Poetry of Impact

Nick Green is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market, an online market on a mission to make healthy living easy and accessible for every budget, lifestyle, and geography. Nick describes himself as an accidental entrepreneur who fell off the constructed, artificial path laid out by his early years in formal education. The inequalities of access to education struck him at his core, igniting his ent...

Bruce Campbell, Founder and “Chief Happiness Officer” of Blue Dot Law , a law firm representing entrepreneurs, NGOs, and investors solely in impact transactions explores the resistance to love within the business world and shares how he seeks to integrate love and happiness into a field where emotion is often neglected. He discusses the cooperative, consensus-based model that makes his impact law...

Paolo Fresia, Founder of 100% Sustainability , recounts the story of his inheritance and how his relationship with loss has led to an expansion of his impact imagination. He takes us through the somatic experiences that have illuminated his path in impact, from a panic attack during the financial crisis to the center of a cholera outbreak in Haiti to an eye-opening visit of a poultry processing fa...

Geeta Aiyer, Founder of Boston Common Assets, fluidly migrates between the grammar and poetry of impact as she lends us a depth of knowledge around finance while sharing stories of past and present that continue to motivate her work in impact. She emphasizes shareholder engagement in order to change the foundations of corporations and the urgency behind transitioning to responsible investing pract...

Tripp Baird, co-founder and managing partner of The Builders Fund , eloquently shares how his occupation in business is deeply intertwined with his journey through Right Livelihood. He recognized early on that he couldn’t build a career around something he wasn’t passionate about, pivoting away from big bureaucracy towards purpose-driven business. Tripp details the competitive advantages of a purp...

Jesse Fink, co-founder of MissionPoint Capital Partners, shares his approach to catalyzing impact through the fusion of multiple forms of capital and through systems-wide analysis. He takes us on a ride through his endeavors with his wife, Betsy, from local, family farming to mapping food waste, on a quest to find global solutions to climate change. Jesse reveals the natural progression of his imp...

Linda Solomon Wood, CEO of Observer Media Group and founder and editor-in-chief of Canada’s National Observer ,  talks candidly about why investigative and in-depth journalism matters more today than ever amidst a lot of storytelling narratives that have no relationship to facts.  Linda knows that millions and millions of people are eager for the truth.  She emphasizes that it should be the media’...

Denise Hearn takes us into the world of liminality straddling the worlds of grammar and poetry. She talks about transcending paradigms, taking comfort in the paradoxical nature of life, and tapping into life force energy to find fulfillment in our daily work.

With over 25 years experience in the start-up world, Luni Libes shares his passion for funding impact ventures. Emphasizing experience over intuition, Luni's success hinges on the patterns he's observed over the last 30 years and his ability to filter out start-ups that are likely to fail by pinpointing the holes in a given business model.

Ariel Nessel & Birju Pandya are the hearts and minds behind Mobius, a capital allocation office using an integrated capital approach to develop multiple forms of wealth focused on redeveloping habitable spaces, abating suffering, and inclining well-being. In this episode, Ariel & Birju emphasize the integration of multiple forms of capital while inviting others to the benefits of living ge...

Damon Gameau shares his journey through vulnerability, arriving at his most recent production, 2040, a documentary exploring new solutions to climate change. Damon explains his approach to storytelling as a means of connecting through authenticity and empathy in order to mobilize new approaches to long-existing challenges.

Matthew Moore, Co-Founder of Greenbelt Hospitality, shares how his background in farming and art has provided the tools for navigating the COVID-19 crisis and entrepreneurship, itself. Matthew also details the process of a public-private partnership in efforts to democratize the farm-to-table movement.

Berry Liberman, Founder of Dumbo Feather & Co-Founder of Small Giants AU, illumines the realities of crises in Australia between the recent wildfires and the COVID pandemic. She shares a story of optimism and hope, springing from her dedication to love and service.

Ron Gonen, Co-founder & CEO of Closed Loop Partners, details the benefits of a circular economy. He explains the difficulties of facing the long-lived linear economic system and how we can approach these challenges through inquiry and confidence.

Morgan Simon, author of Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change, details how the COVID crisis reveals how our current broken economic system leads social injustice. Morgan continues to provide hope along with concrete strategies for combating social injustice as a financial activist.

How are the forests feeling amidst the Covid crisis? Bettina von Hagen of Ecotrust Forestry shares the deep value of investment in sustainable forestry along with her passions for biodiversity in the natural world that come from her rich childhood history.

Aaron Holm, Co-CEO of Blokable, shares how his real-estate development company has stepped in to support the coronavirus crisis in Washington State and how this crisis can shift our understanding of our current real estate paradigm.

Ibrahim Husseini, Founder & CEO of FullCycle, shares his personal experiences amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Husseini also tells of his inspiration around climate work and FullCycle's investment strategy for solving the climate crisis.

Laura Callanan, Founder of Upstart Co-Lab, shares her experiences that have led to the intersection of impact investing and the Creative Economy.

Cory Smith shares personal and professional stories that led to the creation of Wisdom Labs, a company working to reduce workplace stress, increase engagement, and build community within organizations, large and small.

Jonathan Rose, Founder of Jonathan Rose Companies, takes us through his beginnings in philanthropy and interests in affordable housing that started early in his childhood. He shares the foundations of strong, flourishing communities that are built sustainably, both from the environmental and social standpoint.

Sisters, Alexandra & Josephine Korjin, share their journey of their capital inheritance and how they have chosen to deploy capital for social and environmental change. The two give practical and proven advice on how to slowly integrate impact into a family office through love, non-judgment, and respect.

Rachel Gerrol, Co-founder of Nexus Global, highlights her strategies in bringing together like-minded, high-net worth individuals to build a strong, supportive network that can lead change in today's economy.

Founders of Gratitude Railroad, Howard Fischer & Eric Jacobsen share their serendipitous meeting at Harvard and the intentions that grew out of their business partnership. Howard discusses his application of a "Wall St attitude" in impact, and Eric tells about his goals of becoming 100% impact.

Annie Chen, Principal & Chair of RS Group Asia, highlights the current cultural roadblocks of impact investing in Asia today and the challenges of working within a family office. Annie shares what inspired her to make the transition to impact and delves into the question of "What is enough?"