Next Economy Now: For the Benefit of All Life

Mark Watson , Founder of Keel Asset Management , is on the show today to talk about raising reparative capital, and the work he is doing on the vanguard of socially responsible investment. For detailed show notes and interviews with past guests, please visit https://lifteconomy.com/podcast --- LIFT Economy Newsletter Join 7000+ subscribers and get our free 60 point business design checklist—plus m...

Tom Chi has worked in a wide range of roles from astrophysical researcher to Fortune 500 consultant to corporate executive developing new hardware/software products and services. He's played a significant role in established projects with global reach (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo Answers from 0 to 90 million users). Tom has...

Today we have a powerful and important conversation with Vanessa Roanhorse, the CEO of Roanhorse Consulting and the Co-Founder of Native Women Lead. Our guest has dedicated her life to building wealth and power for indigenous women, investing in community initiatives, and firmly putting people back at the center of this conversation. For detailed show notes and interviews with past guests, please...

Roxy Manning joins Next Economy Now to talk to us about her work in non-violent communication and commitment to building a more equitable and compassionate future. Roxy is an Afro-Caribbean immigrant to the US, a licensed clinical psychologist, a trainer at the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and a lead consultant for the Center for Efficient Collaboration.  For detailed show notes and interv...

Our guest today is Janine Firpo, a champion of the rising tide of women in the world of investing. Janine's mission is to consolidate and spread her knowledge to help other women to take control of their money--thus aiding positive change in the world.  She has worked at the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and she is here to tell her personal story and share some of the...

Bex Kwan and Jenna Peters-Golden both work at AORTA (the Anti Oppression and Resource Training Alliance), a worker-owned cooperative devoted to helping movements renew a stronger sense of liberatory vision, values, and purpose. On this episode, we hear about our guests' passion for facilitation, the limits of personality in this work, and their thoughts on the craft and power of facilitation....

We are joined by Black mother, grandmother, lover, professor, and activist, Dr. Zoe Spencer. Zoe is a published author who currently teaches at Virginia State University, where she is dedicated to educating and opening the minds of her students, in order to build a better and more equitable future. She has dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of oppressed people. To view the show notes an...

Today, we are joined by Dr. Jennifer Harvey to discuss the question of raising children who will grow up to have anti-racist values. If white parents cannot help their children make sense of racism, systemic oppression, and white supremacy, they will grow up to perpetuate this system rather than dismantle it. For detailed show notes and interviews with past guests, please visit https://lifteconomy...

Today, LIFT Partners Kevin Bayuk and Ryan Honeyman chat about the topic of decentralization and how this manifests to varying degrees within the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. We start off with some simple definitions, clarifying the differences and relationships between the concept of a decentralized ledger, the blockchain, and the cryptocurrencies that use it. The important questions here are...

We are excited to welcome the CEO of Evolve Oakland, David Jackson, to the show today to talk about his work, philosophy towards positive impact, and the important work that is happening and still needs to be done right now. David anchors his life with three 'Ps'; purpose, passion, and profession, and it was through the marriage of these that he found his calling at Evolve, helping margi...

In today’s episode of Next Economy Now, your host, Ryan Honeyman, gets together with Erin Heaney, executive director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). https://surj.org/ Erin shares about her family history of involvement in activism, from the struggles in Northern Ireland to Union groups in America, and how her queer identity has connected her to her work in social justice reform.  Erin exp...

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The United States has a culture that is individualistic, competitive, and materialistic. To move forward to a less oppressive environment we need to radically shift our values and learn to work together. Here to discuss these important topics today is Yana Ludwig, cooperative culture pioneer, intentional community advocate, and oppression activist. Yana is the author of Together Resilient and The...

While there is an ever-growing pool of ideas on how to use business as a force for good, and how to change systems, getting people to open their hearts and listen to one another can often be a sticking point in enabling systemic change. Sarah Peyton is a neuroscience educator, constellations facilitator, Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer, and author of the book, Your Resonant Self. She in...

In this episode of Next Economy Now, Ryan Honeyman sits down with Autumn Brown, mother, organizer, theologian, artist, facilitator, and worker-owner at AORTA, the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance.  As a fellow worker-owned co-op devoted to strengthening movements for social justice, AORTA brings valuable cross-issue experience garnered over 10 years of seeing patterns and common mis-...

Resmaa Menakem , New York Times bestselling author of “ My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies ,” is a visionary Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist and master trainer. Resmaa is a leading voice in today’s conversation on racialized trauma. As a therapist, trauma specialist, and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions, a leade...

Founder of Growing Change , Noran Sanford grew up in an abusive, working-class Scot-Irish family in rural North Carolina. Ever since a young age he had a strong sense of justice, and took a stand against racism in his home even though it meant getting knocked down. Scholarships for community involvement in high school helped Noran attend university at UNC-Chapel Hill. There he co-founded one of th...

Avi Lewis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His 25-year journalism career has spanned local news reporting to hosting and producing a variety of current affairs shows for television networks worldwide, to directing theatrically released documentaries, The Take and This Changes Everything , that premiered in fe...

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast. Interested in creating a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join a network of 800+ alumni transforming communities and enterprises from a regenerative and just lens. The Next Economy MBA begins September 22nd — join us for a free intro session and save 20% when you register before August 3rd. Le...

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast. Interested in creating a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join a network of 800+ alumni transforming communities and enterprises from a regenerative and just lens. The Next Economy MBA begins September 22nd — join us for a free intro session and save 20% when you register before August 3rd. Le...

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast. Interested in creating a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join a network of 800+ alumni transforming communities and enterprises from a regenerative and just lens. The Next Economy MBA begins September 22nd — join us for a free intro session and save 20% when you register before August 3rd. Le...

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast. Interested in creating a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join a network of 800+ alumni transforming communities and enterprises from a regenerative and just lens. The Next Economy MBA begins September 22nd — join us for a free intro session and save 20% when you register before August 3rd. Le...

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast. Interested in creating a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join a network of 800+ alumni transforming communities and enterprises from a regenerative and just lens. The Next Economy MBA begins September 22nd — join us for a free intro session and save 20% when you register before August 3rd. Le...

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast. Interested in creating a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join a network of 800+ alumni transforming communities and enterprises from a regenerative and just lens. The Next Economy MBA begins September 22nd — join us for a free intro session and save 20% when you register before August 3rd. Le...

For the show notes (guest bio, summary, resources, etc), go to: www.lifteconomy.com/podcast. Interested in creating a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join a network of 800+ alumni transforming communities and enterprises from a regenerative and just lens. The Next Economy MBA begins September 22nd — join us for a free intro session and save 20% when you register before August 3rd. Le...