One Billion
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One Billion
A behind-the-scenes podcast about how change happens. One Billion features a tiny team with a big ambition: to positively impact one billion people on the planet.
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4x11 - Surprise, Surpise
We entered into this Season determined to find a way to navigate the phase change we're experiencing without losing sight of our mission and our value...
4x10 - Pass the mic
Rachel has guided our audio voyage through two seasons of One Billion. In this episode our host transitions from being the interviewer to being the in...
4x9 - Stay Close to the Knitting
While every member of the Civilla team has left fingerprints on the organization, Civilla would not exist without Michael Brennan. By title, he is our...
4x8 - Believe in Yourself (and Practice)
Since childhood, Scott put all his eggs in one basket: he was going to be an artist. And no one or nothing could stop him. While today, he's living th...
The 2nd Quasi-Annual Civilla Reunion
In this interlude, we go behind-the-scenes with 6 individuals who have a unique, but critically important perspective on the phase change we're naviga...
4x6 - You Have to Show Up
What in an organization should stay constant amidst change? What should evolve? This week, we dive into these questions with the one and only: Gaby Do...
4x5 - The Priority
This week, we dive deep into Rachael's journey of self-discovery. In her interview, she illustrates the power of investing in our whole selves, rather...
4x4 - Into the Mind of an Activator
If you need help jump starting a project, Adam's your guy. However, this phase change is challenging him to think differently about how to leverage th...
4x3 - Learning to Fly
Meet Sam: a designer, a researcher, a policy maker, a data guru, and a project manager. His role at Civilla has grown exponentially since he joined th...
4x2 - Stepping Into Design Leadership
This week, we hear from Lena Selzer, one of Civilla's founding team members. She walks us into the heart of her journey as the organization's Design D...
4x1 - Season 4 Opener
Here at Civilla, things are changing - quickly. And so, this season we’re bringing you right into the heart of that evolution - the fun, the pain, and...
Interlude - How Civilla Got it's Name
In this interlude, we hear from Paul Seibert, the designer who gifted Civilla with it's name. Listen in to hear the story and learn from his process.<...
3x11 - Bring it on home
This is the season 3 finale! Lena, Adam, and Michael all join in to share their conclusion after 10 podcast episodes about how change actually happens...
03x10 - Living Out Conviction
Meet Leon Stevenson. He'll share the story of how the Mack Avenue Community Church came to be. Learn more about the role of unwavering personal commit...
03x09 - Leadership is Inhumane
Meet Lena and Michael, two Civilla teammates with a point of view on our previous podcast episode and guest Amy Kaherl. Tune in to hear their thoughts...
03x08 - The power right here
Meet Amy Kaherl. She'll share some of the story of how Detroit Soup came to be and where the journey has taken her. Learn more about the toll change w...
03x07 - Charge into the next thing
Meet Michael Arena, the Chief Talent Officer at General Motors. He's spent much of his life passionately exploring how to lead change inside large com...
03x06 - Lazy (in a strategic way)
Meet Bryan Boyer, a true pioneer in the application of design to large government systems. He'll share incredible stories about his experiences travel...
03x05 - Secret Weapon
Meet Rachael, a Civilla design researcher with a very relevant point of view on our previous guest, LanVy Nguyen. Tune in to hear her reactions to the...
03x04 - Hungry for change
Meet LanVy Nguyen - the founder of Fashion4Freedom, a social enterprise that aims to transform establish a sustainable, ethical, supply chain featurin...
03x03 - Nothing happens without pain
Meet Taavi Kotka - the Chief Information Officer of Estonia (the former Soviet nation that borders Russia). Taavi helped lead Estonia's digital transf...
03x02 - The Institutional Dilemma
Listen in as we discuss THE biggest problem in the world. Literally. Institutions are the entities with the greatest impact on our lives that are simu...
03x01 - Season 3 Opener
Meet Rachel. In just 10 weeks she's leaving to bike across the U.S.A. Before leaving she has decided to answer one extremely difficult question: how d...
Judge's Feedback
In this final interlude from Season 1 we hear the entire Civilla team read the feedback they received from applying to the Macarthur Foundation's 100&...
018 - The Final Week, Part 2 (Day 17 of 17)
In the eighteenth episode of One Billion we listen as the Independent Sector executive leadership team responds to the user research work their team h...
017 - Leading Change
In this seventeenth episode of One Billion we meet the CEO of Independent Sector Dan Cardinali. He and his team made the choice to send 4 key staff me...
016 - The Final Week, Part 1 (Day 14 of 17)
In this sixteenth episode of One Billion we prepare for the inevitable conclusion of our time with the Independent Sector crew. It turns out that desi...
Interlude - The Call In Show
In this special interlude we field questions from the folks back home. Tune in as the visiting team responds to question after question from the mothe...
015 - Uncover The Meaning (Day 10 of 17)
In this fifteenth episode of One Billion we dive into the topic of design research synthesis. We learn what a difference deep synthesis makes in drawi...
014 - A New Way of Working (Day 4 of 17)
In this fourteenth episode, the Independent Sector team conducts its first user interviews and starts working in a new way (it doesn't really feel lik...
013 - The First Day (Day 1 of 17)
Listen to the adventure of four leaders from Washington D.C. as they head to Civilla, a design studio dedicated to changework. Learn about the role of...
012 - SEASON TWO OPENER - The Preamble
Welcome to Season Two (in which we learn whether or not our podcast was a one hit wonder)!
Tune in to discover why we don't do workshops but wil...
Interlude - You've Been Accepted
In this interlude, we learn that we've passed the administrative review for the MacArthur 100&Change $100mm Grant. Turns out the Civilla application b...
Interlude - Behind The Music
In this interlude, we wait to hear back on the status of our $100 million grant application to the MacArthur Foundation. In the meantime we discuss th...
011 - Submit
This is One Billion's final full episode in Season One. We reflect on the experience of starting a podcast, assembling a $100 million idea, and share...
010 - Your Video Pitch
This is the tenth episode of the podcast: One Billion. In it we share out each step of our effort to create a short video pitch as part of our MacArth...
Interlude - 1 Billion Is Not 100 Million
In this interlude we share out where the name One Billion came from...cuz people have been asking.
www.civilla.com/onebillion
009 - What's It Cost?
This is the ninth episode of the podcast: One Billion. We hear from Mr. Ken Whipple, former CEO of Ford Europe, Former CEO of Consumers Energy, and Bo...
Interlude - Ken's 3 Things
When we sat down with Civilla's Board Chair Mr. Ken Whipple we didn't expect to learn his 3 ingredient recipe for success. Now we'd like to share that...
008 - What's the problem? Part 3
This is the eighth episode of the podcast: One Billion. We look at the challenge of providing public benefits through a third perspective: the casewor...