Archive for Social Entrepreneurship
Actress and film director Nandita Das will be the first one to tell you that she chooses to be a part of stories that are not commonly told, but need to be heard. Whether on screen in such movies as Before The Rains, or behind the scenes, there is a theme of social injustice that beckons to be acknowledged.
Tell the truth, at least to yourself. You’ve got at least one pair of old shoes barely holding on lingering on the rack near your back door porch, in your closet, or hiding inconspicuously with maybe just a toe or heal poking through that bag of clothing meant for Good Will. You want to get [...]
One upon a time a homeless man named John Paul DeJoria made a decision to rock the world of beauty with his own line of products and revolutionary hair styling techniques. Many doors were shut, but he kept plugging away, and even found himself homeless at one point. But he refused to give in to [...]
What is Extreme Success? Can you bottle it? Best-selling author Karen Salmansohn found a way to “book” it. In her latest title, Ballsy 99 Ways to Score Extreme Success, Salmansohn underscores that behind every wildly successful business person is always a ballsy story of how they got there! This irreverent witty woman is a hoot, [...]
How do we do good, while doing well? That’s the root question addressed in every issue of Motto Magazine: Purpose, Passion, Profit. I’ve been writing for them for a couple of issues and I’d like to bring your attention to the most recent March/April edition which features, “6 Gurus of Eco-Chic.” For this issue, I [...]