094: Baba Bags: Handmade Reusable Bags & Social Entrepreneurship with Fedia Kourbatov
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Fedia Kourbatov is 23 years old and the founder of Baba Bags, a reusable bag social enterprise. Fedia founded Baba Bags in his college dorm room 2 years ago at the University of Oklahoma. Baba Bags' mission is to eliminate single-use plastic bag usage and give back to impactful nonprofits. In 2 years they have saved an estimated 50,000 single-use plastic bags from being used! Baba Bags currently are handmade, come with a lifetime warranty and come in 2 colors. Their green & white bag is partnered with Action Against Hunger and their orange & white bag is partnered with the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Each time the respective color is purchased Baba Bags donates to the partnered charity!
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In this episode Marjorie and Fedi discuss:
- Starting a business with a social goal as part of its primary mission.
- The personal history behind the design of the Baba Bag and the people behind the handmade bags.
- The future of gamification as an earth-friendly habit-building tool.
- Valuable advice for any entrepreneur.
Resources mentioned in today's episode:
- How I Built This Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297
- Sooner Innovation Fund - ********https://www.ou.edu/entrepreneurship/sooner-innovation-fund
- National Pediatric Cancer Foundation - ****https://nationalpcf.org/
- Action Against Hunger - ****https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/
- SCORE Mentorship program - https://www.score.org/find-mentor
- Evernote - https://evernote.com/
- OpenIDEO - https://www.openideo.com/
- Start Something That Matters by the founder of TOMS Shoes, Blake Mycoskie - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/201230/start-something-that-matters-by-blake-mycoskie/
Connect with Fedi and the Baba Bag Team:
- Website: https://www.baba-bags.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsbababags/?hl=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itsbababags/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/itsbababags
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| 0:00.0 | The big reason for picking those two nonprofits was when going through kind of a selection of different nonprofits, |
| 0:07.2 | those two seem like the most engaged and the most excited about what we were doing. |
| 0:12.4 | And to me, I wanted just someone who was as excited as me in kind of helping me grow this business, |
| 0:20.2 | but also helping me try to further their mission. |
| 0:22.8 | And I really believed in both of their missions. |
| 0:25.0 | The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation is focused on pediatric cancer. |
| 0:30.3 | And that, to me, hit home. |
| 0:31.7 | And then the other one is Action Against Hunger, who helps with solving malnutrition in impoverished countries. So both of those missions |
| 0:40.8 | honestly connected to me a lot, but it also was that they were very excited to partner |
| 0:46.9 | with me. And I just thought that that would be a perfect partnership to help further all three |
| 0:51.7 | of our mission. This is a sustainable mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental |
| 1:13.6 | change makers of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. Fetty Corbatov is 23 years old and is the |
| 1:21.6 | founder of Baba Bags, a reusable bag social enterprise. Fetty founded Baba Bags in his college dorm room two years ago at the University of Oklahoma. Go Sooners. |
| 1:34.5 | Baba Bag's mission is to eliminate single-use plastic bag usage and give back to impactful nonprofits. |
| 1:41.9 | In the two years since their founding, they have saved an estimated |
| 1:45.0 | 50,000 single-use plastic bags from being used. Baba bags currently are handmade, come with a lifetime |
| 1:52.9 | warranty, and come in two different colors. Their green and blue bag is partnered with the |
| 1:58.9 | Action Against Hunger Organization, and their orange and white |
| 2:02.6 | bag is partner with National Pediatric Cancer Foundation, both of which are awesome organizations. |
| 2:08.7 | Each time the respective color is purchased, Baba Baggs donates to the partnered charity. |
| 2:14.5 | Fetty, welcome to the show. |
| 2:16.4 | Thanks for having me. |
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