Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz joins Rich to talk about moral imagination, practicing courage, and what's required to solve the world's biggest problems. To read more about Jacqueline and peruse the full show notes, go here👉🏾https://bit.ly/richroll657 ✌🏼🌱 - Rich LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/rrpitunes Spotify: http://bit.ly/rrpspotify Google: http://bit.ly/rrpgooglepods Meal Planner: http://meals.richroll.com Voicing Change Book: http://richroll.com/vc Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RichRollPodcastClips Newsletter: http://bit.ly/rollcallemail CONNECT WITH RICH ✩ Website - http://richroll.com​ ✩ Rich Roll Podcast - https://richroll.com/all-episodes/ ✩ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/richroll/ ✩ Twitter - https://twitter.com/richroll ✩ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/richrollfans ✩ Strava - https://www.strava.com/athletes/14443?oq=rich ✩ Memoir: Finding Ultra - https://www.richroll.com/shop/books/finding-ultra/ ✩ Meals - http://meals.richroll.com​ ✩ Cook - The Plantpower Way - https://www.richroll.com/shop/books/the-plantpower-way-signed/ ✩ Italian! - The Plantpower Way: Italia - https://www.richroll.com/shop/books/the-plantpower-way-italia-signed/ ✩ Support - https://www.patreon.com/richroll FILMED AND EDITED BY BLAKE CURTIS AND MARGO LUBIN https://www.blakecurtis.net/ * * * * * 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:36 “So much of Leadership is Finding Out Who You Are.” 00:05:54 Returning from COP26: Ensuring the Poor Have a Voice at the Table 00:10:08 Providing Electricity to Poor Communities Around the World 00:10:43 Acumen | Changing the Way the World Tackles Poverty 00:12:14 Thinking About the World's Problems in Non-Binary Terms 00:16:14 Partnering with Governments / Systems: ‘Sanergy’ and Toilets in Nairobi 00:19:28 The Solution is in the Doing. Just Start. 00:21:05 How Do You Start a Path? You Take a Step. 00:21:24 Jacqueline’s Origin Story. Mother Was a ‘Myth Maker and a Tribe Builder.’ 00:25:16 A Life of Adventure and Service: Natural Caretaker for Those Who Have Less. 00:26:46 Studying Economics and English at University of Virginia 00:27:42 Is There Such a Thing as ‘Good & Evil’? Or do Both Exist in All of Us. 00:30:22 Are We ‘Wired the Way We Are’ From Birth? 00:31:37 Chase Manhattan: So, Why Do You Want to Be a Banker? 00:36:45 Part Audacious and Part Humble 00:39:52 Traveling the World Credit Auditing, Seeing the Interconnectedness of the World 00:44:12 High Stakes, Low Stakes. Clarity in Decision Making. 00:48:55 Leave Banking for Uncharted Territory. What’s the Next Move? 00:52:32 6 Months in Côte d'Ivoire: As a Rejected Ambassador to African Women. 00:57:05 Threatened. Poisoned? 00:59:48 Time to Leave, Recharge and Off to Kenya. 01:04:59 A Bank for Women: Working Between Rwanda and Kenya for 2 Years 01:12:55 Dignity and Accountability 01:14:58 "Distance Dulls the Moral Imagination.” 01:16:05 Good Intentions Lead the Path to Hell 01:17:37 Aligning Incentives: Find a Way to Inspire Dignity. 01:18:56 “Income and Wealth is Not the Opposite of Poverty… “ 01:20:07 “Charity Has a Role But Often Creates Dependency.” 01:21:22 “We Have to Start by Recognizing That All Human Beings Want to Solve Their Own Problems.” 01:22:04 How do You Measure Impact? Entrepreneurship and Financing, Creating Markets. 01:26:11 Light, Lean Data and Long-Term Impact. 01:28:51 How Do you Build a Market Where Functioning Markets Have Never Existed? 01:32:54 “We Could Build a Better Country… “ 01:33:39 Change Starts With Seeing the Moral Force in Other Human Beings 01:34:46 Technology and Making the Product is the Easy Part-- Building the Market is the Challenge 01:38:57 From Kerosene to Solar Lanterns: True Fulfillment is Saving Lives. 01:41:32 Youth of Today: Hope from the Next Generation? 01:44:28 This Current Generation Craves A World that is Inclusive, Just and Sustainable 01:45:40 Every Table: Sam Polk -- His Response at the Beginning of Covid and Combatting Franchise Racism 01:49:51 “We Can Control the Market. We Don’t Have to be Controlled by the Markets.” 01:56:40 We Can't Be Nationalist or Globalist, We Must Be Both 01:59:29 If You See a Problem that Interests You, Move Toward it 02:00:25 Acumen Academy: Free Resource to Discover Purpose 02:02:08 Closing Remarks, Focus on Possibility 02:04:59 Understanding the Psychology of Change NEW TO RICH? Hi I'm Rich Roll. I'm a vegan ultra-endurance athlete, author, podcaster, public speaker & wellness evangelist. But mainly I'm a dad of four. If you want to know more, visit my website or check out these two the NY Times articles: http://bit.ly/otillonyt http://bit.ly/vegansglam I LOVE MAIL! SEND IT HERE: 29617 Agoura Rd. Agoura Hills, CA 91301 #richroll #richrollpodcast