Changemaker Q&A
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Changemaker Q&A
Changemaker Q&A is a podcast for grassroots changemakers—activists, students, volunteers, entrepreneurs, social workers, advocates, and anyone striving for impact. Host Dr Tiyana J answers real community questions and interviews inspiring guests who share stories, lessons, and practical strategi...
Episodis Recents
115 episodis
106. The Future Isn't Fixed: Why We Need to Imagine Possible Futures
Skip the HCN Weekly Brief: 6:20
How do we create a better future if we struggle to imagine one? Reflecting on the conversations that emerged dur...
105. The Anime Mindset: Resilience Lessons Changemakers Can Actually Use with Michael Yearby
Resilience isn’t about pretending things don’t hurt — it’s about learning how to keep moving when they do. Michael shares how his journey from growing...
104. Moral Ambition: is the Search for Meaningful Work Possible in a Capitalist Economy
A growing number of people feel caught between the desire to build meaningful lives and the economic realities of surviving within systems that often...
103. Unbounded Leadership: Shifting Consciousness to Change the World with Martin Palethorpe
What if the most powerful lever for systemic change isn’t strategy — but consciousness? Martin shares his journey from early corporate success and bur...
102. Is the Internet Speeding Up Cultural Change?
A listener question sparked today’s discussion about the relationship between the internet, culture, and societal transformation. While social media a...
101. Plant Wisdom for Changemakers: Ecosystems, Conflict, and Finding Your Role with Tigrilla Gardenia
A multi-passionate journey from music engineering and early internet tech to circus life, esoteric teaching, and finally a plant-centred practice in D...
100. A Hundred Episodes Later: What I’ve Learned About Social Change
Skip the HCN Weekly Brief: 4:56
After 100 episodes of Changemaker Q&A, one thing has become clear: changemaking is rarely linear, tidy, or predi...
99. Charity Matters: Storytelling, Service, and Start Something That Matters with Heidi Johnson
Service often gets framed as something people do on the side, yet this episode shows what happens when service becomes a sustained practice—built into...
98. Why Trust Is the Real Currency of Social Change
Skip the HCN Weekly Brief: 9:05
Change doesn’t just happen because we have the right strategy, the right tools, or even the right intentions. It...
97. Cut Through: The Storytelling Skills Every Changemaker Needs with Dominic Colenso
Actor-turned-communication-expert Dominic Colenso joins Changemaker Q&A to unpack why communication is not a “nice-to-have” for social change, but a c...
96. Social Impact vs Social Change: Why We Need Both (And How to Know Where You Fit)
Skip the HCN Weekly Brief: 5:59
What’s the difference between creating impact and creating change—and why does it matter? This episode explores...
95. Calm in the Chaos: Designing Events That Support Mental Health and Sensory Needs with Nika Brunet Milunovic
Live events look effortless from the crowd, but behind every stage, schedule, and security plan sits an intense working environment built on long hour...
94. How to Develop an Explanatory Change Theory in Research
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This episode responds to a listener question from a practitioner stepping into academic research and feeling o...
93. Staying Close to the Problem: Lessons for Business and Impact from Purpose-Driven Founder Neli Kools
A non-linear career can feel confusing while you’re living it, yet it often becomes the foundation for the most grounded leadership. Global entreprene...
92. Rapid Fire Q&A: Degrees, Gardens, Systems Change and Book Recommendations
Skip the HCN Weekly Brief - 7:17
From choosing the right degree to figuring out whether systemic change is too overwhelming to pursue, this rapi...
91. From Conflict to Connection: Communication Skills All Changemakers Need with Eri Kardos
Communication sits at the heart of leadership, relationships, and social change—yet most people were never taught how to listen well, navigate conflic...
90. Turning 30: Sharing My Changemaking Journey & Key Lessons From My 20s
Turning 30 can be “just a number”, but it can also be a moment to pause and take stock — and that’s what this episode does. Tiyana shares the winding,...
89. Freedom, Service, and the Mindset Shifts for Leaders to Create Impact with Nicky Billou
Freedom is often spoken about as an abstract ideal, yet for many entrepreneurs and changemakers it is the invisible foundation that makes creation, ex...
88. Do Less, Create More: Finding Leverage Points for Real Impact + HCN Update
If you don’t want the HCN update, skip to 12:35!
What if doing less was actually the smartest strategy for creating more impact? Inspired by a v...
87. Design, Trust, and Attention: Why Good Impact Needs Good Communication with Daniel Francavilla
Grassroots changemakers are often driven by purpose first—then quickly discover that impact also requires skills in branding, communication, storytell...
86. Social Work in the Impact Space: Bridging Care and Systems Change
Social work is often reduced to “service delivery”, but it’s also one of the most important bridges between lived experience and systems change. This...
85. Inside Foreign Aid: Wins, Failures, and What Happens When Programs Stop Overnight with Clifford Brown
Foreign aid is often reduced to slogans—either dismissed as wasteful or romanticised as simple charity—yet the reality is far more complex, political,...
84. Human Rights 101: The Ideas, the Law, and the 30 Rights That Shape Our World
Human rights are often described as the basic freedoms and protections we have simply by being human — but where do those rights come from, who protec...
83. Women, Resistance, and the Third Option: What We Can Learn from Iran’s Resistance Movement with Zolal Habibi
Iran has been experiencing renewed waves of protest and strikes alongside intensifying repression, including a widely reported escalation in execution...
82. All About Policy: What It Is, How It Moves, and Why It Matters
Policy often gets talked about as the way social change happens because it’s formal, visible, and easy to point to—but it’s really just one piece of a...
81. Rebuilding Connection: Tackling the Loneliness Epidemic Through Technology with Gabor Kadas
As loneliness rises to epidemic levels across the world, many are asking: how can we rebuild the connections that make life meaningful? This episode e...
80. You Can’t Have Everything: Why Trade-Offs Are Inevitable in Social Change
Social change is driven by strong values, moral clarity, and a deep commitment to justice—yet it rarely unfolds under ideal conditions. This episode e...
79. Thriving as an Introvert in an Extroverted World with Serena Low
After more than a decade in corporate law, Serena reached a crossroads that forced her to question everything she thought success was meant to look li...
78. Business for Good: How Markets, Power, and Purpose Shape Societal Transformation
Business often gets talked about as if it sits neatly in the “economic” box, separate from ethics, power, and social responsibility. In reality, busin...
77. Crossing State Lines: How Reverend Erika Ferguson is Redefining Reproductive Freedom
Reverend Erika Ferguson’s life and work stand as a testament to courage, compassion, and conviction. As the founder of the Tubman Travel Project, she...
76. Values as a Compass: How Changemakers Navigate Organisations and Complexity
Values are often treated as decorative statements—nice words on a website or a slide in an induction pack—but for changemakers, they are far more than...
75. Caring With Dignity: Dr Warren Wong on Rethinking Ageing and Healthcare
Dr Warren Wong has dedicated his medical career to transforming the way we think about ageing, caregiving, and healthcare. From his early experiences...
74. How Multidimensional Mindfulness Can Be a Tool for Transformation
Mindfulness is often framed as a personal coping tool—something individuals practise to manage stress within systems that remain fundamentally unchang...
73. The Working Backwards Methodology for Innovation: Sustainability, AI, and Leadership with Amir Elion
Innovation is a word we hear often, but what does it actually mean in practice? In this conversation with Amir Elion—innovation leader, former head of...
72. Money Isn’t a Resource: Rethinking Money for Social Change
Money is often treated as the central ingredient for social change, yet this conversation challenges that assumption and offers a more precise—and mor...
71. Conservation, Complexity, and Connection: Rethinking Our Relationship with Nature with Tommy Serafinski
Tommy’s path into conservation and science communication did not begin in academia, but on the riverbanks with a fishing rod and a blog. Over time, hi...
70. Beyond Vision Boards: Creating a Strategy for your 2026 Goals
As a new year begins, Tiyana invites changemakers to move beyond aspirational vision boards and into a more grounded, strategic approach to goal setti...
69. Safety, Confidence, and Boundaries: Lessons from a Woman in Security
Dione Chan, widely known as That Security Lady, shares her journey from a shy childhood to becoming an experienced professional in a male-dominated se...
68. Tiyana’s 2026 Predictions: What the Year Ahead will Hold for Social Changemakers
Stepping into 2026 invites both uncertainty and opportunity, and this episode maps out the major social impact trends likely to shape the year ahead....
67. From One Act of Kindness to a Movement: Rethinking Homelessness and Violence Prevention
What begins as a simple gesture of helping one person can spark a movement that reshapes communities. Sean shares his unexpected journey from preparin...