Hello Period makes sustainable period products like menstrual cups, discs, and underwear. The goal is to reduce waste by offering alternatives to single-use period products like pads and tampons.

Cofounder and former journalist Robyn McLean describes how menstrual cups changed her life and lead to launching her company in 2017 with business partner and best friend since the age of 11, Mary Bond. As a nurse, it was Mary who designed their first menstrual cup.

Listen in to hear Robyn reveal...

• Why she expanded from just menstrual cups into the full range of reusable period products
• What differing cervix sizes have to do with it
• One menstrual cup replaces about 2000 single-use period products
• Why her vision is that one day soon, the only tampons will be in museums to show how people managed their periods in the olden days
• The ins and outs of toxic shock syndrome
• Why there's been no real innovation in traditional period products for decades
• How her aim is to divert one billion single-use products by 2030
• How they became a B Corp in 2021 and found the process helpful for formalizing their social and environmental commitments.
• How balancing profitability and purpose was a learning curve - you can't help others without being a viable business yourself first.

Check it out! Learn something, be entertained, and get inspired.

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If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!

They've got nothing to do cute little motorcycles, Redvespa is a business analyst consultancy in Aotearoa New Zealand that's been going strong since 2003.

We sat down with Head of Experience Jamie Bell who tells us that being a business for good was one of the foundational pillars of Redvespa from the get-go then B Corp came along so they started the journey in 2016 and got Certified in 2018.

Listen in as Jamie talks about how:

• The purpose of Redvespa is to unleash the potential of people, business and the community
• Redvespa analysts solve problems that businesses can't solve on their own
• Why Redvespa see the journey of B Corp as being more important than the destination
• How the B Corp community is the greatest strength of the movement
• Why he shops B Corp and palm-oil free...

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... and more. Check it out! And get inspired.

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Ready to B Better?

If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!

There's nothing vanilla about vanilla! So says cofounder and CEO of Helaila Vanilla Jennifer Boggiss. And she would know. Since 2002, Jennifer has lived and breathed vanilla paste, vanilla beans, vanilla sugar, vanilla extract, vanilla powder, seasonal flavoured vanilla, alcohol-free vanilla...

She is the vanilla queen, which is why we are delighted to have Jennifer as our guest on this episode of the B Better podcast.

Listen in to hear Jennifer talk about:

• Why alcohol-free vanilla is a really big thing
• How UK chef Jamie Oliver is one of their fans
• How their alcohol-free paste just won the New Zealand Food Awards Supreme award and the Business Innovation Award
• What the daughter of a Tongan chief and a cyclone's got to do with it all
• Why it's called the Love Bean
• How vanilla was originally used for royalty, alongside cacao, after being discovered in Mexico in the 1800s
• Her goal to be the first carbon positive vanilla company in the world

Check it out! And get inspired.

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Ready to B Better?

If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!

There's reminiscing of 1990's Cardiff uni parties in this episode of B Better podcast. The legendary Liz Southey is an old pal of Tim's from their days at Cardiff University but she's also cofounder of The Salve Health, a global medical affairs consultancy designed to create positive impact in healthcare through purposeful communications.

As well as talking medical comms and B Corp, Tim and Liz chat about parenting, the days of only four TV channels, whether AI thinks its God or not, the power of purpose, and more.

Listen in to hear Liz talk about:

• Getting her start in pharmacology at Cardiff University
• How she ended up starting her own medical communications company with a friend
• What she thinks of the Netflix documentary Painkiller
• How she got B Corp certified despite working with a 'controversial industry'
• How The Salve was born from was wondering how to work with both not-for-profits and Big Pharma clients
• Why she feels lucky to have had the B Impact Assessment as a framework for setting up her new business
• Why B Corp is so great for new start-ups
• Her supply chain lightbulb moment... and so much more...

Check it out! And get inspired.

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Ready to B Better?

If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!

The man, the myth, the legend of B Corp... and a Netflix star to boot! In this episode, it is our unadulterated pleasure to speak to the man himself, the man who started the entire B Corp movement, along with two friends - Andrew Kassoy and Bart Houlahan - with a mission to transform the entire economy to one that's purpose driven.

Together, in 2006, they came up with a way for businesses to be the best for the world and almost two decades later, it's a global revolution of 8000 businesses and counting.

Listen in to hear Jay talk about:

• How his first company, a basketball apparel brand called AND1, was started with his best friend
• How AND1 became a multi-million dollar business in just a few years
• His epiphany in September 2001 when, within three weeks, his sister was in the Twin Towers on 9/11, his father died, and a friend's was killed in a car accident
• The mission and vision of the B Corp movement
• How he was inspired by businesses like Patagonia, The Body Shop and Toms
• His work with a group called White Men for Racial Justice
• Why he thinks it's crucial to help legacy institutions transform
• Why the future of B Corp is collective action to drive change

... and so much more.

Check it out! Don't miss this inspiring conversation.

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Ready to B Better?

If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!

#80 Jay Cohen-Gilbert - B Lab: How to run the best leg of the relay race of your life

From humble beginnings in her kitchen to a huge factory in West Auckland, Ellie Brade is out to change the way we clean.

Her business, Cleanery, is a low-waste cleaning and personal care brand. The products are a sachet of powder that are added to a bottle of water and mixed up.

Co-founded with her husband, Ellie's business started with making her own cleaning products at home with baking soda and vinegar.

Hear Ellie talk about...

• How her first home made cleaning products were not great
• Why being a yachting journalist got her into environmentalism
• How she alleviates her climate anxiety
• Packaging issues! Why compostable is not the best and how sugarcane isn't the answer yet either
• In plastic waste, one supermarket bottles equates to 100 Cleanery sachets, which make 100 bottles of cleaning fluid
• Why a business is never too young to embed B Corp
• How B Corp gave them a boost overseas

Check it out! And get inspired.

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Ready to B Better?

If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!

A true trailblazer, Untouched World founder Peri Drysdale was shocked by the environmental degradation she was seeing. Determined to do things differently, she launched her clothing brand in 1981. It was called Snowy Peak after the family farm she grew up on and ever since, she's been building a clothing brand that does business in a completely different, sustainable way.

Hear Peri talk about...

• Why naivete is an entrepreneur's superpower
• How she was shamed for not being satisfied with being a stay-at-home mum
• Her path from nursing to retail
• How she started off selling unlabelled mittens without thumbs
• The tough times for the business when her house was literally on the line
• How she got global leaders including Bill Clinton wearing Untouched World garments
• Her frustration with the contamination of microfibers
• Why recycling plastics into clothing is not the answer
• How the B Corp logo has given her business traction overseas

Check it out! And get inspired.

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Ready to B Better?

If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!

That's right, we've turned the tables in this episode of the B Better podcast.

Instead of being the one asking the questions, our Tim finds himself in the spotlight as a guest on the Health and Safety Unplugged podcast with Matt Jones.

Take a listen to hear Tim and Matt discuss:

• New legislative changes mandating companies to look at the ESG
• How people increasingly want to do more good in their lives and work
• How COVID triggered introspection about purpose and our impact on the planet
• The way Grow Good works with clients on B Corp
• What a business needs to do to become a B Corp
• The role a B Corp consultant plays in helping businesses become a B Corp
• Details on the final verification process for getting audited when you apply for B Corp Certification.

Check it out! And get inspired.

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Ready to B Better?

If you want to learn more about B Corp and if it could be the right thing for you we also have:

➡️ Our free e-book "To B Or Not To B; The What, Why & How of B Corp" is the DEFINITIVE guide to B Corp - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorp-ebook/⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Connect with me on LinkedIn here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjonesthegrowgoodguy⁠⁠⁠

➡️ Check out how we can work together to make some epic stuff happen here - ⁠⁠⁠https://growgood.co/bcorpconsulting/⁠

Feeling like you’re ready to B Better and want to see if we can help?

➡️ Well then feel free to have a chat with us by booking a call here ⁠⁠⁠https://timgrowgoodco.pipedrive.com/scheduler/jYqm2LUl/30-minute-client-discovery-call⁠⁠⁠

Until next time, B Better!