In this episode of WonderWorkers, I’m talking to Alex Budak, a UC Berkeley faculty member, co-founder of StartSomeGood, and the author of Becoming a Changemaker. He teaches, speaks, and writes to help people make a positive impact in their companies, communities, and lives.
I keep saying this but Alex’s book has been my Bible for the past few months. This book is not just laying out very practical, realistic steps that you can do to become a changemaker there’s also a very powerful message behind it:
If you embody the definition of a changemaker as described in this book, whatever the dream, the purpose, the challenges, or the outcome, you are already achieving long-lasting impactful change. Becoming a changemaker, a real actor of change is about embracing yourself, embracing whatever life throws at you, and catching it with enthusiasm, determination, resilience, hope, and empathy for others. I easily found myself in the ideas Alex shared and that gave me so much hope, confidence, and courage to move forward in my changemaker journey.
As a social entrepreneur, he co-founded StartSomeGood, which has helped thousands of changemakers in over 50 countries raise millions of dollars to launch and scale new change initiatives. He previously ran Sweden's leading social innovation Incubator, Reach for Change, and worked at change.org.
Alex regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies, impactful nonprofits, and universities and has given talks on change-making, entrepreneurship, and leadership in venues from Cambodia to Ukraine; China to the Arctic Circle; and from the White House to UN agencies. His vision is to make change less scary, leadership more accessible, and impact more inclusive.
A graduate of UCLA and Georgetown University, he lives in the Bay Area with his two favorite Changemakers: his wife, Rebecca, and their toddler son.
In this episode, we talk about:
👉 How to develop a change-maker mindset
👉 How to develop courage
👉 Zigging when others zag
👉 Idiosyncrasy credits or picking your battles
👉 Being a changemaker while managing mental health and resilience
👉 Changemaking is a team sport and empathy is your number one gear
👉 How to become the leader you wish you had
👉 How to be an inclusive leader if you want to be a change-maker
👉 The changemaker equation
👉 How to befriend disappointed idealists
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