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Impact & Innovation
Hosted by Teresa Chahine · business · EN
About this Podcast:
Join the conversation as social entrepreneurs from around the world come to Yale SOM to share the challenges they are grappling with and the insights they are gaining in the field. From rural India and Kenya to the inner cities of the U.S., from the environment to nutrition to maternal child health, this series cuts across sectors to examine the convergence of business and society. Take a peek inside the classroom of Dr. Teresa Chahine as she examines the latest trends and pitfalls in social innovation, funding, and impact.
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What is Impact & Innovation about?
Join the conversation as social entrepreneurs from around the world come to Yale SOM to share the challenges they are grappling with and the insights they are gaining in the field.
Who hosts Impact & Innovation?
Impact & Innovation is hosted by Teresa Chahine. The show has published 54 episodes to date.
What has Impact & Innovation covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Small Businesses as the Fabric of this Country" (14 November 2025, 30 minutes), "Bending the Arc of Justice" (14 November 2025, 43 minutes), and "CT Wealth Accelerator" (7 November 2025, 51 minutes).
How often does Impact & Innovation publish?
Impact & Innovation publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 54 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Impact & Innovation?
Booking probability for Impact & Innovation is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Impact & Innovation requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Impact & Innovation's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Impact & Innovation?
The strongest fits for Impact & Innovation are Business & Management Consulting. Impact & Innovation has a business audience.
About the host
Teresa Chahine hosts Impact & Innovation, a business podcast with 54 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #8
Bending the Arc of Justice
Nov 14, 202543 minS10After many years of zooming in to my class, Rod Bremby is finally here in person! Former health secretary for the state of Kansas, commissioner of the department of social services for Connecticut, and vice president of...
Episode #7
CT Wealth Accelerator
Nov 7, 202551 minS10Yaw Owusu-Boahen returns to SOM to share his experience after graduating, and his most recent role as Director of the CT Wealth Accelerator, an extrapreneurship endeavor bringing together multiple partners who are...
Oct 31, 202540 minS10They're back again! After visiting my podcast in its first year in 2018, Khushi Baby is back to share how they've not only survived the past seven years but completely leaned into their mission and expanded the depth...
Episode #5
Sink or Swim
Oct 24, 202533 minS10Now is the time when we find out to what degree and how we will swim rather than sink, as public health innovators and practitioners. In this episode, I talk to my former student Olivia Francis, who obtained her MPH in...
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Episode #4
Radical Health
Oct 17, 202538 minS10Ivelyse Andino founded Radical Health as the first public benefit corporation in New York state, to build community around health. After navigating the health care system on her own to help support her immigrant mother...
Episode #3
Aligning Incentives
Oct 10, 202536 minS10To what degree and how are current capitalistic structures conducive to reaching public health goals? Sofia Noori shares her journey from grassroots organizing to clinical training in psychiatry, to raising $19 in...
Episode #2
Intrapreneurship
Oct 3, 202532 minS10Victoria Bush '23 is passionate about "intrapreneurship:" the idea of innovating within existing institutions. Utilizing her entrepreneurial spirit and skills to improve any organization she is part of, she developed...
Episode #1
Food As Medicine
Sep 26, 202550 minS10Josh Trautwein, founder of About Fresh, shares his start-up journey in the food as medicine space. Josh started out as a Community Health Worker, helping patients access the things they need to be healthy. He realized...
Episode #5
Carving Out Your Path
May 8, 202537 minS9Tagan Engel reflects on different changemaking paths available to each of us. Her own path led her to follow her heart into the kitchen, where she applied her social justice work to food systems. In this episode, she...
Episode #4
Partnering with Government
Apr 28, 202544 minS9Daisy Rosales, SOM '20, is back with her latest insights! After founding Brio seven years ago (see Season 6 Episode 1 for more) and partnering with community based organizations on mental health programming around the...
Episode #3
Building Trust for Collective Impact
Apr 21, 202533 minS9Adrienne Abbate is back to share the growth and evolution of her collective impact initiative with Partnerships for Community Wellness. To partner across sectors and bring multiple stakeholders to the table, building...
Episode #2
We Need a Movement Behind Us
Apr 14, 202533 minS9Rushika Fernandopulle founded Iora Health, which was acquired by One Medical and subsequently by Amazon. Could Amazon ever achieve Iora's health equity goals? In this episode we discuss what a "successful" exit looks...
Mar 28, 202538 minS9Ashlee Wisdom is back after raising millions in venture capital to connect Black women with culturally relevant health care. She shares advice for navigating venture capital, and her secret sauce for creating community...
May 9, 202433 minS8When Hafeezah 's son approached her with a mental health crisis, she struggled to find care for him. Formerly an executive in a large mental health company, she often got calls from Medicaid parents like herself...
Episode #3
Passing the Baton
May 3, 202439 minS8Social change is never achieved at the first attempt. The question is not whether you fail or succeed but to whom you pass the baton and how. In this episode of Impact and Innovation, SOM alumnae Song Kim shares her...
Episode #2
A Roller Coaster of Innovation
Apr 26, 202435 minS8Kaakpema Yelpaala (KP) is the new faculty director of InnovateHealth Yale, and a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. In this episode of Impact & Innovation KP shares his journey working on...
Episode #5
Asking Tough Questions
Dec 27, 202330 minS7Sheena Strawter-Anthony is the Director of Impact Investing Strategy at William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund here in New Haven. She shares their efforts to manage their endowment in a way that is in line with their...
Episode #4
Business for Society
Dec 20, 202326 minS7I reflect with this semester's teaching fellows, Lily Engbith and Victoria Bush, on how they apply social innovation principles in the for-profit world. Their roles at Connecticut Innovations (a state owned and run VC...
Episode #3
Playing in the Pocket
Dec 12, 202328 minS7Ony Obiocha, Executive Director of CTNext, reflects on his team's work in building an innovation ecosystem for the state of Connecticut. It's about who you include and invest in, how they play together, and what kind of...
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