
#73: Search Funds Reframed: Expanding Access to Business Ownership
In this episode of the Criterion Institute podcast, Joy Anderson explores the concept of search funds as a transformative financial tool for entrepreneurship. The discussion highlights the potential o...
26 Feb 41min

#72: From Add-on to Operating System: Rethinking the Role of Services in Local Value Creation
In this episode, Joy Anderson is joined by Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners co-founders Eric Kacou and Charity Kabango to explore what it truly takes to build thriving businesses and markets across ...
12 Feb 47min

#71: Time to Pause: How We Learn to Let Go, Listen and Pivot
In this episode of the Criterion Institute podcast, Joy Anderson reflects on the power of letting go—of beliefs, assumptions, and fixed identities that may no longer serve us. Through a personal story...
29 Jan 20min

#70: Financing Patience: Movements, Markets and the Long Game
In this episode, Joy explores the surprising parallels between funding social movements and financing market formation companies. Joy Anderson, along with guests Katharina Samara-Wickrama and Medina H...
15 Jan 41min

#69: The Stories We Choose: Finding Meaning in the Broken Glass of 2025
In this episode, Joy reflects on the past year and the importance of storytelling in shaping our future. She discusses the common practice of making New Year's resolutions and how they often fall shor...
1 Jan 26min

#68: Clarity is Relational: Leadership in Complex Systems
In this episode of the Criterion Institute podcast, Joy Anderson begins with a provocation about clarity, questioning how calls for “being clear” often place responsibility on the speaker, rather than...
18 Des 202515min

#67: Financing the Reduction of GBV: From Insights to Infrastructure
In this episode, Joy Anderson discusses the intersection of finance and gender-based violence, emphasizing the need for transformative systems change. She reflects on the insights gained from Donella ...
4 Des 202523min

#66: Designing Finance for Context: A Conversation with Joanna Levitt Cea
In this episode, Joy sits down with Joanna Levitt Cea, Founder and Principal of Valiente Capital Design and lead of the Gender Funders CoLab report Moving Beyond Grant Capital: Meeting the Moment with...
20 Nov 202533min



















