Episodes

  • 142: Tom McGillycuddy – Investing in a human future: how to thrive in the year 5000

    142: Tom McGillycuddy – Investing in a human future: how to thrive in the year 5000
    Jun 17 2022
    Michael is joined by Tom McGillycuddy, co-founder of CIRCA5000, describing itself as “the investment platform of the human future.”
    With a vision of a thriving planet in the year 5000, the company asks us to question whether people will be included in that future. And the answer to a certain human future? Impact investing. 
    CIRCA5000 offers its customers the chance to invest in the sustainable businesses enriching the planet. Launched in 2019 as tickr, alongside business partner Matt Latham, the company now has more than 150,000 investors and has had its own purposeful credentials recognised through B Corp status.
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  • 137: Kate Griggs – Thinking outside the box: how to unleash your superpower

    137: Kate Griggs – Thinking outside the box: how to unleash your superpower
    May 13 2022
    Albert Einstein, Whoopi Goldberg, Keira Knightly, Pablo Picasso, and Sir Richard Branson may be notable in their own right, but they also share the condition of dyslexia.
    For years it’s been portrayed as an obstacle but for Michael’s guest, Kate Griggs, it presents the opportunity of a superpower for life.
    Kate is a campaigner and the founder of Made by Dyslexia, a leading voice in global advocacy for what she calls the superpower of dyslexia, now in its fifth year. That means disrupting the world's thinking and campaigning for the unique and important skills of people with dyslexia.
    It's a challenge that Kate has made a lifelong mission and is driven by her own experiences of growing up and the difference identifying a dyslexian made to her own education. With a TED talk that has garnered almost 400,000 views, and Kate’s latest book, This is Dyslexia, she aims to redefine and reshape how it's shaped our past and how harnessing its powers is vital to our future.
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  • 136: Kim Polman – The golden rule: rebooting the future

    136: Kim Polman – The golden rule: rebooting the future
    Apr 8 2022
    Joining Michael Hayman on Change Makers is Kim Polman, co-founder and chair of Reboot the Future, a fellow of the Aspen Institute and co-founder and chair of the Kilamanjaro Blind Trust. 
    Reboot the Future is a foundation aimed at transforming how people connect to themselves, each other and the planet. Its work is powered by one golden rule; to treat others and the planet as you would wish to be treated. Kim describes this call to action as the only universal principle the world shares and uses it as a roadmap for the conversations and campaigns that will lead to a more sustainable world. 
    It is this ethos that inspired the book she co-curated Imaginal Cells: Visions of Transformation, a collection of essays from thought leaders and change agents including, Al Gore, Muhammad Yunus and her husband, Paul Polman.
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  • 134: Jenny Costa – Food for thought: turning rubble into rubies

    134: Jenny Costa – Food for thought: turning rubble into rubies
    Apr 1 2022
    Jenny Costa is the founder and CEO of Rubies in the Rubble, the food business that sees wonder where others see waste. Since launching in 2012, Rubies in the Rubble with Jenny at the helm has become one of the pioneering voices in food sustainability, with an award-winning range of “gooder” condiments created from products that would otherwise go to waste.
    With a brand that is now stocked nationwide, in just a decade the company has saved more than 350,000 individual pieces of fruit and vegetables from the bin, taking food diamonds in the rough and turning them from rubble into rubies.
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  • 110: REVISITED: Arizona Muse – Running out of time: why the planet needs to be in fashion

    110: REVISITED: Arizona Muse – Running out of time: why the planet needs to be in fashion
    Nov 5 2021
    Credited as the new face of American fashion by Vogue at the start of her career, Arizona Muse first gained exposure in 2010 when she was chosen to open and close Prada’s Spring-Summer 2011 catwalk show in Milan. She has since fronted advertising campaigns for the likes of Chloé, Karl Lagerfeld and Louis Vuitton, and has been in cast in shows for Burberry, Chanel and Dior. She was signed as the face of Prada in early 2011 and shortly after, the face of Yves Saint Laurent. She's since covered every major Vogue, including its American and British editions. Recently, Arizona has dedicated her efforts towards sustainability in fashion and is an advocate for better environmental practices, urging the fashion industry to examine its relationship with the world. She has protested alongside Extinction Rebellion and has adopted the role as a sustainability-consultant for fashion companies who wish to lower their environmental impact. Arizona sits on the board of The Sustainable Angle, a non-profit organisation that initiates and supports projects that minimise the environmental impact of the fashion industry, and contributes to Fashion Revolution, a team of business leaders, policymakers and brands who work together towards radically changing the way clothes are sourced, produced, and consumed.
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  • 107: Kamal Ahmed – Breaking news: the life and times of a very British man

    107: Kamal Ahmed – Breaking news: the life and times of a very British man
    Oct 22 2021
    At a time when “trusted, impartial news has never been more vital,” Kamal Ahmed says he is taking lessons from almost 30 years in the newsroom to the News Movement, where he is on a mission to address a “global crisis of information”, aiming to deliver objective and trustworthy information for a digital generation.

    As editor-in-chief of the News Movement, the former editorial director of BBC News is aiming to sew the seams of unity back into public discourse, and it also informed his own book, The Life and Times of a Very British Man, a memoir about the history of and indeed resistance to immigration in the UK, and a celebration of the role immigrants play in our society.

    This month, the book was also included in Trevor Phillips’ Black History Month guide to the best books and films to read and watch to understand the black experience.
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