Radical Truth

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Jacqueline van den Ende, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Equity — the Amsterdam-based climate fintech platform on a mission to connect next-generation capital with the world's most impactful climate investing opportunities. Her weapon of choice for fighting climate change? Finance.

Jacqueline's radical truth: trading ESG shares in public markets moves ownership, not capital. If you want to fund climate innovation, you need to be in private markets — and Carbon Equity is building the bridge to get there.

In this episode:

• What climate technology actually is — and the key trends every investor needs to understand right now
• The critical difference between ESG investing and genuine climate impact investing
• How to invest in climate technology through angel investments, funds, and funds of funds
• Why private markets — not public equities — are where real climate capital does real work
• How Carbon Equity enables small-ticket access to top-tier climate private equity and venture capital funds
• Why €80 billion in Dutch savings is "sleeping" — and how to mobilise it for the energy transition
• The personal wake-up call that turned a serial entrepreneur and PE investor into a climate fintech founder

The key insight: Trading ESG shares has limited real-world impact — when ownership shifts, no fresh money enters a company. Real climate action requires private capital flowing directly into engineers, factories, and deployments. Carbon Equity exists to make that accessible to everyone, not just institutions.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Where are the climate solutions for investors?
• 0:X:XX — What is climate technology and key trends?
• 0:X:XX — ESG vs. climate impact investing: what's the real difference?
• 0:X:XX — How to invest in climate tech: angels, funds, and funds of funds
• 0:X:XX — The Carbon Equity model: democratising access to climate private equity
• 0:X:XX — Why retail capital is the missing piece in the climate finance puzzle
• 0:X:XX — What the multi-trillion wealth transfer to younger generations means for climate

👤 About Jacqueline van den EndeJacqueline van den Ende is co-founder of Amsterdam-based climate fintech Carbon Equity, bringing a unique perspective as a founder turned investor turned founder, twice over. She worked as a private equity investor at HAL Investments and as a general partner at venture capital fund Peak Capital. Venturing Women The other half of her career she spent building and leading companies, including De Kleine Consultant, Rocket Internet-backed online real estate marketplace Lamudi in Southeast Asia, and Ant Financial-backed fintech scale-up TrueMoney. Venturing Women Her wake-up moment came in 2019 when she read The Sixth Extinction — and concluded that if we don't solve climate change, nothing else matters. Entrepreneursforimpact Founded in 2021, Carbon Equity now has over €200 million in assets under management, has invested in more than 600 investment funds, and backed 100+ climate tech companies directly. Eicscalingclub

Whether you are an individual investor looking to put your savings to work for the planet, a wealth manager exploring climate allocations, or a sustainability leader navigating the transition from ESG to genuine impact — this episode is essential listening.

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#ClimateInvesting #CarbonEquity #JacquelinevandenEnde #ClimateTech #ImpactInvesting #ESG #PrivateEquity #VentureCapital #SustainableFinance #TBLI #RadicalTruth #EnergyTransition #ClimateFinance #BlendedFinance #RetailInvesting

What if your family's legacy is not a burden to manage — but your greatest competitive advantage?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Zita Nikoletta Verbényi, Founder and Legacy Aesthete of The Legacy Atelier™ — a cutting-edge bespoke legacy practice guiding multigenerational business families to map, understand, and thrive through their intertwined legacy layers for generations to come.

Zita's radical truth: most advisors focus on governance, legalities, and corporate culture — while entirely missing the anthropological, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions that determine whether a family legacy actually endures. The result is legacies sitting on shelves, with no real relevance to the people whose lives they are supposed to guide.

In this episode:

• How to enhance family engagement and alignment through your family legacy
• Why your family legacy is your competitive advantage — a powerful complexity premium
• How to map, understand, and thrive through your intertwined family legacy layers across generations
• Why conventional legacy approaches are restrictive, outdated, and filled with missed opportunities
• How Hermeneutics, Comparative Aesthetics, and Cultural Anthropology unlock deeper family alignment and identity
• What truly purposeful succession planning looks like — beyond legalities and governance
• Why families that understand their legacy are better positioned for wealth transfer and long-term cohesion

The key insight: Understanding legacy is central to building culture — especially when a family owns a business or is preparing for succession. Legal and financial professionals will never capture the anthropological dimensions of what makes a family unique. That is exactly the gap The Legacy Atelier™ was built to fill.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why family legacy is your greatest competitive advantage
• 0:X:XX — The problem with conventional legacy approaches
• 0:X:XX — How to enhance family engagement and alignment via legacy
• 0:X:XX — Mapping your intertwined family legacy layers
• 0:X:XX — Legacy as a strategic tool for succession and wealth transfer
• 0:X:XX — What thriving multigenerational families do differently

👤 About Zita Nikoletta VerbényiZita Nikoletta Verbényi is Founder, Legacy Aesthete, and Strategic Advisor at The Legacy Atelier™ — top recommended family business adviser by Spear's 500 in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and a multilingual expert with over 14 years working closely with enterprising families and individuals of substantial wealth. She is the world's first PhD Candidate in Family Legacies, with interdisciplinary research drawing on Hermeneutics, Comparative Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology. She holds an MA in Philology from ELTE University and spent over a decade in senior family office content roles, including four years at Campden Wealth, before founding The Legacy Atelier™ in 2021.

Whether you are a family office principal, a wealth advisor, a next-generation family member, or a trustee navigating succession — this episode offers a profoundly different and essential perspective on what it truly means to build something that lasts.

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Is food the most polluting industry on the planet — and are we finally ready to fix it?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Johan Jörgensen — founder of Sweden FoodTech, widely known as "Mr. Foodtech," and one of the most provocative and visionary voices in the global movement to transform the food system. Johan's radical truth: food is not what is on your plate. It is the cumulative impact of every decision made from farm to fork — and right now, that impact is devastating.

In this episode:

• Why the food industry may be the world's most polluting sector — potentially surpassing even fossil fuels
• Why food should be understood not as a product but as a strategic tool for health, sustainability, and social change
• The real costs of the current food system — and the "false mathematics" that keeps it broken
• Why venture capital in food tech has struggled — and what the misalignment between software expectations and food realities means for investors
• How financial systems must be redesigned to support sustainable practices and fairly compensate farmers as caretakers of nature
• The role of policy, education, and cross-sector collaboration in driving food system transformation
• What the Big Meat gathering and partnerships with academic institutions are doing to accelerate change

The key insight: The true cost of American food is not the $1 trillion spent at checkout — it is the $3 trillion in environmental, health, and social damage generated in the process. Until we price food honestly, we cannot fix the system.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Is food the world's most polluting industry?
• 0:X:XX — Why food is far more than what's on the plate
• 0:X:XX — The false mathematics of the current food system
• 0:X:XX — Venture capital in food tech: lessons from the crash
• 0:X:XX — Farmers as caretakers of nature: redesigning financial incentives
• 0:X:XX — Policy, education, and the call for cross-sector collaboration
• 0:X:XX — The Big Meat gathering and what comes next

👤 About Johan JörgensenJohan Jörgensen is the founder of Sweden FoodTech and coaches nations, cities, corporations, and entrepreneurs on strategic business-building in the transforming food sector. Known as "Mr. Foodtech," he started his career in the tech sector in the early 1990s and pivoted to food tech in 2011. Menub In 2015, he ran the innovation programme for the USA Pavilion at the World Expo in Milan, where he concluded that the next generation food system would be born in dynamic, health-focused, sustainability-oriented places like the Nordics. Menub With over 20 years of experience in the internet sector, he coaches and invests in companies with scalable, disruptive capabilities and chairs the Internet Society Special Interest Group, Internet of Food. Food's Future Global He is also the organiser of The Big Meet foodtech conference in Stockholm and a contributor to the Menu B global food reform movement.

Whether you are an investor, a policymaker, a food entrepreneur, or simply someone who eats — this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about the future of our food system.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Nadine B. Hack, CEO of beCause Global Consulting and internationally recognised pioneer of Strategic Relational Engagement (SRE™) — a proprietary framework that has turned adversaries into allies across some of the world's most complex and high-stakes situations.

She got loggers to work with environmentalists. She got AIDS activists to work with companies they were boycotting. And Nelson Mandela trusted her enough to say: "When I was in prison it was very good to know that I had powerful friends like Nadine Hack working on behalf of South Africa's freedom."

In this episode:

• How cultivating deep, trust-based relationships fundamentally improves your work — and your results
• The real obstacles you face in sustaining meaningful relationships across silos, sectors, and even adversarial divides
• Why the effort to overcome those challenges is always worth it — and what the data and decades of practice prove
• Why engagement leadership is the critical missing skill in 21st century business and investing
• How SRE™ helps organisations connect to their core purpose, bridge internal silos, and build trust with external stakeholders
• What Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Ubuntu philosophy teach us about the power of connectedness in leadership
• Why younger generations are demanding relational, not transactional, leadership — and what that means for the future of organisations

The key insight: Culture eats strategy for breakfast. And relationships are the foundation of culture. Until leaders invest in deep, sustained, trust-based engagement — with allies and adversaries alike — no strategy, governance framework, or ESG policy will deliver its full potential.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why relationships are your most powerful business tool
• 0:X:XX — How deep relationships improve your work in practice
• 0:X:XX — The obstacles to sustaining meaningful relationships
• 0:X:XX — Why it is always worth the effort to overcome them
• 0:X:XX — Strategic Relational Engagement: the framework explained
• 0:X:XX — From adversaries to allies: real-world cases
• 0:X:XX — What engagement leadership looks like in 2026

👤 About Nadine B. HackNadine B. Hack is CEO of beCause Global Consulting, named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior, and the first woman to serve as Executive-in-Residence at IMD Business School in Lausanne. Her clients include Coca-Cola, Unilever, Omnicom Group, the Ford Foundation, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Robert F. Kennedy Center, and heads of state including Presidents Nelson Mandela and Corazon Aquino. Atlanticspeakerbureau She was Board Chair of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation and has served on for- and non-profit boards globally. Atlanticspeakerbureau A TEDx speaker whose talk Adversaries to Allies captures the essence of her life's work, she has spent decades bringing together wildly diverse stakeholders — from loggers and environmentalists to AIDS activists and corporations — to find common ground and achieve extraordinary outcomes. Mediate.com

Whether you are a leader, an investor, a policymaker, or anyone who believes that trust and relationships are the foundation of lasting impact — this episode is essential listening.

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#EngagementLeadership #NadineBHack #beCause #SRE #RelationshipBuilding #StakeholderEngagement #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #RadicalTruth #Trust #Leadership #NelsonMandela #SystemsChange #PurposeDrivenBusiness

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Raj Thamotheram — one of the most influential and uncompromising pioneers in the global responsible investing movement. After 12 years inside the system at two of the world's largest financial institutions, Raj concluded that meaningful change required a different kind of leverage — and founded Preventable Surprises, a think-do tank dedicated to helping investors manage systemic risks before they become catastrophic.

In this episode:

• Why the investment industry keeps being surprised by risks that were entirely preventable — and what that costs all of us
• How investors can move from passive ESG box-ticking to genuine forceful stewardship that drives real corporate change
• What it means to safeguard beta — the market return that long-horizon investors actually depend on — through active, informed stewardship
• Why putting people and planet on par with profit is not idealism — it is a fiduciary responsibility
• The systemic obstacles that keep even well-intentioned investors from doing the right thing — and how to overcome them
• The role of asset owners, fund managers, and policymakers in breaking the cycle of preventable corporate and market dysfunction
• What the next generation of responsible investing actually needs to look like

The key insight: Most institutional investors are focused on chasing alpha and beating benchmarks — the icing on the cake. But long-horizon, diversified investors primarily depend on the market return. The most important thing they can do to protect that return is stewardship. And most are not doing it well enough.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — What is a preventable surprise — and why do we keep having them?
• 0:X:XX — 12 years inside the system: what Raj learned at USS and AXA IM
• 0:X:XX — From ESG box-ticking to forceful stewardship
• 0:X:XX — Safeguarding beta: why stewardship is the most important investment decision
• 0:X:XX — The systemic obstacles to responsible investing — and how to overcome them
• 0:X:XX — The Network for Sustainable Financial Markets and what comes next
• 0:X:XX — What genuinely responsible investing looks like in 2026

👤 About Dr. Raj ThamotheramAfter co-founding the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and Saferworld, Raj worked in the development sector at ActionAid as head of international advocacy and at the Ethical Trading Initiative as first director, before moving to finance — where he concluded the real power rests. #NSFMNextGen At USS, he specialised in collaborative stewardship and played a lead role in the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative. At AXA IM, he initiated the strategy to mainstream ESG integration across all asset classes and launched the AXA Framlington Human Capital Fund. Swoogo He has been nominated twice by Global Proxy Watch as "one of the 10 most influential figures in the corporate governance field" and voted one of the top 10 Most Positive Contributors to SRI and corporate governance in the Independent Research in Responsible Investment global poll. 116.203.153.220 He is co-founder of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, a former trustee of Friends Provident Foundation, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Smith School.

Whether you are a pension fund trustee, an asset manager, an impact investor, or a policymaker — this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about what responsible investing must become.

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#ResponsibleInvesting #ESG #RajThamotheram #PreventableSurprises #Stewardship #ImpactInvesting #CorporateGovernance #SystemicRisk #TBLI #RadicalTruth #LongTermInvesting #SustainableFinance #FiduciaryDuty #AssetOwners #ClimateFinance

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Wal van Lierop — founder of Chrysalix Venture Capital, one of the earliest and most recognised private equity firms in the world focused on industrial innovation and cleantech. Over a career spanning more than two decades, Wal has raised over $350 million for Chrysalix and facilitated more than $3.5 billion in venture capital funding for cleantech and industrial innovation. He has the scars, the stories, and the wisdom to prove it.

In this episode:

• Does cleantech actually offer real solutions to climate change — and what does the evidence say after 20+ years?
• What were the real challenges of starting a cleantech VC firm in 2001 — when almost no one believed in it?
• The honest lessons from two decades of failures and successes in deep tech and industrial innovation investing
• Why Silicon Valley walked away from cleantech in 2008 — and what investors need to learn from that mistake now
• How Chrysalix built a model that works with large multinational corporates to bridge the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial scale
• Why cleantech is fundamentally different from software — and why that matters enormously for investors
• What the new wave of climate and energy transition investment gets right and wrong

The key insight: Cleantech is not for the faint of heart. It takes longer, costs more, and demands deeper technical understanding than most VCs are used to. But the solutions it produces — carbon capture, fusion energy, industrial decarbonisation — are exactly what the world needs. And the returns are real.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Does cleantech offer real solutions to climate?
• 0:X:XX — Starting Chrysalix in 2001: the challenges no one talks about
• 0:X:XX — The cleantech crash of 2008: what went wrong and why
• 0:X:XX — Honest failures and hard lessons from 20+ years
• 0:X:XX — The successes: what actually worked and why
• 0:X:XX — How Chrysalix's corporate-partnered model changes the game
• 0:X:XX — What the new wave of climate investors must get right

👤 About Dr. Wal van LieropPrior to founding Chrysalix, Wal spent six years as Vice President of Strategic Planning at Westcoast Energy and over seven years with McKinsey & Company advising energy, chemicals, and financial services companies on innovation and change management. Before joining the corporate world, he worked for almost a decade as an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in economics, econometrics, and the environment. General Fusion Over a career spanning more than two decades, van Lierop raised over $350 million for Chrysalix and played a pivotal role in facilitating $3.5 billion in venture capital funding for cleantech and industrial innovation. Chrysalix He was presented with the Cleantech Group's first ever Pioneer Award in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the sector. Chrysalix He holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has completed executive training in Change Management from MIT. General Fusion

Whether you are a climate investor, a cleantech entrepreneur, a corporate innovation leader, or a policymaker navigating the energy transition — this episode is essential listening.

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#Cleantech #VentureCapital #WalvanLierop #Chrysalix #ClimateInvesting #EnergyTransition #ImpactInvesting #IndustrialInnovation #TBLI #RadicalTruth #DeepTech #CarbonCapture #ClimateFinance #ESG #Decarbonisation

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Giulio Franzinetti — a 30-year financial services veteran who has spent decades navigating one of the sector's most uncomfortable and rarely spoken truths: that many of the most talented, well-compensated people in finance are quietly asked to push products and strategies that are fundamentally out of line with their values.

Dr. Franzinetti knows this tension intimately — and has lived through it, worked around it, and ultimately built a new vocation helping others do the same.

In this episode:

• The personal challenges and internal torments that high-performing financial professionals face when values and incentives collide
• What it was like to work at Banca Intesa — and the complex realities of trying to rationalise the Catholic Church's investment portfolio
• The story behind the Gum Arabic Fund — a pioneering attempt to create a fair trade commodity fund for one of the world's most essential and undervalued agricultural products
• Why the financial sector produces so many privately conflicted people — and why so few of them ever speak about it
• How personal coaching helps corporate and financial sector professionals reconnect with their values without abandoning their careers
• What "quiet quitting your conscience" actually costs — and how to stop paying that price
• Practical steps for finding alignment between who you are and what you do professionally

The key insight: The financial sector does not lack talented or ethical people. It lacks the structures, permission, and support for those people to act on their values. Coaching and honest conversation can change that — one professional at a time.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — When your career asks you to compromise your values
• 0:X:XX — 30 years inside financial services: what Giulio witnessed
• 0:X:XX — The Catholic Church portfolio: lessons in values and complexity
• 0:X:XX — The Gum Arabic Fund: building fair trade into commodity finance
• 0:X:XX — The personal cost of value misalignment — and how it accumulates
• 0:X:XX — Why coaching is the missing tool for financial professionals
• 0:X:XX — How to find alignment between values and career

👤 About Dr. Giulio Franzinetti Dr. Giulio Franzinetti is a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, with senior experience at Banca Intesa and a career spanning banking, portfolio advisory, and impact finance. He worked on the complex challenge of rationalising the Catholic Church's investment portfolio and created the Gum Arabic Fund — a pioneering initiative to establish fair trade structures for one of the world's most essential agricultural commodities. Drawing on decades of experience watching talented professionals silently suffer the gap between their values and their work, Dr. Franzinetti now works as a personal coach for executives and financial professionals — helping them navigate the personal and professional challenges that the industry rarely acknowledges but almost everyone in it eventually faces.

Whether you are a banker, a fund manager, a wealth advisor, or anyone in finance who has ever felt the quiet weight of doing work that doesn't align with who you are — this episode is essential listening.

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#FinancialServices #ValuesInFinance #GiulioFranzinetti #ImpactInvesting #PersonalCoaching #ESG #FairTrade #TBLI #RadicalTruth #PurposeDrivenFinance #FinancialWellbeing #EthicsInFinance #SustainableFinance #Leadership #WorkLifeAlignment

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Leesa Soulodre, Founder and Managing Partner of R3i Capital — an emerging manager at the forefront of deep tech, ESG-integrated venture investing, and the democratisation of private market access. Leesa's radical truth: the most promising investment opportunities are not inaccessible because they are too risky — they are inaccessible because the system was designed to keep most people out.

But a new generation of emerging managers is changing that — and outperforming the incumbents in the process.

In this episode:

• How emerging managers are outperforming traditional VC benchmarks — and why the data supports the shift
• How ESG integration in venture capital is actively delivering financial returns, not just values alignment
• Why microfunds are consistently generating outperformance — and what that means for family offices and funds of funds
• The structural barriers that keep most investors locked out of top-tier venture opportunities — and how to navigate them
• How R3i Capital invests at the convergence of deep tech, frontier science, and sustainable impact
• Why closing the gender and capital gap in deep tech is not just an ethical imperative — it is a return driver
• What family offices and next-generation investors need to know about the emerging manager landscape right now

The key insight: Most institutional VC capital flows to a small number of well-known managers and their networks. Meanwhile, emerging managers — unburdened by legacy portfolios and motivated by track-record building — are taking more decisive positions in better companies at better prices. The data increasingly shows they are winning.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why most investors are locked out of the best opportunities
• 0:X:XX — How emerging managers are outperforming benchmarks
• 0:X:XX — ESG in venture: how values-led investing delivers returns
• 0:X:XX — Microfunds and outperformance: the data explained
• 0:X:XX — R3i Capital's model: deep tech, AI, and ESG product impact
• 0:X:XX — Closing the gender and capital gap in deep tech
• 0:X:XX — What family offices need to know about emerging managers now

👤 About Leesa SoulodreLeesa Soulodre is the Founder and Managing Partner of R3i Capital, a venture capital firm investing at the convergence of deep tech, frontier science, and sustainable impact. She began her career in the Australian Army, gaining early training in risk, systems thinking, and mission leadership. Exventure She has served over 400 multinationals and startups across 19 sectors in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, led companies from seed to $14 billion in enterprise value, and supported the raising of over $200 million in seed to Series C investments. R3i Capital She has worked with over 200 pension funds, asset managers, endowments, and foundations to shape responsible capital strategies and holds a Global Executive MBA from TRIUM (NYU Stern, HEC Paris, and LSE). Exventure She is also a partner of She Loves Tech, an adjunct faculty member at Singapore Management University and IE Business School, and co-founder of the R3i Impact Foundation.

Whether you are a family office, a fund of funds, an institutional investor, or a next-generation allocator looking beyond traditional VC — this episode is essential listening.

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#EmergingManagers #VentureCapital #LeesaSoulodre #R3iCapital #ESGInvesting #DeepTech #ImpactInvesting #Microfunds #FamilyOffice #TBLI #RadicalTruth #GenderSmartInvesting #Climatetech #AI #SustainableFinance

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with James Arbib — co-founder of RethinkX, founder of Tellus Mater Foundation, co-author of Rethinking Humanity, and one of the most intellectually rigorous and genuinely optimistic voices in the global climate conversation. Jamie's radical truth: the climate challenge is not primarily a problem of will or policy — it is a problem of imagination. And the technological disruption already underway is more powerful than most people have begun to understand.

In this episode:

• Are we doomed? An honest, evidence-based assessment of where humanity actually stands
• What short-term solutions already exist — and why the pace of technological disruption is faster than conventional forecasting admits
• Why adaptation alone is not enough — and how disruption of energy, food, transport, and materials can genuinely solve the crisis
• How five foundational sector disruptions are converging to create the fastest, deepest civilisational transformation in 10,000 years
• Why conventional energy assets are severely mispriced — and what that means for investors right now
• How the Tellus Mater Foundation is working to shift capital flows within the financial system toward truly transformative solutions
• What a systems-based, complex framework reveals about climate solutions that linear thinking misses entirely

The key insight: We are not in an era of incremental reform. We are in an era of civilisational disruption — where costs in energy, food, transport, and information are falling by 10x or more. The question is not whether transformation happens. It is whether we steer it wisely.

👤 About James ArbibJames Arbib is a visionary thought leader, historian, investor, and philanthropist dedicated to exploring how disruptive technologies can address humanity's greatest challenges. His background includes studying history at Cambridge and working in finance before focusing on environmentalism and technology disruption. Stellarworld He holds a Master of Arts in History and a Master's in Sustainability Leadership from Trinity College, Cambridge, and is a qualified chartered accountant and former investment analyst focused on utilities. Clay.earth He co-founded RethinkX with Tony Seba — a not-for-profit think tank using the Seba Technology Disruption Framework™ to forecast the scope, speed, and scale of technology-driven disruption across key sectors. RethinkX He founded the Tellus Mater Foundation in 2007, dedicated to supporting sustainability initiatives and influencing capital flows within the financial system. Clay.earth He is co-author of Rethinking Humanity and Chairman of a London-based family office specialising in clean tech venture capital.

Whether you are an investor, a policymaker, a climate professional, or simply someone trying to make sense of the future — this conversation offers something rare: a genuinely grounded reason for hope.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Claudia Segre — economist, gender equality activist, TEDx speaker, and the extraordinary driving force behind the Global Thinking Foundation. Her story of how she founded, funded, and built the Foundation is, as Robert Rubinstein puts it, absolutely brilliant and inspiring.

Claudia's radical truth: financial exclusion is not just an inconvenience — it is a form of violence. And the most powerful antidote is education.

In this episode:

• The remarkable origin story of the Global Thinking Foundation — and why Claudia left a prestigious banking career to build it
• How financial and digital education can prevent economic violence and abuse — particularly for women and girls
• Why Italy's gender equality position lags significantly behind other OECD countries — and what the Foundation is doing about it
• How the Foundation's work maps to SDG Goals 4, 5, and 8 — quality education, gender equality, and decent work
• The Empower Your Life think tank: spreading financial education beyond fund holders to everyone who needs it
• How the Foundation has reached over 20,000 women through free training programmes including Women in the Square
• The connection between financial dependence, economic violence, and mental health — and what breaking that cycle looks like in practice

The key insight: Real care is giving people freedom, not making them dependent. Financial literacy is not a luxury — it is a fundamental human right, and the most direct route to economic self-determination for women and girls everywhere.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — How Global Thinking Foundation was born
• 0:X:XX — 30 years in finance: what Claudia saw and why she acted
• 0:X:XX — Economic violence: the hidden epidemic affecting millions of women
• 0:X:XX — Financial education as prevention: the Foundation's model
• 0:X:XX — SDG Goals 4, 5, and 8 in practice
• 0:X:XX — Women in the Square: reaching 20,000+ women with free training
• 0:X:XX — The future of gender-smart finance and fintech for inclusion

👤 About Claudia Segre Claudia Segre founded the Global Thinking Foundation in Italy and France in 2016, just after the ratification of the 2030 Agenda on the Sustainable Development Goals. With over 35 years of experience in international finance, she worked within IMF frameworks under Christine Lagarde and has focused on Womenomics and Gender Advocacy since 1997. EcoActionMag She carried out her career in leading Italian banks including Intesa, Unicredit, and Credem Group, specialising in international markets and global geopolitical dynamics, and served as a member of the Council of Experts of the VI Finance Commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Global-solutions-initiative She is Vice President of AssoFintech, Co-President of Women7 Italy, G100 Country Chair for Italy in AI, Data and Cybersecurity, and a TEDx speaker. LinkedIn In 2019 she was included in the Forbes Top 100 Italian Successful Women and in 2021 in the Top 100 Global Women in Leadership by GCPIT India. Global-solutions-initiative

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