Reweaving Wealth: The Salmon's Journey to Healing and Community, with Donna Morton

In this episode of Be and Think in the House of Trust, Servane listens to Donna Morton, Finance Futurist, Movements Weaver, Serial Social Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Bio Regional Fund "Salmon Returns". Journey with us and discover:The Salmon’s Journey as Metaphor:Donna shares her 40-year journey, drawing inspiration from the salmon’s return to ancestral streams. She explores how this natural cycle mirrors the need to return finance to its roots—serving life, community, and regeneration.Money as Medicine:Donna explains how we can use finance as a tool for healing rather than extraction.Reweaving Wealth:The conversation highlights ancient Indigenous practices, such as the potlatch, where wealth is redistributed and blankets are torn and rewoven, a metaphor for reimagining and reconstructing financial systems.Poetry and Ceremony in Finance:Donna introduces the idea of treating financial work as poetry or prayer. We can inject emotion, ceremony, and deep democracy. She reads a poetic reflection on money as a current that must flow in harmony with the land.Nine Sacred Principles:The episode explores nine guiding principles—dignity, justice, stewardship, democracy, intergenerational responsibility, community, wealth and well-being, cultural flourishing, ecological economics, and radical truth—plus nine ways of “togetherness,” from collaboration to coexistence.Conflict and Harmony:Drawing from salmon culture, Donna reflects on service, sacrifice, and the wisdom of nature in navigating conflict and fostering collective healing.Personal Regeneration:Donna recounts her recovery from a CO2-induced coma. She draws a parallel her personal healing with the Earth’s capacity for regeneration. She advocates for aligning finance with life and listening to the wisdom of Indigenous communities.Embodied Leadership:The episode closes with insights on listening to the body, embracing diversity, and creating containers for true collaboration, where finance, medicine, and culture intersect for collective well-being.Find Donna on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/donna-morton-a2417214b/Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/donna.morton.566Salmon Returns website: https://www.salmonreturns.com/Connect with Servane:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/servanemouazan/ Website: https://servanemouazan.co.uk Subscribe to Conscious Innovation updates: http://eepurl.com/hp0h55 Podcast Music Production from Series 04 Ep 45: Milig Mouazan-Strachan