Sneaker Impact News

About Sneaker Impact News

Weekly interviews, news, updates and more about Sneaker Impact and our work in the recycling and running industries. Hosted by Bryan the Botanist. Please send us your guest recommendations and topics you'd like us to feature. Email: bryan@sneakerimpact.com

Publisher

Hosted by Bryan the Botanist

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jan 2024

Latest episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Danny Rodriguez & Miami's BLUE Missions: Connecting Communities, Transforming Lives

   On Sneaker Impact News Episode 51, host Bryan interviews Danny Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Miami-based nonprofit BLUE Missions, about its mission to “connect communities to clean water and people to their purpose.” Danny shares how a high school trip to the Dominican Republic inspired him to co-found BLUE Missions in 2010, later scaling it from a passion project to full-time work, and growing from nine to 21 projects in a year. He explains their community-led model with local water committe...

2. 

   17 Apr 2026

   Creating Better Cities & Places to Live: Irvans Augustin (Urban Impact Lab)

   Urban Impact Lab’s People-First Approach to Building Better Cities | Miami Climate Week + Community-Led Design Sneaker Impact News host sits down with Irvans Augustin, co-founder of Urban Impact Lab, after touring the Sneaker Impact facility to discuss people-first urban planning, creative placemaking, and moving cities from ideas to implementation. Augustin shares how he and his wife (with backgrounds in IT, marine biology, and urban planning) founded Urban Impact Lab 13 years ago with a non...

3. 

   10 Mar 2026

   Empowering Youth Through Running: Samantha Choy & Students Run Philly Style

   Sneaker Impact News interviews Samantha Choy, marketing and communications manager at Students Run Philly Style (SRPS), a Philadelphia youth mentorship nonprofit pairing grades 6–12 students with volunteer running mentors to train for major races like the Broad Street Run and Philadelphia Marathon Weekend. Choy describes her role managing social media, partnerships, and the Mentoring Milestones newsletter, plus promoting SRPS’s charity runner program, including new Berlin and Dublin Marathon ...

Who has been a guest on Sneaker Impact News

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Drew Tegui
• Stefan Finke
• Joao Alcolea
• Teddy Lhoutellier
• Maddie Kaufman

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

69

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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