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Boyan Slat - The Impossible Cleanup
Meet Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup - the world’s largest cleanup in history. After starting as a high school project in the Netherlands in 2011, Boyan’s mis...
Trailer - Season 4
A new chapter begins on July 31st, 2025.
The Good News You Missed In 2024
Depending on where you get your news, 2024 probably sounded like a complete disaster. And while a lot of terrible things happened, not everything that happened in the ...
Steven Pinker – Why Progress Is Possible
Meet Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist and public intellectual who is one of the world’s greatest thinkers on the topic of progress. He is the author of 12 books...
Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo – The Caravan Of Joy And Tears
Meet Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo, a psychologist and narrativetherapist who uses a travelling caravan to bring mental health services to townships on the outskirts of Johannes...
Sonia Vallabh - A Scientist's Quest To Cure Her Own Disease
Meet Sonia Vallabh, a lawyer turned scientist with one of the most compelling stories we have ever heard. In 2011, Sonia was diagnosed with prion disease, a rare and f...
Clinton Global Initiative - A Million Little Bits
Two weeks ago, Amy attended the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, where she met some incredible change makers who are driving solutions across healthcare, water a...
Sigrid van Aken - The Lottery Of Progress
Meet Sigrid van Aken, the CEO of Postcode Lottery Group, the world's 3rd largest private charity donor, after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & the Wellcome Trust....
Fernando Trujillo - Hope Songs In The Amazon
We cover a lot of conversation stories about the Amazon at Fix The News, but it’s not often that we get the chance to talk with someone who is driving these efforts. M...
Valery Wichman - Waves Of Change
Meet Valery Wichman, a leading LGBTQI+ activist and lawyer in the Cook Islands who was on the forefront of the fight to decriminalise homosexuality in her country. Thi...
Ada Palmer - A History Of Saving The World
Meet Ada Palmer, a historian and science fiction author who believes that when we zoom out to a centuries scale, humanity has a lot to be hopeful about. This conversat...
Ron Davis Alvarez - The Dream Orchestra
Meet Ron Davis Alvarez, a musician, teacher and conductor who created The Dream Orchestra to help refugee children and teenagers forge connections in their host countr...
Marwa & Peta - The Mother's Call
Meet Peta & Marwa, two women from opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who are working together to create a shared and peaceful future for their families...
Kris Tompkins - A Love Letter To Rewilding
Meet Kris Tompkins, a rewilding legend who, alongside herlate husband Doug, has helped protect over 14 million acres of biodiverse landscape across Chile and Argentina...
Season 3: Trailer
This new chapter of stories begins August 9th, 2024. Please join us by subscribing to Hope Is A Verb where ever you listen to your podcasts.
Angus Hervey - Fix The News
It's no secret that the news media is in crisis: sweeping layoffs across newsrooms, consumer disengagement and stories of doom and destruction on loop 24/7. But what i...
Yasmeen Lari - Zero Waste. Zero Poverty.
Meet Yasmeen Lari, 'starchitect' turned humanitarian who in the wake of the 2022 floods in Pakistan, vowed to build one million zero-carbon, disaster-resistant homes f...
Constantino Aucca Chutas - Indigenous knowledge In The Andes
Meet 'Tino' Aucca Chutas, a biologist in Peru who has worked with communities across the Andes to plant almost 10 million trees to combat climate change. Reviving the ...
Hannah Ritchie - Not The End Of The World
Meet Hannah Ritchie, a data scientist and author of Not the End of the World, a book that makes the radically hopeful argument that we may be on track to create true s...
Eden Tadesse – Can The Internet Fix The Refugee Crisis?
Meet Eden Tadesse, a social entrepreneur and digital innovator from Ethiopia who created Invicta, a social impact platform that connects refugees and internally displa...
