54: Nicolas Loufrani Of Smiley Movement - Tackling The Big Issues In Society

Nicolas Loufrani is the founder of the Smiley Movement, a non-profit social network dedicated to positive change.  Highlights: History of Smiley Smiley name and the Smiley brand Rise of emoticons and usage of Siley for communication Growing the Smiley brand and design studio - its a small Disney Smiley Fund to develop social projects to create social and environmental impact How we engage the public similar to happy news when dad first created the Smiley Matchmaking for good app and Smiley Awards Alexander Mars and the Epic movement Time stamp: [03:00] Promotion to bring smiles to people's faces [05:30] Coming up with the name [08:00] Smiley started [12:00] How Smiley works with other brand [15:00] Smiley Fund [18:30] Engaging the in happy news [22:40] Smiley Awards [24:20] How to sustain the activities [26:40] Recommendation to support social impact [29:00] Vision in 10 years Useful links: Smiley.com (https://smiley.com/) Smileymovement.org (https://smileymovement.org/) Epic Movement (https://epic.foundation/) Go to ImpactHustlers.com (https://www.impacthustlers.com/) Visit FastForward 2030 (http://fastforward2030.com/) and Real Changers (https://www.realchangers.com/) Impact Hustlers is hosted by Maiko Schaffrath, connect on Linkedin (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maikoschaffrath/en) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/maikoschaffrath) This podcast is produced by Woon Tan of Podcast Publishing (http://podcastpublishing.help/)