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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...

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 visi...

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 f...

Laurie Lane-Zucker, founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, joins Kim Allchurch Flick.

Laurie Lane-Zucker, who coined “impact entrepreneur” and whose upcoming book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy (Sept. 1, 2026), argues for transforming an extractive economy into a regenerative one. Lane-Zucker traces his systems-thinking roots to environmental writers and his work on p...

Lisa Geason-Bauer, founder and president of Evolution Marketing, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to discuss sustainability/ESG consulting, impact storytelling, ethical marketing, and environmentally responsive design. 

Lisa describes founding the firm on Sept. 15, 2007 to prove a professional services company can succeed using a triple bottom line lens - people, planet, and profit - while navigating Wisconsin’s long recessionar...

Jeffrey D. Stewart, founder and executive director of Enharmonic Encounters, joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Enharmonic Encounters helps companies measure impact and amplifies non-English speaking stakeholders through language access.

Stewart describes becoming the first company in the United States to certify under B Lab’s new standards (V2) and explains the need for real case studies to show compliance is possible across company...

Heather Beiden Jacobs, a Portland-area wellbeing coach who supports organizers, nonprofit leaders, and mission-driven change makers with “radical self-care” as strategic infrastructure and inner work of resistance - joins Kim Allchurch Flick.

Heather shares her background of childhood trauma, a severe diabetes diagnosis at age eight, years of self-destructive behavior, and a near-death hospitalization at 19 that helped ...

Tessa Bridge joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a follow-up discussion about her book "Do Your Part: Bold, Sustainable Leadership for Social Impact Leaders in a Time of Polycrisis." Bridge describes writing the resource she needed when she felt overextended in vulnerable leadership roles and couldn’t find guidance at the intersection of values-based work and exhaustion. She frames today’s “polycrisis” as requirin...

Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Seattle-based Recompose, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about her work creating “human composting,” a system that transforms bodies into soil. Spade describes how a personal realization during graduate school led her to design an urban alternative to conventional burial and cremation, combining engineering, biology, and navigation of funeral law. Recompose helped legalize hu...

Anja Taylor, president of Kinesis, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about her journey from international studies and work in Berlin to focusing on local community impact through owner-operated businesses. Taylor explains Kinesis’s long-term approach to helping companies thrive through strategy, creativity, leadership development, employee engagement, and relationship-based marketing, often partnering with clients fo...

Rebecca Dray, Executive Director of Purchasing With Purpose, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about how spending can drive systemic change through impact-led purchasing. 

Dray shares her journey from corporate hospitality to mental health advocacy to founding UK workforce social enterprises with open hiring, then moving to the US and launching Buy Social USA (later renamed Purchasing With Purpose) to simplify language...

Mac Prichard, founder and CEO of Mac’s List, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about how hiring works and how job seekers and employers can navigate it. 

Mac shares his communications career and periods of unemployment that taught him the value of job-search skills, networking, and referrals. 

He argues that while tools like “easy apply” and AI have changed, core principles remain: be clear about ...

Ryan Honeyman of Lift Economy, co-author of the B Corp Handbook, about “embodying” B Corp certification and aligning stated values with lived leadership and culture - joins Kim Allchurch Flick. 

Ryan shares his path from criminal-justice-focused psychology work to sustainability consulting and early B Corp advising beginning around 2010, helping over 100 companies certify and recertify. 

They discuss takeaways f...

Tom Hering, co-founder and managing partner of Benefit Corporations for Good (BCFG), joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about whether small businesses truly reflect their values and how to communicate them with accountability.

Hering shares his three-act career journey from advertising to purpose-driven business through the Benefit Corporation structure, and describes BCFG’s work since 2018 certifying businesses across...

Titonian Wallace Sr., founder of Nesace Media, community leader, and the first Black chair of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about building trust, representation, and opportunity. 

Wallace shares his upbringing in Benton Harbor, Michigan, his mother’s “never say you can’t” lesson, leaving the University of Michigan, and returning years later to earn ...

Adam Nemer, founder of Simple Mental Health and author of "Simple Mental Health: The ROI of Vulnerability," joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a discussion about creating workplace cultures of mental wellbeing.

Nemer recounts leading at Kaiser Permanente for nearly 20 years while struggling with severe, undiagnosed depression and anxiety after finding his father’s suicide and later his mother’s death, until a senior leader -...

Mikaela Kiner, founder and CEO of Reverb, an HR consultant, leadership coach, and B Corp that helps organizations build healthy, inclusive cultures - joins Kim Allchurch Flick.

Kiner shares her path from 15 years in corporate HR at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, and Amazon to launching Reverb over 10 years ago, influenced by her parents’ plaintiff-side employment law work and early HR experience at a rapidly growin...

Sean Penrith, CEO of Gordian Knot Strategies, a climate finance consultancy aiming to mobilize $1B per year by 2030 (and having mobilized $1.67B to date) joins Kim Allchurch Flick. 

Penrith shares his path from entrepreneurship in Argentina to founding a sustainable glass company, then moving into climate policy, carbon markets, and impact investing in Portland before launching GKS to “translate” between capital pro...

Tracy Hooper of the Confidence Project, joins Kim Allchurch Flick to talk about building confidence and real connection in an increasingly device-driven world. 

Hooper traces her values to a large, welcoming family and her TV news experience, where introducing herself with her full name and treating people as significant helped create trust. 

She says the Confidence Project “teaches what technology can’t,”...