EYL #99 Purpose & Profits

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Although the number of hungry people in the country is at alarming levels, there is a major issue with the amount of food that is wasted annually. 72 billion pounds of food ends up in landfills every year from grocery stores, restaurants, and other suppliers that discard unused food. Jasmine Crowe saw this issue as an opportunity to help people and start a business. Jasmine is the founder of Goodr, which is a startup focused on eliminating food waste by which is a startup focused on eliminating food waste by recovering surplus food from businesses and redistributing it to people in need. In episode 99, Jasmine explained the business model of B Corp businesses. B Corp companies are for-profit entities that are designed to balance purpose and profit. She also broke down her mission, explained the food industry’s waste problem and highlighted how we all can change the world while also making money. #foodshortage #companyforgood EYL University: https://www.eyluniversity.comEYL University 50% off Annual Tuition Code: FallGuest IG: @jasminecrowe--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/earnyourleisure/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Alright guys welcome back EYL Atlanta edition we still here still here we haven't
0:06.4	left yet for sure so this one is gonna be a good one comes courtesy of a
0:11.5	family bam Benson yeah yeah congratulations might be bam finally did something
0:20.2	this this this was a dope one though when I when I saw this story it was it was
0:24.6	very unique and very interesting I'm like oh we definitely got a cover this is
0:27.8	dope yeah so Jasmine Crowe entrepreneur and it's really dope so she's a
0:32.9	founder of a company named Gooder got it and it's interesting because I
0:38.7	realized that after doing some research that there's 72 billion pounds of
0:43.6	food that ends up in landfills every year one out of seven people suffer from
0:49.4	food insecure yeah I think now it's even like one out of five because of
0:55.6	everything that's going on with just coronavirus in the pandemic just so
0:59.3	many more people are are going hungry and what's crazy is that 72 billion pounds
1:04.3	that's just from businesses so that doesn't include the food that we throw away
1:08.4	in our households that's something like 161 billion so this is like grocery
1:13.0	stores colleges restaurants you know stadiums that's who throws away that 72
1:19.0	billion pounds and that's just the United States that's not even a world
1:22.6	that's just the US yeah that's I'm saying enough food to in hunger yeah it's in the
1:28.1	landfills and then also there's a two hundred and eighteen billion dollar annually
1:32.5	spent on in the US to grow process and transport food that's actually
1:38.3	disposed and never eating so I say I have to say obviously there's a lot of food
1:42.0	that's wasting and there's a lot of people that's hungry so Jasmine came
1:45.8	away to a company that actually takes the food that's actually being that would
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