Walk Talk Listen Podcast

Walk Talk Listen, an attempt to connect people and make this world a bit better by sharing opinions and experiences based on the belief that everyone’s perspective is true albeit partial. It is also an effort to create awareness and to inspire a growing group of listeners to be engaged with the Global Goals (SDGs) and their attainment. A spin-off of the 100 mile walk. #gotheextra100mile
Episodes
Episodes



Wednesday May 31, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Nadira Hira (episode 117)
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Nadira Hira is a writer. But as media’s blossomed, so has she—from an award-winning journalist into a sought-after host, recognized Millennial expert, and ever-evolving storyteller who’s graced pages and stages from Fortune to VICE to the United Nations. But she’s most grateful to be a Caribbean-American kid and proud Stanford grad who gets to call Brooklyn, New York, home. For more from Nadira, visit http://www.nadirahira.com. She is also on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.



Wednesday May 24, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Andrea Kaufmann (episode 116)
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Andrea Kaufmann is World Vision’s Director of Faith and External Engagement. She has worked in international development, humanitarian and advocacy work for two decades—serving in programme management, technical leadership, communications and relationship building roles. She convenes and supports a number of groups promoting the rights and flourishing of children—including the Faith Action for Children on the Move network as well as the Weekend of Prayer and Against Hunger group. She serves on the World Bank’s Moral Imperative, the Board of Joint Learning Initiative for Faith and local communities and Arigatou International Advisory Group. She is passionate about the evidence-based role of faith and faith actors in development and humanitarian work and works to build cross-sector relationships to drive positive impact for children.
The social media handles of World Vision International are: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.



Wednesday May 17, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Mariam Torosyan (episode 115)
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Mariam Torosyan is the designer & architect of Safe YOU, an innovative technological solution in the form of an application and AI based platform created to fight Gender-Based Violence with over 28,000 users. As a social entrepreneur with a versatile background in Human Rights Law, Anthropology & Public Health, She is a recognized activist in the fight for women’s rights and gender equality. She founded Safe YOU and Impact Innovations Institute in 2020 as she saw the potential to create innovative technology which could solve some of the world’s most pressing social problems. Through this journey she has participated in a range of programs such as Cartier Women's Initiative, Google for Startups, UNDP Boost for Women Innovators, the UNFPA Innovation Challenge and the Young Transatlantic Leaders Initiative. Mariam is a Cartier Women's Initiative fellow, European Young Innovator, Equality Now Activist to Know and Young Transatlantic Innovation Leader (YTILI).
The Safe YOU social media handles: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram and Mariam's personal social media handles: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.



Wednesday May 10, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Kim Tan (episode 114)
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Kim Tan is a successful biotech entrepreneur, global social impact pioneer, and an advocate of changing how Christian entrepreneurs can make a difference around the globe. Kim is the co-founder of Transformational Business Network (TBN), a network of over 2,000 business people who bring about community transformation through sustainable business solutions to poverty. TBN projects include the Kuzuko Game Reserve (South Africa) and the Hagar Social Enterprise Group (Cambodia). Kim co-authored the book Fighting Poverty through Enterprise: The Case for Social Venture Capital with Lord Brian Griffiths, the Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, and wrote Jubilee Gospel which starts with the Old Testament institution Jubilee and traces related themes through the rest of the Bible. Source: Wow Factor Podcast.
You can find Kim Tan's TBN find on social media via: LinkedIn and Facebook
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.



Wednesday May 03, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Jeanné Lewis (episode 113)
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Jeanné Lewis serves as CEO at Faith in Public Life. She is a nonprofit executive, faith-based organizer, and authority on creating empowered communities. She has dedicated her career to building bridges, closing equity gaps and creating policies that lead to strong, thriving and self-determined cities.
As the vice president and chief engagement officer at the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy, Jeanné connected social justice organizations to the funding networks they’ve traditionally lacked access to so that they can increase their impact and persuade funders to improve their practice. Prior to that, she was the director of US Programs at Search for Common Ground, responsible for advancing bipartisan conversations and policies to address racial injustice. She’s further built support networks for military families and worked as a faith-based community organizer in Ohio and Florida.
Her consulting company, I to I Consulting, specializes in conflict resolution, strategic coalition-building and developing and implementing community-led solutions.
Jeanné resides in Washington, DC. She is a member of the DC Working Families Party, St. Augustine Catholic Parish and SongRise, a women’s social justice acapella group. In addition, Jeanné served on the Board of Directors of Faith in Public Life from 2016 to 2022 and currently sits on the National Advisory Council of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, the Board of Directors of Generations for Peace, USA, the president’s council of Search for Common Ground, is a member of the Faith and Giving Task Force of the Generosity Commission, and is a former candidate for DC Council At-Large.
Jeanné received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and holds a M.A. in Conflict Resolution from Antioch University Midwest.
Jeanné's her personal Twitter and her organization's social media handles: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.



Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Ellie Price (episode 112)
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Ellie Price is a corporate credit analyst at S&P Global Ratings, and prior was an Associate Director in public finance at Fitch Ratings. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer at Iris Light Technologies, a silicon photonics startup company spun out of Argonne National Lab.
While at University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, Price worked as an investment banking summer associate at Credit Suisse, and apprenticed as a venture capital associate.
Prior to grad school, Price directed The Locus Coalition of 14 NGOs, convening international development funders, policymakers, and practitioners to promote the design and evaluation of evidence-based, locally owned, and integrated global development programs. Price represented Locus members’ best practices as a speaker and moderator on pals at the UN, think tanks and other forums, and she oversaw all operations and activities of the Coalition and its Research and Learning Working Groups. Price also served as co-chair of the Society for International Development Young Professionals Network Washington DC Chapter. Prior to Locus, Price was a Crisis Response Program Officer at FHI 360, where she supported the launch of a humanitarian response unit and rapid response capabilities with the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in Borno State, Nigeria. She also served as an Urban Leaders Fellow in Denver, Colorado.
Price holds a Master's in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, a bachelor’s degree in international development studies from Calvin College and studied East African politics and religion at Uganda Christian University. During her undergraduate studies, Price performed research, fundraising strategy, and project design for nonprofits working with immigrant populations in Michigan. As a consultant for a healthcare management firm, she designed an impact evaluation for its international nonprofit arm, adapting training materials for healthcare managers in Dubai and sub-Saharan Africa.
Ellie is on on twitter.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.



Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Michelle Auerbach (episode 111)
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Michelle Auerbach is a world-builder and community-maker who uses all her geeky skills to support and educate change shapers. Michelle works as a consultant, educator, and writer focused on change shaping, creativity, and leadership for individuals, organizations, and communities. Michelle has been studying change and developing her change shaping practice for over 40 years. She has worked with institutions (the NY City Department of Health, Kaiser Permanente, and The National Institutes of Health), organizations (from Fortune 50 companies to NGOs and nonprofits) and communities (through activist movements, consulting, designing change processes and facilitating), and she creates communications and storytelling strategies for universities, legislative change groups, and pro-social businesses.
Her social media tools: twitter, instagram and facebook. Michelle's website. The website of her book that will be released on April 28, 2023, can be found here. And the Course she is talking about during this episode can be found here. Her company is called Modaka Communications.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.



Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Josh Spodek (episode 110)
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Joshua Spodek PhD MBA hosts the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, is a four-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, professor at NYU, published in the New Yorker, and leadership coach.
He holds a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate and helped launch a satellite (having emerged from some of Philadelphia’s most dangerous neighborhoods). He left academia to found a venture to market an invention that showed animated images to subway riders between stations.
He teaches and coaches leadership and entrepreneurship at NYU and Columbia Business School. He has spoken at Harvard, Princeton, West Point, Google, IBM, The New York Academy of Science, Children’s Aid Society, and other renowned institutions.
He has been published in The New Yorker, TIME, Inc., Quartz, and Psychology Today. Featured in pieces every major network, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and more, he has been called “best and brightest” in Esquire’s Genius issue, “astrophysicist turned new media whiz” by NBC, and “rocket scientist” by Forbes.
He visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River twice, has done burpees daily since 2011 (195,000 and counting), takes 3 years to produce one load of garbage, hasn’t flown (by choice) since March 2016, is in his second year with his refrigerator unplugged and sixth month with his apartment unplugged from the electric grid, and his carbon footprint is about 1 ton per year. He blogs daily at joshuaspodek.com.
His social media tools: twitter and facebook.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via our playlist #walktalklisten here.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org. We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS. The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.
