Host Helen Lee continues with Part 2 of her interview with Paul Dunn, Chairman of B1G1 (BUY1GIVE1) Business for Good, a global giving initiative that has grown into a global movement to introduce a new change making model for a newly transforming world.
Humanity has been immersed in a culture of what we can get, much more than what we can give, when the essence of our true nature is love and a generosity of spirit.  But there is an increasing number of business leaders worldwide who are influencing the shift and return to our natural caring and giving aspects.  
And Paul Dunn and his wife Masami Sato have been doing just that through B1G1 in the last 15 years.  Being caring, giving and loving coupled with making a difference as an integral part of our daily lives not only help us personally but makes good business sense as well, as they and other leaders have shown and Paul speaks about in this episode. 
Helen and Paul discuss a new attitude to ageing, enjoying every moment, combined impacts, the future of business and governments, the lessons of history, the motivations of social enterprises and the progress of B1G1.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
We have been living in a culture that focuses on what we can get, with a scarcity mindset installed in most of our methods and systems. Paul and his wife Mesami Sato offer through B1G1 a new model which provides small and medium businesses worldwide an opportunity to install a giving system to more than 500 carefully selected, high impact projects that they can choose from.
B1G1 is now growing exponentially in terms of its number of members and giving impacts they create together, making a real difference to lives of many worldwide.  We can also look forward to all companies becoming social enterprises in 15 years' time, and come together to be a collaborative force for good. 
Paul is 28,771 days old at the time of this recording, no longer celebrating birthdays but marking every day we are alive on this planet. The opportunity that we have to capture moments daily during our time here deserves more than being measured in years.
If we see only the worst in history, it destroys our capacity to take action. Yet there are so many points in history where people behaved magnificently, and inspiringly. Acknowledging these points can help us act (to do good and make a positive impact) in even small ways and we don’t even have to wait for the future, but live for now, do things now, make our world a better place now, each in our own way.
Businesses come alive with truly engaged employees and enthusiastic operations when they become social enterprises. Profit can be uninspiring for many in the corporate world, but creating global changes can truly energise and motivate leaders and employees greatly.
More than 301 million giving impacts have been achieved by B1G1. This illustrates the growing impact of social enterprises. An impact can be a planted tree, a child provided with schooling, water provided to a community and anything that raises a smile. 
 
BEST MOMENTS
‘Whatever that business activity may be, they can be committed to doing good for someone or something, some place in the world, be it planting a tree, saving someone from sex trafficking, providing clean water or building a school, etc.’ – Helen
‘Reality is that there’s a lot of stuff going on. “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic, it is based on the fact that human history brings a history of not only cruelty but also of compassion, of sacrifice, of courage and kindness.”’ – Paul
‘Very often people wonder  what kind of impact or difference they can make, just them. It's about our gathering together that creates that impact.’ - Helen
'The government was doing a survey and the survey basically said ‘do you think we should offer tax incentives for social enterprises?’ I’m sure the people doing the survey expected me to say yes. My response was that in 15 years we will ALL be social enterprises.’ – Paul
‘Why wouldn’t I be living the legacy everyday?’ – Paul
‘Our lives would be greatly enriched if we did this and be driven by something much greater than ourselves.’ – Helen 
GUEST INFO
Paul Dunn is Chairman of B1G1 (BUY1GIVE1) which helps businesses embed giving right into the heart of everyday activities and makes business giving easy, effective and meaningful. It focuses on connecting small to medium sized businesses with more than 500 carefully selected high-impact giving projects.
Paul is a four time TEDx speaker, winner of the Global Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Accounting Profession, entrepreneur, master presenter and keynote speaker. 
GUEST RESOURCES
B1G1 website https://b1g1.com/
ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE
Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results.
Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who’s Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore’s top coaches.
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