Here's the Series 5 grand finale, featuring the best bits of the latest guests on ProGRESS, the podcast promoting green, ethical, sustainable and socially responsible careers.

The podcast was set up with the notion that listeners might like tips and ideas for how to follow in guests’ footsteps if they wanted to do something similar. As time has gone on, and 50 episodes in, it’s apparent that many of the guests have good human interest stories to tell about making a difference to the planet so win-win!

Everyone on the show has brought something special - and usually more than one single thing - to their episode, so here’s a round up of some, by no means all, of the best bits from Season 5.

Featuring:

Reena Mahajan

Connor Cashell

Matthew Payne

Dr Fernanda da Silva Tatley

Stuart Goldsmith

Matteo Menapace

Sarah Flynn

Johnathon Miller-McCall

Katie Goldsbrough

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Keep listening for more career insights. Season 6 will start dropping in September.

About ProGRESS:

Host Sandra Kessell invites guests to discuss their pro- Green, Ethical, Sustainable and Socially responsible jobs, courses or activities and asks for real-world insights into the pathways and careers that led to them.

Subscribe and find out how they got there and how you can too.

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Drawn to both science and the arts when she was at school, Reena Mahajan’s studies and work took her to three continents. She studied architecture in New Delhi before moving to Paris to study urban planning and sustainable development. When she moved to Uruguay, she broadened her horizons and studies into gender responsive design and children-friendly planning.

Now a strong advocate for sustainable development, women’s mobility, social impact and gender equality – among other things – Reena founded Studio Divercity, with a mission to transform car-dominated urban areas into people-centric spaces. She recently set up StreetSmart, a digital platform that enables communities to reimagine their streets and environment, and she has joined the contributors to Lab of Thought, a Netherlands-based organisation set to transform urban environments.

So far so stellar – so what's next? She has some brilliant advice for anyone searching for values-led employment and says optimism comes from action, even if it's small.

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Mentioned in this podcast

Prof Dr Marco Te Brömmelstroet and the Lab of Thought

The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo

Other episodes to listen to:

Sanjuktar Jithendar, Architect, Mikhail Riches S1 E9

Nick Molden, CEO and founder of Emissions Analytics S1 E4

Sarah Daly, Sustainability strategist, marketing professional, lobbyist, entrepreneur, thought-leader and visionary S3 E1

Divya Kumar, Community engagement manager at Earthwatch Europe S4 E4

David Kohnstamm, Chief sustainability officer and co-founder, Leafcloud S4 E3

Connor Cashell, Campaigns manager, Cycling UK S5 E5

About ProGRESS:

Host Sandra Kessell invites guests to discuss their pro- Green, Ethical, Sustainable and Socially responsible jobs, courses or activities and asks for real-world insights into the pathways and careers that led to them.

Subscribe and find out how they got there and how you can too.

Instagram: @progress_green_careers_podcast

Original content © Sandra Kessell

Original music © Lyze Kessell

Email: hello@mypro-gress.co.uk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Flynn is a career coach who works with purpose-led, empathic leaders making a difference to the world. In addition, Sarah teaches resilience for sustainability leaders on the Cambridge sustainability leaders masters.

Discussing her own squiggly career journey, Sarah explains how she felt when she discovered psychology as a teenager and then became inspired to study it in depth, thinking she’d work in clinical psychology.

She talks about moving to Italy to teach English as a foreign language, what led her into working in psychotherapy and how she became first a research psychologist and then a corporate career coach.

Listen in to hear Sarah's tips for developing a career in psychology, her co-authored book Climate Change Coaching: The Power of Connection to Create Climate Action, and how to introduce resilience and empowerment into life.

Mentioned in this podcast

Association of Sustainability Practitioners

Climate Change Coaches

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Ikigai

Books

Parenting out loud – Elliott Rae

Find your zone of genius – Laura Garnett

You might also like to listen to:

Shaheer Hafeez Director ESG strategy and climate risk KPMG S3 E2

Jonathan Mearns OBE careers coach, sustainability entrepreneur and adventurer S3 E9

Lydia Carrington Sustainability manager, Edgbaston cricket stadium S2 E1

Stuart Mabbutt Wildman environmental learning S3 E3

Dr Matthew C. Halteman Professor of philosophy S3 E10

About ProGRESS:

Host Sandra Kessell invites guests to discuss their pro- Green, Ethical, Sustainable and Socially responsible jobs, courses or activities and asks for real-world insights into the pathways and careers that led to them.

Instagram: @progress_green_careers_podcast

Original content © Sandra Kessell

Original music © Lyze Kessell

Email: hello@mypro-gress.co.uk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.