Story For Good
Story For Good is an interview podcast hosted by filmmaker June Neely exploring how we can use entertainment to create social impact. Each week we’ll tell stories highlighting creators, researchers, and non-profits in the Hollywood space who are using entertainment to effect social change and make a difference. It’s where Entertainment meets Social Impact.
Episodes
5 days ago
Ayo Oti and Sounds Like Impact
5 days ago
5 days ago
In this episode, I talk with Ayo Oti. Ayo founded Unofficial Social Chair which runs the newsletter Sounds Like Impact. The newsletter is a hub for finding podcasts focused on impact and calls to action you can participate in. We also talked about her previous work at Spotify and how podcasts can be more active in creating impact.
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Meredith Blake on Uncharitable and Crafting Impactful Campaigns
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
In this episode, host June Neely, talks with Meredith Blake about her career in social impact on projects like An Inconvenient Truth, a few of her recent projects, and her latest film which was just released on streaming, Uncharitable, the impactful film exposes the dark side of philanthropy and introduces a radical new way of giving.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Carmiel Banasky on Good Energy and the Climate Reality Check Report
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
In this episode, I talk with Carmiel Banasky, who wrote on the hit Amazon series Undone and recently was the Head writer on The Last City, a near-future sci-fi climate-focused fiction podcast from Wondery, and is the editor-in-chief for Good Energy, a non-profit focused on climate storytelling. In this episode, we discuss some of her projects and the eye-opening Climate Reality On-Screen Report that Good Energy just dropped today.
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Allison Begalman on Hollywood and Climate Change
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
In this episode, I talk with Allison Begalman CEO of YEA! Impact, and the Co-founder and EP of the Hollywood Climate Summit. We talk about how her trajectory toward Hollywood shifted as she took on more of an activist role, the creation of the Young Entertainment Activists (YEA! Impact), and the Hollywood Climate Summit.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Brian Walker on Diversity and Measuring Impact
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
In this episode, I talk with Brian Walker, the CEO of Picture Motion, a social advocacy and marketing company, and his path from wanting to be a civil rights attorney to doing social impact in film. We also talk about how you can create and measure the impact of your film.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Carri Twigg on How Storytelling Can Effect Policy Outcomes
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
In this episode, I talk with Carri Twigg about her journey from working in the Obama Administration to being the Co-Founder and Head of Development for Culture House. We get into some of Culture House’s projects like their two amazing docuseries Ladies First and Hair Tales. We also dig into how policy change and storytelling are interlinked and how you as a creator can use that to effect change.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Robert Rippberger and The Power of Storytelling
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
In this episode, I talk with Robert Rippberger who is a filmmaker and producer, Co-Executive Director of the SIE Society, and author of the book The Power of Storytelling. We get into some of the projects he’s working on, the purpose behind the SIE Society, and his book The Power of Storytelling.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Kate Folb and the Hollywood Health and Society
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
In this episode, I talk with Kate Folb, the Executive Director of the Hollywood Health and Society, about how she came to Social Impact Entertainment, and what the Hollywood Health and Society does.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tobias Deml on Impact and Gaming Wall Street
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
In this episode, I talk with filmmaker Tobias Deml about how he came into Social Impact Entertainment, co-founded Cinema of Change and the SIE Society, and his 2-part docuseries on Max, Gaming Wall Street.
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Story for Good Trailer
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Welcome to Story for Good, the podcast where Entertainment meets Impact.