Episodes Blog

After experiencing how plaguing mental health disorders can be within his own family, Craig made it his life's work to transform mental health care globally.

On this episode, we speak to the co-founder of Caringcrowd.org, John Brennick, on creating a crowdfunding platform specifically dedicated to global public health and how anyone can get involved with creating change in the lives of the underprivileged and underserved.

From her first trip on a Global Medical Brigade, to creating the first healthcare technology application in Afghanistan, Alia shares her journey on developing her passion to change the way Afghanistan cares for its mothers and children.

Growing up in the catholic school system to moving to Honduras and living a life of service, Lauren speaks about what can happen when you give communities in Honduras a voice to create their own change.

Hayley Mundeva and Annalise Mathers realized how difficult it can be to navigate a career within global health. By creating Thrivehire, they want to help you find purpose and succeed in your goals to create a better world.

Founded by late award winning social entrepreneur, Leila Janah, LXMI is an environmentally and socially conscious clean beauty company that focuses on empowering the women of Uganda by giving work.

This nonprofit began their journey as a soap recycling organization and are now seeking out and elevating women entrepreneurs in underserved communities worldwide to provide local solutions in the fields of water, hygiene, and sanitation.

At the age of 12 years old, Katie Baric experienced life of the underserved in Honduras. She found her heart and soul in the communities of Peru and never left. Learn about Katie's passion to spread health education and the importance of preventative care in Peru and the challenges she's overcome over the years.

Danny Breegi was born in the middle of a warzone in Iraq and is now developing lifesaving technology to fight against COVID-19 and neonatal mortality in nations all around the world.

We speak about how Riley opened his eyes to realities that he could not fathom before traveling to Honduras. We speak about how his soul changed from being a quote unquote selfish young person who only cared about making money to becoming someone so generous who's life's work is to serve others. Riley says, People can change.

JP is currently the founder and CEO of a nonprofit organization called capracare - an organization that provides comprehensive access to health services, professional development, and educational services to specific communities in Haiti. They are dedicated to developing sustainable community health programs for the people they serve.

Listen as we speak about the stigma that developing nations may have on people who have neurological conditions such as epilepsy and what Teguo, Lucien, and their team are doing to raise awareness, education, and level of treatment of these conditions around the world.

We speak about the healthcare system in India and how people must pay FIRST before getting any type of treatment. You might wonder how this affects the poor working class of india. Through being incubated at the prestigious Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, the Soondra Foundation was born.

During this episode we dive into conversation around Hannah's journey from growing up in a small town in Illinois to becoming a nurse and midwife to working as the Technical Director of Integral Global - the link between better health and the most vulnerable communities in the world.

We will answer your questions around what it's like to study global health, and the misconceptions around what global health is and how people perceive global health. We also speak about how global health can be utilized with a plethora of specialties - not just health sciences.

The story of JB Dondolo is one that was started by love. It was the unconditional love of Lumbies father, her family, and the people around her. As you'll hear in this episode, Lumbie has a pure-hearted humanitarian father who had passed away. He was uneducated but nevertheless gave unconditionally.

Medicines360 is a nonprofit global women's health pharmaceutical company with a mission to expand access to quality medicines for all women regardless of their socioeconomic status, insurance coverage, or geographic location. How many of you have heard of a nonprofit pharmaceutical company?

From eating the biggest mangoes with her best friends in Venezuela to the serendipitous meeting with Walter Ulrich (CEO of Medical Bridges) to becoming a changemaker in the field of global health, Claudette speaks on how her childhood had shaped her love for serving others, traveling with a purpose, and building a better world for all.

We speak about whether it truly is necessary to have international experiences to be able to advocate for health improvement programs around the world, why being politically active is so important when you are trying to improve lives of a population rather than a small number of individuals, and what advocacy truly means to Keith and Maria.