Social Good Podcast

Ex-Cooley Lawyer Builds an AI Law Firm w/ Logan Brown #33

Logan Brown, founder and CEO of **Soxton**, joins the Social Good Podcast to talk about building an AI-powered law firm for startups after seeing her Big Law clients turn

#32 Effective Altruism Sweden's Dr. Ysaline Bourgine de Meder on doing good better

Effective Altruism Sweden's Dr. Ysaline Bourgine de Meder on (1:36) Effective Altruism as an international movement, (3:59) finding areas to work on that are neglected, (

#31 Buena Vida Specialty Coffee's Gally Mayer on supporting ethical coffee farming

Buena Vida Specialty Coffee's Gally Meyer on (0:50) running one of the top coffee shops in North America, Central America and the Caribbean regions, (1:36) starting Buena

#30 kindasorta studio's Mallory Loar on supporting communities for tech companies

Mallory discusses (1:00) spending 10 years in San Francisco, (2:33) working in community brand and content marketing at Tumblr in 2010's, (3:00) starting a blog to connec

#29 Soul Health's Nicole Pires on helping entrepreneurs overcome burnout

Nicole discusses (0:55) her time studying Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University, (1:28) dealing with mental health issues at Columbia and trying to help othe

#28 Chatac's Mhraf Worku on leveraging AI for students in low-resource communities

Mhraf discusses (1:04) growing up in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa; then attending Trinity College in Connecticut in the U.S., (1:34) studying Economics and Internatio

#27 The Second Chance Project's Louise Prashad on persevering through sports

The Second Chance Project's Louise Prashad discusses (0:16) celebrating her birthday and anniversary with family this week, (1:40) growing up in York, U.K., (2:22) experi

#26 Democrashe's Sarah Jakle on supporting young women running for office

In episode 26, Sarah Jakle discusses (0:26) supporting historically underserved high school girls in going to public service, (0:52) teaching perseverance and positive se

#25 WhereTu's Anna Luzader on instilling a love of travel in people

Where Tu’s Anna Luzader on starting One Heart Africa in 2011 (1:15), learning to be adaptable (2:34), receiving 200K USD in annual donations through her non-profit (4:09)

#24 Enterprise Nation's Polly Dhaliwal on fighting for small businesses and startups and girls' education

Enterprise Nation and Girls in Movement’s Polly Dhaliwal on (1:05) supporting startups and small businesses through Enterprise Nation, (1:45) matching businesses with sup

#23 Ecopreneur's Philip Toussaint on building a volunteer tracking platform and AI proficiency

Ecopreneur's Philip Toussaint on (2:47) pivoting his business from a media platform, (4:57) gathering feedback for a volunteer tracking platform, (7:51) the role of volun

#22 Nora Chiu on bringing Lydia AI to the East and doubling down on career pivots

Nora Chiu discusses (1:54) discovering the startup ecosystem in Korea, (4:05) bringing Lydia AI to the Asian market, (6:42) Lydia AI's product offering, (8:15) partnering

#21 Mentorly's Ashley Werhun on building a mentorship platform and building as a woman founder

Ashley Werhun of Mentorly discusses (1:15) starting her career as a ballet dancer, (2:36) her aspirations to be a ballet dancer as a child, (5:13) her transition into tec

#20 Crescent Health's Joshua Collin on building and selling a sleep coaching app to BetterUp

Josh Collin discusses (2:08) starting Crescent Health from his dorm room, (4:41) moving to a founder house called the Atmosphere House with his co-founder Jason, (10:24)

#19 Ricardo Alanis on heading a data-driven company at Nowports

Ricardo Alanis describes his work at Nowports including (5:50) visibility with data in shipping logistics, (7:14) increasing trust in data points for his customers, (15:1

#18 Cristina Vanko of Arrow on building an audio dating app and more

Cristina Vanko discusses her journey to building Arrow, an audio dating app. Cristina discusses (0:30) her upbringing and her early experience as a designer and advertise

#17 Chris Baek of InCloud on the case for empathy in business

Chris Baek discusses how he got to working to provide IoT software services for domestic electrical goods manufacturers in Japan with his company InCloud. He discusses (3

#16 Alana Karen of Google on leading teams

Alana Karen (@alanatkaren) discusses getting her start at Google, making a switch from sales and marketing to the engineering team, the scrappy go-getter mentality in the

#15 Shriya Nevatia of On Deck on inspiring leaders

Shriya Nevatia (@shriyanevatia) discusses joining On Deck with Erik Torrenberg in the early days and growing the On Deck community through the pandemic. Shriya talks welc

#14 Catherine Winfield of CZI on designing for social impact

Catherine Winfield (@winfield_c) discusses her transition from architecture to design, working in healthcare design to take care of people with chronic health conditions