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What makes a podcast conversation worth listening to all the way through?Is it the big ideas? The honest stories? The pr...
05/22/2026

What makes a podcast conversation worth listening to all the way through?

Is it the big ideas? The honest stories? The practical insights you can actually apply to your work and life?

At WCS Talks Unplugged, we’ve explored leadership, climate tech, regenerative systems, policy, career growth, and the people working behind the scenes to build a more sustainable future.

Now we want to hear from you:

🎙️ What kind of conversations do you want more of?

⬇️ Vote below:

🔹 Career growth & leadership
🔹 Climate tech & innovation
🔹 Community & systems change
🔹 Personal stories & journeys

What’s a topic you think the climate space needs to talk about more openly? Drop it in the comments.

05/20/2026

Hope looks different when you build it together.

From women-centered clean energy solutions, to regenerative thinking, to the momentum created when communities come together around a shared purpose — these conversations remind us that climate work is deeply human work.

The future isn’t built by one person or one idea alone. It’s built through collaboration, care, resilience, and people willing to keep showing up for each other.

Featuring:
✨ Nicole Watson of Econic Earth
✨ Jess Groopman of The Regenerative Technology Project
✨ Trish Pinnella, WCS Marketing Co-Chair

🎧 Listen to WCS Talks Unplugged wherever you get your podcasts.

05/18/2026

What does leadership really look like in climate and sustainability?

Across Series 1 of WCS Talks Unplugged one theme kept surfacing: leadership is rarely linear. It’s built through consistency, relationships, resilience, and the willingness to keep showing up over time.

In these conversations, guests shared honest perspectives on ambition, career growth, mentorship, and navigating leadership in industries that are still evolving.

🎙️ Sadia Raveendran & Veronica Barner explored the so-called “ambition gap” and how leadership evolves across different stages of life and career.

🎙️ Farah Saeed & Robin Barabasz Milshtein discussed “relationship currency” and the role community and consistency play in creating opportunities.

🎙️ Sara Eve Fuentes & Michael Kobori reflected on people-centered leadership and why sustainability work must stay connected to human impact.

🎙️ Sara Eve Fuentes & Lisa Ann Pinkerton talked about building long-term impact, staying committed to the work, and growing alongside a community.

These episodes go beyond career advice. They offer a more honest look at what leadership actually feels like behind the scenes.

🎧 Catch up on Series 1 of WCS Talks Unplugged before Series 2 launches: https://linktr.ee/wcstalksunplugged

05/15/2026

Behind every climate solution is a network of people making the work possible.

That became one of the biggest takeaways from Series 1 of WCS Talks Unplugged.

Across conversations with founders, sustainability leaders, innovators, and ecosystem builders, one thing became clear: community matters. The relationships we build, the people who mentor us, the spaces where we feel supported — these are often the things that sustain both careers and movements.

Throughout Series 1, we explored leadership, identity, sustainability, systems change, and innovation through conversations featuring:

🎙️ Sara Fuentes with Lisa Ann Pinkerton
🎙️ Farah Saeed with Robin Milshtein
🎙️ Sara Fuentes with Michael Kobori
🎙️ Sadia Raveendran with Veronica Barner
🎙️ Farah Saeed with Susanna Hill
🎙️ Trish Pinnella with Nicole Watson
🎙️ Sara Fuentes with Jessica Groopman

Thank you to every guest, host, listener, member, and supporter who helped make these conversations meaningful.

WCS Talks Unplugged was created to bring people together around real stories and real solutions — and Series 1 reminded us just how powerful that can be.

🎧 Catch up on Series 1 before Series 2 launches.

05/11/2026

🎙️ 10 days. 20+ events. Thousands of conversations. One powerful takeaway:

Climate progress happens when community shows up.

In this special post–SF Climate Week episode of WCS Talks Unplugged, Sara Fuentes, Farah Saeed, and Trish Pinnella share an inside look at the experiences, innovations, and unforgettable moments that defined San Francisco Climate Week 2026.

From:

🌍 Oracle Park’s massive kickoff
🥾 Community hikes in nature
🚀 Women-led startup pitches
💧 Water justice and Indigenous leadership
♻️ Circular economy and repair innovation
🎤 Climate karaoke and community celebration

This episode explores how climate leadership is about more than technology — it’s about ecosystems, culture, resilience, and collective momentum.

✨ Hear real reflections on:
• Building stronger climate communities
• Why women are essential to innovation
• Policy, entrepreneurship, and global collaboration
• Balancing urgency with hope and joy

If you care about climate, sustainability, entrepreneurship, or the future of women’s leadership, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

🎧 Tune in now and join the movement.

05/08/2026

🎧 What does it really look like to show up for climate leadership?

In this new episode of WCS Talks Unplugged, WCS leaders Sara Eve Fuentes, Farah Saeed, and Trish Pinnella reflect on 10 powerful days of SF Climate Week 2026 — and the answer is clear:

It looks like community.
It looks like innovation.
It looks like women building ecosystems that last.

From startup pitches and policy conversations to regenerative design, water justice, circular economy, sustainable fashion, and joyful moments of connection, this episode goes beyond event highlights to explore the deeper momentum driving climate progress.

💡 Key themes:
• Strength in community
• Women-led innovation
• Climate solutions already in motion
• Global ecosystem building
• The power of remembering regenerative ways forward

This conversation is honest, energizing, and packed with insights for anyone working to create real impact in climate, sustainability, and beyond.

🌱 SF Climate Week may have ended, but the movement is accelerating.

Listen now and hear how WCS is helping shape the future of climate leadership.

05/06/2026

🎧 SF Climate Week may be over… but the momentum is just getting started.

In this special recap episode of WCS Talks Unplugged, Sara Eve Fuentes, Farah Saeed, and Trish Pinnella. take you behind the scenes of an unforgettable 10 days across SF Climate Week 2026.

From Oracle Park’s official kickoff and women-led pitch competitions to climate policy forums, community hikes, circular economy conversations, sustainable fashion, and even karaoke — this episode captures what happens when climate leadership becomes a true ecosystem.

🌍 What you’ll hear:
✨ The power of community-driven climate action
✨ Women founders leading real innovation
✨ Major insights from policy, technology, and sustainability events
✨ Why joy, culture, and connection matter in movement building
✨ How WCS is expanding globally and showing up stronger than ever

This isn’t just a recap.
It’s a reflection on what it means to build lasting momentum for climate solutions.

Because climate progress isn’t built by one event.
It’s built by people, partnerships, and showing up.

🎙️ Tune in now and experience the energy, lessons, and inspiration of SF Climate Week through the voices of the women helping shape its future.

▶ Stream wherever you are:
https://linktr.ee/wcstalksunplugged

05/04/2026

🎧 Hope can start with something as simple as light.

In this uplifting episode of WCS Talks Unplugged, host Trish Pinnella speaks with Nicole Watson, founder of Econic Earth Foundation, about how small solar lamps are creating brighter futures for students, families, and communities living off-grid.

Through the Watts On program, access to clean light is opening doors to education, improving safety, and creating new possibilities where darkness once limited opportunity.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that climate solutions can be practical, human-centered, and deeply hopeful.

✨ One lamp.
✨ One student.
✨ One community.
✨ Real change.

Sometimes the most powerful solutions are also the simplest.

🎙️ Listen now and be reminded that hope is not abstract—it is something we can build.

05/01/2026

🎧 What if one small solar lamp could change a child’s future?

In this powerful episode of WCS Talks Unplugged, host Trish Pinnella sits down with Nicole Watson, founder of econic earth foundation, to explore how simple solar lighting solutions are transforming education, safety, and opportunity for students living in off-grid communities.

Through the WATTS On Lighting Students Lives program, Nicole and her team are providing solar lamps that help children study after dark, improve academic performance, reduce household health risks, and create safer communities.

From Kenya to Zambia and Uganda, this conversation highlights a powerful truth:
Sometimes the simplest climate solutions create the biggest ripple effects.

💡 In this episode:
✨ How solar lighting is improving educational outcomes
✨ The connection between clean energy, safety, and health
✨ Why small-scale renewable solutions can drive massive social impact
✨ Nicole’s vision to reach one million students by 2030

This is a story about renewable energy, equity, and the life-changing power of light.

🎙️ Listen now and discover how one small innovation is illuminating futures around the world.

This podcast is brought to you by Women in Cleantech and Sustainability, furthering the roles of women in the green economy.

04/30/2026

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