Tonight You Belong To Me

An urban housewife reluctantly takes an unexpected phone call from a young man serving a long sentence in prison – they connect over a Ben Harper song and the seeds for social enterprise Five8 were planted.

In this episode Tania speaks to Andie Patchett, co-founder of Five8 and Michael, an ex-offender who credits Five8 with ending his 20 year cycle of re-offending.

Andie and the Five8 team are building a radically different approach to supporting prisoners and ex-offenders in their transition to the outside world by creating a pro-social support network who support inmates before and after their release, through visits, phone calls and advocacy.  They also run a social enterprise training offenders and ex-offenders to make boutique hand sewn products.

Five8 are based in Melbourne, Australia but have programs through out other states.

EPISODE CREDITS:
Landscapes of Late (Northbound) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Lost Without…. (Jared C. Balogh) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Ben Harper “Power of The Gospel” licensed with permission from APRA-ACOS.

NERDY DATA REFEREED TO IN THIS EPISODE & LINK - go to www.dogoodradio.com/five8


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Produced by Tania Sernia

Andie Patchett: The Story of Five8 Do Good Radio

From ad agency man to social entrepreneur, Ash Rosshandler is founder of Karma Currency a charity gift card and the CEO of Good Company a volunteer matching portal. Recipients of Karma Currency can choose to redeem their ‘karma’ with 250 organisations  who support heaps of projects – from clearing landmines, human rights, medical research, carbon offsetting – even GPS devices for Gorillas.

Get Involved:

Karma Currency www.karmacurrency.com.au
Karma Currency allows you to choose from over one thousand life changing gifts to make a better tomorrow.

Goodcompany www.goodcompany.com.au
Good Company is Australia’s most effective meeting place for volunteers and community groups, inspiring a new generation of professionals who can make a positive difference in our communities.

Volunteers :goodcompany makes it easy to become a skilled volunteer by matching skills and available time to organisations that strengthen our communities. Please visit the Volunteer Seeking Project page where skilled volunteers offer their valuable skills.

Community Groups : Goodcompany supports over 900 community groups nationally in over a dozen social sectors with the provision of skilled professional volunteers. Register for free on their website to upload your volunteer project, attend workshops and receive their newsletter.

 

Links Mentioned In This Episode:
The Simon Sinek “Why” Ted Talk we refer to in the podcast…well boo..it’s actually called “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” – Opps. The permanent link lives here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html

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Produced by Tania Sernia

Ash Rosshandler - The Story of Karma Currency

In this Do Good Radio podcast I speak to David Dixon & Chantelle Baxter, the founders of One Girl, an organisation which supports women and girls in Sierra Leone with educational scholarships, healthcare and leadership skills to empower them to live a life of their own design. Dissatisfied with the party lifestyle, they both took fascinating journeys to discover where they could make the biggest impact and found it starts with One Girl.

3 years later their ‘Do It In A Dress’ campaign is a wildly successful example of innovative fundraising, they support hundreds of girls in Sierra Leone, have built the ‘Worlds Most Awesome’ toilet and have started a social enterprise supporting low income women through that ‘special’ time of the month.

“When you educate a girl, she’ll change the world. An educated girl is three times less likely to contract HIV / AIDS. She‘ll marry later and have fewer, healthier children. For every extra year of schooling, her income will increase by 10 – 25 percent. Not only that, she’ll reinvest 90 percent of the money she earns back into her family. Educating a girl has a ‘multiplier effect’. An educated girl can change the world.”

www.onegirl.org.au

What They Do:

David Dixon and Chantelle Baxter founded One Girl focused on empowering women and girls in Sierra Leone \ to create and lead change in their communities through education and economic empowerment. They currently have two projects Back to School Scholarships and LaunchPad.

Their major fundraising initiative is Do It In A Dress  – wear a school dress and take on sponsored challenge.. check out their video below.

Do It In A Dress www.doitinadress.com


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Produced by Tania Sernia

One Girl - Chantelle Baxter & David Dixon Do Good Radio

20 years after being bullied, Svend looks up his high school bully and makes a call.... An inspiring story of closure on the impact of bullying.

This extended feature is part of the Do Good Radio Story on Project Rockit a youth led leadership and anti-bullying program. Here the story here :
Project Rockit: – http://www.soundcloud.com/dogoodradio/projectrockit

LIFELINE If this episode brings up anything for you and you’d like to speak to someone for support, call Lifeline 13 11 14 it’s a confidential telephone crisis support service available 24/7 from a landline, payphone or mobile. www.lifeline.org.au

Credits:

Music: What True Self? Feels Bogus, Let’s Watch Jason X (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 3.0
Image : http://www.flickr.com/photos/trixer/3531445744/

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Produced by Tania Sernia

Bullying Special Feature - The Svend Story : Do Good Radio

Sitting on a park bench on a beach side holiday, sisters Rosie & Lucy Thomas developed an idea for a program that develops leadership in young people and tackles the issue of bullying in a positive, and empowering way - for young people BY young people. PROJECT ROCKIT was launched in 2006 by Rosie and Lucy Thomas, two Melbournian sisters who saw the opportunity to build youth leadership, citizenship and resilience by tackling the issue of bullying in school communities. Through face to face programs in school and online (P-Rock), they build a space where imagination, leadership, creative expression and acceptance are available to all young people, regardless of social labels. PROJECT ROCKIT has now worked with over 40,000* school students and presented at major Australian conferences.

HEAR THE SVEND STORY SPECIAL FEATURE
This episode features a snippet of the Svend' s story - 20 years after being bullied, Svend looks up his high school bully and makes a call and completes the past with his bully. If you want to listen to the fully story:  www.soundcloud.com/dogoodradio/svendstory

LIFELINE If this episode brings up anything for you and you'd like to speak to someone for support, call Lifeline 13 11 14 it's a confidential telephone crisis support service available 24/7 from a landline, payphone or mobile. Website link and more information below.
Check out their videos:www.projectrockit.com.au

Get Involved:

Project Rockit delivers face to face programs and a four module online program P-Rock. Check their website for more details.
Links mentioned in this episode:

Project Rockit: - http://www.projectrockit.com.au/

Headspace: - Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation - www.headspace.org.au/

Lifeline:131 114 (Australia) http://www.lifeline.org.au Lifeline is a confidential telephone crisis support service available 24/7 from a landline, payphone or mobile.
Lifeline provides all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to online, phone and face-to-face crisis support and suicide prevention services. Find out how these services can help you, a friend or loved one.

Anyone across Australia experiencing a personal crisis or thinking about suicide can contact Lifeline. Regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation our trained volunteers are ready to listen, provide support and referrals. They answer around 1400 calls every day from Australians needing crisis support and suicide prevention services.

Music Credits:

Union Square (James Beaudreau) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
What True Self? Feels Bogus, Let's Watch Jason X (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 3.0

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Produced by Tania Sernia

Rosie Thomas - The Story of Project Rockit : DoGoodRadio

What do permaculture principles and electo-swing ukelele have in common? Charlie Mgee!

I chat to Charlie in the lush surrounds of Ceres Environment Park (surrounded by very vocal roosters) about how an ‘antique’ sprouty sweet potato was a catalyst for composing a repertoire of swingin’ tunes on a ukulele addressing the 12 principles of permaculture in a plethora musical styles ranging from ‘energy-descent electro-swing’ and ‘climate-change reggae’ to ‘peak-oil polka’.

At the ‘core’ of permaculture are the three ethics: earth care, people care and fair share.

To find out more about this story visit http://dogoodradio.com/charliemgee/
http://permaculturesongs.com

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Produced by Tania Sernia 

Charlie Mgee - Formidable Vegetable Sound System

Nick Wallberg & Tram Sessions put bands on random Melbourne trams for our commuting pleasure.

Their mission is simple, to smash our mundane public transport commute with live music from established local and international superstars and provide a platform for up and coming artists.

Born in Sweden the land that reared music ground breakers such as Roxette, Ace of Base, Yngwie Malmsteen and the little known Abba, Nick Wallberg made Australia his home.

Looking to combine his passion for live music with a uniquely Melbourne icon, Nick experimented with Tram Sessions guerrilla style and soon realised he’d need to get the Yarra Trams on board (yep, pun intended) with the Tram Sessions vision. After some (legal) stalking and months of calling like jilted boyfriend Tram Sessions was granted a trial and has now become the most interactive, yet illusive live music event in Melbourne.

Tram Sessions has hosted local and international musos including  Ben Kweller, Amanda Palmer, Lanie Lane, The Vaudeville Smash, Will and the People, Alpine, Xavier Rudd and Paul Kelly.  Check it out !

For more on Do Good Radio visit www.dogoodradio.com
Produced by Tania Sernia & Emma-Victoria Houlton.

Songs in this episode:

Licensed through APRA/AMCOS:

Amanda Palmer – Ukelele Anthem
Paul Kelly – Dumb Things
Tiger and Me – Oh My DarlinHey Rossetta! – Bandages
The Mountain Goats – I Saw The Sign
Better Than Wizards – Take a Chance Ft Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Johnny Rock & the Limits – Give You What You Need
Bag of Bones (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Bellbottoms (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Distant and Vague (Royal Headache) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Nick Wallberg: The Story Of Tram Sessions

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