Project Inclusion: The Podcast

To open our second season, we sit with Robbie Cape, a serial entrepreneur committed to building successful businesses dedicated to repairing the world meaningfully. He co-founded and is CEO of Mt. Joy, a restaurant that focuses on bringing irresistible fried chicken sandwiches from farm-to-table using regenerative practices. When Robbie's not thinking about how to help more farmers farm regeneratively, he's working on building a more sustainable, transparent supply chain for good food. Today, we talk to Robbie about his journey from tech to the food industry and how he's making Mt. Joy's business model of an inclusive food-farmer-processing-distribution and-consumer ecosystem, one that can take how we eat, how we farm, and how we care for our planet into the next generation.   How can food be the key to unlocking the next high-impact business model? How do you make good food that is healing for the planet, its people, and its animals? How hard is it really to do good and do good business? What does it take to create an ecosystem that shows how fried chicken can be used to change the status quo?

In this episode, we sit with Gil Gershoni, a leader in the world of brand design, and talk about how his journey as a dyslexia designer has led him to unlock new futures, new realities, and new ways of thinking for brands. Gil is also the founder of Dyslexic Design Thinking, an initiative that explores how the dyslexic mindset can help improve the way we think, create and relate to one another. He is the host of the Dyslexic Design Thinking podcast featuring dyslexic creators, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders.  

How would you connect with communities and people that are different from you, or your way of life? How would you design a program that can help farmers in developing countries begin to create a relationship with digital technology? How would you help a community of 10,000 Filipinos understand the impact of misinformation on their daily lives? How would you navigate the politics of the public sector to help improve the lives of your local citizens? In this episode, Fanny and Mindy hear from Joie Cruz about what it takes to drive social innovation in the Phillipines.

How do you define a life well lived?  How can we celebrate the incredible wit, wisdom, and experiences of older adults living full, meaningful lives and use them as inspiration for our own lives instead of overlooking older adults? What happens when a small family project grows into a social movement across the country? How can schools, use intergenerational conversations to teach history, empathy, resilience, and ageless wisdom? And what are ways companies, are cultivating intergenerational, connections in the workplace to build a more age-resilient and age-intelligent workforce? In this episode, we talk to Sky Bergman, an accomplished, award-winning photographer, Professor of Photography and Video at California Polytechnic State University, and the director of Lives Well Lived, a film featuring the stories of modern-day elders that show us how growing older can be a journey to be celebrated, and how schools and corporations are using the film as a starting point to rebuild intergenerational learning and connection across America.

What happens when your inclusive efforts are siloed as opposed to woven into the fabric of your organization? What to do when there aren’t enough young workers to hire? Which brands are making strides in building a multi-generational workforce?  In this episode, Fanny Krivoy and Mindy Eng talk to author and former corporate advisor for strategic policies and partnerships Bradley Shurman to uncover why rethinking our perspectives on aging makes both human-sense and business-sense, especially in what Bradley calls the Super Age.

How do you measure something invisible, like inclusion? How do you pave the way for accountability and change, inside organizations, both big and small? Stela Lupushor from ReFrame.Work and Paolo Gaudiano from Aleria talk to us about the next level of workforce analytics that goes beyond diversity indicators, and how the latest research shows how looking at exclusion dynamics is one of the keys to unlocking new quantifiable ways to measure inclusion.

In this episode, we talk to Robert Fabricant about making an impact at a local and global level through service design. Robert is Co-Founder and Partner of Dalberg Design, where he brings human-centered design and innovation services to clients looking for new, creative approaches to making breakthroughs in social impact and international development. We talk to him about how his years of experience in human-centered design has shaped his perspective on how we think about relationships when designing services for communities around the world and how inclusion in service design means not only bringing communities aboard to participate in creating solutions but also deeply examining how you can create space and opportunity for people and entire organizations to navigate existing power structures better. How can we structure conversations to engender growth from every perspective? What are effective ways to engage with the global community and learn from others' experiences? How can we foster collaboration and avoid reinventing the wheel in our initiatives? How do you navigate the power dynamics of social impact changemaking?  What are better ways you can set your organization up to affect social change at a global scale?    

Sharon Zhang and Kristie Kaiser from Personal.AI sat down with us to talk about what it takes to build a truly inclusive AI memory aid, how they’re leveling the playing field when it comes to learning to use an AI product, and how they’ve been keeping their promise to protect and safeguard the personal memories of the very people they serve inside and out.

Hear from the makers and shakers in the world of how we can each build more inclusive business practices, brands, products, and communities. Fanny Krivoy and Mindy Eng are the co-hosts of the Project Inclusion Podcast, and they're bringing you into the room where these conversations are happening. Stay tuned for when the first episode drops Summer 2021. Find out more at https://projectinclusion.us