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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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29:21

How One Organization Is Revitalizing 'Keeping the...

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2022/04/21

Police reform is one of the significant challenges facing us in the United States. Lisa Broderick, founder and executive director of Police2Peace, notes that one of the fundamental difficulties is that there are 18,000 police agencies in the United States. They are all locally funded and operated and are subject to relatively little Federal control.“It's not a political issue. It's really a practical issue,” Lisa says.Engaging the African American CommunityAs Lisa and I chatted about police reform,

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18:00

Global Hemp Association Leader Says Sustainability Is...

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2022/04/19

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Mandi: I'm passionate about connecting people. I'm good at connecting people. I've been able to open doors and create this network of people for others to build relationships, especially during a time of COVID. When we switched to being so disconnected, I brought our industry together.What’s the Deal With Hemp?The word hemp means a lot of different things to folks. Mandi Kerr, founder and CEO of the Global Hemp Association, deals with it all the

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33:23

Diversity Requires Avoiding the Easy 'Yes'

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2022/04/14

Devin: What is your superpower?Jess: First thing that came to mind was ruining food. I’m not a cook. That is probably my strongest superpower—not delivering a very easy recipe, especially if it says like easy or like one-pot dinner. Yeah, I will screw that up. That’s my biggest superpower. But you probably meant something positive. So I would say finding a space to equalize the tension in the room through humor. And burning dinner.The Story of Jess PettittJess Pettitt worked in diversity at New York

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18:17

How Defining Mission Became One Person's Purpose

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2022/04/12

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Garrett: I love that question. You always ask this in your interviews. I think my superpower power is finding what matters for that person, finding and creating a purpose for other people, a purpose bigger than themselves.Garrett Underwood is a social entrepreneur and nonprofit leader who focuses his energy on helping people find their path out of homelessness.Garrett’s Story“I started way, way back in 2012, started a faith-based clothing company where what

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27:22

Matt Damon and Gary White Accelerate Water...

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2022/04/07

Gary: I think if I can be permitted to talk about what might be another superpower, is that what I’ve discovered over the years is it’s about channeling.Gary White has been among the most frequent guests on my show. He’s one of the most down-to-earth guys I know. With his Water.org partner and co-author megastar Matt Damon, Gary is accelerating water and sanitation access with impact investments.Matt Damon Is Not Just Reading LinesGary is a big deal. Before partnering with Matt, he was already

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42:47

Having Risen From Extreme Poverty, She Now Leads the...

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2022/04/05

For 30 years, Village Enterprise has been working to help people at the bottom of the pyramid lift themselves out of poverty. A randomized control trial begun in 2014 demonstrated that its programs worked. That evidence led to the nonprofit serving as the first recipient of a development impact bond (DIB). Winnie Babra Auma, vice president of programs for the growing international organization, was raised in poverty and has risen from volunteer to executive leadership, helping to accelerate its

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24:17

'There's a Strong ROI for Diversity,' Expert Says

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2022/03/31

Devin: What is your superpower?Arthur: I would say my superpower is having relentless focus and not really believing that any job is too small. Embracing Diversity Can Be a Competitive AdvantageArthur Woods, co-founder of Mathison and author of Hiring for Diversity, says, “The great news in our space is that the last ten years, 15 years, if anything, has led us to many more conclusions about the fact that there's a strong ROI for diversity.”He lists the key points:* Businesses that are

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15:18

This Coffee Company Drives Impact for People With...

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2022/03/29

Devin: Gabi, what is your superpower.Gabi: Being a hugger.Devin: Mary, what’s your superpower?Mary: I’m good at going around and telling people our story. You know, getting the word out there that people with special abilities are worthy and good workers and awesome.Gabi’s Grounds and Gabi’s PALSGabi Angelini, the only girl in a home with five brothers, is different in another way. Her mom, Mary Angelini, says Gabi has special abilities. Over 80 percent of people like Gabi are unemployed. Gabi

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36:59

How to Raise $2 Million in 1 Hour

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2022/03/22

I’m taking vacation this week. Despite best efforts, today’s post was the only one I was able to finish before leaving so it will be this week’s only one. Enjoy! We’ll see you next week.Devin: What is your superpower?Anca: I feel like I have a keen sense of knowing when things are about to go bad or go wrong, and I am one step ahead of that as well as with, I think that goes hand-in-hand with my attention to details.An Immigrant’s StoryNow a successful entrepreneur with her own event production

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24:18

She's Saving Tigers and Shaking Things Up In Science

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2022/03/17

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Sarika: I think my superpower is being a scientist but thinking beyond that label as a box.Sarika Khanwilkar is an evolutionary biologist working on her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Ph.D. students are almost all overworked. It is a high-stress job, much more so than the student life we experience in undergraduate studies.Starting a NonprofitThat pressure hasn’t stopped her from starting a nonprofit, Wild Tiger, to save the endangered cats in India.Sarika

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35:08

The Power of Soap to Shape the World

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2022/03/15

Devin: As you think about how you got here, what do you think of as your superpower?Shawn: Having your passion of your mission, getting visuals of faces and people in areas that you are protecting and saving. That is really a driver for me. I’m not going to stop. I’m going to be relentless in our pursuit of helping and impacting and changing the world and saving lives because of the people that are on the other end of it.Clean the World recycles used soap from hotels and gets it into the hands of

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28:05

Walking May Be the First Step to Alcohol Addiction...

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2022/03/10

You will find a video of the podcast recording below.Devin: What do you see as your core strength, your inner superpower that will help you get this done successfully?Lindsay: I will answer that by saying the first day that I didn’t drink, something happened to me. I was down in my kitchen making a coffee, hungover, ashamed, the whole thing. And I could see for the first time—I don’t know why, because I was hungover—but it was like I could see everything in my kitchen clearly, for the first time. I

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26:49

He Quit His Job As a Scientist to Be a Farmer

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2022/03/08

Devin: Jonathan, what is your superpower?Jon: I guess I don’t know that I have any superpowers aside from just getting in there and doing it. I guess I’ve never been one that shied away from a challenge. I think we’re were put here for a reason. And I believe that you’re in your position, and I’m in my position in order to do something. Ok? And to me, that’s not a superpower that’s just doing your job.Making the Switch From Scientist to FarmerJonathan Lundgren was receiving an award from President

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26:06

Report: Women Face Unending Sexist Comments

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2022/03/03

Devin: What is your superpower?Susan: I think my superpower has got to be my passion about the topic of strengthening the impact of girls and women in Utah and also worldwide. I am deeply—my purpose is so strong. But I would add that I have a lot of stamina to do a lot of work. And I’m not afraid. So I think maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s—I don’t know what it is, but at this point in my life, I speak truth, and I base that on research.Dr. Susan R. Madsen was as surprised as anyone when she and her

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31:41

A Night in Jail, Peace Corps Provided Formative...

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2022/03/01

This article is from the recording in the podcast player above and the video below.Devin: I wonder, Allan, if you would share with us what you see as your superpower.Allan: Well, that is really the magic question. I guess when it comes down to it, I’d have to say that I am always a glass-half-full kind of guy. I’d like to believe that my main superpower is an optimistic outlook on life. I do try to turn lemons into lemonade as the expression goes.Jail TimeIn his memoir, Andean Adventures, Allan J

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Wikitongues Fights Cultural Genocide By Revitalizing...

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2022/02/24

Devin: Kristen, what is your superpower?Kristen: Daniel and I were, you know, marinating on this earlier today. I think my superpower is connecting with people.Devin: Daniel, what is your superpower?Daniel: Optimism. Language revitalization requires optimism. When you start a project to reawaken your language, you need to have a degree of faith that a generation from now you will have had success and that a new generation in your community will appreciate what you’ve done.“Seven thousand languages

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23:48

PopUp School Is Designed to Make Learning Easier

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2022/02/22

Devin: I wonder what you identify as being your superpower.Suren: Belief: because I believe in the mission. I know it’s there, and I know it’s only a matter of time to bring this new revolutionizing approach to education. When you believe in something the way I believe, then you start seeing life from your own [perspective]. Whatever you believe in, it becomes reality. So that is how it was working when I was starting in 2009, my other platform Dasaran. No one was seeing and believing where it was

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29:01

How NFTs Could Be a Fundraising Tool for Nonprofits

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2022/02/17

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower?Sam: Oh, my superpower is connecting with people, that’s probably it, it’s, and once again, it comes down to soft skills. It’s not the hard technical skills, even though I was trained as a developer. It’s great to have that technical knowledge, but at the end of the day, it is still people who make decisions.Tech guru Sam Kamani is taking some adventurous nonprofits on an exploratory mission to the technology frontier where NFTs, web 3.0 and blockchain

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22:50

This Movement Maker Teaches Us How to Be Fire Starters

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2022/02/15

Devin: What do you think of as your superpower?Terri: My background is in television reporting and producing. And I just truly learned how to listen and how to be reflective of the communities that you're part of and tell that story so that others can be inspired.Terri Broussard Williams, the author of Find Your Fire, is a movement maker. Her day job as a lobbyist gives her experience fighting for change. “I am a lobbyist, so I passed a lot of smoke-free laws. Sometimes they were in small cities,

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26:31

Retired Ram Applies Lessons Learned From Football in...

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2022/02/10

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Cleveland: God has been good to me. You know, I’m a believer, I have faith, and I’ve always had to work at things, Devin. I’ve always had to work. I don’t know any other way. You know, whether it’s football, baseball, business, a lot of hours. I don’t have any alternative solution to success. I don’t have it. Maybe I sometimes wish I had. But it’s just it’s every day going back to the drawing board. And you know, as you get older, you know, you face a lot of

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