Narratives of Purpose

Narratives of Purpose

Scalability, Social Impact, Global Scope

Narratives of Purpose is an award nominated podcast that brings you inspiring individual stories of changemakers. The show was launched in December 2020 by Dr. Claire Murigande to showcase founders of impact-driven companies and initiatives to a global audience. Topics include youth empowerment in remote communities, global health equity initiatives, and sustainable food systems of the future. Dr. Murigande is a leader in the life sciences industry, a passionate champion for furthering the advancement and impact of women in healthcare, and a TEDx speaker.

On Leveraging AI to Overcome Radiology Challenges - Women's Health Series with Élise Mekkaoui

On Leveraging AI to Overcome Radiology Challenges - Women's Health Series with Élise Mekkaoui

Diagnosis of Women's Pelvic Conditions Revolutionised In the fifth and final episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series on Advancing Women's Health , host Claire Murigande speaks with Élise Mekkaoui, founder and CPO of Matricis.ai. Élise discusses the challenges in diagnosi...

On Holding Space for Women in the Workplace - Women's Health Series with Fatoumata Ly

On Holding Space for Women in the Workplace - Women's Health Series with Fatoumata Ly

Supporting Women's Health in the Workplace In the fourth episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series on Advancing Women's Health , host Claire Murigande delves into the challenges of addressing women's health within the corporate environment with guest Fatoumata Ly, the co-founder of Ninti....

On Humanising Clinical Trials with AI - Women's Health Series with Danielle Ralic

On Humanising Clinical Trials with AI - Women's Health Series with Danielle Ralic

AI Technology Democratising Access to Clinical Trials In the third episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series on Advancing Women's Health , host Claire Murigande explores the intersection of AI and women's health with Danielle Ralic, CEO and founder of Ancora.ai. Ancora, an AI-powered cl...

On Developing Non-invasive Cervical Precancer Treatments - Women's Health Series with Alia Rahman

On Developing Non-invasive Cervical Precancer Treatments - Women's Health Series with Alia Rahman

Twenty-First Century Treatments for Women's Health In the second episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series on Advancing Women's Health , host Claire Murigande speaks with Alia Rahman, the Co-founder and CEO of Amplexd Therapeutics. Alia shares her personal journey with dysplasia, how it...

On Making PCOS a Public Health Priority - Women's Health Series with Sasha Ottey

On Making PCOS a Public Health Priority - Women's Health Series with Sasha Ottey

Advocacy and Patient-led Innovation in Women's Health In this first episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series on Advancing Women's Health , host Claire Murigande speaks with Sasha Ottey, the Executive Director of the PCOS Challenge. Sasha shares her personal journey of being diagnosed w...

Advancing Women’s Health with Female Founders - Trailer
March 01, 2024x
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Advancing Women’s Health with Female Founders - Trailer

In this episode of Narratives of Purpose, host Claire Murigande introduces a new series focusing on women's health innovation. The next five episodes will address Issues like the lack of female representation in clinical trials as well as the need for gender-specific personalised medicine, but al...

Celebrating Three Years of Narratives of Purpose

Celebrating Three Years of Narratives of Purpose

Join me for the Season Five Finale of Narratives of Purpose where we are celebrating our Three Year Anniversary of powerful conversations with our wonderful guests who are making waves in their industries and communities. In our podcast series, we have shone a spotlight on innovation, sustainab...

On Eradicating Period Poverty - A Conversation with Ira Guha

On Eradicating Period Poverty - A Conversation with Ira Guha

In today’s episode, I have a fascinating conversation with Ira Guha who is the founder of Asan. Asan is a social venture with a mission to eradicate period poverty, which prevents women and girls across the world from participating in essential daily activities (Including going to school and work)....

On Empowering Action Through Innovative Technologies - A NEW Conversation with Rhiana Spring

On Empowering Action Through Innovative Technologies - A NEW Conversation with Rhiana Spring

Join me for today’s episode where I will be catching up with Rhiana Spring, the founder and executive director of Spring ACT. Spring ACT is an organisation connecting human rights and technology to empower people to take action and eliminate global social injustices. Their flagship product is c...

On Making Medical AI a Common Good - A NEW Conversation with Bart De Witte
October 23, 2023x
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On Making Medical AI a Common Good - A NEW Conversation with Bart De Witte

In this episode I will be welcoming back another previous guest of Narratives of Purpose, Bart De Witte, to hear more about his journey of making medical AI accessible. Bart is the founder of the Hippo AI Foundation, which is designed to develop medical AI for the common good by liberating all ...

On Funding African Female Entrepreneurs and Innovators - A NEW Conversation with Pauline Koelbl

On Funding African Female Entrepreneurs and Innovators - A NEW Conversation with Pauline Koelbl

Today I am welcoming back my very first guest of Narratives of Purpose - Pauline Koelbl, founder of ShEquity. ShEquity is a Catalyst Fund that provides smart investments for innovative and impactful African female entrepreneurs. Join me in this conversation where Pauline talks about the growth ...

On Gamifying Diversity and Inclusion Education - A NEW Conversation with Alma Moya Losada
September 19, 2023x
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On Gamifying Diversity and Inclusion Education - A NEW Conversation with Alma Moya Losada

Join me for a conversation with Alma Moya Losada who is the founder and CEO of Aequaland, an award winning edtech startup. I previously spoke to Alma back in 2021, and since then her business (and lessons) have come a long way. The core focus of Aequaland is to build educational experiences whi...

On Powering Education with Technology - A NEW Conversation with Ismail Eleburuike
September 05, 2023x
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On Powering Education with Technology - A NEW Conversation with Ismail Eleburuike

In this episode I will be welcoming back a previous guest of Narratives of Purpose to hear more about this Ed Tech entrepreneur's journey since our initial NOP conversation back in 2022. Ismail Eleburuike is the founder of SchoolTry, the leading provider of efficient education application t...

On Building More Socially Responsible Organisations - from Spend Donate Invest

On Building More Socially Responsible Organisations - from Spend Donate Invest

In today’s episode, we are continuing our “episode swap” series with an episode from Genet Gimja, the host of Spend, Donate, Invest. This podcast is at the intersection of social justice and personal finance and shares thought-provoking perspectives and ideas on how we might spend, invest and donat...

On Prison Officers Turned Playwrights - from Creativity Found

On Prison Officers Turned Playwrights - from Creativity Found

Welcome back to a very special series of Narratives of Purpose. We will be doing things a little differently this pre-season in order to showcase even more unique stories of changemakers of people who are contributing to make a difference in society. Our goal is simple: To amplify social impact...

Pre-Season Start
August 02, 2023x
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Pre-Season Start

As we prepare to launch a new season of Narratives of Purpose, we want to share with you what we have in store for the upcoming episodes. And we have a special call to action for you to help our podcast reach new audiences:  ⁠⁠⁠VOTE NARRATIVES OF PURPOSE in the British Podcast Awards Listeners'...