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Nathan A. Stuck of Profitable Purpose Consulting joins the Mighty Measure Podcast to discuss “building the beloved community” through practical action and sustained progress. He shares his path from trucking, poker, and Enterprise sales to repeated layoffs, returning to UGA for an MBA, becoming Athens’ first Uber driver, and witnessing low-wage workers juggling multiple jobs, which pushed him to question capitalism. A B Corp project through UGA’s Net Impact Club introduced him to values-driven business and led to work at ADV (now V) and later teaching B Corps at UGA. Stuck discusses learning from history, resilience amid backlash against terms like DEI/ESG, and community work including trash cleanups and homelessness advocacy, emphasizing affordable housing as a major challenge.He argues for bridge-building across divides, leading by example, and focusing on helping “one” person at a time.

Scott Smith of Smith and Connors shares how his path from aspiring novelist and freelancer in New York to Portland-based strategist led him to build a purpose-driven agency with his wife and sister-in-law in 2013, aiming to use strategy “for good” and work with values-aligned clients. He describes early growth sparked by winning a major bid with Meyer Memorial Trust, the challenges of balancing profitability with values in an extractive system, and a 2020 reset after COVID when the firm shrank, went fully remote, and adopted a new metric focused on the experience of clients, employees, contractors, and partners. Smith discusses becoming a B Corp as an external marker of existing practices, emphasizes Smith and Connors’ core offering of clarity and alignment through “design therapy,” audience mapping, and empathy, and reflects on optimism driven by clients, cultural shifts toward vulnerability, and curiosity as a core value.

Pallavi Pande, Oregon mompreneur and founder of DTOCS compostable tableware and DTOCS Consulting, an Amazon growth partner firm, joins Kim Allchurch Flick on the podcast.Pallavi shares how a disappointing experience with a Google marketing agency - spending about $20,000 for fewer than three sales - taught her to track weekly metrics and led her to build a consulting model focused on educating clients with calls, SOPs, and training. She explains why Amazon became DTOCS’s primary channel (about 80% of sales), especially during COVID, and how Amazon can help small businesses with visibility, logistics, inventory optimization, and storytelling/PR, while acknowledging concerns about packaging and warehouse conditions and noting avenues for advocacy. The conversation covers using AI tools, choosing channels strategically, supply-chain lessons from prior jobs and businesses, documenting impact, and community involvement.

LaToya “Patrice” Seawood, founder and principal consultant of Level Up Management, MBA professor, and Mighty Impacts instructor, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss the theme “your business is not stuck; your systems are.” Seawood shares how she started Level Up during COVID after leaving her job to care for her children and evolved it into a social-enterprise-minded consultancy focused on turning vision into clarity, structure, action, and impact, with emphasis on operations, workforce development, and customer experience. She describes common challenges for entrepreneurs and nonprofits - lack of administrative knowledge, undervaluing operations until breakdowns occur, and the emotional side of change and trust - especially during growth. She highlights tailored leadership development for marginalized communities, building workforce pipelines, aligning operations with purpose and values, and helping founders let go so the owner is not the system.

Shanti Joy Gold, a former corporate leader turned entrepreneur and coach who supports LGBTQ+ and other underrepresented professionals, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss how stories reconnect people. Shanti describes hiding her relationship at work for a decade, later coming out in workplace conversations and on LinkedIn, and how allies’ responses sparked her podcast, Stories We Haven’t Shared, creating a forum for under-discussed experiences. They discuss the ongoing, complex nature of “coming out,” the “radar” marginalized people use to assess safety, and how challenges can become superpowers. Shanti highlights podcast episodes on disability (Ruth Blatt), a Holocaust survivor (Tibor Spitz), and her father’s Vietnam experience, and emphasizes presence over rumination. She shares her website, monthly “Saboteur No More” gatherings, and a surfing metaphor for mental fitness; they also discuss music, including the Indigo Girls.