Summary: Welcome back to Causepods everyone! Today our guests are Lara Heacock, who is a leadership coach with a personal development blog at kindover.com and Kelly Stewart, who is a positive business consultant at the positivebusiness.com who are going to tell us their journey since starting a podcast called Doing (Good) Business. For Lara and Kelly, the podcast is a great way to pass on information and underline the work and lessons that friends and guests can share. In our conversation we discuss the order of creating a good podcast, the benefits folks who get to work with Lara and Kelly and listen to their show about doing their business better, ways podcasting has positively impacted people, as well as the medium of podcasting and the tips for those considering starting their own. Join us in this episode to learn all about this and much more. Key Topics: • The orders for creating the Doing Good Business Podcast. (1:15) • The benefits folks who get to work with you and listen to your show about doing their business better get. (2:38) • Some of the ways that we’ve seen this translate into positive impact beyond. (4:06) • Why the younger generations are interested in working with companies that are doing good and refusing to do business with companies that won’t do good. (5:06) • How to make a company seem genuine when you’ve been called out for not having altruistic goals. (6:57) • Pearls of wisdom and one of them is that bad news is still good information. (8:36) • Progress is not perfection and it’s not going to happen overnight, when s company is not doing well, have a plan in place and revisit your results because it’s much easier to make those changes when you’re not in the spotlight, when you’re not in crisis mode. (9:18) • Why Lara and Kelly chose podcasting over other mediums. (11:29) • Some of the useful resources Lara and Kelly utilized for setting up and getting started (14:58) • Lara and Kelly’s advice to anyone wanting to start a cause based podcast. (16:08) • A particular organization that Lara and Kelly wants to help promote. (20:08) • How to get involved with Causepods! (22:50) • And much more! Support Lara & Kelly’s Organization of Choice Year Up See the show notes and a transcript at http://www.causepods.org/podcast/lara-kelly Thanks for Listening! Be sure to subscribe on Apple, Google, Android, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line at mathew@causepods.org. And feel free to drop us a line at mathew@causepods.org. Stay up-to-date on Causepods by followng Mathew Passy on social media at Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! For help, resources, and community support, please join the Causecasters’ Facebook Group if you are already producing podcasts for a cause or are thinking about launching one. And if you would like to be a guest on Causepods, please fill out this form. Thanks for Listening!
