Goodtrepreneur

What do vintage LEGO, a container full of Nikes and sex toys have in common? Tim knows.

As a multi-award winning environmentalist, ocean futurist and Co-founder of Take 3 for the Sea he's picked up these things and more from our beaches and in rivers and, in doing, so started a movement that's making it fun and easy for people like you and me to clean up our waterways worldwide.
He's also Co-founder of Ocean Impact Organisation, a startup accelerator bringing to market innovations that restore and protect ocean health, and an all-round good guy. 
Listen in to hear about:

🤠 Why dilution is no longer the solution to ocean pollution. It worked for us humans for a long time, but not anymore.

👏 The superpower of a simple call to action. Take 3 spread from one Central Coast beach to every continent because it's free, fun, takes 15 seconds, and makes you feel good. No course required.

💰Where the smart money is going in the blue economy. River plastic turned into building materials, robot creepy-crawlies scrubbing ship hulls to cut carbon and toxic anti-foul paint, and deep-sea pumps

🤨 Why microplastics are changing who fights this fight. It's no longer the greenies. It's the health-and-fitness crowd, and parents looking sideways at squeezy pouches.

We gave AI a listen and here's what it had to say:

11 million tonnes of plastic go into the ocean every year. That's like 2,000 garbage trucks tipping their load in, every single day. Tim Silverwood has spent 17 years trying to turn off the tap.

He's the co-founder of Take 3 for the Sea, the ridiculously simple idea that spread from one beach on the NSW Central Coast to every continent on the planet: take three pieces of rubbish with you when you leave. He's also co-founder of Ocean Impact Organisation, where he helped back 120+ blue economy startups and made 16 investments before stepping away in 2025 and returning as CEO of Take 3 to give his first baby a second crack.

💡 THE BIT THAT'LL STICK WITH YOU

"If all we ever do is clean up, all we'll ever do is clean up." Tim is refreshingly blunt about the limits of mass harvesting. Yes, get the plastic out, but the real prize is the person who bends down, picks up a chip packet, and starts asking why it existed in the first place. That's where systemic change actually begins. And if you run a nonprofit, his breakdown of quant vs qual impact, and why most orgs tell their story badly, is worth the listen on its own.

Goodtrepreneur is the podcast about good people with good ideas for a better world. 

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⭐️ SPECIAL Live Episode ⭐️ recorded at the incredible Global Impact Summit. 

Can something as simple as moving your money change the world? Yes it does everyday so we might as well choose the world we want. 
But to do so, we need to understand how the system works and how our choices change it. 
In this panel, we talk to:
👉 Glenn Bartlett, CEO & Co-founder of GreenPay, represents the part of the system that processes payments
👉 Rob Quadara, Manager, Impact Assets from Bank Australia, represents the part which does your savings, home loan and everyday banking.
👉 Alex Andrews, Co-founder of Verve Super, Director of Six Invest, Australia's only ethical share trading platform and many other things. She speaks on behalf of how your superannuation and investments are invested.

Together we work out how a little bit of the zillion dollars that goes through this system can go into the ecosystem to help protect our home planet.

Listen in to hear about:
🤠 How each of the companies is pioneering a new kind of financial organisation
👏 Why people don't switch, and why they do
💰 The sometimes uncomfortable balance between maximising profit and maximising the greater good
🤨 How the big banks are more than happy to 'adopt' do-good ideas...once they are proven to be successful elsewhere.

We gave AI a listen and here's what it had to say:

Your bank account is not a parking spot, it is a pipeline. Every tap of a card, every online payment, every superannuation contribution, and every investment decision sends money through systems that either fund extraction and deforestation or help pay for restoration, renewables, and better business. From the stage at the Amazing Global Impact Summit in Sydney, we sit down with three leaders working on different parts of Australia’s financial system to show how “moving your money” can genuinely move the world.

Glenn Bartlett (Green Pay) breaks down how payment processing can turn transactions into conservation by redirecting profits to protect and restore Australian nature. Rob Quadara (Bank Australia) explains what customer-owned, purpose-led banking looks like in practice, including what they refuse to fund and how targeted lending can create measurable social and environmental outcomes. Alex Andrews (Verve Super founder and Six Invest director) unpacks ethical superannuation and ethical share trading, why super is one of the biggest levers most Australians have, and how transparency changes behaviour.

We also get honest about the real barriers: inertia, fear, and the “default to the default”. The panel shares why most people care about climate impact but do not feel confident they understand what their money is doing, and why big life events and major climate events often trigger the switch. The takeaway is simple and practical: give yourself 30 minutes to audit your defaults across banking, payments, super, and investing, then change just one thing and build momentum from there.

If this sparked a rethink, subscribe, share it with someone who has never checked their super, and leave a review so more Australians can find conversations about ethical banking, sustainable finance, and impact investing.

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Can a little peanut butter company from the bottom of the world really change it? Pic's Peanut Butter says yes.
In this episode, Aimee McCammon, CEO of Pic's and stepdaughter of founder Bruce 'Pic' Picot, tells the story of how a semi-retired, legally blind "enthusiast" blew up his kitchen blender making peanut butter, sold it for $10 a jar at the Nelson market, built a distribution network out of his old hippie mates, and grew a global brand from a small town in New Zealand. 
From simple beginnings, Pic's is now the number one imported premium natural peanut butter in China, has the largest distribution in Australia, and is found in many more countries. Pic's is also a B Corp, gives to everything from guide dogs to children in need, and runs multiple environmental initiatives to do their best to do business better.

So what does it take to build a brand that is good, does good and makes good money? 

The Pic's Playbook
🎯 One goal. Don't be the biggest, be the most loved. Everything falls out of that.
🧐 Keep it simple. Simple beats clever, but simple is not easy.
❤️ Understand what motivates. Purchase motivators and justifiers are not the same and emotion is what motivates purchase every time. The rational stuff just justifies it.
It's a masterclass in building a brand people love and an honest look at the dark nights of the soul when purpose meets cash flow. Aimee kept every community and environmental initiative running through the hardest years, because a brand that drops its soul to save its margins loses both.
🌏 We also talk about...
- The poem inside every Pic's label (and how to peel it off)
- Why B Corp is a "plug-and-play sustainability strategy" with a scorecard
- Doing good without demanding a short term sales uplift and the value of long-term brand vs short-term ROI
- Surviving COVID: a new factory, broken supply chains, and running $30m turnover on Excel
- Finding a mission-aligned family investor instead of private equity
- "Smoochy". How what started as a gimmick became Pic's number three product
- Aimee's three rules: work hard, make money, have fun

We gave AI a listen and here's what it had to say:
A jar of peanut butter probably shouldn’t be able to change the world, yet that’s exactly the claim behind Pic's Peanut Butter and it’s not just talk. We chat with CEO Amy McCammon about how a contrarian founder in Nelson, New Zealand tasted sugar-filled “peanut butter”, got outraged, and built a premium natural peanut butter brand on one stubborn idea: make it properly, keep it simple, and earn love the hard way.

We trace the real growth story from kitchen experiments and local markets to major supermarket shelves across Australia, then out into Southeast Asia, the US and a genuinely surprising foothold in China. Amy shares what worked, what was luck, and what changed when local partners found a completely different angle for their audience. If you care about brand strategy, FMCG marketing, and international distribution, there are sharp lessons here about clarity, trust, and letting go of control when you need expertise on the ground.

Then we get into the stuff most “purpose-led” case studies skip: the cost of doing good, the value of B Corp as a measurement framework, and what happens when COVID squeezes margins, supply chains break, and a new factory suddenly makes cash flow terrifying. Amy talks through the hard calls, the leadership reset, and why profit and purpose are more symbiotic than most slogans admit.

If you’re building a mission-driven brand, dreaming of a startup, or just want a better model for business, press play, share it with a mate, and leave a review so more people find it. What’s one brand you’d love to see become “the most loved” for the right reasons?

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How do you make a movement that moves the world? David Gottfried knows. His 7 steps are built on co-founding the US and World Green Building Councils and they go like this: 
1. Know your passion, purpose and mission 🚀 It all starts with you. What’s something you truly love and care about? 
2. Set your vision 👁️  Think big. What’s the change you’re going to make that matches your passion and purpose? 
3. Build your blueprint 🗺️  You know where you’re going. Now how will you get there? This is your strategy.
4. Assemble your tribe 💪 Who do you need to join you to make your vision happen?
5. Create your scorecard 💯 How are you measuring success? How will you know you’re winning?
6. Find the funding 💰 How will you fund your movement? How will you fund yourself while you create it?
7. Look after yourself ☺️ Building something takes time and is hard work. How will you replenish your energy? 
With over 85 green building councils worldwide and over 30 billion square feet (10 billion square metres) of buildings built, the method must work. It's a movement that has changed buildings worldwide to be lighter, healthier, bring in nature and create less carbon in both build and operation. 
He's now on a mission to help others create a kinder, more regenerative world. You can learn more and pre-order his new book, Regen360 on his website: https://regen360.net/

We gave AI a listen and here's what it had to say:
The buildings we design today decide the air we breathe tomorrow, the energy we lock in for decades, and whether “sustainability” stays a slogan or becomes a standard. We sit down with David Gottfried, co-founder of the US Green Building Council and a key force behind the global Green Building Council network, to unpack how rating tools like LEED, Green Star and BREEAM made better buildings measurable, comparable and commercially attractive. We talk through what actually gets measured, why third-party verification matters, and how healthier light-filled workplaces, low-carbon materials and smarter transport choices moved from “nice idea” to mainstream expectation.

Then we shift from construction to culture. David shares his seven-step framework for building a movement: passion, purpose and mission; a huge vision; a blueprint that delivers results; a tribe to climb with; benchmarks with transparent measurement; economics that keep the work alive; and the sustainability to endure without burning out. If you’re trying to create change inside property, government, design, business or community, this is a practical map for turning belief into systems that scale.

Finally, we go bigger than green. David explains why “green” and even “sustainable” aren’t enough, arguing for regeneration and a “full equation” that includes the externalities we’ve trained ourselves to ignore. We explore fear-based survival wiring, the pull of endless “more”, and the idea of “soul worth” as an antidote: service, gratitude, enoughness and care for people and planet. If this conversation sparks something in you, subscribe, share it with a mate, and leave a review so more people can find it.
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I've often heard it said that we need more First Nations voices influencing the way we do business. But I must admit, I never really knew what that meant. Until now.

This episode changed my way of thinking about almost everything. 
🌳 I've always known making time for nature is good for my soul. They reframed for me: "Time in nature is time with your Mother." Mother Earth, that is. 
☺️ I've always felt that being good to people you're lucky enough to have working for you is important. Adam says about April: "We want her to excel in her career and as a young woman. It's our responsibility for her to support her in her path.'"

🐢 I feel like I've spent my career so focused on the urgent that there's rarely time for the important. They say: "To create great strategy you need to sit down and slow down, and that's culture. There's better ways to get the best out of ourselves, and it's hard to do that in a really fast world."

When you add it all up, it becomes very clear that the way of working so many of us want is pretty much exactly what indigenous culture says it should be. No text books, no frameworks, just 60,000+ years of learning to live in harmony with nature and each other. 

I hope you get as much out of this episode as I did and that it inspires more First Nations people to start a business, and more of the rest of us to learn from the wisdom the world's oldest living culture has to offer. 

We gave AI a listen. Here's what it had to say:

If food is culture, why do so many of us live on the oldest living culture on Earth and still don’t know the plants in our own backyards? We’re recording on Garigal Country and yarn with Adam and April from Bush To Bowl, an Indigenous-owned, Indigenous-run nursery working to bring First Nations bush foods from bush to bowl, and to help mob reconnect to Country through growing, sharing and learning.  

We talk about how the idea starts small, backyard growing, a landscaper sick of monocultures and “boring” gardens, then grows into school bush food gardens where kids taste native ingredients, ask better questions, and take that knowledge home. Along the way we face a confronting reality: bush foods can be trendy while Indigenous ownership in the supply chain stays tiny. Adam and April explain why that matters, not as a guilt story, but as an opportunity to build real Indigenous business, jobs, skills and pride.  

You’ll also hear what makes their model different: caring for people as a cultural responsibility, supporting young athletes and workers moving from community to city, and creating space for cultural days, walking Country and learning. We cover practical steps too, from growing Australian native plants at home to supporting Indigenous-owned nurseries, plus a huge milestone: Bush To Bowl plants reaching Bunnings shelves as an Aboriginal grower.  

If this yarn shifts how you think about Australian native food, social enterprise and sustainable business, share it with a mate, subscribe, and leave a review so more people find it.
 
Goodtrepreneur is the podcast about good people with good ideas for a better world. 

Please 👀 follow, 👂listen, 🌟 rate and share 📢 to help spread the word and deliver on our mission to inspire and enable more people to create more world changing ideas - and succeed - more often.

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