Episode
82

Empowering Communities: The LemonAid & ChariTea Story

Business and Sustainability Innovators

In this powerful episode of Harvesting Wisdom, host Mike McMahon sits down in Hamburg with Aileen Puhlmann, a dynamic leader at the LemonAid & ChariTea Foundation. Together they unpack how a beverage company channels its success into a social enterprise model that funds grassroots organizations around the world. Aileen shares her journey from Ghana and Germany to South Africa, her deep sense of justice, and the foundation’s focus on empowering local communities through entrepreneurship, education, and sustainable livelihoods. This heartfelt conversation explores why small, intentional acts can lead to global transformation and challenges listeners to ask themselves: Why bother?

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