You can create a business with impact and profit. The Mission Driven Business podcast is designed to show you how. In this introduction, host Brian Thompson, JD/CFP, outlines the five principles for creating successful mission-driven businesses. You’ll also hear his goals for the podcast, and what you can expect to learn in each episode.
Brian Thompson, JD/CFP, is a tax attorney and certified financial planner who specializes in providing comprehensive financial planning to LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs who run mission-driven businesses. The Mission Driven Business podcast was born out of his passion for helping social entrepreneurs create businesses with purpose and profit.
On the podcast, Brian talks with diverse entrepreneurs and the people who support them. Listeners hear stories of experiences, strength, and hope and get practical advice to help them build businesses that might just change the world, too.
Brain talks with Phuong Luong, CFP, an educator, financial planner, and investment strategist focused on economic justice. In the episode, Phuong shares her winding path to founding Just Wealth, a financial planning firm for individuals and families....
Brian talks with Jacob Padrón, an artistic director working to create a more inclusive American theater. In this episode, Jacob praises the merits of values-based leadership and a practice-what-you-preach organizational culture. You’ll also hear...
In this episode, Brian chats with Bill Bynum, the founder and CEO of HOPE, a family of financial institutions serving economically distressed areas of the Deep South. You’ll learn Bill’s definition of a mission-driven business, what motivated him...
Brian chats with Dawn Hancock, the founder of socially conscious creative studio Firebelly Design. In the first episode of the Mission Driven Business podcast, you'll learn the life event that compelled Dawn to create her company at age 25, the grit...
You can create a business with impact and profit. The Mission Driven Business podcast is designed to show you how. In this introduction, host Brian Thompson, JD/CFP, outlines the five principles for creating successful mission-driven businesses....