Just, Good Business

Newest Podcast Episode with Charbel Daniel, CEO of Northwood group of organization is 'On-Air' now. Northwood has been providing long term care and home based care for a long long time. These services are financed by Canadian state, written into the Province's budget. Inadequate and in high demand as much as those are, Northwood is one of several organizations in Nova Scotia providing those services to our elderly and the aging. But, interestingly, Northwood also offers affordable housing in HRM region - 400+ units, as amazingly affordable rents. And, does so in a fashion that does not seek grants, but manages to run a surplus budget - by operating it both efficiently and effectively. The families renting with Northwood may pay up to $1000 less than what they may pay in open market! So how does Northwood runs this amazing social enterprise completely relying on their enterprise revenue, what are the motivations to do so, what kind of people work at Northwood, what kind of social impact this social enterprise is creating and hopes to expand even further? What made Charbel join Northwood's amazing team? Listen to this authentic, from the heart conversation that Matt and Anuj had with Charbel, learning about yet another amazing social enterprise of Nova Scotia. A very different approach than say what Ron Lovett and VIDA is doing with that disruptive enterprise, but establishing an equally compelling and cool, disruptive business model. Affordable housing solutions do not have to be held hostage to grants and charity, a social enterprise approach can indeed be part of the systemic solution solving housing and affordability challenges! This will be our third podcast of housing sector in season II, Blue House Energy and Shawna Henderson being the other one who came as a guest in episode 3. Enjoy yet another amazing enterprise story - creating prosperity beyond profits!

What does it take to create Affordable Housing in a growing Canadian City and the capital of Nova Scotia? Tune in this Friday to listen to legacy work of Northwood, their current capacity to house over 400 families with lower market rents, and their future plans - all done without any grants, running this part of their operation as a social enterprise! Creating Prosperity Beyond Profit - how its CEO, Charbel Daniel has embraced and is taking forward social impact driven vision. Our own Podcast co-hosts Matt Thomson and Anuj Jain sat with him and learned a ton - yet another episode revealing incredible ecosystem of social enterprises in our beautiful Nova Scotia.

11th Episode coming up this Friday! Matt and Anuj sat down with Charbel Daniel, CEO of Northwood. Their motto: "We measure success not in profits, but in smiles, happiness and love." Don't miss this episode of Just, Good Business Podcast, for it truly gives us deep insights about a long history of social enterprises in Nova Scotia, and how and why the young get attracted to businesses that see prosperity beyond profit. Here is a sneak preview.

Just, Good Business Podcast Episode 10 is out! Dorothy Spence of Imaginal Ventures Inc. was our guest for this episode - how this organization is incubating social impact businesses, "At Imaginal Ventures we energise transformational leaders who believe that businesses can be a force for good. Our approach enables businesses and teams to focus on the integration of Human Dynamics and Business Mechanics throughout their strategy. This accelerates growth, scale and impact. We are an ecosystem that supports the learning and evolution of newly emerging structures and systems by helping business leaders to build purpose led businesses from the inside out." Matt Thomson and Anuj Jain had a great time exploring both practical and philosophical distentions of business and private sector world with Dorothy, what an amazing learning space she created for us. Our social enterprise ecosystem is well and thriving in Nova Scotia!!

Our Podcast Episode 9 with Charlotte Jewer, sharing how East Coast Credit Union is also supporting social impact through grants of $150,000 every year. For full episode, https://shorturl.at/SUvJI don't miss it! Matt and Anuj have a wide ranging conversation with Charlotte - how and why Banks can create Prosperity Beyond Profits! #EastCoastCreditUnion #SocialEnterprise #NovaScotia

What is East Coast Credit Union doing to be environmentally conscious - in its own operations as well as how it manages its portfolio? It is not just good environmentally, it is also good for the bottom line. For full episode and conversation of Matt and Anuj with Charlotte Jewer, visit https://shorturl.at/6N5lp #EastCoastCreditUnion #JustGoodBusiness

9th Episode Out Today! Season 2 is seeing second episode in a row on banking, how banking does and can create social impact. Today, we have the episode with Charlotte Jewer, East Coast Credit Union - where Matt and Anuj had a wide ranging conversation with her on how the credit union does banking with a difference, members owned and governed, invests in local communities across Nova Scotia, keeps capital circulating within our province - both urban and rural regions where other banks are often not even present. And more! Just, Good Business Podcast Season II has had an amazing run thus far, curating yet many more, diverse social enterprises and business that are committed to social and environmental impacts, adopting unusual, disruptive business models. For looking at the whole series, click https://shorturl.at/BXelj where you will also find episodes from Season I (thanks to our partner, podcast producer Podstarter!) Enjoy...

East Coast Credit Union is on our 9th Podcast Episode, getting released tomorrow! Matt Thomson and Anuj Jain sat down with Charlotte Jewer to learn about their approach to banking, why and how it is fundamentally different than commercial banks, and what difference does it really make at the end of the day? If you have missed our current episode with Michelle Reid of BDC, here is the linkhttps://shorturl.at/ViZdT once again. Tomorrow's episode will continue on the Banking theme, bringing in elements of how and why credit unions are fundamentally different in the way they do banking. Do you know the difference? Tune in tomorrow...

Just, Good Business Podcast Episode 8 in On-Air Wholly owned Crown Corporation Bank, BDC has been playing a critical role completely focused on promoting entrepreneurship and enterprises in Canada (and not just the bottom line), It is the ONLY large Bank that has B.Corp Certification! Michelle Reid (she/her) of BDC spoke to Matt and Anuj about BDC's approach, programs, what it offers to Canadian entrepreneurs, and what it is doing to also promote Social Enterprise Ecosystem. She is the first guest out of province for us, but also speaks to their outreach in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada! As usual, the episode is yet again produced by our partner Podstarter. For this and all other episodes thus far in Season II and Season I, this link will take you there! https://shorturl.at/aWZed Enjoy! Write to us, what like, what more you would like to learn, what more we can do to profile the rich and vibrant social enterprise ecosystem in Nova Scotia.

BDC on How They Help Businesses Get Certified as B Corp! Here is another clip from upcoming episode with Michelle Reid, getting released tomorrow morning, 5 am (Atlantic time zone), episode 8 of Season II, thanks to Podstarter. For current episode with Mike McGlone of Afishionado Fishmongers, https://lnkd.in/eU_KyJr9 find it here!