Responsible Capitalist Podcast

Rosa Lee Harden is the co-founder of the largest and most popular conference on Impact Investing, SoCap. She is also an Episcopal priest. She talks to Carol Sanford, host of The Responsible Capitalist Podcast, about how faith can influence investing and why she got into investing. Her answers may surprise you.

Carol Sanford, host of The Responsible Capitalist Podcast, talks to Marianne Abib-Pech, writer and angel investor. Marianne tells us how she decides on investments and advises other investors while also considering social challenges.

Hear Tim Freundlich, President of ImpactAssets and Carol Sanford talk about the idea of externalized cost. Externalized costs are all costs that the company creates as a loss, not to themselves, but to the ecological system and to society. They don’t embed it into the cost of the product, So all costs are not incurred into the making of that product or service. A question to impact investors: How are you able to assess this externalized version of cost and how would you coach and mentor people to bring it back inside?

TRE – Responsible Capitalist – Tim Freundlich

Carol Sanford Interviews Ross Baird of Village Capital for the Responsible Capitalist Podcast. Carol looks at what responsible partnering looks like when you are creating a community of investors and entrepreneurs. Four basic characteristics are addressed. 1) you will be, by definition, coming into a relationship or community, 2) What are the motives for being in this community or relationship? 3) Are the global imperatives aligned and shared? 4) Do you have shared bodies of thought- do you share your philosophies about life and the world?

Carol Sanford interviews Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds. Carol provides an overview of what it means to be responsible for other peoples money and whether or not a difference will be made with it. They address the conversation about what Impact Investing is. Will the money you invest really make a difference?

Three criteria questions are offered to determine if the investment will make a difference:  Does it advance the personal agency of those that it affects? Is the ability present for someone to express their essence? Are they able to really contribute and make a difference to a system?

TRE Podcast – The Responsible Capitalist – Charly Kleissner

Hear Responsible Capitalist Charly Kleissner, co-founder of the KL Felicitas Foundation and Carol Sanford discuss how the financial system, and specifically impact investing, can leverage humanity to form healthy relationships with the finite resources on our planet. Toniic and the 100% Impact Network, which Kleissner co-founded as well, present examples of global networks that have the capacity to transform how investments influence ecological and societal systems in our world. 

To learn more about impact investing, read Carol’s latest book, The Responsible Entrepreneur:  Four Game-Changing Archetypes for Founders, Leaders and Impact Investors

Hear Paul Herman and Carol Sanford, from two different perspectives tell you about the five arenas that predict success in financial and social terms. Reported in more depth in  Carol’s book The Responsible Business and Paul’s book and company, The HIP Investor (Human Impact Profit and High Impact Portfolio).

TRE Podcast – The Responsible Capitalist – John Fullerton

Responsible Capitalist John Fullerton, founder of Capital Institute talks with Carol Sanford about creating regenerative economies. Carol tells us the difference between value-adding and value-extractive investing and business management.

Leslie Christian, the board treasurer for BALLE, tells Carol Sanford why diversification is not all its cracked up to be and why local matters. Carol adds some due diligence criteria to the meaning of LOCAL investing if you want a better impact on the social outcomes as well as financial durability.

To learn more about impact investing, read Carol’s latest book, The Responsible Entrepreneur:  Four Game-Changing Archetypes for Founders, Leaders and Impact Investors