HeyJaredRising Forward: Stories of Change
Hosted by Shannon Sims, this podcast goes behind the headlines to explore the social entrepreneurs transforming Milwaukee and beyond.
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Build the Table: What Five Women Taught Me This Season (opens the original)
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Five episodes into this stretch of the season, host Shannon Sims noticed something no single conversation could show her on its own: the same pattern, showing up in five completely different industries. A software founder. A real estate developer. A woman running five companies out of one purpose. A marketing consultant who helped build a statewide movement. A nonprofit director who'd spent twenty years learning the hard way what actually changes behavior around money. Every one of them had hit
Inside Uplifting Mansion (opens the original)
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Deanna Singh's father gave her one rule growing up: never measure your success by how well you're doing — measure it by how well the people around you are doing. She's spent her whole career trying to live up to that sentence, and along the way built not one business but five, all pointed at the same purpose: shifting power to marginalized communities. Her newest venture is the biggest test of that rule yet. Uplifting Mansion — an eight-thousand-square-foot, 125-year-old home on Milwaukee's west
The Vessel: A Blueprint for Closing the Gap Between Zip Codes (opens the original)
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Two Milwaukee zip codes, a few minutes apart on the same freeway. One number between them: a twelve-year gap in life expectancy. That number is where Oby Nwabuzor's story turns — the moment a data analyst who'd loved basketball, lost the game to an injury, and found her way into public health decided she couldn't un-see what the numbers were telling her. Today she's the founder of Envision Growth, a Milwaukee development firm built on an idea most developers never consider: that real estate is a
Ahead of the Curve: Lisa Geason-Bauer (opens the original)
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In grad school, studying to become an environmental sociologist, Lisa Geason-Bauer read a book that changed how she thought about business. It introduced her to an idea called the triple bottom line — profit, people, and planet, measured together instead of profit alone. She built her whole company, Evolution Marketing, around that idea in 2007. The same year, without her knowing it yet, an organization called B Lab was founded to turn that idea into something you could actually get certified fo
Jon Bishop: Microfinance & Patient Capital (opens the original)
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Jon Bishop wanted to be a biologist since he was nine years old — he spent his graduate years studying bees in the Alaskan backcountry, training to understand ecosystems well enough to protect them. Then he lived for a stretch in rural Panama, and watched farmers clear rainforest they didn't want to clear, just to grow enough corn to feed their families. That contradiction — protect the land, or feed your family became the question that eventually pulled him out of ecology and into finance. Toda
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