On this episode of Let's Break Good, a thought-provoking interview with award winning social entrepreneur Harish Hande. Through his organization SELCO India, Harish and his team are breaking myths on how to deliver sustainable energy to the poor. Listen to the insights and breakthroughs that has lead SELCO to provide 500,000 poor families across India with affordable solar energy systems.

You can't break good alone, so what can you do when those that you work with simply do not have the same drive for purpose as you? In this episode we look at what it takes to find your professional tribe. How did the host of Let's Break Good find his by traveling thousands of miles and bringing together an unlikely group of professionals from all different backgrounds and industries.

On today's episode an extraordinary in-depth interview with Myriam Sidibe. For over twenty years Myriam has been a leader on social and health issues across Africa and Asia. She runs a multi million dollar brand at the global consumer goods company Unilever that also improves the health and sanitation of people across 55 different country. On the podcast, Myriam reflects on her professional journey, talks about the power of branding with purpose, and shares advice on starting and maintaining a career with deep meaning.

If 90% of technology is designed for the wealthiest 10% of the world's population, what does it take to design for the other 90%? On today's episode, we start in Uganda with a story of why many aide and charity groups design approach to doing good has the right intentions, but still fall short. Then we look at an alternative design approach pioneered by Amy Smith at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and our host shares his lessons learned from a month long design summit in Ghana that implemented in Smith's appropriate, co-creation approach to design for the 90%

In a continuation from episode four "So You Think You Can Map", this episode explores overcoming the challenges of scaling a project that has proven to break good. What can you do when your colleagues are not as enthusiastic as you are about a project, even if it is making a huge impact? How can you maintain momentum past the excitement of launch and initial achievements? And what happens when a project grows beyond your control? An authentic, raw look at what it takes to scale social impact.

When the impact you are trying to make seems nearly impossible, the hardest step to take is the first one. How do you assemble the team needed to take on the challenge? How do you get the buy-in and commitments from the community you are seeking change in? For our inspiration we will be going to do the famed city of Rio de Janeiro Brazil to explore the story of a community in conflict that overcome years of non action to take on life threatening disaster risks.How did they get unlikely allies, the local police force and young people, to work together? How did the pinpoint the location of where disaster would strike when no map of their community existed?

How do you get started on breaking good? It all starts with your passion. In this episode we look at the hosts inspirational first experience with breaking good thanks to rap music, teaching kids to read and his college dorm's ethernet. Later some tips to making the case to colleagues and the CEO of your organization. By the end of the episode, you'll see why it is either break good, or get left behind.

In the premiere episode we cover the road trip across Africa and New York City happy hour that lead to the inspiration for breaking good. Later we talk about what inspired the podcast and why we need people to break good in 2019 more then ever before.

After a volunteering trip to a war torn country, Gib Bulloch was inspired by the potential for business skills to help tackle tough social problems. In this episode we interview Gib to learn how he turned his idea into a multi-million dollar venture inside one of the world's largest consulting companies. How did he get employees to line up for a pay cuts to take on purpose driven projects? What did it take to sustain his initiative and how can you find purpose in the workplace without losing your sanity?