Be Good, Do Good and use Coupons for Good

What drives people to do good? People who try to help people feel that they are living their life in an altruistic way.  Author Larrisa MacFarquhar, said that “It’s one of the differences between them and the rest of us: they don’t feel that they have a choice about whether they should help others or not. What they show you is you can live a happy life, even with a very strong commitment to people who are not in your family, not in your community, people who have a need that you don’t necessarily see in front of you. Here is a statement from the cooperation.org website which states: despite many big problems, and recent great political challenges, our world overall is still a great deal better off than most of us realize, and for many decades has been improving significantly, if unsteadily, in so many ways. In follow-up to that I did a google search to find out if people asked the question: how can I do good in the world, the closest I got was: how can I donate to good will. In 2022 the top searches in question form are #1 what to watch, followed by what is my IP address, what time is it, and where am I. The question should really be where are we, especially in the context of altruism, empathy, morality, compassion, looking out for one another and bridging differences. The world is in turmoil, but there are amazing people doing great work to help make things better by creating solutions, and putting them into place to help protect the environment, human rights and more.  On this episode we speak to two dedicated and compassionate women: Golda Velez, co-founder and senior software engineer at cooperation.org and Sakshi Bahuguna, the CEO and Co-Founder of Coupons for Good. Golda and Sakshi both have a passion to create innovative solutions for everyday problems to help people, and create a product that users love. Golda is also a Board member of Civic Works and works with friend of TMSOG podcast, George Polisner. For more info go to Cooperation.org, Civ.works, and check out Coupons for Good. For past shows go to HudsonRiverRadio.com and MalcolmPresents.com. Please subscribe to TMSOG podcast, Tweet us @tmshadesofgreen and #RaiseYourEcoConsciousness