Do More Good podcast

🎄✨ GIVING AWAY £100M WITH MARK CONSTANTINE OBE, LUSH CO-FOUNDER 🎁💚 In this Christmas Special, we’re joined by the incredible Mark Constantine OBE—self-made entrepreneur and co-founder of LUSH, who’s been responsible for gifting £100M to good causes. 🙌🌍 From advent calendars to Snickers Bars, we dive into Mark’s remarkable journey: ➡️ Overcoming homelessness at 16 ➡️ The story behind LUSH’s cash-friendly philosophy ➡️ Styling icons like Anna Wintour ✂️👗 ➡️ Aligning business with environmental values 🌱 ➡️ And even travelling to New York on horseback 🐎🗽 We also explore the art of grant-free giving, ensuring donations make the right impact, and the magic of the entrepreneurial spirit. 💡💫 A celebration of generosity, resilience, and reciprocity—an engaging and heartwarming story to end 2024. 💖✨ 🎧 Available on all good podcast platforms! Links in the comments. #Entrepreneurship #LushCosmetics #Generosity #Philanthropy #PodcastSeason #Sustainability #ChristmasSpecial #Leadership #Inspiration

🎙️ On a day when some podcasts are under fire for spreading misinformation, we’re proud to share the latest episode of the Do More Good Podcast. No clickbait. No hidden agendas. No corporate strings attached. Just authentic, meaningful conversations with people we truly admire. This week, Kenneth Foreman flies solo for a nostalgic episode featuring the brilliant Timothy Parry. Tim, formerly Director of Communications, Brand, and Digital at Alzheimer's Research UK’s and now shaping change at the incredible behavioural agency Claremont Comms, joins us for a rich and inspiring discussion. Together, they explore: ✨ Growing alongside an organisation and the career opportunities it unlocks. ✨ Taking calculated risks in a risk-averse sector to grab attention. ✨ Rubbing shoulders (and becoming BFFs!) with none other than Samuel L. Jackson. There's the weight of an orange to the size of Wales, connecting with your your audience, pitching to the trustees, removing the jargon, and learning to listen. No conspiracies, no pseudo-science—just honest insights and reflections from someone who’s achieved incredible things and is generous enough to share it with us. 🎧 Tune in, take notes, and enjoy the conversation. Links to the episode in the comments #DoMoreGood #Podcast #CareerDevelopment #Leadership #Communication

🔥 🔥 Brand new episode - 122/ FINDING JOY IN A PORTFOLIO CAREER WITH SUE ANSTISS MBE 🔥 🔥 As one of our favourite past guests, we were delighted to catch up with PR mogul, podcaster, documentary producer, author and champion of women's sport, Sue Anstiss MBE. We discuss: 👉 The shift we are seeing in women's sports, but how far we still have to go. 📽 Exploring your creativity and following your passion. 🙍♀️ How the women's sport collective is aiming to get more women into senior roles in sport. Kenneth dialled in from prison. We talk hyrox and alcohol detox; sweating like a chicken; repeating the golden age; and finding the joy in play. There's writing your own introduction, the power of consistency and the importance of language - something that Lilly (aged seven) would undoubtedly appreciate. Thanks to Sue for joining us and if you're interested in hearing more check-out Fearless Women

🚨 🚨 Episode 121 - BUILDING A PROPER LINKEDIN NETWORK WITH MICHELLE BENSON 🚨 🚨 Do you find yourself 'lurking' on LinkedIn? 99% of us are. Scrolling through posts, engaging with our friends and colleagues and not being found by those organisations, or individuals who could accelerate our mission. It's the biggest networking event in the world. The who's who of potential buyers/corporate partners/funders are all in attendance, yet we're often found at the virtual bar speaking with friends and colleagues. Confirmed Big Deal in fundraising LinkedIn, Michelle Benson joins on the podcast this week to talk us through the site's shift from job site to relationship building forum. Michelle shares some brilliant insight, tips and advice on how to make the most of using LinkedIn to support fundraising, but the tips are applicable to anyone wanting to network with others through the platform. 🗽 We go back to Michelle' humble first gig - working on a disruptive Nike campaign in Manhattan - and subsequent career built upon doing things differently. 🛒 We pick up a shopping trolley, adapt to our environment and pick up some tips on breaking out of the echo chamber. 🛁 Pour yourself a bubble bath, turn off your air con and build a proper network.  Available on all good podcast platforms

🔥 🔥 Episode 117 - Thinking big, getting shit done and have fun with Esther Foreman 🔥🔥 20 years in the social-good space, time spent running award-winning campaigns, supporting enterprise and building teams. Esther’s career has spanned Doctors without Borders, Shelter, Help the Aged and Mencap before founding The Social Change Agency & then the The Social Change Nest , where she supports over 600 organisations to grow, innovate and support people through fiscal and process hosting. 🪄 Its a packed episode including a failed PhD, how leadership and cults go wrong and the magic in decentralised technology. 👨🎤There’s a life-changing meeting with Bob Geldof, a reminder of Kenneth’s cover-star status and the unique challenges for middle-children. 🏎️Then there’s female founders, why you should choose a chauffeur over a babysitter and a cool origin story. 💰 We dive into our risk-appetite, getting the money to those making the impact and a call to arms for mutual aid. It’s a belter. Available on all good podcast platforms

Finally....we're back! It's been a while... 🔥 🔥 Episode 116/ ARE YOU AN ARTIST, A MANAGER OR AN ENTREPRENEUR WITH Rob Woods 🔥 🔥 Our guest on the podcast this week has worked in charity fundraising since the year 2000. If you can find a fundraising trainer more passionate and purpose-driven about the sector, we’re yet to find them. His business, Bright Spot Fundraising has helped thousands of individuals to unlock their potential in fundraising. Offering a series of expertly constructed courses and programmes we’ve been huge fans of this guest and his role in the sectors for many years. So much so, that this will be his second appearance on the pod, originally joining us in Dec 2017 in what was our 20th episode. We’re pleased to welcome Rob back to the podcast to hear him share knowledge bombs on how you can improve your skills as a fundraiser.   Available wherever you get your podcasts. #fundraising #charitysector #personaldevelopment #training #domoregood #brightspot #podcast

🔥 Episode 114: Crime, gangs and violence to leading Criminal Justice at Causeway Charity The importance of lived experience with stuart otten 🔥 "If you've done the crime then you do the time." 😂 James Wright delivers a thank you to our Patreon supporter, Jeremy through his new monochrome webcam and Kenneth Foreman dreams of a trip to Turkey. 🎢 Then it's over to our guest Stu to talk about his work fighting modern slavery and the rollercoaster route that got him there. From a Liverpool council estate to a well-intentioned decision which led him into the wrong scene. 📱 We talk about intervention, entrepreneurship in the underworld, warehouse robberies and a SIM card worth £250,000. 🌍 Then we cover societal change, root causes and being at the end of a phone when the time comes. Read more about Stu's story here: https://lnkd.in/eYBPjXBb Apple podcast 🍏 https://lnkd.in/eAbB4g7V Spotify 🎧 https://lnkd.in/exGCeht9 patreon.com/domoregoodpod

🔥🔥 New episode - Fundraising Megatrends with Chris Innes 🔥🔥 After a slow start to the year we’re back with three brand new episodes over the coming weeks before we jump back into more interviews with people aiming to Do More Good. Recorded live at IFC last October, we discuss the megatrends which continue to impact the fundraising environment. Confirmed BDIF, Chris Innes, joins us to talk through the findings from the IFL Forum which immediately preceded the IFC. Expect to tick the #permacrisis, #AI and the #experienceeconomy off your DMG bingo card, as well as confidently dropping a discussion point about truth and opinion into polite conversation later. We also talk through the big issues, including agreeing on the market leaders in flat pasta; the benefits of marrying your modern languages tutor; and how we're in the nice bit of the Artificial Inteligence movie. Spotify 🎧 https://lnkd.in/eyuRN-BE Apple 🍎- https://lnkd.in/eU9trAtR Stream 💻 - https://lnkd.in/eDDWXsSE Thanks to the The Resource Alliance for bringing together fundraisers and social impact specialists from across the world. Look out for information on the 2024 event in October https://lnkd.in/enj6ccWE

To continue our recent episodes recorded at the #ifc2023 conference we have a conversation with Leadership & Team Development consultant and owner of Sharpstone Skinner Helena Sharpstone We have a delightful conversation through her career, including her start in sales, an extended honeymoon period in non-profits, and why she's investing her own pocket money in chilli plants. Before she reveals how taking an interview for a bet nearly horribly backfired, she talks about… 👉🏻 The importance of finding purpose in your role. 🖼️ How she finds there's more creativity when there's less resource. 👩💼 Why fundraisers don't like to think of themselves as salespeople. 👫 The importance of high performance and creating teams based on challenge and relationships. Before closing we get to a far better approach to resilience, valuing your staff, why not everyone makes a good manager and squeeze in James Wright annual review. Available on all good podcast platforms Spotify 🎧 - https://lnkd.in/e7rGcnKS Apple 🍎 - https://lnkd.in/exK7DFB9 Web 💻- https://lnkd.in/ekS9ucPv

Happy New Year. After a short break we’re back with a collection of episodes recorded during late 2023. 🔥 Episode 111 - Revolutionary time with Erica Chenoweth🔥 The first in the series is a highlight, as we grabbed a seat in the press room for a conversation between, Bill Toliver and Erica Chenoweth before Erica took to the stage for their plenary speech at the #ifc2023 event in November. They dive straight in talking people power; revolution; divide and rule; and power relations between our opponents. Erica describes the power of hope and the critical mass for societal change as well as describing their work writing a Phd in violent conflict. There’s the power and dangers of digital in movements and surveillance, the ice bucket challenge and the most beautiful mullets of 1983 before Kenneth made a pitch for ‘smartest person in the room’ by braving a question at the end (a valiant but doomed effort). Apple 🍎 https://lnkd.in/dpYm2kHc Spotify 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dGTJMCcj Streaming https://lnkd.in/dDA3iCKN