An interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh with Todd Hansen. For ten years, Todd led conference programming at South by Southwest, the annual film, interactive media, and music festival held in Austin, Texas. Recently, Todd and friends started the Artist Rescue Trust to support musicians, artists, and creatives affected by the pandemic.

We talked with Todd about how the SXSW team has built the conference over the years with attendees and how he tapped existing motivation in starting the Artist Rescue Trust.

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A live interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh with Claire Wasserman, co-founder of Ladies Get Paid. Ladies Get Paid has connected 75,000 women on their mission to close the wage gap.

We talked with Claire in front of a live Zoom audience about how she has supercharged women across the country to be advocates for their worth and her new book, titled Ladies Get Paid.

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An interview hosted by Bailey Richardson & Kevin Huynh with Joe Smith, Program Quality Director for District 38 of Toastmasters. Today there are more than 364,000 paying members around the world. One in three of those members also serves as a volunteer.

We talked with Joe about Toastmasters history and evolution of Toastmasters International.

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An interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh with Colombe Cahen-Salvador, Andrea Venzon, and Laura Giani, the leaders behind NOW! a global, digital-first movement bringing people from all over the world together to tackle global issues. Colombe and Andrea forged the movement as co-founders and Laura is a volunteer turned campaign manager.

We talked with them about finding a common call to action: the common reason WHY your people continue you to show up.

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An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Steve Garguilo, partner at Cultivate, which helps organizations unlock their full potential and bring their culture to life.

We talked with Steve about his early career at Johnson & Johnson and his work now at Cultivate, sparking company culture shifts from the ground up.

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An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Isis Miller, Community and Events Manager at Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit organization that provides young Black girls a tech education and access to peers who share their passions.

We talked with Isis about what this work means for her personally, as well as how the organization has gone virtual with online workshops and panels this year, and finally, what a meaningful partnership with Black Girls CODE looks like.

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An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Fiona Monga, Head of Writer Partnerships, and Nadia Eghbal, Writer Experience, at Substack.

We talked with Fiona and Nadia about connecting writers and how they notice, validate, and codify what works on the platform to help writers succeed.

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An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with "financial hype woman" Berna Anat. Berna leads Hella Helpful, a free workshop that sparked a community of BIPOC and first-gen children of immigrants who talk finance.

We talked with Berna about leading with transparency and role modeling how you want community members to show up.

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An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Kat Vellos, author of “We Should Get Together” and founder of Bay Area Black Designers.

We talked with Kat about cultivating deep friendships in a sea of busy, mobile people and sparking community in otherwise isolating situations.

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An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Lindsay Russell who led Facebook's investments in some of the platform's most active and important users: Group Power Admins.

We sat down with Lindsay to learn more about her experience spearheading Facebook’s big pivot towards supporting admins who were cultivating communities.

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An interview with Hema Karunakaram & Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, two of the volunteers behind Letters for Black Lives.

In the weeks following George Floyd’s death, Hema Karunakaram and Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani joined hundreds of first generation Americans and Canadians to draft templates for conversations with elders around anti-blackness and racism. In this interview, Hema and Adrienne share how people from all over are working together with peers and elders to provide translated blueprints for these conversations.

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Giving circles are a simple but powerful community-building format. Groups of people get together to pool their money, then direct it towards issues they collectively care about–think Queer Youth Fund or the African American Giving Circle.

Today, we’ve put together an episode with two experts that will share what it takes to start and sustain a giving circle.

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