Working For Progress
Working for Progress is a podcast about work, wellbeing, and what it means to live a meaningful life.
Hosted by social entrepreneur Dani Trudeau and rooted in the community of Tribe Porty in Edinburgh, each season explores a theme, The Body, through honest, unhurried conversations with people who are shaping their working lives with intention. These aren't interviews about career advice or productivity hacks. They're deeper conversations about values, identity, creativity, burnout, purpose, and the quiet grit behind the work people do.
If you love podcasts like On Being or The Pause, and you're asking bigger questions about how you want to work and live, this is for you.
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Working For Progress
Chris Hellawell on Tool Libraries, Community Resilience, and Building Something Scotland Needed
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In this episode, Dani speaks with Chris Hellawell. Director of the Edinburgh Tool Library and one of those people who saw something working somewhere else and decided to bring it home.
The origin story is a good one: Chris visited a tool library in Canada, saw what it could do for a community, and came back convinced Scotland needed one. Since 2015, the Edinburgh Tool Library has saved its members over £2 million and supported more than 100 community groups and charities.
They talk about what community resilience actually looks like in practice, the early days of building something from scratch, and, quietly, what running a values-led organisation makes possible in the rest of your life too.
A grounded conversation about tools, community, and doing work that matters close to home.
Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson.
Dani Trudeau, founder of Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Edinburgh built on the belief that creativity, collaboration, and care are good for people, business, and the world.
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