The Dollar And Difference Show

Hey Change Nation, we are back with our series featuring the ‘Best of SCN’! This series is focused on taking you back to some of our early days in podcasting and sharing the inspiring and challenging stories of our early entrepreneurs! This week we are featuring an entrepreneur who found a new use for an old product- a great way to be innovative! Co-founder Zach Holzapfel and his team realized that by implementing a social mission into their business, they could not only impact consumers of the product, but also others in the world who need resources for a better livelihood, thus, Mission Belt was formed! This company has the one belt that can give you a perfect fit every time. How you ask? No holes, no size requirements! Th --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Last week in social entre 101 we talked about crowdfunding. (if you missed it, click here to check out the audio version) If crowdfunding platforms are an amateur sport, venture capital is where the professionals go to play. That’s not to say you shouldn’t explore this option as a new startup, but it is a game that is played by a vastly different set of rules than the crowdfunding game. If you’ve never heard of venture capital before, it’s essentially where someone (or some business) has a lot of free cash to invest.  They then give you that cash so you can build a product, pay salaries, market, or any --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Welcome to Friday. Last week, I asked you to ask yourself some questions that will help you figure out how you want to fund your social venture. If you missed that, or any other lesson in Social Entrepreneurship 101, you can always click here for the audio lessons. During the next few weeks, I’m going to walk you through the --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

As we roll forward in social entrepreneurship 101, it's time we started chatting about how you'll fund your social venture. This is the question I'm most frequently asked about. Next week, I'll start getting you some resources to find funding, but first, I want you to start by asking some questions of yourself:  One of the largest challenges I see cause based entrepreneurs face is how to raise the cash needed to launch their businesses.  In the early days, you’ll be refining your story, developing your process, and linking up with your customers.  So, it’s highly likely that you will need some ‘seed’ funding to kee --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Hey Change Nation! We are back with our series featuring the ‘Best of SCN’! This series is focused on taking you back to some of our early days in podcasting and sharing the inspiring and challenging stories of our early entrepreneurs! This week we are featuring Bridget Hilton, an entrepreneur who is literally helping our world to hear every day! The passion she brings to the table fuels her business for social good, LSTN Headphones!      Bridget Hilton, got her inspiration for LSTN Headphones after watching a viral YouTube video of a woman hearing her own voice for the first time.  She knew then that she wanted to help give the gift of hearing to the hearin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

“your profitability = your ability to profit others.” – Social Change NationWelcome to another fantastic Friday.  As you're now well aware, Friday is the day we dish out a fresh installment of social entrepreneurship 101.  These are the lessons I learned from interviews with 101 social entrepreneurs. If you've missed any, click here for the audio versions. Today, let's talk about profit...The only way to turn a profit in cause-based business is to profit others far more than you profit yourself.  That doesn’t mean you’ll take a vow of poverty, in fact you can do quite well in this business, but it does mean that you have to be other centered.You’ve already shown where your --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Hey Change Nation! We are back with our series featuring the ‘Best of SCN’! This series is focused on taking you back to some of our early days in podcasting and sharing the inspiring and challenging stories of our earl --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

"Make people feel like they can become part of something greater than themselves, and they’ll love you for it."That's a little quote I dreamed up as I was chatting with social entrepreneurs around the world.  If there is one thing that makes a successful social entrepreneur stand out, it's their ability to bring people into causes that are bigger than any one person. In today's installment of social entrepreneurship, let's talk about how you build a team that is dedicated to your mission. If you don't think you're at the point of building a team, think again - even if you're finding volunteers or committed customers, you need to be thinking about building your movement from the earliest of days.  (btw, if you've missed earlier installments of social entrepreneurship 101, 

I hope you're having a stellar Friday.  On my end, I'm deep in wedding planning and ready for some cooler fall weather! Football season is also kicking into high gear, so I'm pretty jazzed about that. Anyway, for our next installment of social entrepreneurship 101 I want us to move into the nuts and bolts of social entrepreneurship.  These are the things like legal structure, funding, product creation, etc that make this whole world tick. Ready to rock? Good. Let's do this: You’re entering the world of cause-based business at a very exciting time. Millenials are using their enormous influence and buying power to shift the course of business forever. Today’s consumer is no longer content with a business that drives toward the single bottom line of profit --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

Welcome to this latest installment in Social Entrepreneurship 101. If you missed the other lessons, check out the audio versions here. Today, let’s chat about your partners who’ll help you build your venture. The fundamental truth of social entrepreneurship is this: we’re all in it together. Social entrepreneurs are the most generous, caring, and helpful people on the planet.  But we’re also business minded.  So, as you create your movement, come up with ways to create synergies that result in a win for all parties involved.

Welcome back to our series on social entrepreneurship!  I’m working to get you the basic foundation you’d need to get rolling as a social entrepreneur.  Oh, and btw, if you didn’t catch the first parts of the series, I’ll be posting it all on the podblog. Click here if you missed out. Today will be a longer one, but we’re going to be covering a really important topic: how to create a product or service that will be your business and drive your social good efforts.  Let’s start things off with a quote from a social entrep --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

What’s krackin’?  I hope you’ve been having a swell day, and are ready to rock your Friday with some words of wisdom about social change. Before we break into today's lesson on social entrepreneurship, I wanted to apologize that I haven't put out a 'best of' episode of the podcast here in a bit.  That's my bad, and I'll work to get it rolling again soon.  The reason is exciting - our new podcast has been a blast and taking up good chunks of our time, but still, no reason we can't get some best of episodes in your earbuds.  I'll work on that this weekend and get those rolling again.  Alright, 'nuff said on that...You’ll remember last week in social entre 101 we chatted about crafting your why (remember, if you’re still having trouble on that, hit ‘reply’ and I’ll help you).  So, I’m assuming you’ve started that up (don’t worry if it’s far from perfect - the key --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

I mentioned that you can get a $1k grant to start your social venture in this podcast - click here for more info.   “We’ve got trouble?”  

“We’ve got trouble?”   It was the 5th time in about as many days that I’d heard this question from Arion.  Despite the fact that it typically followed one of his many classroom disturbances, it always made me smile inwardly. The little dude was a troublemaker to be sure, but he was also one of my favorite --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

  In a hurry and just wanna listen to this post?  Click here to subscribe to our podblog on Itunes.   What’s happenin’?  I really can’t tell you how excited I am for the things we have on the horizon here at Change Nation.  From the reformatted

Hey Change Nation! This is the fourth week in July of our series featuring the 'Best of SCN'! Focused on taking you back to some of our early days in podcasting, I believe this interview will be interesting to many. This week we discuss an area of social entrepreneurship that Social Change Nation is very passionate about: Urban Innovation. Clara Brenner, the founder and director of the Tumml has been able to change urban cities and for good with her non-profit urban venture accelerator Tumml! Their mission is to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. With a hands-on approach, Tumml provides entrepreneurs with the tools to help scale their impact and enhance quality of life in cities everywhere.  Clara shares many stories of urban impact ventures that have solved --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

  In a hurry and just wanna listen to this post?  Click here to subscribe to our podblog on Itunes!   Hey & happy Friday!  

Hey Change Nation! This is the third week of our series featuring the "Best of SCN"! Focused on taking you back to some of our early days in podcasting, this week we are bringing back my interview with Pure Joy Fo --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

An audio version of the blog post for the week.  Josh goes one on one to chat about the latest in his life and journey toward becoming an agent for social change.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dollaranddifference/support

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