In The Game Podcast
Each week, Master Connector Sarah Maxwell sits down with incredible people and extracts the stories of their lives. Using her Neuro-psychology background, she delves into the DREAMS they had as a child and then weaves them back to the present moment. Who have they become? How have the dreams they had for their life realised themselves? How have they overcome challenges? What matters to them most NOW?These conversations are gripping and transformative, for both host and listener. Sit back, relax and enjoy!
In The Game Podcast
30: Social Innovation through powerful narrative with Megan Gilmore
Meet Megan:
Megan is a social innovator, global change-maker, tech entrepreneur and champion for human-centred solutions to complex social problems.
In 2010, after a 25-year career in government, publishing, and international aid and development, Megan’s son was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Through her experience in addressing system-wide change she took on the glaring inequity facing children with serious illness -- isolation due to time away from school. She co-founded MissingSchool, a now internationally-recognised not-for-profit.
Working inside of the Australian Government, she designed a world-first education innovation that connects seriously ill students to their classrooms through “tele-presence robots”!
She has authored publications on issues of Australian national interest and co-wrote an Australian-first report on school connection for sick kids, generating a PM's statement of support and 160+ media articles. She instigated the first Australian government report on the issue and guided its governance methodology. Megan then moved to designing a world-first education innovation that connects seriously-ill students to their classrooms through telepresence robots.
Megan's experience has forged a strong sense of social justice, she began her career in government and rose through the ranks to become the NSW Finance Minister’s youngest staffer. Her later work in international development saw her spearheading multi-million dollar initiatives to address complex social and development issues across 24 countries. She is an expert on raising funding for large and dynamic innovation projects.
Megan now teaches and mentors changemakers to build enterprises for social good, and has co-founded tech startups in the global development and the assistive robot sector. Megan is a Churchill Fellow, a media spokesperson, and a keynote and TEDx Speaker. She was a 2019 finalist for the ACT Australian of the Year and won 2019 ACT For Purpose and Social Enterprise Telstra Business Women’s Award.
Megan pursues lasting social change at scale and, through the power of human connection, shifts people from passive observers to active changemakers.
See Megan in action during her TedX talk
Go to http://www.bit.ly/thenatandsarahshow to catch this week’s livestream!
The Podcast's 7th Season
Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.
Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode.
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