That's What She Did Podcast

Erika Righter is a social worker-turned small business owner. Since coming to Colorado, she has worked with youth experiencing homelessness and in the foster care system, rural families, and with low-income older adults. In 2012, Erika founded Hope Tank, a gift store that gives back in the heart of the Baker neighborhood. She uses retail to connect the over 40,000 customers who come into Hope Tank every year, to organizations doing important work in our community. She served on the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships Commission, does consulting, and started an inclusive business directory called The Hope Slinger’s Guide. In This Episode: Calling BS on fake social entrepreneurship The big role classism and racism play in social enterprise businesses What to look for when you want to do business with a business that says they are helping a community What it looks like to build a hyper-local community movement Why you need to ask what someone wants before you try to help them  Why simply talking to each ot