Walk Talk Listen Podcast

Virtual WalkTalk Listen with Robert Hahn (episode 81)

Robert Hahn is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit industry. He is the CEO and founder of the Central American Training Foundation (CATF) which seeks to empower the people of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to better prepare their region for emergencies and natural disasters through the creation of the Central American Training Center (CATC).  The Center will be a 49,000 square foot complex comprised of training rooms, a large auditorium, simulations rooms, classrooms and a state-of-the-art “Situation Room”.  The campus will include at least five acres of actual emergency simulation elements, and the property is 6 miles from the Palmerola International Airport in Comayagua. Palmerola Airport will act as the gateway hub for all of South and Central America. Currently no centralized training facility exists nor there is a region-controlled facility which trains, equips and stands ready to respond to any crisis on its own. Central America is now overly-dependent on the resources of countries from outside the region. While international cooperation and assistance will always remain important, the current situation leaves the area too reliant upon the resources, budgets and goodwill of outside governments. As the global economy staggers back from impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and more countries focus their efforts inward, Central America has never been more at risk. 
Robert is also the chairman of Honduras Compassion Partners Inc (HCP), along with the leadership team, he works with the gov't of the city of La Paz to improve municipal infrastructure such as the Women's Empowerment and Entrepreneurship, revitalizing the city-wide water system, up-grading medical facilities, firefighter training and equipping, and outfitting the school system. HPC also has a strong grassroots arm which has sent over 2,000 people on short term missions to Honduras, including medical teams. Further, he is the Senior Pastor at Chesapeake Church as well as the director of End Hunger In Calvert County Inc., a network of more than 150 partner churches, food pantries, businesses and other non-profits who are committed to feeding the hungry. This 501(c)(3) non-profit organization is Chesapeake’s major outreach ministry in our local community.
 
You can find his Foundation on Instagram, 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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Emma Stenström (episode 80)

Emma Stenström is Associate Professor and Director of Center for Arts, Business & Culture (ABC) at Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. She has always worked with bridging different spheres, in particular arts and business. Ongoing research projects include action research projects on bubble-hopping and two collaborations with the contemporary circus. 
 
Emma has received several pedagogical awards and teaches Global Challenges: Being, Global Citizenship, Global Leadership, and Sustainable Leadership. 
 
She has been Guest Professor at University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm and served on several boards, such as the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Society for Crafts and Design, the International Scene for Contemporary Dance, and Stockholm University of the Arts.
 
Beside her academic career, Emma works in media. She has hosted a TV-show for Swedish Television (SVT), and is a regular columnist in the daily business paper, Dagens Industri, since twenty years. 
 
Her social media handles from her work and personal are given below:
Instagram and her personal Instagram , Twitter, Facebook and her personal 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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.

WTL Special Series: Enough for All - Marty Colchamiro (episode 15)

Marty Colchamiro is one of the volunteers of The Hunger Walkathon West CROP Walk, a community event for the Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park, Melrose Park and Maywood, IL as well as the Austin Neighborhood in Chicago, IL. Each spring they hold a "walk" and raise funds to help with hunger issues both here and around the world. In their 37th year on May 3, 2020 they held their annual CROP Hunger Walk. They raised $100,000.00 on this day, the most ever in our history, although they beat it the next year as you can hear in this podcast. Marty is a podcast himself and you can find the episodes he makes about their walk via this site https://www.hwwcrop.org/podcasts
 
During our conversation, there is a moment when Marty is not able to remember the name of Michele Zurkowski Executive Director Beyond Hunger, https://www.gobeyondhunger.org/ and he wanted to be sure she was also properly acknowledged.
 
On their website, you can also find their social media handles, among others Twitter.
 
We made a special Playlist #CWSsongs consisting of songs chosen by many of our podcast guests.
 
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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time!

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Mai Ton (episode 79)

Mai Ton oversees the development and execution of Fabric’s people strategy. She has over 20 years of leadership experience in tech startups and has helped various companies through IPOs and M&A transactions. She has built the entire people function at every company she has worked and has won over 14 awards for her previous companies. She formerly led the People teams at White Ops, HelloSign, Onelogin and Trulia. Instead of helping one company at a time as an internal HR leader, Mai Ton formed her own consulting business, EMP HR Consulting, where she contributes her knowledge to help many companies simultaneously. Mai’s services provide companies a clear people strategy with core structures like performance management, compensation frameworks, remote strategies and benefits programs which increase employee engagement and retention. She was named to the list of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology in 2019. Mai is a Board member of LEAP.org a non-profit organization that helps Asian Americans break the bamboo ceiling. She is an advisor to some of the newest HR technology software companies and shares her knowledge with others by speaking at various HR conferences. She received a BA in Sociology from the University of Texas, Austin.
 
She wrote a book called: Come into My Office: Stories from an HR Leader in Silicon Valley
 
You can find her on Twitter 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 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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.
 

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Lori Poland (episode 78)

Lori Poland is a childhood survivor of a high-profile child abuse case and has since devoted her life and career to ending child abuse and neglect as well as healing its cycles and ripple effects. She has spent her career working in mental health and the nonprofit sector as a therapist for children and families. Lori transitioned from therapy to assume the job of Executive Director for EndCAN, leveraging her background in business management and program development. The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN) is a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of the health, mental health and public health impacts of abuse. EndCAN focuses on funding research; investing in innovative child abuse prevention and treatment; and supporting survivors.
 
Lori travels nationally as a motivational speaker talking about possibilities after trauma, becoming a transcender, and the ripple effects of trauma on children and families. Additionally, Lori has consulted within the legal system to advocate for change in the field and to develop greater understanding.  During this podcast she talks about her book that will be release on 7/11/2022 and can be found here.
 
Her book and memoir "I Live Here" will be released soon and can be pre-ordered here. It is an intimate tale of survival, triumph, and empowerment. This inspirational memoir retells what happened during Lori’s four “missing” days, and chronicles her memories of identifying her abuser, facing his imprisonment and release, and tackling people’s sometimes-unpleasant reactions.
 
The social media handles from Lori's company are: Instagram, Facebook en twitter and from Lori herself: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Her own website can be found here.
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. Although Lori chose two songs, she was not able to recall the name and title of the second song during our conversation, so therefore I am posting it here. She said to me via email: The singer Lee Ann Womack released a song called "I hope you dance" (MB: already added to the playlist). "I love this song and I choose it because it talks about both hope and grit at once. About humility and our ability to stumble in our humanness, as well as embark on love for support of those around us. The fight and willingness to keep going and to have fun (dancing) while doing all of the hard." ❤
 
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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.

WTL Special Series: Enough for All - Rick Augsburger (episode 14)

Rick Augsburger has worked for more than 25 years as a leader in the international development and humanitarian sector, focusing on leadership, staff resilience, program growth and strategy and is he a founding partner of the Konterra Group.
 
Prior to joining the KonTerra Group, Rick served as the deputy director of the Headington Institute (2007-2008), Director of Emergency Programs (1996-2005) and Deputy Director (2005-2007) for Church World Service, an international relief and development agency. He has a BA in Business Administration and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Leadership program in Performance Measurement and Management for Nonprofit Organizations.
 
Rick was also regional advisor for the United States Agency for International Development-OFDA in East Africa and the associate director for Mennonite Disaster Service. He brings more than twenty years of experience in humanitarian programming. He has traveled extensively working on relief and development programs in more than 70 countries. He has also led disaster rapid response teams and participated as a trainer and consultant for numerous humanitarian agencies.
 
From 2000 to 2005 Rick served as the co-chair of InterAction’s Humanitarian Policy and Practice Committee. Prior to that he was a member of InterAction’s executive board of directors and represented the U.S.-based humanitarian community on the United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Working Group.
 
My conversation with Rick Augsburger took place in 2021.
 
For more info about CWS, please check out this website. The Konterra Group is on Facebook and Twitter. You can also find Rick on Facebook.
 
We made a special Playlist #CWSsongs consisting of songs chosen by many of our podcast guests.
 
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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time!

WTL Special Series: Enough for All - Eunice Kamaara (episode 13)

Eunice Kamaara is a professor of Religion at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, and International Affiliate of Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis (US). She holds MPhil in Religion, MSc. in International Health Research Ethics, and PhD in African Christian Ethics. Her three-in-one public role involves teaching/training, research, and community service. She trains on Advanced Research Methodology including Research Ethics and Integrity; Transformative Teaching and Learning; Gender Mainstreaming; Higher Education Management; Quality Management; Project Planning and Development including Monitoring and Evaluation; Adolescent Sexual/Reproductive Health; and HIV Prevention and Intervention. She conducts trans/multi-disciplinary and community participatory research on gender, character values, and holistic health, and has over 100 publications.  Eunice is passionate about translating research findings into practical development through policy influence and community uptake. She is President of the Eldoret Based Gender and Development Network (EldoGaDNet), a community participatory self-development agent. She enjoys mentoring adolescents and youth.  She has served on the  board of CWS (Church World Service) for several years and is an observer of the CWS Innovation Hub. Her public role overlaps with her private role as mother, daughter, wife, sister, aunt, neighbor, among others. She is Presbyterian by birth, Roman Catholic by marriage, and Christian by choice. Eunice is a Top 30 WHO Africa health innovator: https://www.afro.who.int/news/who-innovation-challenge-announce-30-finalists-africa-health-forum-cabo-verde 
 
For more info about CWS, please check out this website. 
 
We are also making a special Playlist #CWSsongs consisting of songs chosen by our podcast guests.
 
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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time!

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Kate Schecter (episode 77)

Kate Schecter, Ph.D., joined World Neighbors as the President and CEO in June of 2014. World Neighbors is a 71 year old international development organization that works with rural isolated communities to help find solutions to permanently lift these communities out of poverty. Dr. Schecter is responsible for managing World Neighbors’ programs and operations in 14 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In her previous position, she worked for the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) for 14 years. As a Senior Program Officer at AIHA, she had responsibility for managing health partnerships throughout Eurasia and Central and Eastern Europe. She worked with over 35 partnerships addressing primary healthcare, chronic disease management, hospital management, maternal/child health, Tuberculosis, blood safety and HIV/AIDS.
From 1997 to 2000, Dr. Schecter worked as a consultant for the World Bank specializing in healthcare reform and child welfare issues in Eurasia and Eastern Europe. She taught political science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for four years (1993-1997). She is the co-editor and co-author of Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Post-Soviet Russia (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), author of a chapter in Russia’s Torn Safety Nets: Health and Social Welfare in Post-Communist Russia (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), an entry on Chernobyl for Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Europe 1914-2004, (2006), and a biography of Boris Yeltsin (Chelsea House Publishers, 1993). She also has made three documentary films for PBS about the Former Soviet Union. Over the past eight years at World Neighbors, Dr. Schecter has authored or co-authored 15 articles about the challenges of international development in very poor rural countries, the impact of climate change on the poor, and how to help alleviate mass migration through effective international aid. An article in YaleGlobal Online in October 2019, was titled, Helping Guatemalans Stay in Guatemala.
Dr. Schecter holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and an M.A. in Soviet Studies from Harvard University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the Board of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. from 2010 to 2018.
 
The social media handles from Kate's company are: Instagram, Facebook en 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 (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.