Podcasts about renewal funds

Hoy estrenamos el 3er episodio de la serie "Inversión de Impacto desde la raíz" la cual constará de 5 episodios llenos de aprendizajes como:  1. Es necesario crear soluciones que verdaderamente impacten la calidad de vida de las personas.  2. Es importante que los pequeños capitales que tenemos todos también sean parte para llevar la inversión de impacto y las soluciones a los retos del planeta al siguiente nivel. 3.- Sólo regresando a la raíz, es que podemos conectar con nuestra pasión y propósito. En esta tercer entrevista platiqué con Joel Salomon, Fundador de Renewal Funds, la firma de capital de riesgo social más grande de Canadá, la cual invierte en alimentos orgánicos, productos ecológicos e innovaciones ambientales y sociales.  Él nos explica que todas las personas en la sociedad tenemos un rol y debemos entender la importancia que juega nuestro dinero en generar un impacto en el mundo, “El dinero es como un abono que sembramos en la tierra para que florezcan las soluciones y florezca mundo que queremos.” Estamos muy emocionados por compartirles esta serie, ¡no se la pierdan!, y coméntenos cuál fue el aprendizaje que les dejó esta gran charla con Joel Salomon, autor del libro "The Clean Money Revolution. Gracias a nuestros aliados de New Ventures, Alianza por la Inversión de Impacto México, FLII por invitarnos a colaborar en esta serie.

Joel Solomon is the Co-founding Partner of Renewal Funds and Author of Clean Money Revolution. By 2050, $1T trillion dollars will switch hands from baby boomers to millennials. How will this new energy be spent? In this episode, Joel and Kevin delve into the world of impact finance, leadership, and why people with influence must examine themselves first before making long-term decisions.

Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs,  who want to create an abundant future for themselves and humanity. Heard by millions in 190 countries.  Do you want to put more money in the bank, create a powerful impact, and enjoy a purposeful life? This is the podcast for you! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Today's featured episode... Joel Solomon: How You Can Become a Clean Money Entrepreneur Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest "mission venture capital" firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is the author of The Clean Money Revolution, a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Business and Economics, which calls to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 3,000 episodes and millions of listeners in 190 countries. Join us as a regular listener to get money-making secrets on how you can grow your business and profits faster!

Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs,  who want to create an abundant future for themselves and humanity. Heard by millions in 190 countries.  Do you want to put more money in the bank, create a powerful impact, and enjoy a purposeful life? This is the podcast for you! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Today's featured episode... Joel Solomon: How You Can Become a Clean Money Entrepreneur Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest "mission venture capital" firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is the author of The Clean Money Revolution, a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Business and Economics, which calls to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 3,000 episodes and millions of listeners in 190 countries. Join us as a regular listener to get money-making secrets on how you can grow your business and profits faster!

We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series  Today we travel to British Colombia Canada where. we chat with Joel Solomon, a venture capitalist, fund manager, author, public speaker, board member, and honoree of a myriad of achievements across Canada and the world. Joel is the Co-Founding Partner at Renewal Funds- a $240 million mission venture capital firm that  invests in Organics and EnviroTech in Canada and the USA, and is an authority in the current social movement towards revolutionizing capitalism into something different and powerful, towards a clean money revolution., and as a result, he has co-authored of the book: https://joelsolomon.org/book/ (the clean money revolution: Reinventing power, purpose, and capitalism)  A lot of Joel's influences stem from having an artistic mother, an entrepreneurial father, and a family involved in politics that engaged him as he was growing up in the sixties to talk about issues affecting the politics at that time including issues such as the civil rights act, the police riots, the student riots of 1968, the war in Vietnam, Kent State shootings, among others, influenced him to know that what he chose to do with his life in regards to capitalism and interaction with the society around him, would matter how his contribution made a difference. We spoke to Joel about the impact of having a $250 million venture fund can make in this journey of revolutionizing capitalism and how he has been able to bring the creativity, ingenuity found in entrepreneurship into modern society. Renewal Fund works with entrepreneurs who are aligned with the kinds of values that we shared here. These are people who can see the deeper picture of where resources come from, how labor is found, and treated, how waste products are created and disposed of. The good news is that the consumer/ the investor, those of us who invest our retirement funds, who do business with banks in order to get a home mortgage, are starting to think and ask more questions, make new demands on going all the way back to the sources, how people are treated, how the planet is treated, how our waste is treated, and caring about future generations.  The way we can bring this change is by more of us making choices at an everyday consumer level. Decisions such as  Where we work, what kind of companies we associate ourselves with, those that pay attention to the political systems that we really understand and are much more connected Joel says the world is at an inflection point. There is urgency, there is ingenuity there's capacity. We have more skills to do things better with less harm. That is going steadily to increase as a moral and ethical responsibility of most of us as humans and in the systems that we create in order to make life better. There's a massive effort underway to clean up our act. Companies are now occupied by people who care about the underlying topics that we're talking about. Not simply making money at the unknown, but large costs to all kinds of other parts of the natural world. And to other humans, this conversation will keep happening. In summary, Joel wants us, consumers, to ‘read the label at the level of buying something off the supermarket shelf, read the label of your politicians, your elected officials, those who set the regulations and the rules effectively what that means is to find out the history and the sourcing and the practices, You can to make conscious choices between the worst actors and the better actors.   Other resources mentioned in this episode:  Joel's Website:  https://joelsolomon.org/ (Joel Solomon) LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-solomon-a5a4b5/ (Joel Solomon) Book:  Thttps://joelsolomon.org/book/ (he Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing power, purpose, and capitalism ) TedX talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSSRnUEMsN4 (A Journey of Mortality, Renewal & Ethical Investment) Joel...

In this episode, Lourdes Gant interviewed Joel Solomon.  Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $240 million assets under management. Investing in climate tech and organic foods in Canada and the USA,Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, and recognized as an ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.” Joel is a 2021 Clean50 Canada “Lifetime Achievement” honoree, frequent public speaker, board member of the University of British Columbia, co-producer of the Just Economy Institute, and co-author of The Clean Money Revolution: Re-Inventing Power, Purpose & Capitalism.  Do contact us at team@manateeholdings.com if you want to read the book because the first 10 subscribers who directly give us a message about this episode will get a complimentary copy!  Canadian listeners can go here: https://newsociety.ca/books/c/the-clean-money-revolutionUS/international listeners: https://newsociety.com/books/c/the-clean-money-revolutionFrom the website, your can select “ebook” and enter the code and email us for the code.  We only have a code for ten downloads courtesy of Joel Solomon and his team :) 

How can we commit to renewable investing as individuals, businesses, shareholders, and customers? This is the topic of the Shine podcast this week with my friend Joel Solomon. Joel is a Co Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at over $200m assets under management. Investing in Organics and Environmental & Climate Technology in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.” In this episode, we talk about what a conscious and inclusive leader is. Joel's early childhood and being diagnosed with a fatal disease and how that shaped the course of his life and purpose to really be a force for good in the world. We talk about the necessary intentionality, inquiry, and consciousness needed now, a year after the pandemic for individuals, businesses, shareholders and customers. Joel is the author of the clean money revolution, reinventing purpose, power, and capitalism.   Game On — Renewable Investing for the Soul of Humanity SEO Description:   How can we commit to renewable investing as individuals, businesses, shareholders, and customers? This is the topic of the Shine podcast this week with my friend Joel Solomon. Joel is a Co Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm. In this episode, we talk about what a conscious and inclusive leader is. Joel's early childhood and being diagnosed with a fatal disease and how that shaped the course of his life and purpose to really be a force for good in the world. We talk about the necessary intentionality, inquiry, and consciousness needed now, a year after the pandemic for individuals, businesses, shareholders and customers. Joel is the author of the clean money revolution, reinventing purpose, power, and capitalism.   Resources mentioned in this episode: Conscious & Inclusive Leadership Retreat Leading from Wholeness Executive Coaching Leading from Wholeness Learning and Development Resources Shine: Ignite Your Inner Game to Lead Consciously at Work and in the World by Carley Hauck Contact Carley Hauck   The Imperfect Shownotes   Carley Hauck 00:01 Hi, this is Carley Hauck and welcome to another great episode of the Shine podcast. This podcast is all about the intersection of three things — conscious and inclusive leadership, the recipe for high performing teams, and awareness practices. These three things are more important than ever in this new remote hybrid version of work. And I will be facilitating three episodes a month. And before I tell you about our incredible topic today, I would love if you could go over to Apple podcasts, hit the subscribe button and write a positive review. If you love this episode, or if you've loved other episodes, it helps so much. Thank you.   Our topic for today is titled “Game On — Renewable Investing for the Soul of Humanity”. I am with my friend and colleague Joel Solomon. He is a co-founding partner of renewal funds Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, and over $200 million assets under management. They invest in organics and environmental and climate technology in Canada and the USA. Renewal Funds is a GIIRS-rated founding Canadian B Corp five times best for the world. It is also a 1% for the planet member recognized as impact assets top 50 impact fund managers. Some of the companies that Renewal Funds invest in are some of my favorite seventh generation before it exited and was acquired by Unilever; sweet Earth, their plant based sausages are amazing. I highly recommend and they were one of renewal funds companies as well before Nestle acquired them. And there's also goddess garden which happens to be an eco sustainable, friendly sunscreen that I use often especially in the summer months, and there are so many more.   Joel is also the author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Purpose, Power and Capitalism. In this episode, we talk about what a conscious and inclusive leader is. Joel's early childhood and being diagnosed with the fatal disease and how that shaped the course of his life and purpose to really be a force for good in the world. We talk about the necessary intentionality, inquiry and consciousness needed now, a year after the pandemic for businesses, individuals, shareholders and customers. We speak about what a just economy is and how to invest in a regenerative way. This episode is full of inspiration and gems. Thanks for tuning in.   03:17 Hello. I am here with my new friend Joel Solomon. Joel, thank you so much for being here. It's really a great pleasure. So one of the questions that I often ask folks that come on to the podcast, this is usually the first one is Joel, what does conscious and inclusive leadership mean to you?     Joel Solomon 03:42   It means caring. It means empathy and support for people. It means a standard of integrity and self examination. That's essential. Thus, lifelong learning. It means paying attention to the larger ecosystem that whatever leadership we're involved with. Everything is part of context. And it's important to go as far as we can about the immediate, but the history behind that, why the world is the way it is about certain topics. And what can serve the people that work on whatever the project is, and the end user or the people that are affected by that work. And to me that's part of holistic living. That's part of being a good human being and working to figure out our purpose. I think learning what values go along with that, what we do in difficult situations, and what our true integrity is, what do we care about? What are we willing to do to act with deep values and consistent commitment? And always thinking about the long term as well as the immediate.   Carley Hauck 05:33 Wonderful, thank you. You used some really great words there — curiosity, care, looking at the immediate, the long term, recognizing the impact that you're having, I heard purpose. And what is inherent in what you said, is, is being part of a system, you said, holistic, but really noticing how your part is impacting all the other parts is also what I heard. And I know that that's been a bigger part of your path is this integration of systems. And I know a little bit more of your early history. And I'm wondering if you might be willing to share more around your motivation, and your commitment to renewable funds to really, you know, focusing on a more regenerative way of social investing? Could you start with how that all came to be?   Joel Solomon 06:34 Well, I have to go back to the roots a bit of family life. I grew up in a small city in the South Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the 50s and 60s. Both sides of my family came from Eastern Europe, Russia, Jewish immigrants, on my mother's side, from the mid 19th century, and my father's in the early 20th century. And they, their families, came from people, and places where it was not safe and welcoming for them. And they were effectively either pushed or determined that it would be a smart idea to go somewhere else. So they had to leave behind their lineage history, and the villages and places that they lived in, to try to find a better life, the same story that is endemic to the idea of America. And that followed a history that we could talk about, but I'll just refer to as a time where people from far away came and took, took the natural resources and pushed aside the people that have lived and had lived with them for many centuries. And so it's a constant story around the planet of people being displaced, and finding a new home and then doing the very best that they can for their families, their children, and for their communities.   Human spirit is full of the desire to do better, make things better, make it safer when possible. And the people that I come from, also believed in citizenship and being involved in the issues of society and serving in roles that might matter. So, I'll save some of the story and just say that my parents ended up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. My mother was unique in being influenced by the late 50s, early 60s feminism. She had careers when few women did; she was one of the early recruiters on African American college campuses in the south under the Kennedy years. For the international agents, the Agency for International Development, which at the time under John Kennedy had a kind of glorious sense about it that we're going out to help the world. She was she always was a good participating citizen, and she in her late 30s found her real work which was as an artistic photographer and she ended up for the next 50 plus years moving around the world into unique situations of everyday people and sometimes in the more affluent class juxtapositioning the lives involved, and effectively, through art showing myself, my sister, and anyone who saw her her images, some some deep insights for the viewer to interpret about the state of humanity on the planet and how we treat each other and what the effects of that are. So she is in her 90s now, and her career is really blossoming. Her name is Rosalind Fox Solomon, there's a website under that name. And she has finally had much acclaim in her 80s and 90s, as an artist who has both documented but also expressed in an artistic way, the state of humanity, and how we interact with the world. So that's my mother, always engaged in society influenced by early feminism, and early career woman.   Carley Hauck 11:28 And I might just add, you know, with this rise in, I guess we could call it our awakening, so to speak, around systemic oppression, racial injustice. She was very much a pioneer already working in that space. And so I feel happy to hear that her work is getting the acknowledgement and acclaim that probably wasn't for many reasons of why this has gone on as long as it has and it we're still not over. There's a lot of work ahead. A lot of shifts and systems and structures that need to be hospice out, as Lynn twist would say.   Joel Solomon 12:10 Yeah, absolutely. And I was a beneficiary of seeing a model of someone who was fearless about articulating through her imagery, and challenging people's assumptions and complacency about the world, which continues to do it today. My father came, his family came later, my mother's family came from Eastern Europe in the first, in the middle of the 19th century. My father's family came in the early 20th century, and they were mostly Lithuania, Russia, Poland, and were basically burned out and ran out of their villages in their homes. And grandfather was put on a boat at age 13, to avoid the Russian army draft, which would drag all people like that into 20 years of service and such. And he got on a boat, and they got to Atlanta, where there were cousins. And their experience included, there was a bad incident with a Jewish kid that was accused of rape and lynched. And the Jewish community, they got quite scared about what was going on. And they had cousins in Chattanooga, which was a quieter, safer place. They moved to Chattanooga. That's how I got from Eastern Europe to Chattanooga, Tennessee, often known as the buckle of the Bible Belt. So it was an interesting culture to grow up in. Yeah, now it's a wonderful boutique city, like many have created in you know, in lots of places today, and it's, it's, it's done a good job of lifting itself up and coming into the modern times.   So they always believed in engaging with the issues of the day, and also with the political systems that day. And some of that would be memories from other times and other geographies where it had really been to great disadvantage to not have any involvement with how things get decided and who gets elected and things like that. So I grew up in a reasonably political family. My father was a shopping mall developer, they had been in the movie theater business and they had an opportunity to sell that and, and they went into building one of the first shopping malls in the South. And so I grew up around that business. And it didn't interest me. I I got influenced by the reality of what the interstate highway systems, freeway interchanges, the pave paradise put up a parking lot, and the cell commodified the same goods in every Hamlet in every town in the country, and that whole industry that evolved that moved us all into being exacerbated consumers. And I had issues with that.   And I'll skip some of the story now and just move to when I came of age, my father passed away, I inherited some money mostly was tied up in some real estate properties. But as I was able to figure out how to get cash out of it by borrowing against it, I decided that my work had to be returning to local and to neighborhood commerce and things like that. So that was the beginning of my entrepreneurship. And fortunately, it was a period in the late 70s and 80s, where the growth of the idea of impact investing and doing good through business and working on organic food companies and cleaner low toxicity kinds of businesses, and ones that you can more clearly identify with us helping people and doing less harm, and hopefully contributing to society, as opposed to the many things you can do that are simply about making money. Right.   And my mother, who challenged all of that status quo got me stuck with some moral and ethical thinking about what is an okay way to make money? And how would I want to live my life, being able to take care of my family and be involved in society, but do things that created less harm and did more good, and be dealing with entrepreneurs who cared about that. And so I was lucky enough to, to find my way into a couple of organizations in the 80s, that were early in these movements of better money, better business? How do you do maximum good in the world as possibly the legacy you care more about than How much money did you make? Now, providing for family and big and having access to resources and things is a natural instinct by human beings, people always want to put a roof over the kids and the family and have access to healthy food and a safe life. Those are human instincts that modern capitalism, and particularly the North American version has accelerated into a highly opaque and outsourced faraway, affecting lives that you never have to really face or deal with, or even know about unless you care, right?   And this ability to feel good about our own families and our own neighborhood or our community, and ignore the impact on the rest of the planet, and future generations. Just bothered me, obviously I had the right routes to question and go that direction. I live to the 60s and all the questioning that came there. But fortunately for me, I believe I am not one of those 60s people that decided to let it all go and buy fancy cars and you know, just go with the flow. And I had to direct myself to organizations, relationships, opportunities, people that I could be inspired by, and that I could believe them. And that I can be part of because of the values, morals, ethics, underneath it imperfect, sloppy, make mistakes, all of it. There's no pitching perfection here.   But we do have choices about what to focus on, what to prioritize, what to devote ourselves to, and how to live our lives. And I refuse to believe that I had to become an evil nasty person in order to find success and satisfaction. And that part of that was to say, okay, it seems like society is building an ethic she or he with the most is the winner. And what I saw was those with the most, in many ways, had deeply challenging circumstances either spoken and noticed or unspoken and not noticed. And that the world with the the era of information and access to knowing what's going on in many, many places, how things are made, where they came from, who's affected by that, that these are not only important, ethical and moral principles that are legitimately, perhaps some of the most important ones. Most religions have a version of Do unto others as you have them do unto you, and similar golden rules, so to speak. But they're kind of ignored outside the place of worship or certain situations.   20:58 And so what became clear through that period of coming of age and trying to figure out life, was that we could do things differently, that it's a matter of choice, for those of us who have access to choice. In other words, those of us that are already beneficiaries of I'll say non-judgmental, here, just say, of the effects of capitalism, I believe have a higher bar, to hold ourselves to, to be sure that our actions, our choices, our relationships, our our behavior, is where we, that's where Heaven is. That's where Heaven and Hell choices get to be made in a very pragmatic way. I was diagnosed with a family disease that my father's side carry, which is a genetic kidney disease called polycystic kidney. And early on, I was told you could die soon, you could live long, and there's nothing you can do about it. And that diagnosis was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Because it caused me to inventory my life and assess and think about, what am I doing that's actually generative, and working on to the highest purpose and the things that I care about the most, as opposed to just blindly wanting to win or accumulate.   And there's a question that I encourage all ambitious people to do, but also inheritors, and spouses and, and owners of excess wealth, that we need to think about the fact that there are people and places at the other side of our investments, our purchases, and many of our choices. And that to accept a version of society where we don't have to think about it is wrong. I do my best not to be judgmental of others, they've got to figure out what works for them. But I got very excited, between the kidney disease, which caused me to think about what the kidney does, which is to filter the blood, it caused me to start reading labels and seeing what it was putting into my body. It caused me to think about where is this coming from and child slavery for chocolate, like stripping away?   Coal, you know, it's tearing apart the countryside to fuel things that could be done in a better way. But it's not but it's cheaper to do that these kinds of things. So I went through a period of 6070s and 80s, getting exposed to the business. The business thinking of the, I guess, the reformist business thinking about our impact is actually a responsibility. And we are affecting other people all the time with our choices. You and I have it tough, when we're talking through a computer to hear the story behind the computer and where those rare metals come from and how they're made and what kind of factories so you can go deep into this.   Soon enough one needs to start to find a place within the systems that we can harmonize our deepest values, our purpose and what we can care about and who we are, and who we're going to be on our deathbeds. Because I was diagnosed with the fatal disease, the deathbed became a symbol for me, that's when it's going to matter the most. I hope I'm going to have a good time in life, I'm going to get to hang out with people I respect and trust, we're going to be creative, we're going to do exciting and, and awesome things. But I have to also think about who's left out of that. What my choices are doing to affect those lives? And what can I do as a citizen, as a business person, as a moral person, as someone who cares deeply about society around me? How do I make choices that do less harm and more good, and keep going deeper? Because there's, they're not simple answers to that.   25:58 And now, as we reckon with colonization, genocide, moving people off their land, stealing resources, all the horrible things in Canada, right now we're dealing with the residential schools and system and a pretty big way where Native children were stripped from their families and put in church run, schools. And there, there's a situation right now, where hundreds of unnamed bodies have been found one of these residential schools in Canada. And there was a systematic attempt to destroy the people who lived here. So what do we do as a moral spiritual person, and I'll simplify without going on too long about this. We do what we can. And we make commitments, to challenge ourselves, push ourselves ever to know more and understand how these systems are working. And sure, take a break and do something fun and nice, and have a good time also. But remember, that when you hand your money over to someone, the bank, the insurance agent, the wealth manager, really anything you buy, to Walmart to whoever it is. These are choices that are affecting people all over the planet. And it is not right. For us to just put blinders on about pay.   Carley Hauck 27:31 Right? Thank you, that was a great answer. The roots all the way into fruition, into the blossoming of of the impact you've chosen to make. And what I keep hearing you say is choice. You know, and and we do have a choice. And that's the difference between being conscious and being unconscious, is recognizing that in this moment, every moment is a choice. And, you know, we talked a little bit about this before we started the recording. But for those folks that have gotten to know me through listening to the podcast, they know that I wrote a book and you have a book that came out a few years before mine, but my book has been out now for four months and the impetus for that. And I would say that probably been the motivation for your book, they were probably along the same length, same lines, was really to shift hearts and minds, to wake up to this different reality that that we have. And I've always seen my influence and my privilege has been able to really work on the inside of business, and utilize supporting leaders and business to be that lever to be a force for good to align with social justice, environmental responsibility. And there are a lot of companies doing that.   But when I think about the larger monopolies that really did well, and the pandemic, Amazon, you know, some of these huge grocery stores, the local businesses, the small business owners or owners had to had to quit, you know, even with loans and whatnot. What is the responsibility of those companies that really profited during this time? What is their responsibility to social justice to environmental responsibility? Could they orient more as a B Corp versus this, you know, this larger monopoly of a company and so I feel really curious to get your perspective. It's ironic or not ironic that the day that we're recording this, it is 100 degrees where you are Cortez Island, it is 100 Six here in Oregon where I am, these are record high heats, it's never been this hot ever. And my sense is this is not over. This could become the new norm, we know that our house is literally burning down, we have a short period of time in which we can actually create the systems and structures in business, as shareholders as customers to prevent major suffering. And so I know I'm asking you a big question. But as we're beginning to open the world back up, how can we put a deeper call to action for businesses to be a force for good for shareholders to recognize the enormous power responsibility that they have to orient in a way that is going to benefit all beings and benefit the planet? And how can we as customers, say no to certain companies or products, and say, You know what, I will not buy that if it's not coming from a compostable container, I'm just not willing to buy it anymore. And that's our choice, right? That's our choice, right.   Joel Solomon 31:28 And we have to start at that consumer level where we can affect each purchase that we make, where we buy insurance, where we bank all of it, what we do with our homes, how much waste do we create, all many, many things we can do as individuals. And I care a lot about that. And I'm in the business of investing in, in some companies that are connected to helping that. And with any company that we invest in, we want them to come and be core, we want them to be attentive to their waste stream to how they treat people, knowing where their products come from, and what the conditions are, where things are made in other places, or anywhere. So there's that.   However, I do not think that the consumer and general population is truly who has the whole risk. It's not who has the whole responsibility. There are very, very sophisticated businesses, financial institutions, basically, the peak of capitalism, and probably other economic systems, where control over major amounts of resources and people's lives effectively, are decided by the choices that are made there. So we must, on a consumer and citizenship level, be sure that we pay attention. When we choose a bank, when we go to a wealth manager for our retirement funds. When we do anything financial, we should know what those professionals are going to do with our money. And we should learn about what can be done to express our points of view. And to influence the makers, the purveyors and those large corporations that that help us have the wonderful parts of life where we can drive up to home, you know, all kinds of stores and walk in and buy some stuff and use a piece of plastic and go home with it and, and our house price goes up if we own a house while we're while we're at it. And we're beneficiaries of an incredibly sophisticated economic system that's been created, that benefits the few lavishly benefits some more in a solid enough way to have a state bought in and then leaves out close to 50% of the population.   If we're talking about North America, the average savings of households of different race and ethnic backgrounds is dramatic. Some people have access, most people have less access. So there's a lot of issues there that we've just spoken about. One is do not ignore politics. It's at our peril. If we do that in history shows us that over and over again, be an informed citizen, pay attention, get involved, care. When we buy things, there are apps being created. There are resources now there are rankings of companies and judging of their supply chains and are they using basically slave labor. You know, the chocolate industry is full of child slavery. Like who's not eating chocolate? And are we doing anything to raise these issues. So we have a responsibility as citizens, I can't possibly list all the ways, but it's very important to take that responsibility and take responsibility for our local communities and how things are done, but also be involved at the macro scale to the degree that we can. So that's important.   Carley Hauck 35:30 Can I pause just for a moment I have, this is going to go out shortly. And this is in the midst of summer. And this is a different summer, because it's the summer where our country and our world is more open. And I'd love to even give a few calls to action for folks that are traveling more this summer. You know, they're thinking, Oh, I can get on a plane now. And I can, I can do what I used to do. But I'd love to invite more regenerative way of travel and even as we're going from one place to another, and I'll just use my own example, I am in Oregon for two months. I've sublet my house in North Carolina, whenever I travel, I bring you know, reusable tableware with me, I veto the plastic bottle of water that is given, I bring my own container. I'm not just going for a weekend road trip, I'm here for two months, I'm going to see how do I give back to the community that I'm in I've been going to the farmers market, I'm bringing my own bag to the grocery store, I am not accumulating loads of freakin plastic. These are my ethics.   And I still have to accumulate a certain level of plastic, I still have to drive, unfortunately, a gas guzzling car, there are certain structures and systems that are in place, that really infuriate me at times, because I would really love if we were all not emitting, you know, what about carbon from from the cars that we're driving, we're not all electric yet. We don't all have solar panels on our house. But I hope that that is going to be the new norm, because solar is so cheap. So I think what I'm really wanting to invite, as we are, you know, venturing out this summer, is to really be mindful of, again, how we're vacationing, how we're traveling, what's the long view. And we're also going to have record heat all across the world this summer. You know, it's been forecasted from the west coast to the east coast. So we can't pretend that climate change is not real. And every action, everything that we're buying, all these choices impact, how much suffering we're going to have going forward. Just want to name that, because that's right here. Yeah.   Joel Solomon 38:05 And there are several large institutions or segments of society that carry a lot of the authority and influence over how all these things get made, and how we use the resources of the planet and of people. And sort of the business community is one of those. We should have much stricter rules and regulations about what it's okay to do in local communities due to natural environments. What we do, too, with the, with our financial resources in these companies, and how we use them, and then are they causing more damage, how we treat our workers as a whole basket of things to do with business.   Then there's the political sector government, and there's an elected part and there's an appointed part, and there are multiple levels of it. And we have been systematically hoodwinked to be less involved, and to write it off, and dismiss it and just be cynical about it, rather than decide to run for office, decide to support people that you actually have looked into and you believe that they matter. And we need to push for the regulations of the commons. And the watching out for fairness of how workers are treated. Of how wealth is distributed is their fair taxation. We've read this has been a year of unveiling a lot about the billionaires and how little taxes they're paying. We have models like McKenzie Bezos, Jeff Bezos, ex wife who's writing checks right now in a you know way and at a scale That is unprecedented 10s of millions of dollars to all kinds of progressive organizations across the landscape, particularly racial, racial justice involved once. And there are more and more examples of people breaking out of the systems that just continue to feed this kind of machinery. So business politics, who govern the comments, and then also the, I guess this is part of the business side, but the financial sectors that set a lot of the precedents and the culture and customs as of what we're supposed to believe. And most of all, they benefit by convincing us that we need infinite amounts of money. So why should participants write more stuff? Yeah.   Carley Hauck 41:00 And that's, that's feeding the hungry ghost. So that's, that's the self lack versus the self worth, right, that we really need to be worth cultivating.   Joel Solomon 41:10   Yeah. And we have, you and I are speaking at a moment in American history, where the level of discourse and leadership and the conversations that are happening in the political landscape, I'm you could be no secret that I'm a progressive democrat. From just how I'm talking, but to see the manipulation, the viciousness, the brutality, that is becoming normalized, about citizenship, and rallying together as nations or states or communities. And this is, this is deeply troubling. And it makes me want to go back and look at civics class and, and what's being taught in elementary schools and things and the debasing of public service that's underway, but by interests who benefit from that. So they're there.   A lot of people don't want to get involved in politics, or they believe it's too messy, or, or they don't trust it, and all these kinds of reasons. But that's what citizenship is about: how do we contribute to the geographies and the jurisdictions that we live in and are part of that we have an opportunity to do so we are putting it at risk by not using it. And one of the most disappointing things in life today is how denigrating the point of view about political service and, and running for office and offering yourself to this very challenging leadership role. And so I think it's important for us to find a more civil point of view, and understand the systems and how important they actually are to the balance, stability, and well being of the people and places and things we most care about.   Carley Hauck 43:20 Hmm, thank you. Well, I'm, I'm imagining that there might be folks that are listening to this, and we're talking in some ways, very broad strokes, we're talking about, you know, the political piece, the being really mindful of how we are buying as consumers. And then we're also talking about how do we really inspire and hold businesses accountable. And those are, you know, there's, there's a lot right there, it might feel overwhelming, and some ways for folks, what I'm imagining for folks that are listening, because we've named a lot of really, you know, big things here as far as what needs to shift and change.   We've talked about really noticing the choice that we're making with what we're buying and the impact that's having the companies we're investing in and, you know, are they invested again, in in social justice and environmental responsibility? Or are they is their product actually subscribing to human trafficking or childhood slavery? We need to be mindful of that because there is a ripple effect. And then we're also talking about how we get active politically and what I would say is that we all have a special and unique light to shine. And there is one piece of that that we can own, that we can say, this really matters to me, and I'm going to put my energy and effort towards this. That's usually what I like to encourage is, you know, start small so that it doesn't feel overwhelming. And I feel curious if you have any other guidance there.   Joel Solomon 45:02 Be curious and ask questions and do your best to understand the systems that you are, that we are participating in. An example is banking, almost everyone here is hearing this is probably using a bank, you may very well have insurance of one kind or another. You choose what retail store to go to what kind of products to consume, there's just there are many, many choices, we could say micro choices and macro choices about how we influence and choose to participate in what are often opaque systems that we don't really take the time to find out what's behind the beautiful advertising, or the shiny new car, cell phone, etc. So the more that we are willing, and insist upon being good consumers of products and services, that many of which we need to care for families, have a home, have a job, offer all kinds of things. But we do have the choice. And there are entrepreneurs, and nonprofits that are building out systems to help us look into the companies, the banks, etc, that we're involved with. So there are rankings and there's lots of information that can help us then when we go into a bank.   Carley Hauck 46:40 Do you happen to have any like website or link that you might just share for folks that maybe have never looked into that. Is there one that you can point to,   Joel Solomon 46:45 Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to pull that out quickly enough effectively enough. I would say that if you search about what my bank is involved in what's happening with my money at Wells Fargo, or that that'll bring you lots of information. And there are organizations now and stay on, you know, they went I'll just   Carley Hauck 47:20 I'll just make a plug. So Bank of the West was a company that I supported in a very large way for three and a half years doing organizational and leadership development consulting. And about a year ago, they started the first ATM card that gives 1% to the planet. So Bank of the West is a subsidiary of the NP, which is a very large French bank. And so they are very steeped in corporate social responsibility. And if you're on the west coast, you might check them out.   Joel Solomon 47:55 That's beautiful. There are more and more corporate players like that. And they're doing it probably because someone in leadership positions actually cares. But they're also doing it because there's a more and more sophisticated consumer who is insisting upon it. And I was going to make the point that when you put money in a bank, it doesn't just sit in a sack down in the basement in a vault. That money goes all over the world as the bank goes and invests it so they can make money on your money. And one thing that's important to do is just learn at least the surface level about these businesses and how they make their choices and how they can be affected. That's a whole other podcast. Yeah, but it's important. There are rating services now. And that information is getting more and more crucial.   So when you look at oil pipelines, and coal mining and destruction of nature in one way or another for some kind of natural resource, there are now nonprofits, and people who spend their lives on things like I have a good friend in Vancouver, who built an organization that tracks everything to do with paper on the planet, basically. And what does the book publishing industry use for its paper? And what do companies use for their billing and how many catalogs a day does Victoria's Secret make it out of old growth northern boreal forests in Canada to send out millions of catalogs every day, and things like that. There are a lot of these activities that transparency, information age, maybe citizen groups are bringing forth. So that's accountability.   I have to know something about the bank. I'm going to use I need to know something about the corporate practices of the companies that I shopped with. I insist upon understanding if I put money into a wealth management or retirement fund or things like that, that it will be doing things that I'm proud of, or that I can at least accept. And they're not doing things with my money that would make me ill and feel embarrassed about it. And so this is a trend and a reality that's going to get easier and easier for us as consumers, because the Information Age is bringing more transparency. It doesn't take that much work to dig into some of these questions and find rankings of the best and the worst. And that's part of a just economy.   51:01 I would, okay, okay, well, a just economy goes a step further than has to do with past egregious behaviors and how we might correct and make compensation, even legislatively and let people have access to and things that help us. You know, repent for our sins, and in a way that we didn't even know we were making, because it was outsourced to some company, or a bank, or others. So this is something that any conscious person now I believe, wants to know more about.   Carley Hauck 51:43 Well, Joel, thank you. I feel like we could talk for a really long time about all of these structures and systems. And I just wanted to ask you one more question before we end. What is giving you hope right now?   Joel Solomon 52:03 I think hope is partially a choice. For some people, conditions are so tough that it's more challenging. But for so many of us, hope can be a choice and is a choice. And hope is not just a sweet emotion. It is about our actions. It's about how our behaviors, and our choices, and our citizenship, represent who we are in our deepest assessment of ourselves. And always thinking about the future moment when we are on our deathbed, and we're reviewing our lives. And considering the choices that we made through our lifetimes, and and do our best to convey what actually mattered.   What was maybe a poor choice that we want to share with our grandchildren. And how can we be the very best models we can for future generations, because we are the ancestors of what's coming? Right? We have a lot of responsibility to pass on insight, good values, responsibility, citizenship, and care for the people and places around us. Humanity is creating some very severe challenges. And I know that most all of us care about future generations, at least our own, but hopefully for humanity's and that there is a just safe, clean planet for those future generations to enjoy, and take to the next level from what we were able to do during our time.   Carley Hauck 54:01 Thank you, Joel. You're welcome. Is there anything else you'd like to say or a way people can find you to stay in touch?   Joel Solomon 54:18 So the book The Clean Money Revolution, Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism, you can find through your local bookstores and purveyors, there is a website, Joel, Solomon, s o l o m o n.org. that has some information background and further resources about that. I'm available on LinkedIn to connect and share a fair amount there. And I'll just leave it at that there. There are many interests and involvements, you'll find a fair amount about them. If you just look at Two resources or three resources that I've mentioned. And I like to hear from people. I welcome critique and feedback.   Carley Hauck 55:12 Thank you. Again, thank you for the incredible light that you are shining and have been shining and how you are being in service. It's been really delightful to have this conversation and I hope that we continue to support each other and inspire others, to weave a more, you know, a beautiful world that we have not yet seen. You are a beautiful person. Joe, thank you so much for being in service, and the way that you are. Your life is truly a gift to so many. And I feel grateful we were able to have this conversation, and that you are now in my community.   We need transformational change at all levels, the individual community, business institutions and governments. We must redefine our way of life and consumption. And that is our responsibility and our opportunity right now. If this talk inspired you to be the change in your own unique way, and I can support you in that through coaching or free consultation, please reach out to me at support at Carley. Hauck comm if you have an idea, or a topic for the podcast that you would love for me to talk about. I also welcome hearing from you. Thank you for tuning in being part of the shine community and until we meet again be the light and shine the light

Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $240 million assets under management. Investing in organic food and climate tech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as Impact Assets “Top 50 impact fund managers.” Joel is a frequent public speaker, board member of the University of British Columbia, co-producer of the Integrated Capital Institute with RSF Social Finance, and co-author of The Clean Money Revolution: Re-Inventing Power, Purpose & Capitalism.

Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $240 million assets under management. Investing in organic food and climate tech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated. Joel is a frequent public speaker, board member of the University of British Columbia, co-producer of the Integrated Capital Institute with RSF Social Finance, and co-author of “The Clean Money Revolution: Re-Inventing Power, Purpose & Capitalism.”

Do you embody the three skills to leadership success? 6 questions. 7 minutes. Pure insights. Episode 207: Successful business leaders embody emotional, psychological and spiritual skills. Wise words from Joel Solomon, Co-Founder at Renewal Funds.

On this episode of Raise Green we examine the potential growth of impact investing during times of social unrest and intensifying climate issues through a conversation with the esteemed author, impact investor, and big-picture thinker Joel Solomon. Joel Solomon is the founding partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm at over $240 Million in assets under management. Investing primarily in organic food and environmental technology, he brings a wealth of experience to the field with over 14 years as a principal for an innovative, activist family office with Carol Newman prior to founding Renewal Funds. He is a co-author of "The Clean Money Revolution", co-producer of "The Integrated Capital Institute", a TEDxVancouver speaker, a founding member of The Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, The Tides Canada Foundation, and a 25-year board chair of Hollyhock, as well as a University of British Columbia Governer. Raise Green is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crisis through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future. As economic disparity, environmental degradation and social injustices continue emerging as defining issues of the 21st century, we need solutions that scale faster than the pace of the problems. These conversations ask how.

Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs who want to build a high-profit business that makes an impact! Make Your First Million, with your Host, JV Crum III…  Joel Solomon: How You Can Become a Clean Money Entrepreneur Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest "mission venture capital" firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is the author of The Clean Money Revolution, a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Business and Economics, which calls to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes And, download your free gift today... Get the High Performer Formula to Make Millions – Click Here! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other entrepreneurs and business owners find our podcast… grow a high-profit business that makes an impact. Help your friends Become a Conscious Millionaire! They will thank you for it. Conscious Millionaire Network has over 2,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries. Our original Conscious Millionaire Podcast was named in Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts!

Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs who want to build a high-profit business that makes an impact! Make Your First Million, with your Host, JV Crum III…  Joel Solomon: How You Can Become a Clean Money Entrepreneur Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest "mission venture capital" firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is the author of The Clean Money Revolution, a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Business and Economics, which calls to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes And, download your free gift today... Get the High Performer Formula to Make Millions – Click Here! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other entrepreneurs and business owners find our podcast… grow a high-profit business that makes an impact. Help your friends Become a Conscious Millionaire! They will thank you for it. Conscious Millionaire Network has over 2,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries. Our original Conscious Millionaire Podcast was named in Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts!

Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $240 million assets under management. Investing in organics and climate tech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers”.Website:renewalfunds.com  Support us on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/12minconvosListen to another #12minconvo

HIGHLIGHTS What is Clean Money? What are the characteristics of clean money? Joel describes the difference between an extractive and generative economy. Joel has been on a lifelong journey of working with systems change and going within for his own personal development work - why has this been important for him to do both?  As an inheritor, Joel experienced a special opportunity to work alongside Carol Newell to help support her in creating positive impact. Joel describes how he was able to get clear on his values and channelled it into action in ways that reflected his values. Joel talks about his visioning experience at Hollyhock with Carol. Has there been an underlying core that has stayed constant?  What can investors - whether they have $500K, $5M, $50M or more - learn from Joel’s experience working with Carol on how to create impact?  What does  ‘finding your enough’ mean for Joel and how has he helped others find their enough as a part of creating impact in the world with their assets?  As a  pioneer, working alongside other pioneers in the space of impact investing, socially responsible investing, social enterprise, local investing, and impact work in philanthropy, how have community and relationship been important parts of creating change?  Joel talks about Renewal Funds, a mission venture capital firm he founded, and how it is taking a different approach to catalyzing positive social and environmental change.   Why is it important to avoid the idea of perfection in order to create change?  “Staying true to your values is powerful, particularly in the face of skepticism about what you know in your bones to be correct.”  Joel talks about how he has helped strategically invest in Stonyfield Farms, Alter-Eco, Seventh Generation, how capital works behind the scenes of their favorite companies and how important it is.  RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Visit Joel’s website, https://www.joelsolomon.org/ Learn more about Joel’s book, “The Clean Money Revolution:” https://www.joelsolomon.org/the-book Learn more about the work of Renewal Funds: http://www.renewalfunds.com/ Learn more about Joel’s work with Vision Vancouver, Tides Canada, and Hollyhock: https://www.joelsolomon.org/legacy Contact Joel: https://www.joelsolomon.org/contact Contact Renewal Funds: http://www.renewalfunds.com/contact/ Connect with Joel:  FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN | INSTAGRAM 

"If you've got a supply chain that is literally killing people or giving them bad diseases, you've got a problem with employment. You need a social license, and for every actions that you take there are responsibilities for those actions." Episode #62 of Season 2 of The Social Impactors Podcast features #SocialImpactor Joel Solomon, Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $240 million assets under management. Investing in organics and climate tech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers”. Joel is also a frequent public speaker, co-producer of the Integrated Capital Institute with RSF Social Finance, and co-author of The Clean Money Revolution: Re-Inventing Power, Purpose & Capitalism. Joel and I talk about the importance of having a social license in your business, why and how businesses can make money while benefiting a safe and secure future, and how we can work together to build a better future through investing in clean tech, climate tech, and organic food tech. Leave a #iTunes review to help new people find it! Link: https://apple.co/2WI5Ckn Email me if you have a special guest in mind that you want me to host on the podcast! Link: thesocialimpactors@gmail.com #SocialImpactEverywhere --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theimpactorspodcast/support

Joel is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm at over $200m, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is a Senior Advisor with RSF Social Finance and Co-Producer of their Integrated Capital Institute, a Founding Member of Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Board Chair of Hollyhock and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. Joel’s book, The Clean Money Revolution, is a call to action to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. #consciouscapitalism #impactinvestment #investmentstrategy #investing #powerlunchlive #linkedinlive #dogood www.powerlunch.live    

As a founding partner at Renewal Funds, a $98 milion mission-driven venture capital firm, Joel Solomon has invested in more than 100 early growth-stage companies. His work is proof that business and the environment can do more than just coexist: they can help each other thrive.  SHOWNOTES: atthetablepodcast.com/29 SPONSOR: Feast Portland is a food and drink festival in Portland, Oregon that celebrates the incredible food, wine, beer, and chefs of the Pacific Northwest while raising money to help end hunger in Oregon and beyond. Learn more at feastportland.com!

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“Why not have money be more life-giving? Let’s use our money to create conditions for more hope, inspiration, and love, because beneath it all, love is the true nutrient.” – Joel Solomon Joel Solomon is founding partner of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm at over $98m, investing in Organics and EnviroTech in North America. Committed to investing in early growth stage companies in Canada and the United States, Renewal Funds delivers above-market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. Joel also serves as a Senior Advisor with RSF Social Finance and is now co-leading their “Integrated Capital Fellowship Program” for social change investment leaders. Joel was featured as a 2012 TEDxVancouver Speaker, where he spoke about the transformational journey that led him to discover his life’s purpose. “I believe that we’re on a massive renewal in how we understand money,” he said. “No matter how much or how little each of us has, what we do with it is somewhere an expression of what we care about and our beliefs about the world. Naturally, and understandably, all of us want to have enough. My suggestion, and something that I make myself do is on a regular basis, a periodic basis, is to remember to consider how much is enough.” A Founding Member of Social Venture Circle, Business for Social Responsibility, and Tides Canada Foundation, Joel believes in investing in companies and communities that are dedicated to solving the key economic, environmental, and social issues of our time. Joel is also the co-author of The Clean Money Revolution, a book that calls for the reinvention of power, purpose, and capitalism. A must-read for investors, wealth advisors, aspiring entrepreneurs, and all who want their values and money to work together to transform the future, Joel implores readers to take actions to align their dollars with their values. “If we think long-term and we get the best lines that there are to consider how we might reverse some of the trends that we’ve set in motion as humans, just innocently in many ways, just going about without knowing, we’ve created some messes. There’s enough, there’s more than enough money on the planet to solve all of it. But it requires will and some thoughtfulness about the steps and some fair sharing of resources.” Joel serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors, and as Chair of Hollyhock, a nonprofit organization situated in the traditional territories of the Klahoose, Tla’amin, Homalco Nations; on what is currently called Cortes Island. Offering over 80 programs and conferences each year, Hollyhock serves to inspire, nourish and support people making the world better. Join us in conversation with this transformational change-maker!

Joel Solomon joins us this week, he is the founding partner of Renewal Funds, the Canadian based mission venture capital firm and author of “The Clean Money Revolution”. Joel explains why he decided to become an investor and strategist for social and cultural change, as well as how his principles were cemented during his early career. He takes us back to his first job in politics through to his current position. Joel explains why and how he supports businesses so they can be part of the solution, making the new sectors of environmental technology and climate change matter.  This is a compelling podcast, it’s sound quality is not up to our usual standard, due to the method of recording.

Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs who want to Make Your First Million, with your Host, JV Crum III…  Joel Solomon: The People Skills of Millionaire Entrepreneurs Joel Solomon is the co-author of "The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism." As a founding partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. He is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes And, download your free gift today... Get the High Performer Formula to Make Millions – Click Here! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other entrepreneurs and business owners find our podcast… and turn their big impact into their First Million. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Network has over 1,800 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries. Our original Conscious Millionaire Podcast was named in Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts!  

Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs who want to Make Your First Million, with your Host, JV Crum III…  Joel Solomon: The People Skills of Millionaire Entrepreneurs Joel Solomon is the co-author of "The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism." As a founding partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. He is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes And, download your free gift today... Get the High Performer Formula to Make Millions – Click Here! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other entrepreneurs and business owners find our podcast… and turn their big impact into their First Million. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Network has over 1,800 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries. Our original Conscious Millionaire Podcast was named in Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts!  

One good life purpose is to do as much good as you can and leave the world better. Joel Solomon, the author of The Clean Money Revolution, shares that deciding that finance business and capitalism could be a powerful force for good was an awakening for him. Joel is the Chairman of Renewal Funds, a $98-million mission venture capital firm. He's invested in over a hundred early growth stage companies delivering above-market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. In this episode, he shares a wealth of knowledge about social purpose investing. When we take responsibility for where we are investing, it reveals who we are as a human and what our belief systems, philosophy, morals, and ethics are. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here's How » Join The Successful Pitch community today: JohnLivesay.com John Livesay Facebook John Livesay Twitter John Livesay LinkedIn John Livesay YouTube

Joel Solomon is the co-author of a new book - The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism. He is the chair and co-founder of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm and has been active in the charitable funding of environmental issues for decades.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joel Solomon is the co-author of a new book - The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism. He is the chair and co-founder of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm and has been active in the charitable funding of environmental issues for decades.

Joel Solomon is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. Joel is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute,” and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors.   I believed that my money has my name on it and, when I make a choice about where to purchase something, where to save it, how to invest it, I’m affecting a whole series of things that we kind of given a pass card to ignore.   Joel Solomon   2:25 – Why does Joel consider our money not to be clean 5:38 – How do you consider spending your money into something clean 7:03 – How would the government impose on local people to be responsible for spending money 9:10 – What was his journey to write the book clean money revolution 15:33 – What are the morals we get from the money that we spent the right way 25:43 – How does Joel define spiritual and how it connects to the current situation of the world   That’s all for today and don’t forget to subscribe for more updates.   For show notes and resources visit: http://pioneersofgood.org/ And, as always, if you want to get in touch with me, email me at: hello@pioneersofgood.org  

Episode 104: Joel Solomon, founding partner of Renewal Funds and co-author of The Clean Money Revolution, talks about his changing relationship with money and how we can use our money for the greater good. Guest Biography Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at over $98m assets under management. Investing in Organics and EnviroTech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.” Joel serves as a Senior Advisor with RSF Social Finance and speaks frequently throughout North America, including a 2012 TEDxVancouver talk. He is a founding member of Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Tides Canada Foundation, and is board chair of Hollyhock. From 1993 to 2008, Joel managed the Family Office activities of Carol Newell. Together, they pioneered an integrated use of capital for social impact that is now growing as a strategy for deep mission investors. Joel has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SVN and was recently inducted with Carol Newell into the SVN Hall of Fame. Joel is Co-Author with Tyee Bridge of Clean Money Revolution, a call to action to know where your money is and what it is doing to whom right now, and to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. In this episode, you'll learn: About Joel's shift from a negative to positive relationship with money The long-term importance of aligning your investing with your values We'll learn about ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Investing and how your desired legacy can shape your priorities. Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/104 Find more from our guest: joelsolomon.org facebook.com Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Mentioned in this episode: renewalfunds.com Jim Crow The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism by Joel Solomon and Tyee Bridge Runnymede Tip of the Week: Wants vs. Needs Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

Shownotes Joel Solomon is Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm at over $98M, investing in Organics and EnviroTech in Canada and the USA. With Founder/Funder Carol Newell, he spent 14 years implementing a “whole portfolio to mission” strategy as leader of her activist Family Office. As Executive Director of Endswell Foundation, Joel guided the spend down of a $20M endowment, leaving Tides Canada Foundation and Hollyhock as legacy charities, while supporting the success of the renowned BC environmental community. As President of Carol’s Renewal Partners seed capital fund, he placed $10M+ into dozens of values driven companies in BC and through their networks across the continent. Joel was active in the launch of the municipal political party Vision Vancouver, led by close friend, Mayor Gregor Robertson, the longest serving Mayor in Vancouver, and co-founder of Happy Planet Foods, where Joel served on the board for 10 years. He is co-producer of RSF Social Finance’s “Integrated Capital Fellows” program for social change investment leaders, a 2012 TEDxVancouver Speaker, a Founding Member of Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility, and the Tides Canada Foundation, and recently retired Board Chair of Hollyhock. Joel is a member of the University of British Columbia Board of Governors, and Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution, a call to action to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Joel Solomon website Joel’s mission: “Do everything we can so people who come next have blessings we had and can do even better.” Joel’s one-line message to the world: “Know where your money is and what it is doing to people and places. Do less harm. Do more good with it.” The SUE Speaks Blog Post about Joel Solomon Talking points from this episode The biggest transfer of wealth in history will occur during the next 20 years The Clean Money Revolution is us being conscious with what gets supported by that 40-100 trillion dollars. A little history of money The perils of late-stage capitalism - the system must change How much is enough? Then, what am I going to do with more money? Every single part of society is going to go through transformation economically Becoming conscious of how your money is invested Assets should be moved into the emerging, clean economy The need for government to regulate us The necessity of a shift of consciousness Ideas for how to turn the world around The power of the individual to change the world Joel's path of experimentation and discovery The need to find our calling that's bigger than ourselves Young people are getting inspired to more intelligent financial choices The brilliance of what we've created and the loss of our ethical core The growth of ethical investing (impact investing) Universal Basic Income Joel's speculation of how 100 trillion dollars could be invested to change the world Joel puts fair taxation as the most impacting change we can make The most significant issue to deal with is global warming Whoever does the most good wins – a campaign Joel's inspirations: the Chicago riots, working with Jimmy Carter, Rex Weyler as a mentor, Save the Whale Foundation, Pacific Killer Whale Foundation (Orca Lab), Joel's mother. Joel's sister, Linda Solomon Recommended books: Rex Weyler's books, "Real Impact" by Morgan Simon (Joel called it "Real Money" on the podcast), "Drawdown" by Paul Hawkins Women needing to be properly empowered - "Make it more fair on the planet and we can solve anything." Joel's TED talk References: Rex Weyler David Korton John Fullerton Warren Buffet Universal Basic Income Hollyhock Robert Reich

In This Episode We Discuss: How to invest your money for social and environmental change. The biggest societal shifts to make the world a better place. How small business and the public can participate. About Joel Solomon: Joel Solomon is the author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. He’s the Chairman of Renewal Funds, a $200 million mission venture capital firm. He has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive, social and environmental change. JoelSolomon.org Renewalfunds.com  

Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds talks with Josh and Jason on the impact of the clean money revolution and how to steer our world and use capital to create positive impact.

Joel Solomon is a passionate advocate for the power of business to do good. He was a founding partner and Senior Advisor for Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm managing some $98 million. He ran an “activist family office” for 14 years deploying more than $70M. He helped found the Social Venture Network in Canada, and RSF Social Finance’s Integrated Capital Institute. He’s a member of Canada’s Advisory Board to the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce. He’s a governor of University of British Columbia. And… he’s written a book, it’s called the Clean Money Revolution. It only took me a few chapters before I knew I had to have Joel on the show. Joel is a really sensitive and genuine guy who has an almost spiritual connection with his investments and with the communities they support. We talk about his book and what he hoped to achieve with it, but also about the many voices and perspectives that it contains. For anyone out there looking for inspiration to either start or invest in a small business that wants to shake up a less-than-ethical industry, then this is the book. There’s a bit of finance talk in this one as Joel explains what he’s working on, but of course I’m not a financial advisor, and this ain’t financial advice. So do chat to a professional if any of this inspires you. You can jump onto the website for the show notes, at www.johntreadgold.com. Or reach out to us on Instagram www.instagram.com/goodfuturepodcast/

Welcome to The High Performance Millionaire Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Joel Soloman is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change.He is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for your to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire, The High Performance Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Joel Soloman is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change.He is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for your to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire, The High Performance Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Joel Soloman is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change.He is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for your to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!

Joel Solomon is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. As a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, he has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. Joel is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Institute”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. In this episode we cover: How Joel's experiences with cancer, working with Jimmy Carter and becoming the caretaker of an orca research lab led him to have a deep appreciation for nature What venture capital is and why is it important to our economy How Renewal Funds and other companies are giving back to the environment in a big way The connection between love and money Joel Solomon Online: JoelSoloman.com Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Joel is the co-author of the new book The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism Suggestions from Joel: "Political engagement," spend more time reading "sources of political thinking, interviews, and analysis that meet enough of our values and to stay informed and to care," "Read more books from people and voices who have been left out of the equation"   ----- Do you like A Sustainable Mind? Don't forget to subscribe, share, and rate & review.  Did you know that ASM is now a 501(c)3 charitable organization? Become one of our donors with a tax-deductible donation on ASustainableMind.WeDid.it.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Joel Solomon from Renewal Funds. Want to understand what a serial impact investor sounds like, what should you look for? How do you know they want the same as you? Listen to this episode and understand more about investment. Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $98m assets under management. Investing in Organics and EnviroTech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.”

Joel Solomon believes that although financial success and power can have great value, it is most important to learn to be successful as human beings. Solomon chairs Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. He is also the author of the book, “The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism.”

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Where has our relationship with money and capital gone wrong as individuals and as a society? What do we have to do to get right with that relationship? In the last interview of the year, co-host David Bilbrey sits down with Joel Solomon to examine those questions and talk about how we can change the dominant economic system. To cover all of that requires a wide-ranging discussion that includes wealth, politics, the commons, consciousness, care for those around us, and much more. Find out more about Joel's work to return the balance between finance, capital, and economics at joelsolomon.org. Find out more about Renewal Funds at renewalfunds.com. As this is the final interview of the year and last episode before the holiday break, I'd like to leave you with three questions we'll revisit again in a few weeks: What do you care about? What do you believe in? How much is enough? If you'd like to share your thoughts with me directly, leave a comment in the show notes, or at: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Until the next time, spend each day considering your role and impact in the world while taking care of Earth, your self, and each other. Visit our Affiliates page for discounts on classes, workshops, and the Permaculture Women's Guild PDC, herbal remedies from Susquehanna Apothecary, and the best hand tools you'll find, made by Rebel Garden Tools. Resources Joel Solomon The Renewal Fund Clean Money Revolution Velocity of Money (Wiki) Braiding Sweetgrass Interview: ReGen18 – Politics and The Clean Money Revolution with Joel Solomon Interview: Theory U and the Emerging Future with Dr. Otto Scharmer Interview: The Commons with David Bollier

photo by Dean Buscher Caroline welcomes the return of Joel Soloman, author of “The Clean Money Revolution” with a 50 year plan and a 500 year vision whereby we navigate this calamitous time, protecting as much life as possible. Joel says: “May we find joyous ways forward through these mysterious chaotic times. May all species sleep well and grow strong. May future People muse about the Great Turning that surprised history with nirvanic pathways forward.” Joel Solomon is Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Co-Founder of Happy Planet Foods, Co-Producer of RSF Social Finance's “Integrated Capital Fellows” program for social change investment leaders, a 2012 TEDxVancouver Speaker, and Board Chair of Hollyhock. www.joelsolomon.org   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?*   The post The Visionary Activist Show – Diving into the Dark appeared first on KPFA.

Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds shares his experience as a trailblazer in the mission venture capital space, discussing impact investing, opportunities for social entrepreneurs and the long term wellbeing of humanity and ecology.

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire, The High Performance Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest "mission venture capital" firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is the author of The Clean Money Revolution, a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Business and Economics, which calls to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for your to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!  

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire, The High Performance Business Millionaire Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest "mission venture capital" firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is the author of The Clean Money Revolution, a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Business and Economics, which calls to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner, or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for you to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants, and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire, The High Performance Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Joel Solomon is Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest "mission venture capital" firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is the author of The Clean Money Revolution, a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Indie Book Award for Business and Economics, which calls to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for your to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!  

Unlikely Allies: Rockwood Leadership Institute, Renewal Funds, and RSF Social Finance are training financial activists through the new Integrated Capital Institute.

Joel Solomon chairs Renewal Funds, a $98m mission venture capital firm, investing in Organics and EnviroTech. He is Co-Producer of the RSF Social Finance “Integrated Capital Fellowship Program” and is a Founding Member of Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Tides Canada Foundation, and Chair of Hollyhock. Joel serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors and is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution, a call to move trillions of dollars from damage to regeneration. Joel Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: The Clean Money Revolution The growth of impact investing Mission venture capital investing Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders Joel's Final Five Responses: What is one piece of advice you would give sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? Spend time on finding out who you are and what your personal skills are and improve them. How do you handle conflict? How do you handle self-doubt? How do you handle difficult challenges? So many people are trained on the financials and the technical side, but they've ignored these other things. What about love? How do I get to feel good about myself? This is actually a tone that is set by the entrepreneur and the leader that affects your ability to recruit and retain good employees. There's more transparency. If you act badly, this can damage your company. We have all kinds of societal stories about that right now. The second part of it for me is, look back from your deathbed regularly. What was your contribution? Why are you here? Who do you care about? What do you care about and how are you acting it out with your business? What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? Well, there's clearly an awakening going on about the fact that we do live in a finite planet. I've mentioned population and practices that were innocent at one time and now we know much more. I don't think people went out to damage and destroy. But, when we had 1 billion people it was a vast untapped Garden of Eden. So, I'm very excited that something I've felt, just as an idealistic and maybe naive idea 40 years ago, is becoming regularized, professionalized, systematized. And as you mentioned those figures early on, there are now trillions of dollars beginning to be influenced by this. So the excitement is everywhere. I look all across this continent, the number of conferences, the incubators and accelerators, the consumer demand and the new products, the grocery store shelves changing, how we get our energy, what our cars are like. Everything is now in shift. So it's a very exciting time of innovation, ingenuity, and actually there's a lot of room for bright people who are motivated to get in that. So that's very invigorating and it gives me some hope. What is one book you would recommend sustainability leaders read? Of course, besides the Clean Money Revolution. Think about what are the deepest curiosities you have and use the modern tools and go start searching, because I was influenced by a wide diversity from spiritual to psychological, too political to practical, how do businesses work, how does politics work? But I think we live in an era where information of course is too much for us and we can't even begin to absorb it, but we do have the ability to follow our instincts. And here's one thing about the books - don't limit yourself just to your field. I'm going to be the best cigar maker. I'm going to be the best renewable energy producer, and all you read is how to be an entrepreneur. I think it's important to be a well-rounded person. You're starting to see in Silicon Valley the philosophy and arts students are starting to find new roles and being lifted up because creativity and ability to think laterally, and to think uniquely, and non-structurally. So be sure and keep yourself broad and diverse as well. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in the work that you do? I'm a very relationship centered person. I learn a lot there. I find resources. I gain friendships. It's time for me to use another four letter word - I find love. The love I'm talking about is a sense of feeling good about myself, a feeling that I'm being the kind of person that brings good energy to me from others, which then causes me to go deeper in my own practice. Be honest sooner or be honest always. But talk about the tough things sooner. So I'm really committed and have done an unbelievable amount of attending conferences, networks, gatherings. Being very people centered, which is not everybody's form. You cannot believe the opportunities that exist today, whether in person or online to connect and to do, you might say peer learning or peer coaching. There's a lot of exuberance about how we're going to make the world better. And so get out and go to places where you're outside your comfort zone and where you meet new people. Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work that you're leading? JoelSolomon.org. That is based around the book and there are many of these podcasts and other kinds of interviews and resources that you could find that hopefully will help you on your journey. In my own name on social media, Joel Solomon, I'm on most of the major ones and I am fairly active and I try to put a diverse kind of information and links and connections to things that might not be easily visible otherwise. And you can have a look at renewalfunds.com, which is our model of an impact venture capital type investment business. But you can translate it down to seed capital, startups and kind of everything you do with money as well. Also, hollyhock.ca for Canada. At Hollyhock you will find a number of resources that cover things I've talked about here for our personal development, inner development, but also really great entrepreneur conferences and those kinds of gatherings that are unbelievable ways to make great connections and learn a lot.

Aired Tuesday, 26 June 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe “Clean Money Revolution” – Money As a Sacred ToolA Conversation with Author and “Mission Venture Capitalist” Joel Solomon“In our current system where ‘ethic cleansing’ has been rampant, ‘clean money’ is money that’s been laundered at least twice.” — Swami BeyondanandaClean money and filthy lucre — is there a difference?Yes, says our Wiki Politiki guest this week, Joel Solomon, who calls himself a “mission venture capitalist”. He is the author of a new book The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism, and is the chairman of Renewal Funds, one of the largest mission venture capital firms in North America, investing $98 million in entrepreneurs with organic food, green businesses, and social policies.Money, says Joel, is energy, and the right use of money is akin to the right use of energy. At a time when the “casino economy” — where small numbers of people make large amounts of money, and large numbers of people subsist on small amounts — he points the way to making the world a better place, and not just a “bettor” place.Is capitalism a failed and obsolete system? Or can it be used to leverage (oops, I mean “loverage”) our resources more resourcefully and use our intelligence more intelligently? Can we return (advance) to the Native Americans’ notion of making our decisions as if they impact seven generations back and seven forward? How can use our financial resources to restore our water, air, soil and food when so many forces are degrading them? Can we manage the human “ego-system” to re-harmonize with the planetary eco-system?We’ll address these questions and more as we converse with an individual who has used inherited wealth for the greater good, and has coached thousands of others to do the same. We’ll also discuss his revolutionary ideas that evolve venture capitalism from “vulture capitalism”, and encourages philanthropy to “get the lead out” and shift way, way more of its funds from charity’s “usual suspects” to endeavors that will move the dial in a time of economic and ecological crisis.Finally, you’ll hear one individual’s story of how the “uncommonly wealthy” can shift resources to benefit the commonwealth, and find ways that YOU — regardless of how much or little money you have — to do the same.And … if you’re ready to be inspired by a “$100 trillion vision” for a renewal economy, tune inthis Tuesday, June 26th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/wiki-politiki-radio-show/Or, find us on the Wiki archives on Wednesday: http://wikipolitiki.com/archives/How you can support Wiki PolitikiIf you LOVE what you hear, and appreciate the mission of Wiki Politiki, “put your money where your mouse is” … Join the “upwising” — join the conversation, and become a Wiki Politiki supporter: http://wikipolitiki.com/join-the-upwising/Go ahead, PATRONIZE me! Support Wiki Politiki monthly through Patreon!

On this episode of Social Impact Now!, I’m talking with Joel Solomon author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism. Joel is also the Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest ‘mission venture capital firm" with $98M of assets under management. On today’s show, we’ll discuss clean money, the power of integrated capital, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, local economies versus venture capital and Joel’s personal journey to purpose-aligned investing. Edited for allotted time. Learn more about Joel Solomon and Renewal Funds   Buy a copy of Joel's book directly from your local independent bookstore Learn more about: Y. Elaine Rasmussen Social Impact Strategies Group Follow us on Twitter: SISG_ / @YERasmus Follow SISG on Facebook   

Is there profit in doing good?If you don’t make money you are out of business. But does profit have to be at any cost? Or is it possible for us to reinvent the way we look at and operate in Power, and Capitalism? Our guest today is… Joel SolomonJoel Solomon is the author of: “The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism.” He’s the Chairman of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission based venture capital firm. He has invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. He is all about profiting from doing good.During this fascinating live and in person conversation Joel Solomon and Dov Baron discus:Money and business why so many people are in a state of polarity: Greed and Money as a god verses the growing movement of the anti 1%.We'll get in-depth about the rising tide of those who driven by a desire to do “good”, make a difference and the rise of conscious capitalism.Find out more about Joel Solomon and his VC fund: http://JoelSolomon.org http://RenewalFunds.comTo find out more about hiring the host Dov Baron http://fullmontyleadership.com/consulting or http://fullmontyleadership.com/speaking See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joel Solomon believes that although financial success and power can have great value, it is most important to learn to be successful as human beings. Solomon chairs Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. He is also the author of the book, “The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism.”

Joel Solomon is Co-Founder and Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm at $98m, investing in Organics and EnviroTech in Canada and the USA. With Founder/Funder Carol Newell, he spent 14 years implementing a "whole portfolio to mission" strategy as leader of her activist Family Office. On this episode of CashFlow Diary Podcast, Joel shares how you need to find the mentors, voices, and the influences that you believe will help you think through the kinds of questions you are going through. Entrepreneurship is almost like a religion in many areas of the world, the number of resources available is immense.

IN THIS EPISODE: The Clean Money Revolution is a must read! Joel chats with Greg and Dave about Renewal Funds and the book that he has published and why he did it. The Clean Money Revolution is based on reinventing purpose, power and capitalism. Joel explains the practical steps for investors to become involved with clean investing and the big picture guide for how to achieve it. Joel presents practical investment steps, leaving a positive impact when investing while still providing a return on investments. https://www.joelsolomon.org/the-book/  BIO: Joel Solomon is chair of the Renewal Funds, a $98 million venture capital firm in Vancouver that invests in organizations to create positive change. Joel is a founding member of the Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Tides Canada and is Board Chair for Hollyhock. Joel speaks passionately, eloquently and digestibly about some of the biggest issues facing us as a species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joel Solomon grew up in a family devoted to making the world better, but it was at his dying father’s side that Joel made a crucial first step onto his own pathway toward a life that matters to future generations. Author of “The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism,” chairs Renewal Funds, a $98-million mission venture capital firm that invests in early growth-stage companies, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change.

Caroline welcomes fellow public dreamer, Joel Solomon, author of “The Clean Money Revolution,” that money may be liberated – dedicated to collective well-being – and that “We can all do better with our relationship to money.” Let all good-hearted people release disdain for wealth, and be willing to direct its swoosh in the desirable direction, to irrigating our Best Dreams… transforming dread into dedication. Joel has a 50 year strategy and a 500 year vision. www.RenewalPartners.com Joel Solomon is President of Renewal Partners and Chairman of Renewal Funds. Joel serves as a Senior Advisor with RSF Social Finance and speaks frequently throughout North America, including a 2012 TEDxVancouver talk.  He is a founding member of Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Tides Canada Foundation, and is board chair of Hollyhock. Joel has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SVN and was recently inducted with Carol Newell into the SVN Hall of Fame.   And join The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon to find today's Chart & Astro*Mytho guiding themes.  Which this week begins… “A plethora of possibilities is being generously proffered to us for our jovial customized animation by the Atmospheric Choreography of Now:All around now (and in perpetuity, by sticking all in our magic back-packs)and specifically:Saturday  December 2nd: Jupiter trines Neptune 9:22 pm“The protoplasm of reality is especially receptive to Imaginative Imprint .” All old stories, myths, fairy folk tales are available for fresh animation…Eager to be invited to bound from back-stage onto the word stage.Windfalls of Wherewithal are available to be directed by swooshing… into containers of dedicated desire, that we may be better able to “Dree our Weird” (“Play our role in destiny”).” … Continue reading by supporting the show on Patreon for $4/month *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?*   The post The Visionary Activist Show – Liberating Money appeared first on KPFA.

Joel Solomon is a highly experience social investor who has invested in over 100 early-growth stage companies in North America. Joel was instrumental in the development the Endswell Foundation, the largest, BC-based, charitable foundation in British Columbia funding environmental issues in the 1990s. Joel is currently Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital...

Joel takes us on a journey of being a venture capitalist with mission as the first ambition & focus for every entrepreneurial action. He further shares how the inner work, emotional, spiritual and psychological skills are a pre-requisite to this kind of life. It is a true pleasure to listen to and learn from Joel with all his embodied knowledge and wisdom of Social Change Making and Impact creation. Joel is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution with Tyee Bridge, a call to action to move trillions of dollars from damaging to regenerative use. He is the Chair of the Board at the Impact Investment company Renewal Funds, a 2012 TEDxVancouver Speaker, Founding Member of Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility, the Tides Canada Foundation, and is Board Chair of Hollyhock a retreat for Social Change Makers. As President and CEO of Renewal Partners’ seed capital fund, he placed over $10m into dozens of values driven companies in BC and beyond. I hope you enjoy this Episode with Joel he is a true mover and shaker with such a powerful heart - mind coherence that I am still smiling from the wisdom that he shared with me. The biggest take away? Here is a quote from the Episode: "...Once you have clarity what your purpose is on this planet is - and you also understand from your inner skills that money doesn't solve everything but money is a tool, happiness, joy, love, health - this is precious..."

Consider money: abstract medium of exchange representing all human and natural creativity and productivity. Could money evolve through human ingenuity - motivated by human love - to restore, protect and cultivate the human and natural resources it stands for? Investment expert Joel Solomon says, emphatically, YES! and expounds on how in his new book The Clean Money Revolution - Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism (New Society, 2017; written with Tyee Bridge).                              This revolution means that we who have monetary privilege can and will use the energy of money for the good of the whole, for the long term. Visionary - and practical, advocating from 30+ years investment experience that proves doing well can do good, in major ways.  This Earthworms conversation explores the options, as it affirms the urgent necessity of transforming how money works, and how to realize changing it. Music: Giant Steps, performed live at KDHX by the Dave Stone Trio THANKS to Cody Pees, Earthworms engineer, and to Carney & Associates P.R. Check out Joel Solomon's Ted Talk - Joel, chair of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm in Vancouver, BC, was instrumental in bringing TEDx to Vancouver. 

Joel Solomon is a highly experience social investor who has invested in over 100 early-growth stage companies in North America. Joel was instrumental in the development the Endswell Foundation, the largest, BC-based, charitable foundation in British Columbia funding environmental issues in the 1990s. Joel is currently Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital... The post Episode 10: Interview with Joel Solomon, Chairman of Renewal Funds, co-author of the Clean Money Revolution appeared first on Financing Social Entrepreneurs Podcast.

Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds discusses his organization's mission, focus on organic food, green technologies and future plans.

August 13, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1L6wShy. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds is not only a leading impact investor but also a leading voice for the impact investing movement. Based in Vancouver, British Colombia, his impact fund approaches $100 million. Solomon says, “All of us, particularly those involved in the world of investment and finance, have something to offer. Together we have the resources to achieve what may be the greatest ethical and economic shift in human history.” “The call right now is a big one: we need to reinvent capitalism,” he says with no hint of doubt. Solomon notes that traditional capitalism needs to be changed, “We need to enable and encourage private enterprise to build the new businesses, technologies and industries that will replace our current methods— many of which are unsustainable at best and wantonly destructive at worst.” Observing that government can’t or won’t solve big social problems, Solomon calls on financiers to lead the way. “It’s hard to overemphasize the critical role that those who move in the world of finance and investment can play right now. Those who provide capital and incentives for innovation have a crucial part to play in addressing climate justice, species extinction and man-made environmental disasters.” “Severely diminished government regulation in most jurisdictions means that the shift towards what I’ve come to call ‘clean money’—impact investing, socially responsible investing (SRI), and mission-based activation of investment portfolios— represents the single most potent force for restoring the planet and delivering social equity to billions of people,” he adds. Given demographic trends, Solomon sees younger investors as a catalyst for change. ”Millennial and ‘Gen Y’ investors are demanding that their portfolios—whether self-generated or inherited— be dedicated to mission-based or ethical, sustainable and socially just investments. The Millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, already outnumber Boomers at about 85 million in North America.” “This is a pivotal time for the rise of clean money— a conscious and pragmatic movement that is still near the fringes but moving very rapidly towards the center,” he concludes. Please consider whether a friend or colleague might benefit from this piece and, if so, share it.

Carol Sanford interviews Joel Solomon of Renewal Funds.   The post TRE – Responsible Capitalist – Joel Solomon appeared first on Carol Sanford.