How to Create Social Impact Through Small Business with Combat Flip Flops

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You can create real change and social impact in the world with your small business.

Today’s episode is about the story of 3 military men, promoting world peace in a different way. Combat Flip Flops created jobs for both Afghan women, and US soldiers. Also, every product Combat Flip Flops sells puts an Afghan girl into secondary school for a day, while each Peacemaker Bangle or Coin Wrap sold clears 3 square meters of Unexploded Ordnance from a region rocked by long-term war – saving lives and providing economic opportunity.


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Some of the best quotes from the episode:

Smaller dealer pre-orders, collecting emails on our website, retargeting... that’s how we got our very first sales. Share on X Our initial surge of traffic wasn’t from the article in NYT, but from Gizmodo. This traffic broke our site. Share on X Having the right manpower to scale is the hardest part, it’s the bottleneck of the business. Share on X

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Credits:

  • Music featured in this episode was “Celery Man” by Birocratic and can be found at www.soundcloud.com/birocratic.
  • This podcast was produced by comealivecreative.com.