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Upside & Impact

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Welcome to the Upside & Impact: Investing for Change Podcast! Produced by VegTech™ Invest, Upside & Impact is hosted by VegTech™ Invest CEO Elysabeth Alfano. In each episode, Elysabeth will dive deep with a leader in the impact investing space to uncover the potential financial upside and long-term impact investing in sustainable sectors like alternative energy, transportation, building materials, food and so much more. Topics will range from protecting biodiversity, natural resources, clima ...
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Born In Silicon Valley is a podcast that features founders’ stories. Each episode highlights the journey of success, pivots, and what entrepreneurs have learned when building from the ground up. Host Jake Aaron Villarreal interviews founders, discussing their struggles, triumphs, and their progress along the way. Listeners will gain insight into leadership and the operations of a startup. This podcast is supported by Match Relevant, a company that helps startups find top talent to grow their ...
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Welcome to Lead the Team. This podcast is for you if you'd like to motivate your direct reports, cultivate your top leaders, and accelerate your career. You'll discover the success strategies of the world's most innovative leaders where I dive into their keys to success and hard-earned, costly lessons. We've surpassed 200 episodes and host guests like legendary Honeywell CEO, David Cote and CEO of Dunkin Brands, Nigel Travis. As well as executives from companies you know like SAP, US Golf As ...
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Power Positive Mindset Bruce Lowthers, CEO of Paysafe Group, shares his remarkable journey from a stage four cancer diagnosis to profound personal and professional growth. What if you faced life’s ultimate challenge? Well for Bruce, this experience ignited the power of a positive mindset—not just for himself, but as a beacon for those around him. I…
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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and Executive Director of the Food Systems for the Future, Ertharin Cousin joins CEO of VegTech Invest to discuss the pivotal year of 2025 for food and other systems shifts. VegTech Invest’s Upside & Impact podcast features the CEO of VegTech Invest, Elysabeth Alfano, as…
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Success Accelerators Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali, Chomps' dynamic Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, share the strategy they used to accelerate the success of their entire organization. In just over a decade, they’ve turned a modest $6,500 investment into "Chomps"—the fastest-growing food brand in the entire consumer landscape—projecting over $500 million …
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What is the state of the American Farmer? Is food insecurity in the US on the rise? What initiatives are upcoming to address feeding more people with fewer resources? What does the USDA science data tell us? Deputy Under Secretary of the USDA, Sanah Baig, is here for the big knowledge drop just months before the Farm Bill drop. VegTech Invest’s Ups…
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The Whiskey Secret Fawn Weaver, visionary CEO and founder of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, has made history by creating the fastest-growing American whiskey brand ever. She stands among a rare group—one of only five African American women to lead a $1B+ company in U.S. history. But Fawn's journey is about more than building a business... ...it’s a…
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Monique Mikhail, Senior Program Manager, Climate and Agriculture Finance Program, and Kelly McNamara, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, at Friends of the Earth reveal some shocking environmental statistics from the banking industry's funding of animal agriculture. Bull in the Climate Shop study: https://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bull-in-…
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Moving 28 Million People by Train. Robert Grasty, Amtrak’s EVP and CHRO, is driving the transformation of a dynamic workforce, essential to keeping millions of passengers moving across the country every day. With a clear focus on shared purpose, innovation, and operational excellence, you'll hear his strategy for reshaping Amtrak’s growing organiza…
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The President’s Time Secret Anthony Viglietti, President at theSkimm, dives into a game-changing approach to leadership that can immediately elevate your effectiveness His strategy led to incredible revenue growth... 100%+at theSkimm A massive leap from $60M to $400M at Univision. 200% growth at BET Digital. What You’ll Discover in this Episode: ✅ …
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In this episode of Upside & Impact: Investing for Change, CEO of VegTech Invest and host Elysabeth Alfano conducts two interviews while attending the Sun Valley Forum in Idaho. She interviews the Chief Energy Officer at New Energy Nexus, Danny Kennedy, and Partner and Co-Founder at Encourage Capital, Ricardo Bayon. Ricardo's papers on biodiversity:…
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The WOW Leader! Jason Parker, Co-Founder of K9 Resorts and CEO of K9 Resorts Franchising, shares his remarkable journey of becoming one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the franchising world. At just 12 years old, he and his brother identified a need — and they never looked back and continue to generate "WOW" experiences for their customers (which …
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A Remarkable Rise to CEO Get inspired by the extraordinary journey of Tatyana Zlotsky, the CEO of A Place for Mom....the leading senior care advisory service in North America Tatyana's story is a powerful lesson in resilience, adaptability and leadership. When she and her family arrived in the US as refugees, she faced many tough obstacles. Despite…
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The Shareholder Commons CEO, Rick Alexander, joins VegTech Invest CEO, Elysabeth Alfano, on the Upside & Impact: Investing for Change podcast to discuss the societal impact of corporate externalized costs and what investors can do to encourage companies to internalize these costs. Sources/Articles referenced: FAO: https://openknowledge.fao.org/serv…
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The Accountability CEO Scott Wine, has 16 years as CEO and top executive at major public companies like CNH, Polaris, UTC Fire and Security, Danaher, and Honeywell. He shares his proven approach for instilling accountability across organizations and teams at all levels. Just wait until you hear how this one strategy... ...delivered REMARKABLE resul…
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The CAULIPOWER Founder, Gail Becker ... ...took a bold leap of faith. She traded an illustrious corporate career and went ALL In on a singular vegetable. Driven by a moment of profound inspiration, she forged a groundbreaking category in the "better-for-you" frozen food industry. Under her leadership, CAULIPOWER skyrocketed to over $100 million in …
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In this episode, we are joined by Vikas Nair, Co-Founder of Openlayer, a pioneering company in the AI testing and debugging space. Vikas shares his journey from being a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple to founding Openlayer, a platform that helps startups and Fortune 500 companies alike evaluate and monitor their AI models. Vikas discusses the ch…
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Executive Director of the Intentional Endowment Network (IEN), Georges Dyer, discusses the organization's recent pilot program for the Endowment Impact Benchmark. Joined by CEO of VegTech Invest and host, Elysabeth Alfano, the two discuss a resurgence for impact investing and the pressure for institutional organizations to lead on sustainable inves…
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240 Miles of Discomfort Jonathan Edwards. CEO - Americas at iC Consult, shares the unexpected lesson he uncovered through grit and endurance. This distance is like running 9 marathons consecutively and let's just the say there is a lot of learn about leadership of yourself and others when you put yourself through this kind of extreme conditions. Hi…
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Chief Investment Officer of VegTech Invest, Dr. Sasha Goodman, discusses the firm's recent white paper, in conjunction with Harvard University student, on Stakeholder Engagement for Plant-based Innovation & Diversified Proteins. Along with host, Elysabeth Alfano, the two discuss the top 5 findings of the white paper and the impact on the diversifie…
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