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Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.

We host changemakers who are using regulated investment crowdfunding for social impact--impact crowdfunding--as impact investors or social entrepreneurs, catalyzing change with leadership skills we call superpowers. www.superpowers4good.com

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28:50

How Community Violence Interrupters Are Helping...

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2023/07/11

Devin: What is your superpower?Marcus: I have a few of them, but the one that sticks out most with me and I realized that I have optimism is such a superpower that I possess. I'm not a negative person. The cup is half full, not half empty to me.Marcus McAllister consults with governments and NGOs around the world on one singular topic: ending violence.He doesn’t work on any other aspect of crime than that. Seeing it for the public health challenge it is, he works to help communities stop the spread

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25:43

A Nonprofit Inspired By George Floyd's Lynching Is...

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2023/07/06

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Heather: One of my unique talents, I would say, is my ability to connect disparate ideas together. I’ve always said that my work operates at the intersection of my—my curiosity is really at the intersection of people, ideas and places.“About three years ago, all of us were sheltering in place due to the global pandemic. During that time, we were shocked at what was a public lynching of an African-American man [George Floyd] in Minnesota at the hands of a

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24:36

Expert: Compassionate Capitalism Can Be Highly...

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2023/07/04

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission.Thank You! Have a Happy 4th!I really can thank you enough. The Super Crowd community stepped up big time to help us close the crowdfunding raise with a bang last week! You helped us exceed our core goal by 16%! While we celebrate America’s independence today, I’m celebrating your generosity! Thank you so much!Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Karen: My superpower is being able to dissect a business

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26:22

Femtech Salon Founder Leads a Movement to Empower a...

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2023/06/29

Devin: As you think about your accomplishments, what do you see as your superpower?Rachael: My superpower–I truly believe–is being an advocate and driving equity in all forms.Thinking of women and nonbinary founders, Rachael Kim, founder and CEO of Femtech Salon powered by My Comma, asks rhetorically, “Why is it so hard to fund and support these startup founders?”She answers, “We're working off of old systems that didn't include them, consider them, nor were made for them.”The convenings that she

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28:36

'Tragically Beautiful' Show Documents 'Glaciers in...

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2023/06/27

Devin: What is your superpower?Eric: My real superpower is that I can spot patterns.“Tragically beautiful” is how one person described Eric Hatch’s “Glaciers in Retreat” artistic photography show now touring the country.The images above are a sample of the beautiful but tragic images that document shrinking glaciers.Eric is also the author of an entertaining new memoir, You Wouldn’t Believe It Anyhow.AI Podcast Summary* The guest on the show is Eric Hatch, a photographer and environmental activist.*

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27:04

This Trailblazer Has a Trillion-Dollar Idea for...

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2023/06/22

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission.Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Sean: I would say opening a path that hasn't been opened is my superpower.“I’ve had conversations with several very, very large entrepreneurs, wealthy individuals, billionaires,” says Sean Davis, founder of Merton Capital Partners. “They tell me sometimes it's harder to give away the money than it is to make it.”Sean says he anticipated the difficulty and has a plan to

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26:32

Local Crowdfunding's Elder Statesman Argues for...

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2023/06/20

Devin: What is your superpower?Michael: I have what we might say in Yiddish is intellectual shpilke. I have difficulty focusing on one issue. I like to think across boundaries.Michael Shuman, one of the real OGs of crowdfunding, has managed to elude an invitation to be a guest on my show for the past decade, but today we remedy that situation.He is an economist, attorney, author and entrepreneur who focuses on local community investing via crowdfunding. He publishes the Main Street Journal, which is

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33:36

Radical Inclusivity Is Key to Solving Social Problems

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2023/06/15

Devin: could you just share with us what you see as your superpower?Nisha: I think my superpower is a bridge. I think that I was born a first-generation kid in America. I really was the bridge between the old world and the new. I served as the translator for my dad, who was very much coming to America to fulfill his American dream and yet not fluent in what is America. Me being raised here, I could be that translator. I could really see the different sides to a lot of different arguments. I think

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27:52

Investor: The Real Opportunity in Africa Is Food...

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2023/06/13

Devin: What is your superpower?Luni: I can see paradigms. Most people, they live inside paradigms, and they don’t notice.“Most people in Africa are farmers, and they’re poor not because they’re uneducated or any less intelligent than anyone else,” says Africa Eats founder and CEO Luni Libes. “They’re poor because no one buys their outputs. No one is buying what they’re growing.”As an investor, Luni saw an opportunity to simultaneously address hunger and poverty in Africa while helping African

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26:54

The Power of Showing Up

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2023/06/08

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Joy: I believe my superpower is a commitment to show up.“Our mission here at the Be the Match is pretty simple. It’s to save lives through cellular therapy,” says Joy King, Chief Advancement Officer. “Our vision is equal outcomes for all.”“Every day, we recruit members to our registry. We call it the greatest waiting list in the world,” she says. “We work with patients who have been diagnosed with a blood cancer or blood disorder and need either a bone

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32:58

Assurely Offers D&O Insurance to Protect Companies...

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2023/06/06

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?David: There’s a part of what I do, taking complex ideas, taking complex things and simplifying them and making them digestible.“When we looked at investment Crowdfunding, we saw a massive industry that was at its inception,” says Assurely CEO and co-founder David Carpentier, explaining the context for launching the company’s innovative directors and officers insurance coverage for Regulation Crowdfunding offerings.He continues, “When we take $1.7 trillion

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26:34

A Brother's Legacy Is Honored With Growing Impact in...

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2023/06/02

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Mo: A superpower would be just doing your best to help people in need.“My older brother suffered in a car accident in Morocco back in 2001,” explains University of Utah neuroscientist Mohammed “Mo” Sbai. “During the process of taking care of him between 2001 and 2007, when he passed away, I got to see firsthand the intricacies and the details and the hard work and the pain associated with the rehabilitation of people with severe neurological deficit.”“The

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30:11

This Community Builder is Catalyzing Local Investing...

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2023/05/31

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Andrew: It's a little bit of a shoot first, ask questions later kind of thing.“There are all these communities around the US that feel like they don't have economic development options, feel like there's resource scarcity, are lacking these things, or losing these stores both in urban areas and rural areas,” says Andrew Connor, founder and director of The Center for Community Ownership.His observation about the need motivated Andrew to take action in support

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28:17

HACE's CEO Patricia Mota Shares Insights on...

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2023/05/25

“HACE, or The Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement, is an organization that I am honored to lead,” says Patricia Mota. “Headquartered in Chicago, national in scope, its mission since 1982 has been to positively impact workplaces by cultivating the pipeline of Latino talent and providing the community the insight, the access and the support to be successful in their careers.”Since taking the reins eight years ago, HACE has grown more than tenfold in annual revenue, reaching five times as many

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29:38

This Innovative Hybrid Model of Care Improves Patient...

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2023/05/23

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Christine: I would say it’s courage. Dr. Christine Lum Lung, CEO of Origin Healthcare, says up to 5 million people in the United States who are currently in the hospital could be treated at home more effectively and affordably.“We deploy the expert medical team, the equipment and the technology to patients in their homes so they can actually get all of the care they would receive in the hospital,” she says. “But now it’s in an environment that clearly is

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42:39

Expert: Utah's Wet Winter Won't Save Great Salt Lake

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2023/05/18

Devin: What is your superpower?Ben: I'm basically the most humble person you've ever met. (Laughs.)Saving the Great Salt Lake will require “a 30 to 50 percent reduction in our water use in the watershed,” says Dr. Ben Abbott, professor of ecology at Brigham Young University, one of the foremost authorities on the shrinking Great Salt Lake.This isn’t just a local problem. Not significantly tied to climate change, salt lakes around the globe (about 120 of them) are drying up for the same reason:

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22:28

Expert: Humility Is Key to DEI Success

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2023/05/16

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission.Devin: What is your superpower?Adrienne: One of my superpowers is being able to have difficult conversations with people, being able to talk about issues and appreciate people’s discomfort and help them see them from a different vantage point so I can reach them. Unfortunately, our society is set up with a lot of issues in a taboo arena that [make] people automatically feel uncomfortable. Being able to disarm

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20:07

New Book Profiles Ecolab's Contribution to...

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2023/05/11

When you purchase an item after clicking a link from this post, we may earn a commission.Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Paul: I'm not sure I have a superpower, but I think if I if I have a superpower, it's I love to learn. Throughout my career—I tell people who think about getting a PhD, “What's the best thing about the career is you can change careers without changing jobs.” I have looked at, over the course of my career, how businesses earn long-term profits, why some are sustainable

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28:45

Novel Use of JOBS Act Leads to Small Business Bond...

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2023/05/09

I’m not a financial advisor; nothing I write in Superpowers for Good should be considered investment advice. You should seek appropriate counsel before making investment decisions.Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Ben: I think a real superpower when you're creating as an entrepreneur is being able to look at things, recombine them and create something new. We oftentimes think of something new coming out of ex-nihilo, like out of nowhere, born out of the mind of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. But I

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25:41

This Entrepreneur Weaves Solutions Into Communities

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2023/05/04

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Steve: I’m a connector, but my superpower is, one of my associates said to me, “You’re not quite a connector.” I said, “What?” He said, “You’re a weaver.”Weaver? I thought he called me weasel. He said, “No, you’re a weaver. Because what you do is beyond a connector role. You connect people, and you get things done.”Stephen Shaff, founder and CEO of Community-Vision Solutions, is building a company to revitalize communities from the inside. “Our goal is to

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