Conscious Investing: What it Means and Why it is Matters with Eva Yazhari

Dec 15, 2021

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Eva Yazhari is a seasoned investor, a conscious entrepreneur, an author, and the general partner of Beyond Capital Ventures, an early-stage impact venture capital fund offering a diversified portfolio of early-stage purpose-driven companies in need-to-have sectors in emerging markets. Previously, Yazhari was vice president at EnTrust Capital Inc. Her team invested over $5 billion in top hedge funds. She specialized in due diligence, underlying fund portfolio analysis, and shareholder activism.

In this episode, Eva walks us through the definition of ESGs, impact investing, and conscious investing. She dives into the importance of defining your personal values in order to align them with conscious investments that truly matter to you, and she also shares with us several resources to jumpstart your conscious investments. Listen in!

[00:01 – 04:14] Opening Segment

Welcoming Eva to the show
Eva shares about her experience

[04:15 – 22:17] Becoming a Conscious Investor

Defining what ESG is
Environment, social, and government investing
More passive than impact investing
Defining what Conscious Investing is
Opening the discussion that ESG is not enough
The importance of liquidity in a portfolio
Different ways to become a conscious investor
Importance of defining your values before investing
Very personal
What are you passionate about?
Best practices to deep dive in existing investments
Areas that require philanthropy support
What conscious investing can give that philanthropy cant

[22:18 – 31:43] The Language of Money

Seeing money as one element of wealth
Putting impact and financial return on the same plane
Importance of transparency and building relationships
Practicing wealth consciousness
Wealth is more than money

[31:43 – 45:36] Closing Segment

The journey of finding opportunities
Conscious investing resources and recommendations
How you can connect with Eva
Closing words

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Tweetable Quotes

“The first step is really defining your values. What are you passionate about? I mean, I think the trickiest part about impact is that it is so personal. And we are used to investing in a way that is relatively commoditized, templated, process driven..” - Eva Yazhari

“Sit there and ask yourself, do you want to own those companies? Do you believe that the leaders of those companies are conscious? Are they thinking about all stakeholders?” - Eva Yazhari

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Connect with Eva :

Website: www.thegoodyourmoneycando.com

IG: @consciousinvestor

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-yazhari/

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