Hi. This is Paul Zolizer, and welcome to the Awarepreneurs podcast. On this show, we dive deep into wisdom from some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. Our goal is to help increase your positive impact, your profitability, and your quality of life. Before we get into today's topic, I have 1 request. If you could hit subscribe and do a review on your favorite podcast app, that helps more people learn how to have a positive impact through a values based business. Thank you so much. And today, I am thrilled, like really thrilled to introduce you to Satyam Vayas.

And our topic is how to grow a climate organization 10 x in 5 years. Satyam is the founder and CEO of Arthon and Climate Asia. Arthon is An organization with a bold vision to transform the social impact sector in India and Asia, and Climate Asia provides people with the opportunity for impactful world climate careers and the latest insights on what is happening in the sector. They have over 50,000 professionals in their network, and they've listed 5,000 plus jobs in the past year or

work. I'm very excited to be here today, Paul. Thank you for giving me this fabulous opportunity to talk to you.

You're doing fabulous work, and big shout out to my brother, Craig Zellizer, who introduced us. Thank you, Craig. And remind our listeners, we love it when you send in your ideas. So, anyway, here's a real life example. Dig down to Craig. If you don't know Craig, he has an awesome podcast himself called social change career podcast. So thanks, Greg. So

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Tell us a little bit about we're gonna get into these 2 awesome impact organizations that you're the founder of and what they do and how you grow them so wonderfully. But before we do that, what would somebody wanna know you and a little bit about your backstory before we get into what you've actually created.

Thank you, Paul. Work. So the backstory takes me back to 2005. I was sitting in a campus in university and heard someone saying they're looking for volunteer to go to a state called Kashmir in India where you can see the Himalayas. I I got excited as a young person thinking I get an opportunity to go to Kashmir and explore the countryside without realizing what it really means. And then the next thing the person tells me is going to there is an earthquake there, and you need to we are looking for volunteers to go for relief work. Work So I signed up and went through a journey, tighten our truck loaded with relief material for 3 day, ended up in a remote village in Kashmir. Work And then I was told that your host will greet you.

You will stay with the family. They will serve you food, take care of you, and you do the work work as they need. So as soon as I got off the bat, I thought smiling young gentlemen who looked at me with very, very promising faith work that I've come here to help all the way from Delhi and took me to his house where he said, what do you I was super hungry. He said, what do you want? I said, work Can you serve me? Like, anything you have, I'm hungry. I want to eat. And then he and his mother, they decided to put a plate in front of me and of some food, and I was in college. I quickly started eating. Then suddenly it struck me that they're not eating.

I asked them why you're not eating. They said because they only have 1 utensil to serve. And that just one instance changed my entire life because I could never come across people who are so selfless that in this kind of adversity, they could still serve a guest who's a young person from an urban city supposedly going to help them. So that's just 1 instance in my life. I mean, I was never designing to work, never thought about working in social impact, or I had no clue what that meant. But at that point in time, something changed inside me permanently, and I knew that I need to do something about it. Did not know how, But the journey would unfold, but that's how it started. And it still makes me very emotional thinking about that instance because, you know, Just how fabulous people are.

And when crisis happens, there's so many people from all walks of life who come out and help you, and the way they make you feel remains with you for rest of your life.