Social Good Podcast

#24 Enterprise Nation's Polly Dhaliwal on fighting for small businesses and startups and girls' education

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:23:29 +0000

Enterprise Nation and Girls in Movement’s Polly Dhaliwal on (1:05) supporting startups and small businesses through Enterprise Nation, (1:45) matching businesses with support in less than 3 clicks, (2:53) growing Enterprise Nation, (3:47) supporting female founders looking for funding, (4:15) how Enterprise Nation works and operates, (4:28) capturing data from small business applicants to present to corporate sponsors, (5:00) working with Uber to provide grant funding to entrepreneurs in London and doing a storytelling campaign within the Enterprise Nation community, (5:54) working with government to lobby for rights of small businesses and startups, (6:28) operating as a two-sided marketplace, (9:22) different business sectors and demographics that they work with, (11:20) incentives for corporate partners to work with Enterprise Nation, (11:50) staying positive while working with entrepreneurs, (13:30) the rising rate of starting businesses, (15:20) challenges to helping startups and small businesses in the U.K., (17:17) supporting one million girls worldwide in their education through Girls in Movement, (19:23) accessing education and confidence for girls, (24:28) lowering barriers to entry for business support and girls’ education and (26:37) creating a space for AI projects to adhere to the U.N. 17 sustainable goals through Sustainabletech.ai.

Links:
www.enterprisenation.com
www.instagram.com/e_nation
www.girlsinmovement.com
www.instagram.com/girls_in_movement
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prameet-polly-dhaliwal-5537b677/

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#23 Ecopreneur's Philip Toussaint on building a volunteer tracking platform and AI proficiency

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:41:41 +0000

Ecopreneur's Philip Toussaint on (2:47) pivoting his business from a media platform, (4:57) gathering feedback for a volunteer tracking platform, (7:51) the role of volunteering in students' lives, (9:56) working with user feedback to improve the platform, (12:23) reforming the team and rebuilding the tech stack, (13:38) transitioning to a new tech stack, (15:30) leading his team in a linear manner, (16:14) learning to think in systems from his previous positions at different companies, (18:04) continuing to do market research around his product, (19:17) working together as a team, (22:24) handling co-founder disagreements, (24:12) Ecopreneur's business model, (27:08) implementing AI into Ecopreneur's business model, (29:10) different demographics that can benefit from volunteering, (29:53) Ecopreneur's competitors, (30:39) leveraging marketing to stand out amongst competitors by being authentic, (34:59) trends around internships due to career anxiety and (36:57) the importance of AI proficiency in job candidates.

Links:
https://ecopreneur.digital/
www.instagram.com/ecopreneur.inc
www.instagram.com/ecopreneurphil
www.linkedin.com/in/philiptoussaint/

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#22 Nora Chiu on bringing Lydia AI to the East and doubling down on career pivots

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:56:14 +0000

Nora Chiu discusses (1:54) discovering the startup ecosystem in Korea, (4:05) bringing Lydia AI to the Asian market, (6:42) Lydia AI's product offering, (8:15) partnering with financial institutions, (9:13) analyzing the government health cloud in Asia including Taiwan, (10:50) comparing health insurance plans in the West vs. the East, (14:12) delivering the message of Lydia AI and educating consumers through public speaking and media, (15:25) business culture differences in the East vs. the West, (22:12) seeking purpose through her career choices, (23:59) making pivots throughout her career, (27:37) growing a hard skillset at LINE, (31:08) using her linguistics degree towards her marketing career, (34:34) linguistics students training AI models, (37:01) career pivots as a summary and essence extraction, (40:26) redefining jobs in the age of AI and (42:20) building marketing automation systems and providing marketing consultation for companies.

Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsuanchiunora/

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#21 Mentorly's Ashley Werhun on building a mentorship platform and building as a woman founder

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:30:54 +0000

Ashley Werhun of Mentorly discusses (1:15) starting her career as a ballet dancer, (2:36) her aspirations to be a ballet dancer as a child, (5:13) her transition into tech, (6:41) the seeds of Mentorly being planted through mentoring relationships with ballet students, (9:47) the evolution of Mentorly in the early years, (11:20) the pivot from a B2C to B2B product, (12:49) a defining encounter with MIT, (16:40) going from a MVP to a full product, (18:40) Mentorly as we know it today, (19:03) leveraging AI on her team, (22:22) what channels Mentorly is active on, (24:47) current goals for Mentorly, (27:34) navigating challenges as a woman founder, (29:59) parental leave policies in Canada, (38:28) achieving profitability and sustainable growth, (40:20) company policies and (43:46) advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Links:
www.mentorly.co
www.instagram.com/ashleyatmentorly
www.instagram.com/mentorlydotcom
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleywerhun/

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#20 Crescent Health's Joshua Collin on building and selling a sleep coaching app to BetterUp

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 05:34:03 +0000

Josh Collin discusses (2:08) starting Crescent Health from his dorm room, (4:41) moving to a founder house called the Atmosphere House with his co-founder Jason, (10:24) picking up funding from angel investors, (11:40) building Crescent Health from scratch, (13:52) bringing on big name coaches to Crescent Health, (17:40) early growth, (19:04) building for two different marketplaces, (25:22) path to acquiring first customers, (27:47) selling Crescent Health to BetterUp, (33:37) maintaining good relationships with people, (36:31) signing terms sheets and doing due diligence to sell Crescent Health and (39:18) his plans going forwards.

Links:
www.instagram.com/blessed.momentum.678/
www.instagram.com/joincrescentco/
www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-collin/
www.joshcollin.com

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#19 Ricardo Alanis on heading a data-driven company at Nowports

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Tue, 5 Nov 2024 13:54:38 +0000

Ricardo Alanis describes his work at Nowports including (5:50) visibility with data in shipping logistics, (7:14) increasing trust in data points for his customers, (15:12) providing financial data like inventory financing, (17:40) representation of goods imported from and exported out of Latin America, (19:48) his role at Nowports, (21:10) the role of AI in his work, (22:30) the Nowports platform, (24:29) the challenges that Nowports faces, (28:35) augmenting and informing data for clients and (30:18) delivering the data. We also discuss (33:38) Ricardo's past experiences including (36:00) digitalizing services for the public in Mexico, (44:44) his thoughts on AI (1:00:10) and thoughts on opening up company data to the public.

#18 Cristina Vanko of Arrow on building an audio dating app and more

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:17:58 +0000

Cristina Vanko discusses her journey to building Arrow, an audio dating app. Cristina discusses (0:30) her upbringing and her early experience as a designer and advertiser on the agency side, (3:32) jumpstarting her freelancing career and how an article about handwriting her text messages went viral, (5:00)(32:20) getting picked up by Penguin Randomhouse to write books on handlettering and adulting, (5:54) getting back into product design during the pandemic and getting the idea for starting an audio dating app, (7:56) building a community for Arrow, (11:20) features on Arrow, (12:48) feedback on Arrow, (14:43) what gave her the idea to build Arrow and why she wants to fight for an audio dating app, (19:00) the landscape for dating apps, (24:24) her search for a co-founder and (30:30) finding side jobs while building Arrow.

#17 Chris Baek of InCloud on the case for empathy in business

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:54:15 +0000

Chris Baek discusses how he got to working to provide IoT software services for domestic electrical goods manufacturers in Japan with his company InCloud. He discusses (3:01) his beginnings and reinventing himself at USC, (8:53) his first experience at a corporate job after college and what it taught him, (12:02)starting InCloud and his relationship with his cofounder, (15:00) InCloud's IoT services and market in Japan, (17:59) the importance of empathy for business and personal growth and (24:02) his advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

#16 Alana Karen of Google on leading teams

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Thu, 4 Nov 2021 03:21:39 +0000

Alana Karen (@alanatkaren) discusses getting her start at Google, making a switch from sales and marketing to the engineering team, the scrappy go-getter mentality in the early days at Google and leading the Google Fiber and Search platform teams. She also discusses finding work-life balance and documenting stories of women in tech along with their successes and challenges in her book The Adventures of Women in Tech.

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www.alanakaren.com
www.adventuresofwomenintech.com

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#15 Shriya Nevatia of On Deck on inspiring leaders

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:13:15 +0000

Shriya Nevatia (@shriyanevatia) discusses joining On Deck with Erik Torrenberg in the early days and growing the On Deck community through the pandemic. Shriya talks welcoming the second cohort of the On Deck Catalyst program, learnings from the first cohort including hitting ceilings and growing from Build Weekend and catering to an ambitious and younger audience.

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https://twitter.com/shriyanevatia
https://www.beondeck.com/catalyst

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#14 Catherine Winfield of CZI on designing for social impact

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:49:29 +0000

Catherine Winfield (@winfield_c) discusses her transition from architecture to design, working in healthcare design to take care of people with chronic health conditions and creating opportunities for students to thrive in education design. She gives us the scoop on what inspires her day-to-day design work, her philosophy on design leadership, measuring success in a nonprofit plus building Along, a tool for remote learning during the pandemic.

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www.catherinewinfield.com

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#13 Julian Rachman on investing in data science and human innovation forward companies

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:39:59 +0000

Julian Rachman (@julrach) discusses Two Sigma Ventures’ investment in Remote including the benefits of remote hiring in companies like managing data governance and healthcare across countries. He also touches on data-driven companies working to improve everything from autonomous vehicles to collaborative machine learning principles and open source data projects, as well as data privacy issues vs the democratization of data science.

#12 Taylor Burton of Till Financial on creating a collaborative family banking app

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:24:24 +0000

Taylor Burton (@TBurton86) discusses creating smarter spenders through a collaborative banking app for kids. He talks over (3:05) how his experience with his first lease motivated him to create an app that increases your credit history, (15:45) creating an app that releases financial agency from parent to child, (17:58) partnering with banks to hand off teenagers in the Launch Offers Market after Till Financial, (25:15) raising a $4M seed round and launching the app, future goals and more.

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http://twitter.com/Tillfinancial
http://tillfinancial.io

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#11 Atin Batra of Twenty Seven Ventures on investing in edtech and the future of work

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:08:34 +0000

Atin Batra (@batraatin) talks about reevaluating the current education system through investing in edtech startups that cultivate different modes of learning including peer-based learning and cohort-based education; (21:50) receiving funding from the government and nonprofits to sponsor students from underserved populations; (26:52) investing in a startup that helps you learn languages through their chrome extension; (34:53) and lessons learned from working at Q Venture Partners, a venture firm based in Hong Kong investing in hardware startups.

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http://twitter.com/TwentySevenVC
http://27v.vc

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#10 Sharath Kuruganty of Shoutout.so and Product Hunt on community building

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:05:00 +0000

Sharath Kuruganty (@5harath) talks about gaining experience from building Naval Ravikant’s website, helping startups launch on ProductHunt, tips for building in public and his journey building @shoutoutso_ from inception to launch and gives tips on how to grow your customer list with Shoutoutso’s Wall of Love.

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http://twitter.com/shoutoutso_
www.shoutout.so

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#9 Juan Salas of Celerative on growing a distributed software team

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:41:35 +0000

Juan Salas (@jmzlx) of Celerative (@celerative) discusses his route to growing a distributed software team, the turbulence he has faced during Covid and an unexpected growth trajectory since 2020. Juan lays out what makes a remote team really work.

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http://twitter.com/celerative
www.celerative.com

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#8 Paige Hewlett of Margo on companies embracing unique visions in their marketing

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Fri, 9 Jul 2021 05:19:27 +0000

Paige Hewlett (@paigehewlett) of Margo (@call_margo) talks about the importance of the customer experience and journey in marketing and how everything ties back to the customer and meeting them where they are. In this episode, Paige touches on companies addressing diversity and inclusion in marketing to represent the communities they serve and creating an effective feedback loop between listening to customers and creating meaningful content.

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https://twitter.com/paigehewlett
http://twitter.com/call_margo
www.callmargo.com

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#7 Mustafa Khundmiri on building RapidFeeds and creating a collaborative blogging platform

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:16:35 +0000

Mustafa Khundmiri (@mkhundmiri) describes his early journey and experience from building RSS feeds for websites at RapidFeeds, competing with FeedBurner and moving on from a data crash and his time at Plugmatter in the 2010’s building early-on plugins and providing WordPress support. Mustafa also provides perspective on social media today and building Wordew, his new collaborative blogging platform.

Links:
www.twitter.com/mkhundmiri
https://gumroad.com/l/cold-email-that-works/

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#5 Iris Guo of Neutrify on achieving food-based sustainability

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Tue, 8 Jun 2021 07:47:12 +0000

Iris Guo (@IrisGuoo) shares her journey as the founder of Neutrify informing consumers about decreasing their carbon footprint through food choices. She describes her current journey managing a growing team, seeking partnerships with grocery stores and food startups and exploring different ways to align people with health consciousness through her product including nutritional information, purchase history and food carbon footprint. Iris also touches on her journey at OpenMeal working with influencers to increase distribution and her experience with adapting to remote work.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-guo/
https://devpost.com/software/neutrify
https://linkt.ree/irisguo

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#4 Kurt Daniel of Ubersmith on leading an ethically conscious company

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Fri, 28 May 2021 14:08:14 +0000

Kurt Daniel (@kurtodaniel) of Ubersmith reflects on his experiences at Kearney, Microsoft and MongoDB leading to his role as CEO of Ubersmith, a subscription business management solution for the cloud. Kurt discusses the evolution of the cloud services market, shares his insights on effective leadership styles and proactive ways to incorporate social responsibility in the workplace and be an inclusive employer today.

Links:

www.ubersmith.com
www.twitter.com/kurtodaniel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtdaniel/

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#3 Gemma Bull and Tom Steinberg call for reform in grantmaking in their book Modern Grantmaking

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Sat, 22 May 2021 14:08:42 +0000

Gemma Bull (@GemmaCBull) and Tom Steinberg (@steiny) address the challenges that modern grantseekers and grantees face in the grant application process including website accessibility, an open and equitable application process and open data for the grantmaking process. Drawing on their own experience, they wrote Modern Grantmaking to address the lack of advice in the field that can cause the preventable mistakes for grantmakers and pain and upset for grantseekers.

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www.moderngrantmaking.com
www.twitter.com/GemmaCBull
www.twitter.com/steiny

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#2 Chloe Duckworth of Valence Vibrations on creating a product for neurodivergent people

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Wed, 19 May 2021 08:56:43 +0000

Chloe Duckworth (@duckworthchloe) comes on to talk about her work creating a product to help neurodivergent people communicate at Valence Vibrations. She got her start doing an internship at Stanford during high school and participating in a contest run by David Eagleman of Neosensory (@neosensory). Valence Vibrations is an iPhone app that operates on the Neosensory wristband to augment emotional perception for people with neurological conditions like autism through vibrations. Chloe discusses the onboarding training process for Valence Vibrations, current clinical trials to create more nuanced emotions and plans to launch in 2022.

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www.chloeduckworth.com
www.valencevibrations.com
www.instagram.com/valencevibrations

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#1 Philip Toussaint of Ecopreneur Media on utilizing media for environmental activism

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 04:11:57 +0000

Philip Toussaint (@ecopreneurphil) comes on the first episode of the show to talk about his work with Ecopreneur Media. We have an excellent discussion covering: his mission for leveraging media (particularly video content) as a platform for environmental activism, working with brands to create incentivized activism, sustainable fashion as a hot industry, the appeal for environmentalism in marketing for brands, the rising role that Gen Z plays in environmentalism, the definition of an ecopreneur, shifting priorities for brands to embrace environmentalism and more.
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http://twitter.com/EcopreneurM www.ecopreneurmedia.com

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Social Good Podcast (Trailer)

soojungish@gmail.com (Soo Jung Han) — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:02:07 +0000