

Next Economy Now: For the Benefit of All Life
LIFT Economy
Next Economy Now highlights the leaders that are taking a regenerative, bio-regional, democratic, equitable, racially-just, and whole-systems approach to creating the new economy. Popular guests include Vincent Stanley (Patagonia), Winona LaDuke (White Earth Reservation), Frederic Laloux (Reinventing Organizations), Autumn Brown (AORTA), Kate Raworth (Doughnut Economics), and Aaron Tanaka (Center for Economic Democracy). Learn more at www.lifteconomy.com
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Oct 19, 2022 • 49min
MBA Series (Ep. 5) - Next Economy Principles II
In episode 4, we shared the first five principles of Next Economy enterprises. Today, we cover principles six through ten and highlight some important examples of organizations and enterprises that are leading the way when it comes to true transformative systems change.For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/mba5Send us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 2min
Derek Razo: Patagonia's Purpose Trust
The work to set up a better future is often difficult and unglamorous, and installing the economic and legal structures that are necessary to support the needs of all, requires a particular kind of determination and belief. This is known all too well by Derek Razo, our guest in this episode, who is the Co-Founder of Common Trust and the Purpose Foundation. For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/derek-razoSend us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Oct 4, 2022 • 45min
MBA Series (Ep. 4) - Karla Brollier on the Climate Justice Initiative
We should be finding solutions--as a global community--to the environmental and social issues that we face . Our guest today, Karla Brollier, is focused on prioritizing those who are most affected. Karla is the Founder and Director of the Climate Justice Initiative (CJI). CJI is the only indigenous women-led and focused organization that addresses the multifaceted issue of climate change and climate justice in Indigenous peoples, groups, and communities. Karla is also the Founder and Senior Consultant at Saghani Consulting.For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/mba4Send us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Sep 27, 2022 • 39min
Lynn Johnson - Hella Social Impact
Real change is about more than just talk and requires a committed practice from organizations and individuals. Hella Social Impact is a consultancy that is dedicated to facilitating the process of helping brands and organizations to show up authentically and impactfully for racial justice. On the show today we are so lucky to be joined by Hella's CEO and Founder, Lynn Johnson, as we have an insightful and inspiring conversation about her path and experiences working towards a better future. For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/lynn-johnsonSend us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Sep 20, 2022 • 39min
MBA Series (Ep. 3) - Next Economy Principles I
Join us for the next installment of our Next Economy MBA Series, in which we share the first five principles of a framework for a better future. These principles are evolving guideposts and design considerations that can help business owners move towards an economy that works for the benefit of all life.For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/mba3Send us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Sep 13, 2022 • 43min
Jeff Clements: How People, Not Money, can Govern America
Today’s guest is Jeff Clements, who serves as President of American Promise, a fast-growing, cross-partisan network of Americans working to win the next amendment to the US Constitution so that people, not money, govern America. Jeff has practiced law for three decades in public service and private practice and is the author of Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money and Global Corporations, a must-read for anyone who is sick and tired of the reign of corporate super-citizens in American politics.For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/jeff-clementsSend us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Sep 6, 2022 • 35min
MBA Series (Ep. 2) - Intro to the Next Economy II
We may not be to blame for climate change, systemic racism, and damaging levels of debt, but we are responsible for doing whatever we can to turn the tide on these issues that currently plague our world.In this episode of the MBA series, we delve into the problem with interest-bearing debt, why access (not availability) is the reason that 800 million people are chronically hungry, and how historical systems perpetuate inequalities across the world today, as well as why the Genuine Progress Indicator is a better measure of progress than Gross Domestic Product.For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/mba2Send us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Aug 30, 2022 • 56min
Robin D.G. Kelley: Disrupting the Dominant Capitalist Ideology
Today on the Next Economy Now Podcast, we welcome esteemed public intellectual and author Professor Robin D.G. Kelley. Robin is the Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA and has researched and published extensively on the history of social movements in the US, the African Diaspora, and Africa. He has also spent time focusing on Black intellectuals, music and visual culture, Surrealism, and Marxism. For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/robin-dg-kelleySend us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Aug 23, 2022 • 42min
MBA Series (Ep. 1) - Intro to the Next Economy
To kick off our new MBA Series, LIFT Partners Erin Axelrod and Kevin Bayuk sit down to give a run down of what our listeners can expect in the following podcasts, how it relates to the Next Economy MBA program, and to introduce some important terms and concepts that will be explored in future episodes.For our show notes, visit https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/mba1Send us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show

Aug 16, 2022 • 56min
Patagonia Case Study [4 of 4] – Operations (Rebroadcast)
This is the final episode in a rebroadcast of our four part interview series with Vincent Stanley from Patagonia.Tired of all the rebroadcasts? We have been working on a new project that will be launching 8/22/22. More info to come in the coming weeks!Vincent Stanley, co-author with Yvon Chouinard of "The Responsible Company", has been with Patagonia on and off since its beginning in 1973, for many of those years in key executive roles as head of sales or marketing. More informally, he is Patagonia’s long-time chief storyteller. Vincent helped develop the Footprint Chronicles, the company’s interactive website that outlines the social and environmental impact of its products; the Common Threads Partnership; and Patagonia Books. He currently serves as the company’s Director, Patagonia Philosophy, and is a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Management. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in Best American Poetry. He and his wife, the writer Nora Gallagher, live in Santa Barbara.Interview Highlights:How Patagonia thinks about social, environmental, and financial goal setting and key performance indicatorsThe thought process behind how Patagonia sets prices for its productsInternal and external reporting practices, including the B Impact Assessment and the “Footprint Chronicles'“How Patagonia baked its values and benefit purposes into its company bylawsFor more, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/patagonia-4Send us a textJoin Next Economy Living, beginning October 2025! By joining a cohort, you’ll learn how to deepen personal security and resilience practices to thrive and flourish amidst ecological and economic collapse. The training is designed to support you to deepen your changmaking while also taking care of your material and financial needs. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/NextEconomyLiving Interested in designing a world that works for the benefit of all life? Join our fall cohort of The Next Economy MBA, beginning September 30th, and use discount code PODCASTMB@ to save 10% on tuition!Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mba. Support the show