{"podcast":{"title":"Business for Good Podcast","slug":"business-for-good-podcast-641837","podcast_index_feed_id":641837,"rss_url":"https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.businessforgoodpodcast.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/b/9/6/2b963ca360081ecfd959afa2a1bf1c87/B4G_Green.jpg","author":"Paul Shapiro","episode_count":192,"summary":"Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world's most pressing problems. Whether it's climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, cyber threats, coral reef die-offs, nuclear waste storage, plastic pollution, or more, many of the world's greatest challenges are also exciting business opportunities. On this show, we feature business leaders who are marrying profit and purpose by inventing solutions to both build a better world and offer investors a bang for their bucks.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837"},"episode":{"title":"Vasectomies, Family Planning, and Environmental Pressure with Dr. Douglas Stein (The Vasectomist)","slug":"vasectomies-family-planning-and-environmental-pressure-with-dr-douglas-stein-the-vasectomist","published_at":"2026-03-01T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837/vasectomies-family-planning-and-environmental-pressure-with-dr-douglas-stein-the-vasectomist","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837","url":"https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/vasectomies-family-planning-and-environmental-pressure-with-dr-douglas-stein-the-vasectomist","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/V2_Full_Episode.mp3?dest-id=761849","summary":"Episode Summary: What if one of the highest-leverage climate and poverty interventions isn't a new technology, a policy mandate, or a venture-backed breakthrough, but simply making permanent contraception easier for men to choose? In this episode of Businesses For Good, host Paul Shapiro sits down with Dr. Douglas Stein , a Florida physician known as \"The Vasectomist,\" who has performed 45,000+ vasectomies and taken his work internationally, including providing free procedures and (in some cases) small cash offsets for travel and missed wages. Their conversation moves beyond the clinic into systems: fertility rates, infrastructure strain, unintended pregnancies, cultural and religious resistance, and the practical barriers that keep men from sharing the family-planning burden. You'll also hear an honest debate about incentives, the limits of government policy, and the bigger question underneath it all: if we believe human ingenuity can solve hard problems, what would it look like to proactively reduce pressure on the planet through voluntary family planning? Things You Will Learn: Why vasectomy adoption is less about medicine and more about behavior, trust, and access. How Dr. Stein thinks about incentives, and why he frames them as cost offsets. What policy and infrastructure gaps keep family planning from scaling in lower-income regions, even when demand is high. Tools & Frameworks Covered: No-Scalpel Vasectomy Model: a simplified, low-instrument approach that enables portability and scale. Access + Friction Framework: why adoption depends on availability, education, and practical logistics (time, travel, wages). Systems Lens on Population & Biodiversity: connecting fertility trends to infrastructure strain, resource use, and biodiversity outcomes. #BusinessForGood #…","meta_description":"Episode Summary: What if one of the highest-leverage climate and poverty interventions isn't a new technology, a policy mandate, or a venture-backed break…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3026,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-for-good-podcast-641837/episodes/vasectomies-family-planning-and-environmental-pressure-with-dr-douglas-stein-the-vasectomist/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837/vasectomies-family-planning-and-environmental-pressure-with-dr-douglas-stein-the-vasectomist.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}