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The Possibility Club

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  • The Possibility Club podcast explores the future of business, culture and education. Richard Freeman talks to the people at the coalface of change.
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  • Practical Bravery - RADICAL WATER!

    Practical Bravery - RADICAL WATER!
    Jun 1 2024
    The Possibility Club podcast: Practical Bravery - RADICAL WATER! How can innovative partnerships transform global health initiatives? What role does transparency play in building trust and driving impact in charitable organisations? This episode delves into these questions through the lens of global organisation, charity: water. charity: water, has revolutionised how charities operate and engage with donors. The organisation operates on a 100% model, where all public donations go directly to funding clean water projects, while private donors cover operational costs. This model ensures that every contribution has a direct impact, fostering greater trust and engagement from donors We ask why, and how this affects the world of fundraising and accountability. This is The Possibility Club, and our special guest is Director of charity:water UK, Hannah Bellamy. --- Hannah’s page on the Business Charity Awards website https://www.businesscharityawards.com/hannah-bellamy Hannah Bellamy via LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/hannahbellamy/ Costa Foundation board and team page https://www.costafoundation.com/our-team/ United Way books / education charity https://www.unitedway.org/ “Growing up in the 1990s we thought about businesses like The Body Shop for example, but they were outliers. We didn’t necessarily think about other businesses and how they behaved. So it was a whole new world to me, and that’s how I got into the charity sector.” charity: water https://www.charitywater.org/ “We’ve always had this different model where 100% of funds raised on our website, anyone who gives me £10, whatever it is, that will all be spent within the countries where we’re working, and then we will prove that work.” “We put every single project on our website, you can see them, and that holds us to account.” “charity: water founder Scott Harrison was a nightclub promoter for ten years in New York. Lots of drink, drugs, probably a lot of fun but started to be much less fun over time. He decided to give that up and volunteer. Eventually found himself on a hospital ship in Liberia.” Scott Harrison via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Harrison_(charity_founder) “He realised that so many people were coming to emergency hospital with illnesses or other types of situations that came from not having any water where they were living.” “He was talking to people who traditionally don’t give to charity. He jokes that he was talking to his drug dealer about giving and he said, well I don’t trust charities. So people who perhaps had never trusted or supported charities. He said, I guarantee you, give me your money and one hundred percent will be invested in the project and I will show you.” “It seems huge, it is huge, it’s a massive problem but we are making progress. We do know how to fix it — and we can.” “It’s one of the few problems in the world that we can all agree on. So we can look at it and say at the extremes, everyone still agrees that every human should have access to clean and safe drinking water.” “If I’m fundraising, I know I’m not fundraising for my salary. It makes it more comfortable. The difficulty is, it’s really hard to scale.” Hannah’s TEDx Winchester talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca0PspF85QM "Climate change is actually all about water. It’s a drought, it’s a flood, it’s too much, it’s too little.” UN Sustainable Development goals https://sdgs.un.org/goals “It impacts women and girls: when a home and a family don’t have clean water, the people having to go and collect water, usually from a dirty source and having to walk a long distance, it’s the women and girls.” "If people want to make their maximum impact, what does that look like?” ------ This episode was recorded in April 2024 Interviewer: Richard Freeman for always possible Editor: CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts For more visit www.alwayspossible.co.uk
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    36 m
  • Practical Bravery - CUTTING EDGES!

    Practical Bravery - CUTTING EDGES!
    May 14 2024
    The Possibility Club podcast: Practical Bravery - CUTTING EDGES! In this episode we dive into the textured world of style AND substance, where creativity meets a profound sense of purpose. How do our expressions of style reflect broader cultural, economic, and personal shifts? How does the aesthetic we choose broadcast our identities and our values to the world? This episode takes us on a journey through the life and legacy of a creative industries pioneer who’s been shaping the public personas of icons across the globe with nothing but a pair of scissors and a flair for transformation. From working class boy with a Bowie obssession to the style sculptor of Princess Diana, Lady Gaga, Kate Moss at their most iconic. What does social mobility look like at the very top of high fashion? And what is it like to move from creating the faces behind brands, to becoming one yourself? This is The Possibility Club, and our special guest is the hairdresser's hairdresser, Sam McKnight MBE. --- One of the most important image makers of the late 20th and early 21st century — New York Times on Sam McKnight “What I know is, people want their hair to look good. Having your hair looking good is an incredible mood booster. It’s a simple, relatively inexpensive way of making yourself feel better.” Hair By Sam McKnight website https://sammcknight.com/ “We said from the beginning we want to bring some joy into the hair care world, which we have done. And I get lots of joy from that in return.” Sam McKnight via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_McKnight “That generation of the sixties is when social mobility became possible, really.” Sam McKnight via Gagapedia (the Lady Gaga wiki) https://ladygaga.fandom.com/wiki/Sam_McKnight Sam McKnight on X and Instagram — @sammcknight1 “When David Bowie exploded in colour, that was the start of it for me.” David Bowie on Top Of The Pops, 1972, via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOKWF3IHu0I “My friends had a hairdressing salon. I took a Saturday job there and then very quickly I’d left teacher training college and started training as a hairdresser. I didn’t want to be a teacher.” “I’ve always taken risks and that goes back to being a teenager. I like to think that I’ve carried that through to my sixties. I’ve always been a risk taker.” David Bailey, photographer, via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bailey Twiggy (Dame Leslie Lawson), via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy “It was pretty brave, to leave a secure job in the salon in Molton Brown, the best salon in London — before it was hand-wash it was the top London salon, in South Bolton Street — it was the shit, it was the place to be, and I left that in 1980 to be by myself, doing this thing called ‘photo shoots’ and two years later I was in New York working for American Vogue.” Vogue (UK site) https://www.vogue.co.uk/ Molton Brown via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molton_Brown “There are much more opportunities now but there are much more people going after those opportunities.” "There needs to be a revaluation put on the values of what we bring. You have to train for years to be a good hairdresser. You can’t just turn up with a hairdryer.” ‘Hair by Sam McKnight’ 2016 retrospective exhibition at Somerset House https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/hair-sam-mcknight “The exhibition gave me power in myself that I hadn’t really tapped into before. To see it all in front of me, all the people I’d met.” “The creative industries are very attached to emotions. Not only does music, fashion and beauty bring in billions to this country, which is not recognised properly, but they reach people’s emotions. Your music, your makeup, your clothes, it sparks people’s emotions. When you’re working with people on a photoshoot, you’re touching them.” “Usually I’m meeting people when they’re very young and forming themselves. You build very, very strong bonds with people and there’s a huge emotion attached to it. It’s a very special relationship.” Kate Moss via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Moss "She doesn’t turn out of bed as ‘Kate Moss’ at six o’clock in the morning, there’s a whole process of becoming Kate Moss, becoming Princess Di, becoming Lady Gaga.” Hair By Sam McKnight — the book, via Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hair-Sam-Mcknight-Tim-Blanks/dp/0847848787/ref=sr_1_2?crid=Q5S1J0SQNBVU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.p64JyGeSiexU74ORtn6pFf43Ch-AXpRYp6oSR1gyDQ8.ec_4zM0pkuyQY8U4zh6-4lHtVdu1obiSrk2i8BTHkqY&dib_tag=se&keywords=sam+mcknight+book&qid=1715868587&sprefix=sam+mcknight+book%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-2 “I listened to Coldplay on the radio a couple of years ago now, it was touted as the first sustainable tour and Chris Martin was amazing, he was saying, look we’re a fifty ...
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    34 m
  • Practical Bravery - CONSCIOUS CO-WORKING!

    Practical Bravery - CONSCIOUS CO-WORKING!
    May 1 2024
    The Possibility Club podcast: Practical Bravery - CONSCIOUS CO-WORKING! In this episode we explore the transformative world of co-working spaces and the burgeoning professional communities they foster. As the traditional office evolves and the allure of flexible work arrangements grows, the importance of spaces that inspire, include, and innovate becomes increasingly clear. Our guest is leading an initiative with established roots in Brighton and plans for nationwide expansion, where workspaces not only meet modern needs but also cultivate communities grounded in equity and sustainability. But what broader impact do these spaces hold for local economies and social dynamics? Can the environments we work in become the epicenters of innovation and social change, fostering a new kind of urban and community life? Are fancy co-working spaces just a modern trend, or do they represent the foundational elements of future cities where collaboration is at the core? I'm Richard Freeman, this is The Possibility Club, and my special guest this episode is Director at Projects, Alex Young. --- Alex Young via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-young-74431a135/ “I don’t think using the term ‘revolution’ is incorrect, when it comes to the power that co-working has for the future of business.” “I love to disagree! I love to argue!” Projects website https://www.projectsclub.co.uk/ "You can’t expect an amazing community to form naturally. You’re much better off investing in establishing a community while you are setting up a space, and ideally before.” “Founding members really make a space. You can have a huge impact if you hand-pick a few key people that are going to join you once your space is open.” “We don’t just sell workspaces. Because if that’s what we did, we’d do that a lot better and we’d make a lot more money, but that’s not why we’re here.” “We need diverse people in our spaces. We need to problem-solve together and to do that you can’t just have people who think the same way, look the same, have the same kind of lived experience.” “I know ‘diversity and inclusion’ are buzz words, they get used way too much, for us we’re creating community spaces, not just selling office space.” Projects — the team https://www.projectsclub.co.uk/the-team “We are not just running beautiful buildings, we are helping individuals that come into our space every day feel more support, feel welcome, and ensuring that they’re able to show up as their best selves, do their best work.” “I’ve been back working at Projects for a year and I feel like I’m home again.” “I’m very nosy, I go to co-working spaces all over the world.” Ethos Property Management https://ethosproperty.com/ B Corp certification https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/certification/ “Everybody talks about how hard becoming a B-Corp is. I don’t find it hard. It requires a lot of hours, policy changes, data gathering, you have to literally change the legal wording of what your business exists to do. Okay, it’s not straightforward, but it’s not hard. For us we were doing all these things anyway.” Coworkies https://www.coworkies.com/ Together Co https://togetherco.org.uk/ “We’ve seen the issues that come about if people don’t come into work, and I’m not just talking financially. It’s really bad for your health. We need to be around other people.” “When people show up every day and feel that they can contribute to their work in their best way, that’s going to make a huge impact, not just on their friends, family but their employers as well.” Alex’s page on Favourite Positions podcast https://www.favouritepositions.com/meet-alex Imperial College Business School MBA https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/mba/ ------ This episode was recorded in March 2024 Interviewer: Richard Freeman for always possible Editor: CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts For more visit www.alwayspossible.co.uk
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    33 m
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