Re-envision Business is a podcast by UpEffect. The series highlights the emerging need for responsible trade that uplifts communities frequently left behind. In each episode, we invite innovators and thought leaders to deconstruct conventional systems perpetuating economic inequality and spotlight models that are re-envisioning business. Together, we’ll unearth a blueprint for an economy redesign.
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Re-envision Business is a podcast by UpEffect. The series highlights the emerging need for responsible trade that uplifts communities frequently left behind. In each episode, we invite innovators and thought leaders to deconstruct conventional systems perpetuating economic inequality and spotlight models that are re-envisioning business. Together, we’ll unearth a blueprint for an economy redesign.
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In this episode we unpack post growth economics and why an economy that naturally circulates money rather than concentrating it is better for the world. Donnie Maclurcan, the Executive Director of the Post Growth Institute joins us to explain why we need an economy that values people's needs ahead of corporate greed and what it will take to build the next economy.
Post Growth Fellows, Erinch Sahan (Doughnut Economics Action Lab) Katherine Trebeck (University of Edinburgh), Jessica Mason (Start.coop) and Arpita Bisht (Erasmus) share how they’re each serving their communities to re-envision business and shape a post growth economy.
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Raza Ullah from Primary Finance joins us to discuss the negative implications of debt-based products, the current property sector, available financing options for homeowners and his innovative cooperative model centred on making home buying debt and stress-free.
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In this episode, we’re joined by Bonnie Chiu who helps us unpack the world of social enterprise and impact investing and explore what it will take to get this work right.
Bonnie brings a wealth of expertise in impact investing, impact measurement and diversity, equity and inclusion. In her current role as Managing Director of The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC), she has supported over 150 clients. She has also expanded TSIC's team globally to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. As a serial social entrepreneur, she co-founded an award-winning social enterprise Lensational, focused on empowering women through storytelling, which she has scaled to 23 countries, as well as the Diversity Forum for Inclusive Social Investment and other initiatives.
She is a Member of the Flexible Finance Committee of the Access Foundation for Social Investment, a Member of the Expert Review Committee of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Gender Benchmark and sits on several Boards, including 360 Giving, which advocates for open data in philanthropy. She also serves as a Forbes Senior Contributor writing on gender and diversity. She has received multiple accolades for her work, named Asia21 Young Leader by Asia Society, a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, and Young Achiever of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards, and has been invited to speak in over 20 countries and in two TEDx talks.
Connect with Bonnie Chiu on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Creating jobs and multiplying income is one of the most powerful tools for poverty alleviation and one company leading the way in a country currently devastated by war is Qima Coffee. We sat down with their Founder & CEO, Faris Sheibani to understand Yemen's economic landscape and the positive avenues that coffee offers in generating sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers. They pledge to donate 10% of their annual profits to education and agriculture projects through the Qima Foundation.
Qima Coffee: qimacoffee.com
Visit the Qima team at their flagship cafe: qimacafe.com/
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“We’re paid less. We go in and out of the workforce. We live longer. We have fewer dollars but more years [of retirement] to pay for.” –Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz
Women tend to suffer from longer employment gaps, fewer economic opportunities, a larger domestic load and lower earning potential. One way to tackle this is through equipping women with the knowledge and resources to become financially independent whether it's through landing clients, earning income through the digital economy, up-skilling, investing and/or saving.
Zebras Unite hosted a live Re-envision Business conversation to discuss the current economic landscape and the steps needed to move this from concept to reality for women around the world.
Uneesa Zaman is an experienced financial literacy facilitator, specialising in the advancement of women's financial education and consulting ethical fintechs globally through her consultancy, Rizq Comms. Uneesa has worked with global organisations, including the World Economic Forum and the UN to increase financial awareness amongst various underserved groups, and has featured in Amaliah, The Times and Financial Times.
Follow Rizq Comms on Twitter, Linkedin or learn more about their work on their website.
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This episode was produced by Sheeza Shah and edited by Rohan Singhal. A special thank you to Anika Horn for managing the live tech for this event.
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Blake Goud has more than 15 years experience researching Islamic finance and working in a compliance and investment officer role in the finance industry. His published research cover a variety of topics in Islamic finance including incorporating environmental, social & governance (ESG), social finance and FinTech, addressing climate change, and public finance. He received his B.A. in Economics from Reed College in 2003.
In this episode we discussed how RFI is encouraging organisations to support equitable, inclusive and sustainable economic development in particular with a focus on responsible and ESG investing.
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This episode was produced by Sheeza Shah and edited by Rohan Singhal.
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The constant struggle that Palestinian traders and producers experience is a pain that no one should ever have to endure. One organisation has managed to push through these challenges and find success by leveraging fair trade to uplift Palestinian farmers and families. In this episode we’re joined by Taysir Arbasi and Atif Choudhury from Zaytoun, an award-winning fair trade social enterprise, which ethically sources fine foods from Palestine including Fairtrade organic extra virgin olive oil and za'atar.
Join Zaytoun and Emerald Network on Friday 4th March, 2022 to hear more about their fair trade and sustainability centred work.
Follow Zaytoun on Twitter, Instagram or buy a fair trade product from their website.
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We're back with new episodes on the Re-envision Business podcast where we spotlight models prioritising ethics, justice, sustainability and benevolence. We’re starting the new year with Dama Sathaniathan, partner at Bethnal Green Ventures and a Trustee at Chayn to talk about how technology can be redesigned to be of benefit to people and the planet.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
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Hello! Thank you so much for listening along to the incredible conversations we've been having at Re-envision Business. We're hugely grateful to the inspiring group of people that have joined us from all over the world to unpack the systemic issues that are being perpetuated by businesses and what it will take to build a benevolent economy.
We're taking a little break with the holidays coming up but wanted to make sure you got a chance to catch up on these conversations. Here are some of the highlights from our 2021 episodes.
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In 2019, UpEffect and the Islamic Finance and Ethics Society had the honour of hosting Hoda Katebi at Kings College London. The goal of this event was ambitious: let's get real and address the state of the fashion industry, what financial equity is and why capitalism is broken. There is much to learn from Hoda but this event was a brief glimpse into the vast knowledge and experience she brings to the industry (much of it being exemplified through her recent initiative, an apparel manufacturing workers co-operative run by working class women of colour).
We're delighted to now bring this conversation to our Re-envision Business listeners as we know so many of you will enjoy it. It covers a spectrum of topics, including:
A special thank you to Georgina Wilson-Powell (Editor of pebble magazine) for facilitating a discussion that many described as a mind-blowing interview that changed their views on fast fashion forever.
Hoda Katebi is an Iranian-American writer, abolitionist organizer, and creative educator. Her work has been hailed from the BBC to the New York Times to the pages of VOGUE and featured and cited in books, journals, and museums around the world. Hoda is the host of #BecauseWeveRead, a radical digital book club and discussion series mobilizing local communities with 25+ chapters globally; founding member of Blue Tin Production, an apparel manufacturing workers co-operative run by working class women of color setting new international standards in labor and sustainability within fashion supply chains among many other hats.
We're also immensely grateful to Maaria Lohiya for capturing the event, event partner Emerald Network and our wonderful sponsors that made this event a success.
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Over 40 million people are enslaved at this time and we're still years away from having eliminated slavery from corporate supply chains. In this episode I'm joined by Nayantara Sriram, Founder of Supply Unchained to discuss the prevalence of modern slavery and how her social enterprise is working tackle it.
Nayantara has a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws in International Development and Human Rights with a thesis specialism on the drivers of Modern Slavery. She has read Supply Chain Management at the University of Cambridge.
She has previously worked with the World Health Organization, Government Legal Department and Special Advocates' Support Office.
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"We're seeing the largest amount of forcibly displaced people in the world today and a third of those are obvious climate refugees. We're seeing more conflicts due to resource scarcity, we're seeing a loss of livelihoods, economic shocks and the list goes on. These realities in turn lead to more gender injustices and the breakdown of communities and mental health problems."
In this conversation, we're joined by the cofounders of Ardh who describe the severity of our climate emergency, the importance of reviving cultural practices and spotlighting culturally diverse brands that are have always been at the forefront of the sustainability movement for centuries.
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In this episode I sit down with Dr. Rushdi Siddiqui, cofounder of iPortal Live. His platform is focused on building inclusive digital pathways for organisations stewarding responsible solutions aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. iPortal Live recently hosted the first of its kind conference on Rebuilding Palestine, which brought together Palestinian business leaders and Islamic Finance players to explore how best to share resources and networks to serve Palestinian organisations. Rushdi is also the Chair of World Waqf Day, a charitable endowment which has been widely used throughout Islamic history to develop and support communities.
In this conversation we discuss the importance of centring resources on wealth distribution above wealth creation and how Waqf and charity offer a promising solution to many of the problems impacting humanity.
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It's been deeply heartbreaking to witness the recent events unfold in Palestine. One way we can all help is by supporting and amplifying Palestinian social enterprises who are at the forefront of serving local communities. In this conversation, Dr Habashi helped shine a light on the power of creating dignified jobs for the women of Palestine.
Dr. Habashi is a Full Professor at the University of Oklahoma in the Department of Human Relations. Her research is with children and indigenous populations examining socialization, national identity, education, political participation/resistance, and children's rights-based approaches in policy and research.
She is also the founder and executive director of Child’s Cup Full, a non profit organization empowering refugee and low income women in Palestine through training and employment who produce educational and ethical fashion products for the Zeki Learning and Darzah brand.
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In our latest episode, we sit down with Samson Sahmland-Bowling, an engineer, educator and founding director of Open Energy Labs. We discussed Africa's energy infrastructure, the use of education to improve access to electricity, funding emerging market solutions and how to raise over £300k for a social enterprise.
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In this episode, we sit down with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, an educator, writer and poet from Leeds. Her work disrupts common understandings of history, race, knowledge and power - particularly interrogating the purpose of narratives about Muslims, migrants, gender and violence.
Suhaiymah offers an insight into the history of wealth and capitalism and this episode is packed with many examples that help us understand how our systems work and where we need to do better.
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Today we’re bringing you a bonus episode with Mayisha Begum also known as Oh So Ethical. A blog addressing labour rights and exploitation in the garment industry.
This episode is dedicated to the 1,134 lives that were lost in the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, considered to be the deadliest garment-factory disaster in history. In this conversation, Mayisha helps us re-envision the fashion industry.
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In this episode we’re joined by Umar Nasser, a junior NHS doctor training in psychiatry and co-founder of Rational Religion, which shows the relevance of Islamic teachings to solve today's problems. The platform has a particular focus on Islamic economics, both from a contemporary and historical perspective.
This is the second episode in a two part series on 'An introduction to Islamic economics'
Part 1 (Episode 2): We review capitalism, socialism, the banking sector and their impact on society. We also discuss the role of debt in exacerbating wealth inequalities.
Part 2 (Episode 3): We explore solutions to wealth inequalities and hear from Umar about Islamic economics, a 1,400 system that offers the best of capitalism and socialism. We discuss why and how the answer to today's pressing issues sit within the Islamic economics framework and what it has to offer to those building the new economy.
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In this episode we’re joined by Umar Nasser, a junior NHS doctor training in psychiatry and co-founder of Rational Religion, which shows the relevance of Islamic teachings to solve today's problems. The platform has a particular focus on Islamic Economics, both from a contemporary and historical perspective.
This is the first episode in a two part series on 'An introduction to Islamic economics'.
Part 1 (Episode 2): We review capitalism, socialism, the banking sector and their impact on society. We also discuss the role of debt in exacerbating wealth inequalities.
Part 2 (Episode 3): We explore solutions to wealth inequalities and hear from Umar about Islamic economics, a 1,400 system that offers the best of capitalism and socialism. We discuss why and how the answer to today's pressing issues sit within the Islamic economics framework and what it has to offer to those building the new economy.
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In this episode, Social Impact and Sustainability Strategist, Amirah Jiwa unpacks what it means to be socially responsible, how to steer clear of trends, the importance of taking a holistic lens and the first steps to building brands responsibly.
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