#89: What the Task List Misses: Infrastructure, Care, and the Practice of Puttering
In this episode, Joy Anderson explores puttering as a practice of grace, strategy, and organizational maintenance, arguing that some of the most important work in systems change happens outside formal...
8 Okt 29min
#88: The Politics of Time in Investing: Exit Horizons, Runways, and the Futures We Finance
When investors evaluate opportunities, conversations usually focus on money: risk, return, liquidity, valuation, and performance. But underneath every financial decision sits another variable that is ...
24 Sep 25min
#87: Thank You for Naming It: The Early Days of Gender Lens Investing
In this episode, Joy Anderson sits down with longtime collaborator Jackie VanderBrug to revisit the origins of gender lens investing and the work of building a field before most people believed it exi...
10 Sep 31min
#86: A Tale of Two NAPs: National Action Plans and Much-Needed Naps
For the past several months, Criterion Institute has been wrestling with a deceptively simple question: how do you finance a National Action Plan (NAP) to end gender-based violence? Most NAPs contain ...
27 Aug 22min
#85: Changing Your Frame Not Your Mind: Ensuring Your Actions Follow What You See
A colleague recently asked Joy Anderson where she'd changed her mind—the kind of question you ask to find out whether someone is actually learning, or just defending old positions with better language...
13 Aug 25min
#84: Narratives, Local, and the Stories That Shape Finance
What stories shape what we believe is possible in finance? In this episode, Joy Anderson sits down with Joanna Levitt Cea, Founder and Principal of Valiente Capital Design and co-lead of the Beloved E...
30 Juli 48min
#83: Trust as Infrastructure: Trade Lenda and the Power of Informal Markets
What happens when finance starts with trust instead of control? In this conversation, Joy Anderson and Adeshina Adewumi explore how Trade Lenda has built financial infrastructure around the realities ...
16 Juli 40min
#82: How Staying in Paradox Can Sustain Hope and Drive Systemic Change
In this episode, Joy Anderson responds to some listener questions, naming six paradoxes she encounters when working to shift financial systems toward gender justice and social change. Joy frames parad...
2 Juli 36min
