Podcast: Dignities and Disasters of Wealth with Robert MacNaughton

The Dignities and Disasters podcast takes a multi-perspectival look at structural issues that affect our society and culture. In this episode, we take on the weighty issue of wealth, and look at if from many different perspectives, understanding the complexities and paradoxes inherent in living with wealth, and especially trying to do something good, or at least responsible, with it.

We answer a few potent questions:

• What is valid in the negative view of wealth? Why do so many people want to burn the system down?

• What are the good things that come from the accumulation of wealth?

• We compare Elon Musk, Charles Eisenstein, Jack Dorsey, and The Lorax.

• Is growth bad?

• How do we relate to wealth inequality?

• How do we value the wealth of the ecosystem?

• BONUS: What is Modern Monetary Theory, and does it get us out of this economic mess?

I was incredibly pleased to talk with Robert MacNaughton, a good friend, extraordinary leadership coach, and fellow former organizer of progressive community in Boulder. Robert and I have dreamed, created, produced and lamented many unique ways to support conscious community. Deep thanks for the opportunity to talk this through, and especially for letting me run along with a few proper rants.

Podcast: How Do We Change How We Think About Money? With Sacred Changemakers.

In September 2020, I met with Jayne Warrilow, the founder of Sacred Changemakers, a network of professionals with a commitment to doing positive impact work in the world. I really appreciate Jane’s blending of a spiritual centeredness with a mind for business. To me, it’s that balance that has a chance of saving our species from the “extinction level events” that seem to be popping up every month.

In the podcast, we talk about how to integrate spiritual experience and wealth advising, what money means to us a human beings, and how we come into a peaceful relationship with money, investments, and wealth.

Check out Jane’s great work at Sacred Changemakers.

Podcast: Align Your Money and Business With Your Values; on Awarepreneurs

In January 2020, I sat down and spoke with a good friend, Paul Zelizer, about how to align your money and your business with your values. Paul is the founder of Awarepreneurs, a national network of conscious small business owners. Paul is a kind human and an excellent interviewer, and we had a very human and probing interview about my background, how I developed a holistic perspective about wealth, and what it means — pragmatically — to do business in a way that supports your own sense of purpose. We talked about success and failure as a conscious entrepreneur, divorce and mindful dating, and what it means to be a Whole Wealth Advisor.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

As Bob Dylan wrote in Love Minus Zero / No Limit,

Some speak of the future,
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.