The Economics of Well-Being

John Hillbery describes himself as an outcome of Nature and of almost 80 years of experience. His great ambition was and continues to be to understand and to fully embrace life and living. He has no formal education, and despite this, has managed to lead a life which is rich in experience. Started work at 14 in a shipping office. Discovered market research at 18 and worked for first research compa...

Chiyoko Osoborne is a true lightworker at heart. Chiyoko is on a mission to raise consciousness. She helps awakened people connect to their inner wisdom and integrate it into their day-to-day, modern, fast paced lives. As an Executive Coach and founder of Mandala Method, Chiyoko guides entrepreneurs, leaders and founders to reach peak performance through flow-state. She specializes in training the...

Brianna Greenspan is a remarkable 33-year from Houston, Texas. I met Brianna through the Task Force Humanity that was founded during Covid as a platform for sharing innovations and ideas that arguably will become the foundations of an economy of well-being and a new higher consciousness civilization of love. Overcoming agonizing physical pain and illness in her younger years, Brianna was introduce...

November 10, 2020: Ron Lynch and Brianna Greenspan , both US-based members of the Task Force Humanity, which has emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic as platform of hope and an economy of love in our world, join me today in this lively three-way conversation about hope for an economy of well-being. Ron Lynch is a unique creative force in the marketing industry. He is a prominent direct response te...

Dr. Julia Kim is a leading expert in global health and wellbeing and the Program Director of the Gross National Happiness Centre Bhutan www.gnhcentrebhutan.org . Through local and international partnerships, the GNH Centre designs experiential leadership and action programs that promote a more flourishing, equitable, and sustainable world - based on New Economics principles, alternative progress m...

Dr. Clinton Bliss Clinton Bliss MD is the Medical Director of Bliss Medical Center.  He is a graduate of UCLA’s School of Medicine, and practices Family and Emergency Medicine in Washington State.  He is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Happiness Alliance, a non-profit organization that focuses on improving the quality of life of individuals and communities around the...

Bob Willard (August 28, 2020) Bob is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given over 1,300 presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing...

Desmond Wong (a 34 year-old Singaporean) and I discuss the opportunities that Singapore presents to the world as an emerging Asian model for an economy of well-being. Having visited Singapore twice in 2018 I came to a deep appreciation of the the potential of this small Asian nation to become one of the most successful working models of an economy of well-being. We also cover the important influen...

Episode #52: Katherine Trebeck Katherine Trebeck is one of the co-founders of the international Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL) and his headquartered in Glasgow Scotland. https://wellbeingeconomy.org/ Katherine and I discuss the opportunities for building new economies of well-being around the world whether in her home in Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Iceland and now Amsterdam. The Covid-19 si...

July 14, 2020 Kai-Lee Worsley is 22 year old student at NAIT and aspiring business leader from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She grew up in a low-income household raised by her amazing single mother in one of the 6,000 affordable housing apartments managed by Edmonton’s Capital Region Housing Corporation. She boldly reached out to me one day on Linkedin having heard the podcast interview with Greg Dw...

#49. May 26, 2016. Yannick Beaudoin Yannick Beaudoin is the Director General for Ontario and Northern Canada for the David Suzuki Foundation. He is schooled in economics for transition to socially and ecologically sustainable societies; social innovation processes and transformational leadership; marine and economic geology. Yannick holds an: Masters of Arts in Economics for Transition to Social-E...

#48. May 18, 2020. Enid Dufresne-Dario is an Edmonton entrepreneur, Co-Owner and CVO of Edmonton-based Juniper Cafe & Bistro, a local neighbourhood cafe located in the Strathearn community. Juniper Cafe and Bistro was born 5 years ago a shared vision of Enid and her husband Kenny Dario. I spoke with Enid about the challenges their local cafe has faced over the past two month Covid-19 pandemic,...

#46, May 11, 2020 Jodi Calahoo-Stonehouse is Cree and Mohawk from Michel First Nation. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from the Faculty of Native Studies and is completing an MSc with the Faculty of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta. Jodi is the founder and co-owner of  Miyo-Pimatisiwin Productions  and is also the producer and broadcaster of...

#47. May 22, 2020. Rozanna, a good friend and executive and life coach, joined me today to talk about what she is seeing in her many clients after more than 2 months of this Covid crisis. She shares some of her most important coaching tips on how we can find that path of joy and purpose by being more present to the NOW, of forgiving oneself (and therefore others) and with discipline follow a path...

#45. May 4, 2020.  Ellen Brown, a public banking expert, author and founder of the Public Banking Institute, joins Walt McCree of the Public Bank Associates today (May 4, 2020) to discuss their ideas of what role a renewed Bank of Canada and public banks (like ATB Financial in Alberta) might play in creating interest-free money, ensuring a Universal Basic Income and slowly extinguishing mount...

#44. Ad Broere is a Dutch economist based in Amsterdam with forty years of experience in business, banking and education.   Ad has been active as an author and publicist since 2007.  He has written five books including: A Human Economy (2009), Ending the Global Casino (2010), Money comes from Nothing (2012), Hanneke de Vries borrows money from the bank (2015) and Money in the Supporting...

#43.  April 18, 2020. Economist Kelly Rudyk joins me today to talk about his vision for Alberta's economy during this most difficult of economic times when oil has entered negative territory and Alberta's financial debts are ballooning.  Kelly spend 28 years with Strathcona County (Sherwood Park, Alberta) in the capacity of senior economist and head of the strategic planning process. He...

#42. April 21, 2020. Author and public banking expert Ellen Brown (author of The Public Bank Solution) explores the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) which Spain recently announced as its national strategy to help individuals and households survive during this Covid-19 pandemic and the economic shut-down that has impacted the whole world. What is a Universal Basic Income (UBI)?  How migh...

#41.  April 20, 2020. My Dutch friend Ivo Valkenburg joins me today from his home in Transylvania (Romania) to talk about his recent book Pure Life: A Plea for Love as Legal Tender. During this time of Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic challenges we all face, is there hope for a new financial future and money system based on love? Ivo has a passion for an economy based on well-being...

#40. April 9, 2020. This is a private broadcast of hope and love that is similar to the daily Covid-19 briefings of our Prime Minster Trudeau, of our presidents, our premiers or health officials.  It is now clear that economic life as we experienced it back in December 2019 will be radically changed possibly forever. How will be survive economically when millions are unemployed and where gove...

#39. April 5, 2020. Kristin Eggen is a high-school teacher from Oslo, Noway. She teaches law, religion and philosophy. Kristin and I spoke about her current experiences under a Covid-19 pandemic and self-isolation in her home in Oslo. What she is experiencing and her students? Can we imagine a new economic future? What do ancient cultures and civilizations have to teach us in this moment when all...

#38. April 4, 2020. A Story Waiting to Pierce Us: Economic Possibilities for Our Children with Kristin Eggen from Norway. Is the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis an opportunity to dream a new dream and an economic future based on love? Where nature will remind us that cooperation is a fundamental rule of our collective flourishing? In the end, LOVE works. Oslo (Norway)-based high school teach...

#37. March 30, 2020. Canadian financial data scientist Shawn Anderson joins me to do to discuss his ideas of a new financial architecture in a post-Covid-19 economy. Shawn Anderson is a self-described ‘Yogi hacker and financial data scientist’. He is a young Canadian entrepreneur with a background in computing science, AI engineering, and big data. For over 7 years he has been studying and applyin...

#36. March 28, 2020. Antwerp-based strategist Stef Kuypers joins me again (March 26, 2020) to explore new options for a sustainable money system after the economic pandemic that will soon overtake the Covid-19 pandemic.  What could we do with a debt-money system that could be in its final death spiral? Stef and I jump straight into an important dialogue when the world needs a new money narrat...

#35. March 18, 2020. Nelson Abreu and Manori Sumanasinghe  are Los Angeles-based entrepreneurs and co-founders of Neumascape. Neumascape is a collaborative studio pursuing passions in architecture + design, technology, and well-being. Nelson and Manori are thinkers, makers, and problem-solvers setting out on a journey to produce cool projects while seeking to improve the world around them. Ma...