Fix The News
Fix The News (formerly Hope Is A Verb) is a solutions-focused podcast that shares stories of progress and innovation from around the world. Hosted by Angus Hervey and Amy Davoren-Rose, each episode explores the people, ideas, and innovations creating a better future. The podcast aims to highlight what's working in the world, not just what's broken. New episodes are released every second Wednesday.
Episodes
Education Rebuilding Communities: Girls, Healing and Hope in Northern Uganda
What happens when you redesign education around the people who have been left behind?Meet Alice Achan - social worker, educator and founder of the Te-Kworo Foundation, a boarding school in Northern Uganda that is helping young mothers and vulnerable girls rebuild their lives. What started as a small support group during the aftermath of war has grown into one of the most remarkable educat
How Colombia Ended a 60-Year War: Lessons from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos
What can Colombia teach us about what's still possible?Meet Juan Manuel Santos - former President of Colombia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Chair of The Elders - who helped negotiate an end to one of the longest-running armed conflicts in modern history. Under his leadership, Colombia signed a peace agreement with FARC, bringing an end to a conflict that had shaped the country for over
The Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History: Indigenous Leadership, the Klamath River & Lessons in Repair
The battle to restore the Klamath River lasted generations. When the dams finally came down, salmon returned within three days - far faster than scientists expected, marking a turning point for Indigenous rights, ecological restoration and cultural survival. Meet Amy Bowers Cordalis - attorney, activist and member of the Yurok Tribe - who helped lead one of the most significant river rest
Inside Women Deliver 2026: Feminist Leadership, Climate Action & Youth Power
Gus and Amy recently attended Women Deliver 2026 – the world’s largest global conference on gender equality. Beyond reporting on the sessions, it was an opportunity to sit down with the people driving social change at every level. From feminist leaders in the Pacific to youth-led innovation, policymakers, and evolving conversations about the role of men in the fight for gender equality, W
Myra Anubi - Is “Good News” Real Journalism?
What happens when two solutions-focused news platforms compare notes on how to change the narrative of the world? Meet Myra Anubi - BBC journalist and host of People Fixing the World - who, like Fix The News, is part of a growing movement to challenge the doom and gloom by reporting on what’s working. Through stories of climate innovation, global health breakthroughs and grassroots proble
NewsFix - Clean Energy Hits Turning Point. 19.5 Million Lives Saved. Seagrass Comeback.
This week’s headlines include – a historic shift in the global energy transition as renewables meet all new electricity demand; Africa’s measles vaccination drive saving 19.5 million lives; a breakthrough gene therapy restoring hearing; major global progress on poverty reduction and mental health; expanded access to education in Chicago; and two different comeback stories for seagrass ec
Grain of Hope – How Australian Farmers Are Tackling Global Hunger
What happens when two friends in rural Australia take on the global hunger crisis? Meet Rob Houghton and Ken Dachi - a third-generation farmer and a multicultural advisor from Leeton, NSW - who turned a single conversation into Grain of Hope: a grassroots initiative shipping Australian wheat to Sudan, where millions face displacement and acute malnutrition.(We’ve linked ways to support th
NewsFix - Ocean Protection Hits 10%. Renewables Surge. A Machine Called Mother.
This week’s headlines include – a global milestone in ocean protection; Brazil’s new deforestation crackdown using satellite monitoring; major gains in women’s rights and maternal health; record renewable energy growth in the US and Europe; and a groundbreaking IVF breakthrough that could change fertility treatment.NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'Ne
NewsFix - TB Breakthroughs. Toponium. Whale Comeback.
This week’s headlines include – Yes, we can end TB; the biggest expansion of education in human history; LGBTQ rights gaining ground; whales staging a dramatic comeback in Antarctic waters; a global energy shift; and the particle discovery that was not thought possible. NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sur
Big News: Hope Is A Verb Is Now Fix The News Podcast
Big News: Hope Is A Verb is becoming Fix The News Podcast.This is our final episode as Hope Is A Verb - but it's not the end of these conversations. Over 52 episodes, we’ve met the people who are changing the world through conservation, education, healthcare, social reform and grassroots action. Each one has expanded our sense of what’s possible. Now, it’s time to evolve.From our next ep
NewsFix - Stardust. Child Mortality. India.
This week’s headlines include – DNA building blocks discovered on asteroids; global child mortality down 60%; China consolidates environmental laws; monarch butterflies rebound in Mexico; women in politics rise across Africa; and AI supporting dementia care.NewsFix has moved to its own feed!You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast app. Make sure you look out
NewsFix - Education Boom. Land Back. Cleaner Air.
This week's headlines include – Nigeria’s record investment in basic education; Indigenous-led land restoration across the United States; cities cutting air pollution by up to 45%; rhinos returning to the DRC; and a breakthrough stem cell treatment offering new hope for Parkinson’s.NewsFix has moved to its own feed! You can check it out here or search 'NewsFix' on your favourite podcast a
NewsFix - HPV Vaccines. Solar Power. EV Charging Breakthroughs.
This week’s headlines include – India launches the world’s largest HPV vaccination campaign; school meal programmes across Europe reach 25 million children; solar becomes the fastest-growing energy source in history; EV giant BYD unveils a nine-minute charging system; river otters make a comeback in the Great Lakes and southern Africa launches its first cross-border birding route.NewsFix
NewsFix - Croatia's Landmines. Aral Sea. Spider Silk Superpower.
This week’s headlines include: Chile eliminates leprosy; the malaria vaccine is working in Nigeria fall after a vaccine rollout; Croatia clears its last landmines; renewable energy surges; recovery in Kazakhstan’s Aral region; wildlife comebacks from the Galápagos to Central Asia; and a breakthrough that could finally bring spider silk into mass production.NewsFix is brought to you by Fi
NewsFix - Sea of Possibility. Aid Entering Gaza. Beavers.
This week's roundup of good news includes – Gaza aid; Amazon deforestation; Ukraine energy; new blood test for cancer; world's largest marine reserve in Canada; Bonobo imagination study. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News. Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! To get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com
NewsFix - Bike Angels. Solar Farms. Legal Rights for Whales.
This week's headlines include – Solar power could supercharge farming; universal healthcarein Armenia; more good news for the Amazon; poorer economies are closing the gap; poverty reduction in Jamaica and personhood for Whales in the Pacific. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews. Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! Get in touch with the team: amy@fixthenews.com
NewsFix - Middle Class Mexico. California Clean-Streak. Puppy Love.
This week's headlines include – How Mexico is changing its narrative on poverty; good newsfor the High Seas and the Amazon; a glimmer in Gaza; electrified Porsches claim a victory; Poland’s step in the right direction for same sex-couples and is it really puppies-v-babies? NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News. Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch
NewsFix - 'Remarkable' Iraq. Cancer ⬇️. Matchmaking for Lizards.
Welcome back to NewsFix and our first edition for 2026. This week's headlines include – a counterpoint to the Middle East, astonishing progress on cancer, a golden age of vaccines, murder and homicide rates decline in the world’s leading cities, coal bites the dust (again) and Love Island for lizards? NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews. Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! I
NewsFix - 2025 Roundup
Welcome to our final NewsFix for 2025 - we're sneaking it in just before the finish line! In this edition we roundup the stories that changed the world this year. From the historic change in global health to an international maritime treaty, great news for green sea turtles and the climate story of the year - this is the hidden progress that unfolded behind the headlines. You can read the
NewsFix - Empty Spain. Alphafold. Measles ⬇️
This week's headlines include – a medical breakthrough in Gaza; death rates plummet for one of our most contagious viruses; ‘Empty Spain’; Australia’s environmental reform;more bad news for fossil fuels and AI for good. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews. Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com
NewsFix - The Kiss. Child Poverty ⬇️. Rewilding Keeps Winning.
This week's headlines include - major victory against extreme child poverty; rewilding efforts paying off in Scotland, Vietnam, Bulgaria and Ukraine; more good news on the malaria vaccine; what went right at COP30 and science reveals some very flirty primates. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix TheNews. Hosted by AnthonyBadolato, Hear That! Ifyou want to get in touch with the team, ema
Future Council - No More 'Adult Washing'
Meet Future Council, a global youth-led movement that’s empowering kids and teenagers to help co-design the future. Inspired by the documentary ‘Future Council’ that followed eight young activists as they travelled across Europe in a yellow bus confronting big business leaders, the movement is showing how the next generation can reshape climate leadership. In our final episode for this se
NewsFix - Aha! Mongolia. Crime Decline.
Hold onto your hats - it's a big week of news including: the science behind Aha moments; top marks for global primary school education; cancer breakthroughs; more good news for the Amazon; Mongolia's ambitious conservation plan; crime declines in London and new hope for Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Check out our full coverage in this week's newsletter here. NewsFix is brought to you by
Bryan Walsh - Solving the Narrative Deficit
Meet Bryan Walsh, an editorial director at Vox, where he leads Future Perfect – an ambitious solutions journalism project that focuses on the policies and technologies that will make the future a better place. As a former foreign correspondent and climate writer for Time and the author of End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World, Bryan has spent more than two decades tracking huma
NewsFix - Global Health Wins. Overfishing. Stair-Climbing Wheelchairs.
This week's headlines include: big news for HIV, tuberculosis and Leishmaniasis; China continues emissions decline; surprising drop in youth crime; long-awaited victory for Indigenous communities in Bolivia; more fish in the US and a stair-climbing wheelchair. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News. Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, emai
Enric Sala - Ocean Time Machine
Meet Enric Sala, a marine ecologist, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and founder of Pristine Seas – an organisation that has helped create 31 Marine Protected Areas, safeguarding nearly 7 million square kilometres of ocean. From his five-year Pacific expedition using a three-person submersible to his film Ocean with David Attenborough and his work with governments and coastal co
Women Moving the World
Meet Krystal Birungi, Carolina Morgado, Nice Leng’ete and Bhavreen Kandhari – four incredible women who are working on the frontlines of science, conservation, human rights, and environmental advocacy. Krystal is an entomologist with Target Malaria in Uganda developing gene-drive mosquitoes; Carolina is the executive director of Rewilding Chile; Nice leads community-based campaigns to end
NewsFix - Amazon Deforestation. Czechia Bans Smacking. Less Grumpy.
This week's headlines include: deforestation in the Amazon takes another plunge; Mexico reduces poverty; Nigeria boosts child health; no more corporal punishment in Czechia and the world is surprisingly becoming less grumpy. NewsFix is brought to you by Fix The News. Hosted by Anthony Badolato, Hear That! If you want to get in touch with the team, email amy@fixthenews.com
NewsFix - Literacy Soars. Sixth Sense. Air Pollution.
Welcome to our first edition of NewsFix - your weekly dose of good news! On today's episode: global air-pollutiondeaths fall as the 'clean-air' era begins, hidden progress on youth literacy, why we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, a new atlas to map the human body, how AI is helping farmers in India, species extinction is losing speed and some big news for the h
David Fajgenbaum - The Medicine We Missed
Meet David Fajgenbaum, a physician scientist who is saving lives by repurposing existing medications to treat different diseases through his organisation Every Cure. This conversation will challenge the way you look medicine and unlock the possibility that some of the solutions we’re looking for, are hiding in plain sight, on the shelves of your local pharmacy. From the near-death experie
UNGA 2025 - The End of Aid?
Two weeks ago, Amy was on the ground in New York during the UN General Assembly and Climate Week. Attending various events, including the Clinton Global Initiative, Amy spoke with some incredible people who work on the frontlines of climate, healthcare, education and crisis response. Despite dwindling aid budgets and mounting challenges, these people are meeting this moment with big, bold
A Shot At History, Part 3 - The Jab
In our final episode of the series, we’ll uncover the surprising stories behind the science of the world’s first jab for malaria and how this ‘orphan’ vaccine became a lifesaving intervention that has already reached 5 million children. We look at what's next for the malaria vaccine, the threats of funding cuts to global health and answer the big question – is it working? Here’s who you’l
A Shot At History, Part 2 - The Chain
Rolling out a new vaccine across an entire continent takes an extraordinary chain of people - from the scientists in the labs, to delivery truck drivers and healthcare workers on motorbikes who stop at nothing to get this vaccine into far-flung villages. In this episode, we’ll show you what it takes to navigate the last mile challenges of transporting a cold-chain vaccine across the hotte
A Shot At History, Part 1 - The Stakes
Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases of all time - responsible for more deaths than all of humanity's wars combined. That means that the arrival of not one, but two malaria vaccines has the potential to change the future of our species. In this first episode, we’ll show you what’s at stake for millions of families across Sub-Saharan Africa, explain the economic and personal cost, and
A Shot At History - Trailer
Over a year ago, we decided that we wanted to tell the storyof the malaria vaccine; one of the most important yet hidden stories of progress in the world right now. We knew that this would be a massive undertaking, but it turned out to be more epic that we could have possibly imagined. Over three episodes, we’re going to show you what it takes to develop and roll out a new vaccine, why th
Ask Us Anything
What do KPop Demon Hunters and Bluey have to do with stories of progress? Well, you’ll hear the answer in this ‘Ask Us Anything’ episode. From controversial opinions on the climate crisis, to our very first News Fix bulletin, Gus and Amy dive into a range of topics and answer some big, burning questions from subscribers. Other topics discussed: Why solar energy is such big news, the role
Rutger Bregman – Quit Your Job, Change The World
Meet Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, bestselling author andour first repeat guest on the podcast! In this episode we chat with Rutger about his new book Moral Ambition and why it’s time for people to stop wasting their talent and start making a difference. From his early midlife crisis to what we can learn from the abolitionists and why the world needs to redefinesuccess, this is a con
Paulie Stewart - Punk Magic
Meet Paulie Stewart, an Australian punk rocker who teamed up with a group of nuns to help disabled kids in Timor Leste. From walking on the wild side, to almost crossing over to the other side – Paulie’s story is about full circles, second chances, and the one of the most unlikely and inspiring partnerships. Topics discussed: the deathbed encounter that changed Paulie’s life, why the Alma
Wawira Njiru - Engine Of Potential
Meet Wawira Njiru, a nutritionist and social entrepreneur in Kenya who’s gone from serving lunch to 25 children out of a makeshift kitchen to establishing Food4Education, a nonprofit organisation that serves half a million hot, nutritious and affordable school meals every day. From the uncalculated cost of childhood hunger to powering an 'engine of potential', Wawira’s story shows how thi
Boyan Slat - The Impossible Cleanup
Meet Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup - the world’s largest cleanup in history. After starting as a high school project in the Netherlands in 2011, Boyan’s mission has gone global, removing tens of millions of kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers. It’s an epic job and with plastic pollution on the rise, the cleanup is doubling down on its goal to remove 90% of ocean plastic
Trailer - Season 4
A new chapter begins on July 31st, 2025.
The Good News You Missed In 2024
Depending on where you get your news, 2024 probably sounded like a complete disaster. And while a lot of terrible things happened, not everything that happened in the world was terrible. From breakthrough treatments for HIV and obesity, to the rise in global happiness and the decline in deforestation in the Amazon – there were a lot of bright glimmers of progress that you just didn’t hear
Steven Pinker – Why Progress Is Possible
Meet Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist and public intellectual who is one of the world’s greatest thinkers on the topic of progress. He is the author of 12 books,
including ‘Better Angels of Our Nature,’ which played a key role in the origin story of Fix The News. After five years of email correspondence between Steven and Gus, this is their first face to face conversation. From pro
Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo – The Caravan Of Joy And Tears
Meet Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo, a psychologist and narrativetherapist who uses a travelling caravan to bring mental health services to townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Tackling gender-based violence andhigh rates of youth depression, Ncazelo’s cutting edge methods for healing trauma are now being used across the globe.We are proud to support Ncazelo’s organisation, Phola,as one of
Sonia Vallabh - A Scientist's Quest To Cure Her Own Disease
Meet Sonia Vallabh, a lawyer turned scientist with one of the most compelling stories we have ever heard. In 2011, Sonia was diagnosed with prion disease, a rare and fatal genetic illness with no viable treatment. Against all odds, Sonia and her husband retrained as a patient–scientists and set out to cure the disease before Sonia misses her window. Thirteen years later, they've found a w
Clinton Global Initiative - A Million Little Bits
Two weeks ago, Amy attended the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, where she met some incredible change makers who are driving solutions across healthcare, water access, food security, conservation and scientific discovery. In this episode we'll take you behind the scenes of the two-day event and introduce you to some of the people she met in the corridors, including her interview wit
Sigrid van Aken - The Lottery Of Progress
Meet Sigrid van Aken, the CEO of Postcode Lottery Group, the world's 3rd largest private charity donor, after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & the Wellcome Trust. To date, the organisation has given €13.5 to charities that are driving significant social and environmental change. With over 14 million subscriptions and record turnover of €2.5 billion in 2023, it’s one of the gr
Fernando Trujillo - Hope Songs In The Amazon
We cover a lot of conversation stories about the Amazon at Fix The News, but it’s not often that we get the chance to talk with someone who is driving these efforts. Meet Fernando Trujillo, a marine scientist who is fighting to save the Pink River Dolphins of the Amazon River. Over the past 30 years Fernando and his team have scaled a small research project in Colombia into a global missi
Valery Wichman - Waves Of Change
Meet Valery Wichman, a leading LGBTQI+ activist and lawyer in the Cook Islands who was on the forefront of the fight to decriminalise homosexuality in her country. This conversation explores the 13-year journey behind the landmark victory and the power of faith, love and kindness to change the law, and the world. Find out more:RNZPink NewsCook Island NewsThis podcast is hosted by Angus He
Ada Palmer - A History Of Saving The World
Meet Ada Palmer, a historian and science fiction author who believes that when we zoom out to a centuries scale, humanity has a lot to be hopeful about. This conversation is a time-travelling adventure, that explores how far we’ve come since the1600s, where we might end up in 2454 and why Shakespeare was worried about fake news too. Find out more about Ada:www.AdaPalmer.comwww.ExUrbe.com
Ron Davis Alvarez - The Dream Orchestra
Meet Ron Davis Alvarez, a musician, teacher and conductor who created The Dream Orchestra to help refugee children and teenagers forge connections in their host country. This is a story about the power of music to bring people together, to open our hearts and to believe in the possibility of a better future.
To find out more:
Website: https://dreamorchestra.se/
Go-Fund-Me: https://www.
Marwa & Peta - The Mother's Call
Meet Peta & Marwa, two women from opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who are working together to create a shared and peaceful future for their families. Their sister organisations, Women Wage Peace and Women of the Sun, have received a joint Nobel Peace Prize nomination this year. This is a story of hope against all odds, and the bonds that unite mothers, regardless of
Kris Tompkins - A Love Letter To Rewilding
Meet Kris Tompkins, a rewilding legend who, alongside herlate husband Doug, has helped protect over 14 million acres of biodiverse landscape across Chile and Argentina. This is a story of great love, great loss and what it takes to create a living legacy, against the headwinds of great odds. To find out more about Tompkins Conservation: www.tompkinsconservation.orgIf you would like to con
Season 3: Trailer
This new chapter of stories begins August 9th, 2024. Please join us by subscribing to Hope Is A Verb where ever you listen to your podcasts.
Angus Hervey - Fix The News
It's no secret that the news media is in crisis: sweeping layoffs across newsrooms, consumer disengagement and stories of doom and destruction on loop 24/7. But what if we could fix it? In this bonus episode Angus Hervey chats about his mission to highlight stories of progress and to prove that another form of journalism is possible - one that not only informs us about the world, but insp
Yasmeen Lari - Zero Waste. Zero Poverty.
Meet Yasmeen Lari, 'starchitect' turned humanitarian who in the wake of the 2022 floods in Pakistan, vowed to build one million zero-carbon, disaster-resistant homes for displaced families. It's an astounding feat and one that she is bringing to life, thanks to a zero-dollar, zero-charity model.Find out more:https://www.heritagefoundationpak.org/HfThis episode of Hope Is A Verb was hosted
Constantino Aucca Chutas - Indigenous knowledge In The Andes
Meet 'Tino' Aucca Chutas, a biologist in Peru who has worked with communities across the Andes to plant almost 10 million trees to combat climate change. Reviving the practices of his Inca ancestors, he has secured local water supplies and empowered people to create change.Find out more: https://accion-andina.org/?doing_wp_cron=1706209982.1546800136566162109375This episode of Hope Is A Ve
Hannah Ritchie - Not The End Of The World
Meet Hannah Ritchie, a data scientist and author of Not the End of the World, a book that makes the radically hopeful argument that we may be on track to create true sustainability for the first time in history. This is data driven, qualified optimism at its best! Find out more:https://ourworldindata.org/https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/(Photo credit: Angela Catlin)This episode of
Eden Tadesse – Can The Internet Fix The Refugee Crisis?
Meet Eden Tadesse, a social entrepreneur and digital innovator from Ethiopia who created Invicta, a social impact platform that connects refugees and internally displaced youth with courses, skills training, and job opportunities online.FIND OUT MORE:https://invictaorg-2.web.app/This episode of Hope Is A Verb was hosted by Angus Hervey and Amy Davoren-Rose. The soundtrack for this podcast
Johannes Fritz - Flight School For Birds
Meet Johannes Fritz, a maverick biologist and conservationist who is reintroducing the endangered Northern Bald Ibis across Europe. Using an ultralight aircraft, Johannes has taught the birds new migration routes to mitigate the impact of climate change. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JOHANNES:http://alt.waldrapp.eu/index.php/en/en-homeThis episode of Hope Is A Verb was hosted by Angus Hervey and A
Chesca Colloredo -Mansfeld - 'Miracle' Treatment For 80,000+ Kids
Meet Chesca Colloredo Mansfeld, a social entrepreneur who co-founded Miracle Feet: a low-cost, non-surgical treatment that has made an extraordinary impact on the lives of over 80,000 children born with clubfoot in low and middle income countries. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MIRACLE FEET:https://www.miraclefeet.org/https://www.instagram.com/miraclefeet/This episode of Hope Is A Verb was hosted by
Ronni Abergel - The Library Where You Borrow People
Meet Ronni Abergel, founder of the Human Library Organisation where, instead of books, real people are on loan to readers. For over two decades, this global movement has created a safe space to talk openly about taboo topics. At Ronni’s library, a conversation with a refugee, a transgender or a bipolar person is equally possible, open, and informative. Find out more about the Human Librar
Flora Vano - Rising Seas, Women Rising
Meet Flora Vano, a climate activist who has rallied a female-led response to the climate crisis in Vanuatu. Fighting climate change with female empowerment, Flora has taken her mission to the global stage, including the recent COP28. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FLORA'S WORK:help.actionaid.org.au/vanuatuThis episode of Hope Is A Verb was hosted by Angus Hervey, cofounder of Future Crunch and Amy D
Aidan Reilly - How One Truck Can Change The World
Meet Aidan Reilly, one of the cofounders of the Farmlink Project. In 2020, Aidan and his friends rented a U-haul with an idea to help their local food bank. Today, their 'one truck' mission has flourished into a movement, spanning the North American continent and delivering recovered food to people in need. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FARMLINK:Website: https://www.farmlinkproject.org/Movie: https
Season 2 Trailer
Welcome back to Hope Is A Verb! This season we'll bring you a new chapter of stories from the people who are mending our planet and tending to some of our biggest global problems. Episodes will be released weekly from 8th December, 2023. Hosted by Angus Hervey and Amy Davoren-Rose.
Rutger Bregman- We're Better Than We Think We Are
To celebrate the end of our first season of this podcast, we're delighted to share this conversation with Rutger Bregman- the person who inspired this project. Rutger is a journalist, historian, and the author of Humankind: A Hopeful History, in which he challenges the assumption that people are inherently selfish and competitive. Instead, he argues that we are hard-wired for kindness and
Bala Amarasekaran- The Accidental Conservationist
Meet Bala Amarasekaran, an accountant turned conservationist who founded the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone and empowered local communities to play their part in protecting native forests and wildlife.In this conversation, Bala shares his extraordinary story about how a chance encounter with a baby Chimpanzee led to an epic conservation mission that’s spanned more than thre
Christine Figgener- The Sea Turtle Biologist
Meet Christine Figgener, a marine biologist who sparked a global movement against single-use plastic when her YouTube video of a turtle having a straw removed from its nose went viral in 2015. In this conversation, Christine shares her journey from growing up in an industrial town in Germany to running conservation programs in Costa Rica, where she first fell in love with leatherback tur
Tarek Loubani- 3D Printing Emergency Healthcare
Meet Tarek Loubani, an emergency doctor who has created open-source, 3D printed medical supplies to solve critical shortages in war zones like Gaza and Ukraine. In this conversation, Tarek shares his journey as a Palestinian refugee - the powerful moments that have shaped the trajectory of his life and inspired his mission to create high quality and open source medical hardware and make
Wanjira Mathai- A New Story For Africa
Meet Wanjira Mathai, the Managing Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute who is empowering communities to restore landscapes and local economies through Restore Local, a project that is creating a new story for Africa one acre at a time. In this inspiring conversation, Wanjira shares her story of growing up in Kenya and how she "basks in the light" of her mother, Wangari Maa
Tony Rinaudo- Reforesting The Desert Without Planting A Tree
Meet Tony Rinaudo, an agronomist who has helped local communities in Niger reforest six million hectares of desert, without planting a single tree. It's one of the greatest environmental transformations on the planet that has led to the restoration of land, livelihoods and dignity. In this conversation Tony shares his incredible journey from growing up in the Australian countryside to wor
Jessica Wade- The Untold Stories Of Wikipedia
Meet Jessica Wade, an experimental physicist in London who has written 1,997 Wikipedia biographies for unrepresented female and minority scientists to encourage more diversity in STEM. In this conversation, Jess chats about what inspired her to use Wikipedia as a platform for change and the power of a single entry to create global ripples. She shares her passion for combining science and
Felix Brooks Church- The Small Machine That Could End Malnutrition
Meet Felix Brooks Church, a social entrepreneur who co-invented a small machine known as a "dosifier," which adds lifesaving nutrients to the staple food of communities in southern Africa. Felix and his team at SANKU have installed over 800 machines in local mills and are on a mission to reach 100 million people by 2030. In this conversation Felix shares his journey from rising gridiron s
Shabana Basij Rasikh- Educating The Future Of Afghanistan
Meet Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of SOLA, Afghanistan’s first and only boarding school for girls who evacuated and relocated the entire school community from Kabul to Rwanda during the Taliban takeover in 2021. Today, SOLA is the only place in the world where Afghan girls have access to a full education.In this conversation, Shabana shares her memories of growing up under the first
Season 1 Trailer
What does it take to change the world? It’s a question we started asking in August 2020 when we set out on a simple mission to find one human every week who was making the world a better place. After banking a hundred of these stories we realised the answer couldn’t be found in a video highlights reel or a glossy press release. If you want to know what it really takes for someone to chang
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