Arts, Voice, Health, and Human Potential | Jennifer Davison
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
Release Date: 06/18/2025
YOUR VOICE on #impact | Real Voices. Real Impact.
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
For almost 10 years, this podcast has been about voices. About people who care. People who are building something. People who are trying—every day—to make a real impact. Big or small. Global or local. It all counts. And maybe that’s you. Maybe you’re doing the work quietly. Maybe you’ve been thinking about sharing your voice… but haven’t yet. This is your space. Not polished. Not perfect. Just real. Because real voices create real impact. No matter where you are in the world, you deserve to be heard. And we’re here to amplify that. We’re rooting for you. I’m Regina Larko....
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The Long Game of Impact | Dr. Shirley Gallagher
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
Today you meet Dr. Shirley Gallagher. She’s an Irish scientific communicator and sustainability professional with over 25 years of experience, someone who has spent her entire career asking one core question: how do we actually make systems more sustainable? Her journey started early. In 1986, the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl sparked her awareness of environmental issues, a moment that would go on to shape her life’s work. Since the 90s, she’s been working across contaminated land, water, energy, and now the circular economy, with a PhD focused on contaminated land. But this...
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A Global Clean Up Movement (and it all started with a simple walk). | César González Fernández
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
In this episode you meet César González Fernández, the founder of CSFN (Clean Something for Nothing) and an EU Climate Pact ambassador. César's journey started in 2018 with something so simple yet powerful: picking up litter on his daily dog walk. What began as a small personal habit quickly grew into a global movement inspiring thousands to take action for a cleaner planet. Through the CSFN app, people in 84 countries have organized over 7,000 cleanups, collecting more than 880 tons of litter. César walks us through how the movement evolved, from a humble Instagram hashtag to a...
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Nine Years In: Asking the Oracle What’s Next for #impact Podcast
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
In this episode, you get to follow #impact host Regina to Café François in Vienna, where she met up with some of her favorite podcasters and storytellers in town to celebrate 9 years of #impact. What better way to celebrate than by asking the oracle a few important questions about the future of this podcast? The answers were surprising, funny, encouraging and at times downright outrageous. Stay until the very end to hear Regina’s reflections on what the last nine years have meant, where the journey is heading next, and how you can become part of it too. Featured guests A special shout-out...
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Building Community, One Creative Morning at a Time
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
Sandra Ulrich and Sabrina Kusternik are two of the wonderful people behind Creative Mornings Vienna, a community that has become a creative home for so many. We talk about how it all started, what keeps it alive, and why showing up month after month actually matters more than doing things perfectly. Creative Mornings began in New York in 2008 and has since grown into a global movement across more than 240 cities. But what really makes it special isn’t the scale, it's the simplicity. Free monthly gatherings. One talk. Morning Coffee. And a room full of people who want to connect, learn, and...
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What Your Voice Held This Year
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? All the unspoken courage. The boundaries you drew. The softness you protected. The stories you carried without applause. What we’ll do together: We start with a grounding pause I’ll share a short teaching You’ll have time to reflect + journal If you want quiet over hustle, depth over doing, and a moment to hear your own voice again, this space is yours. Come as you are. Just bring curiosity, a pen, a notebook. Press play to begin. Connect with me:
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A Decade of Building with Purpose | Natalie Chan
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
Many years ago, we sat down in Hong Kong to talk about purpose, education, and creating change. Today, we’re reuniting in Vienna, a full-circle moment, to look back on how far Own Academy has come and where it’s heading next. Meet Natalie Chan In this conversation we talk about the lessons learned from a decade of building an impact-driven movement. We talk about the realization that the references we grow up with shape how far we believe we can go and how that insight became the foundation for everything that followed. You’ll hear about the post-COVID pivot back to real-world,...
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Small Scale Impact | Revisiting Jimmy Westerheim| The Human Aspect
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
What if the greatest impact you’ll ever make isn’t measured in headlines or global reach but in the way you show up for the people right around you? In this episode, Jimmy Westerheim, founder and CEO of The Human Aspect, returns to the podcast for a conversation that will shift how you think about leadership, impact, and community. Jimmy is someone who has seen the world up close, from growing up in a small Norwegian village to spending years in conflict zones like Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, and yet, what stands out most to him isn’t the “big” stories. It’s the small, deeply...
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Mental Health Matters
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
Every year on October 10, people around the world pause to shine a light on mental health: its struggles, its strengths, and its urgent importance. That’s World Mental Health Day, created in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health to raise awareness and reduce stigma. But it’s not just one day. For us at #impact, this topic has been part of our heartbeat from the very beginning, because stories of mental health aren’t a niche. They're human. They mirror our ups and downs, our communities, our work, our families. Mentioned in this episode: Mental Health Atlas...
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Connecting the Dots on Your Own Doing Good Journey | Mabel Sieh
#impact: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Social Good
Constant change, acceleration, ambitions and aspirations, so many of us are trying to balance the many layers of living in a complex world and creating our own meaning through impactful work. Mabel Sieh’s story is allowing us to take a big collective breath. Maybe even a sigh of relief. From her beginnings as a teacher and journalist to leading impactful initiatives in Hong Kong and most recently a transformative trip to Nepal, Mabel’s path is anything but linear, and that’s exactly what makes it so powerful. She speaks about letting go of the need to control every detail and...
info_outlineMeet Jennifer Davison, opera singer, arts for health professional, social entrepreneur, teacher and mother.
I sat across from her at a dinner in Vienna. And as you do, we started talking about passions, work, life.
There I was, sharing my love for leveraging the power of voice to inspire positive change. And her eyes lit up. Not just with curiosity, but with that spark that told me: she gets it.
What followed was a beautiful conversation about her passion for the arts and voice, how it all connects with health and how she and her co-founder Bea are building a startup rooted in the arts, voice and breath, as the foundation for a healthy body and soul.
I knew right then and there that I’d invite her on the podcast. I didn’t say it out loud, but I think she felt it.
What I didn’t know then was that a film team, currently working on a documentary about my journey as a podcaster, would soon ask me for footage of an actual Podcast interview in action. Time was very…tight. A public holiday was coming up. I thought, who would be spontaneous enough to jump into a recording with just a few hours’ notice?
Plus, I usually take my time to prepare, to really get to know my guests before we hit record. I didn’t have to think long.
I messaged Jennifer.
Would she be up for recording, picking up the thread of that deep, soulful conversation we’d had just the day before?
She said yes.
And the rest… well, it’s too fresh to call it history. But in my soul, I know this episode will go down in #impact history.
We recorded with a film crew around us, but the energy was anything but chaotic. It was focused. Relaxed. Deep. Meaningful.
Jennifer made me pause. Reflect. Breathe. She reminded me of the beautiful, gentle, yet unshakably strong power of our voice.
This is one you’ll want right at the top of your playlist. It’s that moment of anticipation at the opera, when the curtain lifts and everything goes silent. And then it begins. The force of it. The power. The audacity.
We made something special that day. Something that you can take into your own changemaker journey too.
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On Being with Krista Tippett (Jennifer and Regina are both passionate listeners of this podcast)
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