Radical Truth
Episodes
Purpose Investment - Unleashing the Power of Purpose and Self-Determination /w Armin Steuernagel
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Armin Steurernagel What will you learn? - What are the alternatives to corporate governance? - How does steward ownership contribute to build lasting ...
From green business to blue business /w Patricia Ricard
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Ricard Oceans are dying. The combination of pollution, climate change, over fishing are creating death zones destroying plant and other life ...
Accelerating the Sustainable Economy /w Leonie Schreve
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how ING Group approaches Sustainble Investment in Infrastructure (Green Bonds). Leonie Schreve, Managing director, Global Head Sustainable Finan...
Creating Impact at scale in frontier markets - How to approach a country's political instability as an investor?
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Madden is an experienced investor in emerging and frontier markets. He will share his experience operating in various countries going through ...
30 Years Pioneering Impact Investing /w Amy Domini
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When there was no ESG or Impact Investing ecosystem, Amy Domini started Domini Social Investments and the Domini Index. ESG and Impact has grown signi...
Are Green Bonds Really Green? /w Sean Kidney
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Global sustainable finance volumes will approach $425 billion in 2020 after a strong third quarter,” says Matthew Kuchtyak, AVP-Analyst in Mood...
MacArthur Foundation Genius fights for environmental rights in Rural America
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Often called The “Erin Brockovich of Sewage” tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America. Cathe...
America's destructive healthcare system: How to support change for patients, not profit? /w Wendell Potter
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prior to resignation in 2008, Wendell Potter was vice president of corporate communications for the health insurance company CIGNA. He was one of the ...
Shell: Greenwashing their way to disaster
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Dennett is Director of CLOUT LTD and has 20+ years’ experience as a researcher and insight consultant; she has developed a sensitive unders...
How to access 95 billion euros for startups?
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lack of finance for breakthrough and disruptive innovators in Europe, with an estimated equity funding gap of about Euros 70 billion. Many ...
Confessions of a Recovering Professional Football Player
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Allen played 12 years in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers where he developed meaningful relationships with athletes,...
How to fight poverty through Community Currencies?
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Ruddick is a development economist focusing on currency innovation. After completing graduate school researching high energy physics as a collabo...
DAVOS MAN - How the Billionaires Devoured the World /w Peter S. Goodman
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter S. Goodman is the global economic correspondent for The New York Times, based in New York. He is the author two books, the best-selling DAVOS MA...
Shared-X has the Solution to Rural Poverty, Food Security, Climate Change and Healthy Food
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Seventy percent of the food of the world is produced by smallholder farmers and 70% of the poor are smallholder farmers. Increase soil concentration b...
Refugees are an asset not a liability
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Refugee Investment Network (RIN) is building the investment ecosystem for refugee-led and supporting ventures through delivering partnerships, adv...
ESG is not the problem. BAU is the problem.
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Clara Miller writes and speaks about sustainable finance, impact investing, business models and accounting in the nonprofit and for-profit arenas, and...
Blood Diamonds, Sanctions, the role of Government and Trade
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Rapaport has worked tirelessly to create Fair Trade Diamonds in West Africa. Rapaport Fair Trade defines a “conflict” or “blood” diamon...
When Things Fall Apart - How do you balance investors and beneficiaries’ interests when everything goes wrong?
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Pizziconi is the Founder & Managing Principal of the Christie Company as well as its subsidiaries, Africa Integras and Girls First Finance....
Addressing the Mental Health Crisis through Investment /w Christian Angermayer
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of his private investment firm, Apeiron Investment Group With USD 3.5+ bill...
Confessions of a Recovering Climate Asset Owner /w Mats Andersson
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mats Andersson, former CEO of Swedish Pension Fund AP4 will share his vision as to how asset owners and manager can de-carbonize their portfolios, and...
10 years of small investments with big impact /w Benjamin Bingham
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Bingham-Benjamin Bingham is the CEO/Founder of 3Sisters Sustainable Management, focused on 100% impact portfolios across private and public a...
How to make thousands of Social Entrepreneurs blossom in emerging markets
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Social entrepreneurship on steroids. Thierry Sanders is one of the most successful social entrepreneurs. Having worked on several continents having se...
Are ESG Funds really making a difference?
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former Group Sustainabilty Officer of DWS, Desiree Fixler discusses if ESG is doing anything, other than making fees for fund managers. What will you...
How is a Family Office Revolutionising the Food System?
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gustaf Brandberg started Gullspång Invest. An early stage investor in disruptive companies in sustainability. When nobody wanted ot invest in Oatly (...
Money is power. Wealth taxation means democratisation of power.
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marlene Engelhorn (29) comes from a family of wealth. She has been active in campaigning and raising societal awareness about the dangers of wealth co...
What are the challenges to get Private Banks to fully embrace Impact Investing?
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The leading Private Banks control vast sums of wealth through the management of the wealthiest families and individuals. With more and more clients wa...
Father Séamus Finn OMI - How to get the Catholic Church to embrace Impact Investing?
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Father Séamus Finn OMI has been one of the most vocal and active in getting the Catholic Church to allocate their financial resources towards respons...
How Artha resolves Impact Investing Challenges
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Impact Investors struggle to find, do due diligence, invest, report, and support impact opportunities For many it is a new initiative. Audrey Se...
ESG has failed in providing true sustainable solutions. Is Future Fit the answer?
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With supposedly 40 Trillion being committed to ESG and Impact, one has to ask why haven't we seen improvements in society or environments. Perhaps the...
Money is nothing more than a mental construct. If you want to invest with impact, know your own mental construct.
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Koenig, a global expert on the meaning of money. In this episode of Radical Truth, we invite Peter to discuss what he has learned, in educating ...
How is Ruben Vardanyan using Impact Investing to develop Armenia?
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ruben Vardanyan is a Russian business leader, social entrepreneur and venture philanthropist of Armenian origin, Co-founder of the Aurora Humanitarian...
Are African Family Offices interested in Impact Investing?
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Africa is a fast growing continent, in population and economically. With this prosperity, comes great wealth. The Family Office industry is quite nasc...
How to Monetize the Business Case for Sustainability /w Tensie Whelan
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of Radical Truth, Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern School of Business’s Center for Sustainable Business, will discuss her...
Regenerative Investment - Is it achievable? /w B. Lorraine Smith
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ESG and Impact Investing has become the buzz words for the investment community. With tens of trillions pouring into this pace, have we made any real ...
Oldest Private Bank embraces Impact Investing /w Alexander Hoare
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
C. Hoare & Co. is the United Kingdom’ s oldest privately owned bank, founded in 1672. Founded in 1672 by Sir Richard Hoare, C. Hoare & Co. i...
Making Human Rights an issue for the financial sector - Mission Impossible?
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Celia Ouellette is the founder and CEO of the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ), which works with companies to champion fairness...
The Man Who Changed The World of ESG Investment
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2005, Paul Watchman, working at Freshfields Law Firm,, published a paper called, for the United Nations Environmental Program The Freshfiel...
Bhutan - the Dark Side of Shangri-La
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bhutan is not that Shangri-la that many perceive. In this talk, Dr. Rieki Crins, one of the world's leading authorities on Bhutan discusses the massiv...
Are you selling what you don't believe?
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many in the financial sector are well compensated, but often asked to push product that are not in line with their values. Dr. Giulio Franzinett...
From Tiananmen Square dissident to Health & FoodTech Innovator and investor
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shen Tong Shen Tong (Simplified Chinese: 沈彤; Hanyu Pinyin: Shěn Tóng) is an American impact investor, activist, and writer. He was a Chinese dis...
Planet of the Humans - Fact or Fiction?
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Gibbs film about Renewable Energy, Growth, and Sustainability have shocked, angered and gotten critical acclaim. The premise is that Renewable En...
New Alternatives to the Silicon Valley Business Model
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Melanie Rieback is a leading cybersecurity and social entrepreneur working to show how business can be an effective for of activism. During this t...
Who is TBLI?
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert's Radical Truth is part of TBLI Group.. TBLI is making the financial system work for all. We cover the wide range of ESG and Impact Investing t...