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The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast

Nov 7, 2023

What does success mean to you? Defining success in a field can define the field. Defining success for ourselves will define our lives. And so here, friend and coach of mine, Paul Zelizer and I go through the essential exercise of defining what to each of us makes for a successful social entrepreneur. Paul is a business...


Oct 17, 2023

In a little over a decade, Houston has housed over 28,000 people who were experiencing homelessness. The U.S.’s 4th largest city has cut its total homelessness figures by more than 60% since committing to tackle this issue head-on in 2012.

Representatives from cities nationwide visit Houston to learn about how...


Oct 10, 2023

We're thrilled to introduce a new format of the show — what we’ll be calling Ensembles.  

These ensembles are designed to be something of a meditation, helping us to explore the art of living and working sustainably and building a better world, from a different perspective. 

The goal here through sharing various...


Sep 26, 2023

The right amount of stress at the right time. That’s all it requires to trigger coral to grow anywhere from 25—50x it’s natural rate as it would in the “wild.” In the practice of coral farming, this is called microfragmenting. Our guest today, Sam Teicher, is the co-founder of Coral Vita. In Freeport, Grand...


May 18, 2023

Assessing the sustainability of any individual product or company is a core facet of the work we do here at Grow Ensemble.

But if there’s no agreed-upon definition of “sustainability,” it’s unclear what anyone means when they say their product is sustainable.

So, for the sake of setting important definitions,...