Purpose made practical.
ChangeMakers is an interview series about people building useful change through business, service, creativity, and nonprofit work. Its conversations stay close to lived experience, moving from origin stories to the systems, partnerships, and choices that make impact durable.
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ChangeMakers is built around conversations with people who turn conviction into organized service. The show’s center of gravity is community impact. Guests include nonprofit founders, business leaders, civic organizers, creative executives, speakers, and program directors, each invited to connect a personal story with a practical model for helping others. The interviews are warm and affirming, but they spend real time on how the work functions. A discussion about immersive storytelling becomes a look at Memphis, creative economies, tourism, and local investment. A conversation about Dignity Made becomes a study of ethical entrepreneurship, farmer access, and alternatives for families facing exploitative pressures. Courtney Johnson’s work with Culinary Care brings grief, cancer treatment, meals, and human presence into the same frame. Catholic Charities of West Tennessee is presented through clothing, choice, appointments, and the small details that preserve dignity. The Christopher A. Pugh II Center episode connects loss, gun violence, men’s support, fashion, and a community event. Nashville Business Incubation Center brings the language of cohorts, accountability, sustainability, scalability, and generational opportunity. Nashville Diaper Connection adds a clear example of partner-based distribution and clinic-based preventative care. Cam F. Awesome’s episode shifts toward mindset, self-talk, comedy, speaking, and questioning tradition. The show has a consistent habit: it asks where the person came from, why the work matters, and what structure makes the impact possible. It is not cynical. It is not especially detached either. The editorial value lies in hearing civic optimism translated into programs, partnerships, and repeatable action. Andrew Bartolotta and Jeremy Park keep the pace conversational and appreciative. Their questions often open space for guests to explain both emotion and execution. ChangeMakers best serves listeners who want stories of purpose without losing sight of operations. It treats generosity as something built, staffed, funded, partnered, and practiced.
Made for: ChangeMakers is for civic-minded listeners, nonprofit supporters, social entrepreneurs, and local leaders who want hopeful stories with operational detail. It also suits people looking for examples of service, resilience, and community-centered business.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by pairing uplifting guest stories with the nuts and bolts of impact: partner models, clinics, cohorts, clothing closets, markets, meals, and events. Its tone is encouraging, but the episodes keep returning to how change actually gets organized.
The ChangeMakers Podcast presented by cityCURRENT shares personal stories and insights from those who are giving back and making a difference so we can learn and do the same. We cover life lessons, business advice, passion, and purpose. Share the ways you're making a difference using #changemakers.
Department-store racks in a clothing closet: your kind of hope if you care how help feels to receive.
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A thoughtful conversation about creative experience becoming a real commitment to Memphis.
Jeevan Knight's path to leading Baron Von Opperbein and the River of Time moves through artifact conservation, major entertainment brands, and Meow Wolf, which gives the episode a useful frame for experiential storytelling.
A grounded conversation about coconut farming, dignity, and giving families another choice.
ChangeMakers treats ethical entrepreneurship as a question of access, not image. Speaking with host Jeremy Park, DignityMade CEO Eric Olson describes a coconut marketplace in the Philippines that can give farmers another path when the alternatives include losing land or sending…
A grief-born community mission finds purpose through clothing, partnerships, and a meaningful event.
This episode follows the work of the Christopher A. Pugh II Center, where grief is turned into practical service through clothing, partnerships, and a steadier sense of purpose for men who need one.
A boxer makes a practical case for questioning old habits through losses, borrowed technique, and community work.
Cam F. Awesome's conversation with Jeremy Park turns a career built on pressure into a practical case for rethinking inherited habits. The boxer, speaker, and author is presented through adversity, persistence, major wins, and two losses, but the episode is most interested in…
Practical conversations for inclusive early childhood teams.
Calm guidance for growing children and adults.
Early education, responsibility, and systems change.
Early childhood research, translated for the classroom floor.
Jeevan Knight and Andrew Bartolotta talk about Baron Von Opperbein and the River of Time, a Memphis immersive experience on Mud Island that is set around a March 7 opening.
Eric Olson says DignityMade was built after a Filipino farmer named Romer said his biggest hope was that debt would not pass to his children.
Johnson cites research linking malnutrition to one in five cancer deaths, then uses Culinary Care to show why meals matter during cancer treatment.
On The City Current Show, Jeremy Park interviews boxer, speaker, and author Cam F.
The City Current Show interviews George Nixon, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of West Tennessee, about services for people experiencing homelessness or nearing homelessness.
Michelle Pugh describes the Christopher A.
Host Jeremy Park interviews U.S.
Host Jeremy Park interviews Monty Bush, founder of Victory Project, about his journey from military service to police officer to nonprofit founder helping disengaged youth.
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Host Jeremy Park interviews Tracy Schubert-Barrett about her journey from HGTV to finding purpose and significance beyond success.