A space for anyone, especially women, becoming their true selves. This podcast dives into the shitty experiences that shape us with no-bullshit conversations and unpolished truths. Healing from abuse, navigating relationships, and setting healthy boundaries are just a few of the topics I cover. It’s my intention to help others feel less alone as they heal and grow by sharing what I’ve learned from unhealthy experiences, the challenges I’m currently facing, and the truths I’m uncovering along ...
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He is the rapper and he is the videographer and this is their podcast. They talk music, movies, self development and a whole bunch of nothing.
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Who speaks for kids when decisions about their education, health, and safety are being made? You do! Children need our collective attention and voice. You’ve found Speaking of Kids…, a podcast series from First Focus on Children, that uncovers why children are an afterthought in politics. We'll discuss how we can unify our efforts to demand change that will improve the well-being of all our kids. Your hosts are Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby of First Focus on Children, a bipartis ...
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Learn how investors are generating a positive environmental and social return, alongside a financial return. Covering ESG (environmental, social, and governance) integration, green bonds, impact investments, and more.
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#24 - Kids on The Ballot
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In this episode, hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech Looby chat about the the importance of children’s issues in the upcoming election. Despite children making up over 20% of the population, children’s issues are often overlooked and ignored in policymaking. Lesley and Looby outline some of the major disparities in policies between the candidates, pa…
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FF: I am enough as I am
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We’re taught that our worthiness is directly tied to accomplishment. Simply that’s not true. We are enough, we are worthy just by existing. I need these reminders often, so I took the liberty of guessing others needed to hear this message too. Thanks for being here.Von carmen rené flores
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S1E5 Forced Sharing: It’s a No for me.
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What to teach kids can become a verrrry touchy subject. Let me just say, I am not a mother but I am both an auntie and a woman who grew up being told to be a “good little girl” and to say Yes, to be amiable…it came back to bite me. In this episode I share a thought from an article that changed my way of interacting with kids. That forced turn-takin…
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Good-feeling flow following Affirmations of safety, security and worthiness of good things and good surroundings.Von carmen rené flores
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#23 - The Importance of the First 1000 Days, with Miriam Calderón
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In this episode, hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech Looby chat with Miriam Calderón, Chief Policy Officer of Zero to Three. Miriam has dedicated her life to ensuring that all children have access to essential resources such as child care, nutrition programs, and maternal health services. In today’s episode, Miriam addresses the importance of the fir…
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For anyone who has bent over backwards and snapped from “help everyone/fix everything” complex - this is for US. Aka you yessed yourself into depletion and confusion of why or how you got there. No one is saying don’t be a caretaker, but I am going to go into the research of what can happen when we go too far doing for others and not filling our ow…
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This new version of you is safe. Good to listen to if you need an exhale and reassurance that you are safe where you are. In this flow I go through meditation of affirmations and stream-of-consciousness flow, “good feeling flow.” This Friday Flow is about safety in the spiritual, emotional, physical and mental sense.…
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Comparative suffering - ain’t nothing quite like that toxic cocktail. Misery matches do more than just make you feel invalidated - comparison in suffering can psychologically affect us negatively in many ways. In this episode I’ll share what research says as well as my own experiences with it.Von carmen rené flores
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SECOND LOOK: Who’s for Kids, and Who’s Just Kidding? with Celinda Lake
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with pollster and political strategist Celinda Lake. Lake is President and Founder of Lake Research Partners, a national public opinion and political strategy research firm. Lake walks our hosts through public polling that shows voters strongly favor investing in children an…
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this meditation of affirmations and good feeling flow is for those of us who have had injured instincts in the past and reconnecting to our intuition and confidence in our inner knowing.Von carmen rené flores
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S1E2 Cunt: An Origin Story
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One of, if not thee most, taboo words in the world. Where does the word “cunt” come from? I dive into over two centuries of beautiful cunt sighting and etymology. If you ever thought ‘cunt’ was a horrible thing to say, this episode is for you. On the other hand if you love the word cunt, this episode’s for you too lol.…
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SECOND LOOK: Prioritizing Kids in Politics with Dr. Annie Andrews and Renee Harvey of Their Future. Our Vote PAC.
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We are past Labor Day and just 62 days from the 2024 election and children are on the ballot. We wanted to bring back this very relevant podcast for a SECOND LOOK. In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with pediatrician and former congressional candidate Dr. Annie Andrews and political strategist Renee Harvey ab…
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#22 - Children Are Not Little Adults with Dr. Glenn Flores
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In this episode, hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech Looby chat with Dr. Glenn Flores, Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Glenn Flores explains that the most important lesson in child health research and policy is that children are not little adults - they have vastly different anatomy and phys…
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Good feeling flow is a stream-of-conscious type of meditation I do. There will usually be a theme for ex: safety, self care, prosperity, abundance, ease of living etc. Today’s intro flow has the theme of Manifesting & Allowing in order to become who you’re meant to be. It’s almost always in present tense to tell the subconscious what we want. I hop…
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In this episode, I’m sharing my journey of becoming—especially for those of us who’ve dealt with life’s shitty moments. I’m a queer, Latina creator who’s always felt a bit different, growing up in a small town where standing out wasn’t always easy. We’ll chat about why I chose the name for this podcast, inspired by reclaiming the word "cunt" and th…
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#21 - The Importance in Investing in Our Youngest with Cynthia Osborne
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In this episode, hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech Looby chat with Dr. Cynthia Osborne, founder and executive director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center, about the importance in investing in our youngest: infants and toddlers. Bruce and Selley also highlight the recent vote on the child tax credit and their disappointment with the bill fail…
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#20 - Advocating for Kids in Kentucky and Across America with Dr. Terry Brooks
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In this episode, hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech Looby chat with Dr. Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, a nonprofit watchdog for Kentucky's kids. Dr. Brooks has successfully worked with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to make necessary improvements for the lives of children across the state, such as supporting …
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SECOND LOOK: Money Matters with Dr. Kirabo Jackson
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Check out one of our favorite episodes! Our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby welcome Dr. C. Kirabo Jackson, a researcher, professor, journal editor, and member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors. Dr. Jackson discusses his findings that research with respect to investing in both early childhood and K-12 education consi…
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#19 - Pediatric Emergency Care Systems Are Failing Our Kids & It’s Costing Their Lives with Phyllis Rabinowitz
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In this episode, hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech Looby chat with Phyllis Rabinowitz, Co-Founder and Co-President of the R Baby Foundation. Phyllis co-founded the R Baby Foundation with her husband, Andrew, after the loss of their nine-day-old daughter, Rebecca Ava, due to a misdiagnosis in the emergency room. The R Baby Foundation is the first an…
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#18 - Raising the Voice of Dads in Child Policy with Rep. Jimmy Gomez
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In this episode, co-host Bruce Lesley chats with Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), chair of the Dads Caucus. Rep. Gomez launched the Dads Caucus after a photo of him holding and caring for his son Hodge on the House floor went viral. Rep. Gomez talks about moms have been the “default parent” and the importance of fathers stepping up for kids both at home an…
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#17 - “They Came for Our Schools” with Mike Hixenbaugh
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In this episode, co-host Bruce Lesley chats with Mike Hixenbaugh, a senior investigative reporter for NBC News about the ongoing attacks on public schools across the country. They discuss Hixenbaugh’s new book, “They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms,” which documents the culture…
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#16 - Centering Cultural Competence within Black Child Mental Health with Taraji P. Henson and Tracie Jade
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In this episode, co-host Messellech Looby chats with Academy Award-nominated actor Taraji P. Henson about the complexities and opportunities around supporting Black youth in the midst of the country’s current mental health crisis. Henson created The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation in memory of her late father, who struggled with mental health chal…
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#15 - Every Day is Mother’s Day, with the Moms of First Focus on Children
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To celebrate Mother’s Day, we’re showcasing the voices and stories of some of our moms at First Focus on Children. Host Messellech Looby shares the mic with First Focus on Children’s Vice President for Early Childhood and Public Health Policy Averi Pakulis, Vice President of Operations Trenessa Freeman, and Vice President of Advocacy and Mobilizati…
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#14 - Supporting Children and Families is a Bipartisan Effort, with Abby McCloskey
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with Abby McCloskey, who directed the Convergence Collaborative on Supports for Working Families, a project bringing together 31 family policy leaders of diverse ideologies and included our co-host Bruce Lesley. The Convergence process issued a final report entitled In This …
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#13 - A Conversation with a Top Champion for Children, Representative Rosa DeLauro
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with Representative Rosa DeLauro, a top champion for children in Congress and the chair of the babies caucus. Rep. DeLauro, who is the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, has spent decades in Congress and consistently advocated for kids to be a priority in …
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#12 - A Conversation with the Co-Founder and Executive Director of MomsRising, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-founder and executive director of MomsRising, an organization that champions workforce issues facing women, mothers and families. Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founded MomsRising in 2006 after a family health crisis pushed her out of the labor force and…
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SECOND LOOK: Prescribing Away Poverty with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Dr. Luke Shaefer
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Check out one of our favorite episodes! Hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Luke Shaefer about “Rx Kids,” their innovative program to support pregnant women and infants in Flint, Michigan. Dr. Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician and activist best known for leading studies that exposed the dead…
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#11 - Child Poverty is a Policy Decision With Megan Curran and Sophie Collyer
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with poverty experts Megan Curran and Sophie Collyer about the Child Tax Credit. As top researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Collyer and Curran produce groundbreaking work on poverty and the child tax credit. In this episode, they explain…
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#10 - A Conversation with Congress’s Top 2023 Champion for Children - Representative Suzanne Bonamici
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with Representative Suzanne Bonamici. Rep. Bonamici, who has represented Oregon’s 1st district in Congress since 2012, has been an avid Champion for children throughout her career and achieved the #1 slot on First Focus Campaign for Children’s 2023 Legislative Scorecard. The…
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#9 - Prescribing Away Poverty with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Dr. Luke Shaefer
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Luke Shaefer about “Rx Kids,” their innovative program to support pregnant women and infants in Flint, Michigan. Dr. Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician and activist best known for leading studies that exposed the deadly levels of lead i…
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#8 - Prioritizing Kids in Politics with Dr. Annie Andrews and Renee Harvey of Their Future. Our Vote PAC.
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with pediatrician and former congressional candidate Dr. Annie Andrews and political strategist Renee Harvey about their new political action committee (PAC) for children, Their Future. Our Vote. Dr. Andrews, a children’s hospital doctor, highlighted the invisibility of chil…
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#7 - The Urgent Need to Protect WIC with Nell Menefee-Libey
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby speak with Nell Menefee-Libey, public policy manager for the National WIC Association. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, better known as WIC, supports healthy pregnancy, healthy postpartum recovery and optimal child development. The Nati…
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#6 - When It Comes to Human Rights, What About the Children? with Jonathan Todres
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby speak with leading children’s rights expert Jonathan Todres. Todres, a professor at Georgia University College of Law, says rejecting children's rights is an attack on human rights. He explains the divisiveness around children's rights as the result of pitting them against parent…
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#5 - Money Matters with Dr. Kirabo Jackson
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby welcome Dr. C. Kirabo Jackson, a researcher, professor, journal editor, and member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors. Dr. Jackson discusses his findings that research with respect to investing in both early childhood and K-12 education consistently demonstrates a …
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#4 - Defending Public Education with Arnie Fege
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with children’s activist Arnold “Arnie” Fege about the importance of defending public education against attacks both past and present. As a longtime teacher, principal, superintendent and now president of Public Advocacy for Kids (PAK), a national organization devoted to edu…
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#3 - Creating a Children-First Mindset in Policy and Society with Adam Benforado
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with law professor Adam Benforado about the lack of attention paid to children in the policymaking process. Benforado, who focuses on criminal justice and children’s rights, argues that many of the societal problems we see all around us - incarceration, homelessness — are pr…
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The Forest Resilience Bond with Zach Knight of Blue Forest
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Zach Knight is the Co-Founder & CEO of Blue Forest. They are a mission-driven, non-profit organization, leveraging financial innovation to create sustainable investment solutions to environmental challenges. He will walk us through how Blue Forest came about, the details of the FRB, and discuss their asset management arm.…
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#2 - Who’s for Kids, and Who’s Just Kidding? with Celinda Lake
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In this episode, our hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby chat with pollster and political strategist Celinda Lake. Lake is President and Founder of Lake Research Partners, a national public opinion and political strategy research firm. Lake walks our hosts through public polling that shows voters strongly favor investing in children an…
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#1 - Introducing Speaking of Kids...
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In this introductory episode of Speaking of Kids, co-hosts Bruce Lesley and Messellech “Selley” Looby discuss the fact that children are often an afterthought in public policy. While most people care deeply about the children in their lives, there is a clear disconnect between personal opinions and policy goals. Children can’t vote, they don’t have…
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Ecofin Global Water ESG Fund with Joe Flores of TortoiseEcofin
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Joe Flores is a Managing Director at TortoiseEcofin, a sustainable investment firm that strives to make a positive impact on clients and communities by investing in energy infrastructure, the transition to cleaner energy, and by providing capital for social impact projects focused on education and seniors housing. While the firm has a variety of of…
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Helping organizations expand their impact investing footprint with Rehana Nathoo of Spectrum Impact
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Rehana Nathoo is the Founder & CEO of Spectrum Impact, a boutique consulting firm. Spectrum's custom approach includes Impact Strategy Design, Investment Strategy Design, Internal Stakeholder Training, and Thought Leadership Strategy. Rehana will walk us through her process, how the business has evolved, and what's new on the horizon.…
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Investing in Water with Rene Reyna of Invesco
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Rene Reyna is the Head of Thematic and Specialty Product Strategy at Invesco US. He has been in the industry for about 18 years, with the majority of that at Invesco, a global asset manager. He will walk us through the case for investing in water, the methodology for one of Invesco's water ETFs, PHO, and some examples of companies in the fund and h…
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Showing Evidence of Impact with Jenny Coombs of Ethos ESG
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Jennifer Coombs is the Director of Client Success at Ethos ESG, which offers powerful, personalized ESG data and software for financial advisors, asset managers, institutions, and investors. She has 16 years in the financial services industry, is an Adjunct Professor at CFFP, and the creator of the CSRIC™ designation. She will share about Ethos ESG…
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Private Market Investing with Josh Hile of Citizen Mint
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Josh Hile is the CEO of Citizen Mint, a platform built to connect investors with private market investment opportunities. Their team handpicks and deeply researches each investment on the platform for both positive impact and financial return. Josh has experience sourcing private investments, connecting investors with those investments, and monitor…
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Child labor in cocoa - engaging with companies on ESG supply chain issues with Stina Nilsson
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A conversation with Stina Nilsson, the Director Stewardship Services at Sustainalytics. She has ESG and supply chain expertise and shares how she engages with companies on behalf of investor clients. We focus on one example in particular during this episode - child labor in cocoa.Von Linda Rogers
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A Founder’s Story With Laura Kimes
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We're kicking off this season with the former founder of an impact investment, Laura Kimes. Laura shares how she first heard of impact investing and ended up co-founding Greenprint Partners, a project developer of green stormwater infrastructure in at-risk communities. She has since exited the firm and is moving onto new and exciting projects, incl…
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Children’s Episode - Currency and Exchange Rates
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Every 10th episode is designed for and hosted by children. In this episode, we talk about living in Japan, different types of currencies, and the exchange rate.Von Linda Rogers
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Impact Investing After Superstorm Sandy
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The Jersey shore needed a longer-term solution to address systemic issues, such as a lack of affordable housing, that persisted well after Sandy hit. Ms. Maria Farhat Tanzola was an integral part of the team that created Impact New Jersey, an impact investment that generates market-rate returns while focusing on affordable housing in Sandy-devastat…
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Morningstar's Sustainability Research and Metrics
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Learn how Morningstar is helping investors make better-informed decisions and invest in ways that are meaningful to them. We also hear from a portfolio manager that is applying a gender lens to her investment process and why the “S” component of ESG is so important. This episode features Dr. Jon Hale from Morningstar and Ms. Diane Sobin from Cary S…
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Community Investing With CNote
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CNote is a women-led impact investment platform that uses technology to unlock diversified and proven community investments that help to generate economic mobility and financial inclusion. This episode features Danielle Burns from CNote and Sarah Green from North Berkeley Wealth Management.Von Linda Rogers
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