Hosted by WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 6 episodes
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Hosted by Shannon Sims, this podcast goes behind the headlines to explore the social entrepreneurs transforming Milwaukee and beyond. Shannon leverages her networks, resources and journalistic curiosity to uncover the stories of innovative changemakers who are building businesses that solve pressing community challenges. Each episode features authentic conversations with entrepreneurs who are rising from their communities, leaning into social concerns, and creating sustainable solutions that move Wisconsin forward — embodying our state's motto. From Milwaukee neighborhoods to communities across the region and eventually statewide, these are the stories of people who refuse to accept the status quo. Join Shannon as she discovers how business and social impact intersect to create lasting change.
WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR hosts Rising Forward: Stories of Change, a business show with 6 episodes published.
Some business origin stories start with a pitch deck. Tiffany Miller's started with a seed. A word written on a chalkboard in a Near West Side Milwaukee classroom. A flower made for her mother's 60th birthday. A neighbor
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What if the prescription your doctor handed you wasn't the only option? That question led Kathy Koshgarian to build something Milwaukee had never seen before. Today she leads Food for Health, Wisconsin's first and only a
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Derrick Cainion spent 20 years helping people understand each other as a sign language interpreter. Then COVID-19 hit, his son turned three, and a vacant lot on Milwaukee's north side sat waiting. This week on Rising For
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There's money in Wisconsin right now looking for the right people to fund. Most social entrepreneurs don't know how to find it — or how to be ready when it finds them. In this episode, Shannon Sims sits down with Tony Sh
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Women are breaking barriers and rewriting the rules of entrepreneurship often in systems that weren’t built for them. Stephanie Melnick has been practicing law in Milwaukee for over 30 years. But in 2017, she realized he
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Kevin Newell moved fourteen times before he went to college. Today, he's transforming that instability into solutions — as founder and CEO of Royal Capital Group, Newell has built a billion-dollar portfolio proving that
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Rising Forward: Stories of Change is hosted by WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 6 episodes.
Rising Forward: Stories of Change has published 6 episodes.
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