For Episode 14 of the Next Normal Podcast, Amit Bouri is joined by Solomé Lemma, executive director of Thousand Currents, to discuss how to build long-lasting, community-led initiatives to improve and “shift” the current socioeconomic system. Drawing on experiences with partners, Solomé illustrates how trusting leaders who are doing the work and trusting their communities are key to building an enabling environment that leads to transformational change. By moving focus from the result to the pro...
Jul 28, 2022•45 min•Ep. 14
In Episode 13 of the Next Normal podcast, Amit Bouri welcomes Dr. Gunhild Stordalen, Founder & Executive Chair of the EAT Foundation, to discuss a vision for our food system that prioritizes health, sustainability, and nutrition for all people by default. By applying her experience as a doctor and scientist, Gunhild breaks down siloes by bringing global leaders together to co-create solutions that transform our relationship with food and lead to healthy diets, healthy people, and a healthy p...
May 03, 2022•47 min•Ep. 13
This groundbreaking episode represents a first for the Next Normal podcast! In Episode 12, Amit is joined by Jo Swinson, Director of “Partners for a New Economy” and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom – making her the first Next Normal guest with a background in elected public service. In their captivating discussion, Jo paints a vivid picture of life in a re-imagined “well-being economy:” from the way our food would be produced to the way we would spend our time an...
Dec 14, 2021•38 min•Ep. 12
For our newest episode of Next Normal, Amit welcomes one of the world’s leading authorities on an increasingly popular concept: regeneration. Paul Hawken, author of the brand-new book Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation , is an activist, advisor, and advocate for systemic transformation by putting regenerative principles at the center of everything we do, including in business and investment. In this episode, Paul underscores the need to “reconnect the broken strands that a...
Oct 22, 2021•41 min•Ep. 11
In this tenth episode of Next Normal , Amit is joined by the guest most frequently recommended by other Next Normal guests, Ai-jen Poo. Ai-jen is the co-founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, a leading non-profit dedicated to bringing dignity to workers in the “care economy.” In this episode, Ai-jen reflects on experiences in her own life that inspire her work to ensure “every worker in care economy earns a living wage with real economic security and opportunit...
Sep 24, 2021•37 min•Ep. 10
This inspiring, must-listen new episode of Next Normal highlights the visionary thinking of South African leader, Kumi Naidoo. Naidoo is a life-long campaigner for human rights, social justice, and our environment – all issues that intersect with our global economic system. In his conversation with Amit, Kumi paints a compelling portrait of his early work as an anti-apartheid activist and describes how that activism still guides his work today. He tells Amit why he thinks the worst disease the w...
Aug 20, 2021•45 min•Ep. 9
In this newest edition of Next Normal , Hans Stegeman offers Amit captivating insight into his vision of a global economic system that centers the well-being of people and planet. As Chief Investment Strategist at Triodos Investment Management, Stegeman guards the central role of positive impact and sustainability in everything his firm does. In this conversation, he highlights his prediction about “the biggest investment conversation” in the coming years and reveals to Amit the specific areas w...
Jun 23, 2021•38 min•Ep. 8
In this compelling seventh episode, we explore an increasingly vital pathway toward our “next normal”: narrative change. Amit is joined by Holly Gordon, the Chief Impact Officer at Participant Media. Participant is the leading media company dedicated to creating entertainment that inspires audiences to engage in positive social change, known for films like Spotlight , An Inconvenient Truth , and Judas and the Black Messiah . Holly discusses the way that journalism first opened her eyes to the id...
May 27, 2021•43 min•Ep. 7
For our first episode of 2021, Amit welcomes one of the leading corporate pioneers charting the path toward the “next normal” in our global economic system. Marcelo Behar is Vice President of Sustainability and Group Affairs for the Brazilian cosmetics giant, Natura & Co. In this episode, Marcelo recounts the early origins of Natura & Co.’s environmental focus, describes the company’s new “Commitment to Life” sustainability vision, and offers a basic blueprint for other global corporatio...
Mar 16, 2021•37 min•Ep. 6
In this riveting new episode of Next Normal , Amit and his guest, Carol Anne Hilton, explore the ways that an indigenous worldview can inform a re-imagined and re-designed economic system. Carol Anne is a recognized First Nations business leader and the founder of the Indigenomics Institute. In this conversation, she explains how indigenous people and global minorities have been excluded from shaping society’s dominant understanding of “money, meaning, and metrics.” Carol Anne describes how an i...
Dec 22, 2020•38 min•Ep. 5
For this fourth episode of Next Normal, Amit is joined by a leading voice in the push toward a new economy, Mike Kubzansky. Mike is the CEO of Omidyar Network, a social change venture established by Pam and Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. With that deep heritage in the tech world, Mike and his team are positioned as insiders in the world of markets and capitalism: “We are fundamentally capitalists, who do want to re-imagine capitalism.” In this episode, Mike guides us through the five pilla...
Oct 29, 2020•45 min•Ep. 4
For the third edition of Next Normal, Amit guides a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with Rodney Foxworth, a community empowerment advocate and the CEO of Common Future. In this episode full of global implications, Rodney describes the ways that “we’ve designed inequality into the [capitalist] system.” Rodney and Amit dissect the complex intersections of race, economics, justice, and the American Dream in a context that is relevant to countries around the world.
Sep 01, 2020•36 min•Ep. 3
On this second edition of Next Normal, Amit is joined by Harvard Business School luminary Rebecca Henderson, author of the newly released Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. Rebecca describes the structures – and the human emotions – that reinforce a version of capitalism that is “not delivering as it should,” and she details her vision for capitalism’s more inclusive, more sustainable potential. Together, Amit and Rebecca explore the urgent action needed to move toward that vision – and ...
Jul 18, 2020•43 min•Ep. 2
On our inaugural episode, Amit welcomes the “Godfather of Sustainability,” John Elkington. Together, they explore the broad ripple effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which John describes as a “global x-ray” of the world’s inequities. Then, they delve into John’s revolutionary vision of “regenerative capitalism” and the ‘recall’ of his famous “triple bottom line” concept. John describes how regular people can help drive progress – and names the global leaders whom, he believes, are moving us cl...
Jun 05, 2020•32 min•Ep. 1
