Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice Podcast, interviews Marc Santos of NobleGoldman.com about how "Regenerative Economics" is the next step in transforming the business of injustice. It is all about learning how to value humans inside an economic system that includes rebuilding our communities. At this point, the economy is enrolled in a degenerative pattern of exclusion for the benefit of the privileged interests that control the system.

To understand the complexity of the problem, we do a flashback into history.

Marc explains how changes in monetary policies going back to the 70s and the Friedman Doctrine changed the balance of power in our economies in the 80s and 90s, which is even more extreme today. It created a serious imbalance in favor of "shareholder supremacy," which has been deeply misrepresented and convoluted throughout our discussions in the civic square. This has led to extreme conflicts in so many ways that it is riddled with doublespeak, greed, and extreme civic trauma.

The negative impact is felt at every societal level - yet in the middle is a thread of common sense that we can use to heal the heartbreak as we reknit our society using restorative economic tools.

#97 iChange Justice Podcast features Paul Levy, the author of "Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues Our World " about how this contagious psycho-spirtual disease of the soul, is a parasite of the mind.  Host Joy Gilfilen, as the Executive Director of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, dives deeper into the subject to understand how the behavior of leaders in the incarceration industry intersects with the psychosis he talks about as "Malignant Egophrenia" (ME) and then more colloquially the "Mad Emperor Disease". 
The discussion includes how the true nature of what we view as division in the world of current events, "reveals the presence of wetiko in our modern world behind every form of destruction our species is carrying out, both individual and collective. Through his 40 years of lived experience and study of quantum physics, Paul shows how this mind virus is so embedded in our psyches that it is almost undetectable--and it is our blindness to it that gives wetiko its power." In one of his earlier books, "Dispelling Wetiko:  Breaking the Curse of Evil" he talks about how contagious this emotionally charged virus is, and how it is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via a collective psychosis of titanic proportions. This mind virus—which Native Americans have called "wetiko" for centuries — covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests. Everyone in the world of justice, healing, and recovery would benefit from listening in.  

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice, opens a conversation with a Wall Street bond market trader about how an arrest generates papers that become municipal assets traded on the stock market.  This brings a new level of discussion to the tangled-up business of justice, and to the distortions that happen in our society as we get more siloed in our jobs.   

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast talks with Lee Rusch, Director of the Westside Heroin and Opioid Task Force about the issues facing families who are dealing with Fentanyl, homelessness, Narcon and why it matters.

Lee has been working in social services for almost 40 years on the streets of Chicago, so his knowledge is broad, strong, and based on lived experience of helping families in crisis. He is clear that educating families is essential in this world.

Lee talks about the historical trends in policing and policy-making have contributed to the problems we have today; then how simply becoming aware of the patterns can affect change in your community! He talks easily about common sense things that can save lives!

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice Podcast speaks about Authentic Authority with Kurt Krueger, founder of the Peace Labs, Peacemaking Circles, and Author of the best-selling Winning Ways for Living series.

Kurt discusses his learning curve first as a knowledge authority and elite athlete, teacher, international coach, and founder of the Institute of Sports Psychology in India, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Melbourne, London, and Tokyo.

Then his worldview has been informed by more human conflict situations involving police and other intense conflict situations. He discusses how his mastery of personal authority gave him the skills to hold an emotional presence in various traumatic situations such as being held hostage on an airplane, living with the aftermath of a school shooting, disarming a student in his classroom in South Central Los Angeles when street gang behavior disrupted his classrooms.

Each of these illustrates how to work with authentic authority to affect peace and justice situations where lives are changed.

iChange Justice Podcast host, Joy Gilfilen, talks with Alex McLean, whose diverse background in environmental journalism, building trades and community leadership led him into an activist role in the Pacific Northwest. He served two 3-year terms on the Bellingham Greenways Advisory Committee and helped craft the Levies that voters of Bellingham approved

Alex speaks of systemic entropy as one of the biggest challenges we are facing today. The conversation ranges from conflict theory, economic failures, regulatory capture, the social justice impacts of climate change that are leading ultimately to systems collapse. The question is - what can we do about it? The answer is: Tackling the challenges in local small community groups where integrating wisdom, common sense and new knowledge works.

We discuss the challenges we all face when civic systems implode from expensive political, bureaucratic and legal bottlenecks. White paper-glutted and gentrified systems are often not grounded in earth wisdom and natural sciences. This leaves us victim to degenerative behaviors, where non-natural interlocking systems stifle innovation and create waste, decay and stagnation. Involving the community in early problem-solving is about conservation, preservation and regeneration.

Joy Gilfilen, the host of the iChange Justice podcast, interviews Ava Sakowski about "Heartaches, Hope and Healing". It's a story of reflections looking back at five decades of social, civic, and economic changes in her personal to business life as a marketing and sales professional.
Ava's different roles as an elder, mother, social worker, musician, and ultimately a podcaster, and then a marketing professional have affected her world views, her happiness and s, and satisfaction. Traveling along real-life trails, from early childhood, she developed deep empathy and compassion and did social work with addicted, traumatized people, until she found she had to change professions to pay the bills. To survive, she found it necessary to become more competitive and hard-nosed in business; which ultimately closed off much of her awareness of all the pain in the marketplace.
Today, she has seen the losses and hard costs in our communities that add up unwittingly across generations. The good news is that we can turn around the negative compound impact on our children, families and sm and small nonprofits by simply redirecting some of the public corporate money to little, volunteer-driven organizations, so the money can get down to the grassroots volunteers. A tiny amount of money at the bottom pays huge emotional, economic, and social benefit dividends.

iChange Justice Host Joy Gilfilen interviews James White about how his own attitudes of leadership have changed over decades of working within institutions that were controlled from the top down with very rigid systems. James' expertise is working with people who have been boxed in by being labeled with a disability, which creates a habit of disempowerment and co-dependency.

Instead, he created ESATTA - a cooperative for Empowering Self-Advocates To Take Action. He works to empower people who have diverse abilities to do community development by teaming up, to serve the greater good.

By doing this, James found that the best way to change systems was to change attitudes and behaviors at the top and at the bottom at the same time. He starts with Community Inclusion conversations first. By including human interactions and building collaborative relationships first, they increase their resourcefulness and improve their lives faster.