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Future Money
by Interledger Foundation
Interledger Foundation presents The FUTURE|MONEY (F|M) Podcast. Future Money is a podcast exploring the evolving intersections of technology, finance, and culture, because finance touches every industry and every life. At its core Future Money is about self-sovereignty and empowerment: reimagining how people, especially those in underserved communities and those who are underbanked or unbanked, access, manage, and grow their financial lives. Each episode engages founders, creatives, innovators, and thought leaders in conversations that bridge their past experiences, their present work, and their visions for the future of their industries and the world at large. Follow us on Castopod for notifications on the latest episode. You can also subscribe to Future Money on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or the podcast app of your choice.
Episodes
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2026 HBCU Entrepreneurship Empowerment Summit: Future Money Goes to Washington, D.C.
On this episode of the Future Money Podcast, Kokayi connects with six dynamic guests united by a shared goal: accelerating the evolution of business, education, and finance. From expanding access to capital and data science education to reshaping medical training pathways and helping leaders...
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Future Money Live from the WACIF Cultivate Summit 2026, Washington, DC.
🎧 New Episode of The Future Money Podcast On this episode of the Future Money Podcast, Kokayi connects with three distinct guests driven by a shared goal: accelerating the evolution of business, creativity, and finance. This episode is specifically tailored for everyone from first-year founders...
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Arts as Civic Infrastructure: Kristina Newman-Scott on Cultivating Equitable Communities
🎧 New Episode of The Future Money Podcast On this Future Money Podcast episode, Kokayi sits down with Kristina Newman-Scott, the Knight Foundation’s Vice President of Arts. Our conversation explores Kristina’s dedication to fostering equitable communities through artistic expression. In her role...
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From Casual Hang to Cultural Movement and Why Inclusion Matters: Modi Oyewole, Founder of Swang
🎧 New Episode of The Future Money Podcast On this episode of The Future Money Podcast, Kokayi interviews Modi Oyewole, founder of Swang. An organization that was created out of what was a casual driving range hang and has since developed into a cultural movement in Los Angeles. Modi talks about...
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Voices from the Interledger Summit 2025
🎧 New Episode of The Future Money Podcast On this episode of The Future Money Podcast, host Kokayi traveled to Mexico City for the Interledger Summit. Here, he had the opportunity to catch up with some of our panelists, workshop conveners, and summit participants to talk about what financial...
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From big tech to community education: Reimagining how money moves
🎧 New Episode of The Future Money Podcast On this episode of The Future Money Podcast, host Kokayi talks to Casey Ariel, Founder & CEO of Blaze Group, about her path from structuring multi-billion-dollar credit facilities for major tech corporations to creating a fintech education and training...
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Passing on the torch
In this episode of The Future Money Podcast, presented by the Interledger Foundation, host Lawil Karama announces the new host, Kokayi Issa, a longtime community member and former ambassador for Grant for the Web. He discusses his journey into digital financial inclusion and his work with various...
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In Conversation with ILF Grantee and Community Member Adam Waring
On this episode of The Future Money Podcast, hosts Ayesha Ware and Chris Lawrence are in conversation with ILF Grantee and community member Adam Waring. Back in March, Adam announced that gFam, an awesome storytelling platform where creators earn tips and web monetization micro-payments, was...
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Indigenomics and the Digital Future: A Conversation with Carol Anne Hilton
In this episode of The Future Money Podcast presented by The Interledger Foundation, host Lawil Karama interviews Carol Ann Hilton, CEO of the Indigenomics Institute and a leader in Indigenous economics. We discuss her book “Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table” and its emphasis on...
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Empowerment through design: Kumquat’s approach to Financial Inclusion.
Welcome to the Future Money Podcast. In this episode, host Lawil Karama speaks with Larissa Lamporsad and Kayee Au, co-founders of Kumquat, a product design and user strategy consultancy based in South Africa with global reach. They share their journeys and discuss how trust, simplicity, and...
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From Engineering to Digital Financial Inclusion
In this episode of the Future|Money Podcast, we sit down with Santosh Viswanatham, a seasoned engineer and open-source advocate from Hyderabad, India. We explore Santosh’s personal journey, the impact of digital financial inclusion in India, and his active role in the open-source movement,...
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Looking back, Moving forward
In this special episode of the Future Money Podcast, we look back at a year off digital financial inclusion Through curated highlights from guest conversations. We explore the evolving landscape of digital transactions, the role of food in community building, and artists’ unique perspectives on...
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Reimagine global payments with the creators of Interledger
In this Future Money Podcast episode, host Sabine Schaller converses with Stefan Thomas and Evan Schwartz, the Interledger Protocol (ILP) co-creators. They explore ILP’s development journey, scalability, and its potential to create a universal payment network. The conversation delves into their...
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Architecture of Trust
In this episode of the Future Money podcast, we sit down with Joran Greef, the CEO of Tiger Beetle. Joran shares his journey from a childhood passion for business and coding in Cape Town to leading an innovative international team. The conversation delves into Tiger Beetle’s development as a...
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Redefining financial inclusion with Chimoney
In this episode of the Future Money Podcast, we convene with Uchi Uchibeke, a technologist and entrepreneur. Uchi shares his journey from growing up in Nigeria to securing a scholarship to study in Canada and his experiences with limited hands-on learning opportunities in Nigeria, which led him…
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Interledger on Campus
In this episode of the Future Money Podcast, we present The Interledger Salon. We focus on the Interledger Foundation’s work on campus involvement and partnerships with universities. Our guests, Dr. Allan Davids of the University of Cape Town, Dr. Andrew Mangle of Bowie State University, and...
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Why Digital Financial Inclusion Matters
We’re thrilled to announce the first Interledger Salon on the Future|Money podcast, a quarterly panel hosted by the Interledger Foundation with facilitation by Chief Program Officer Chris Lawrence. These discussions aim to connect our community to multilateral stakeholders in the digital…
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Waterworks of Money
Welcome to another episode of the Future| Money podcast. In this episode, we’re talking to Carlijn Kingma from Waterworks of Money, a project that explores the metaphor ‘money as water’. We’ll discuss how Carlijn, as an artist and architect, makes complex topics like monetary systems and…
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Re/Simulate
Welcome back to another episode of the Future|Money series! Today, we’re thrilled to be in conversation with with Felipe Brugues, Ana Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Leon, an inspiring collective based in Mexico City and Quito. Today we are diving into their project, Re/Simulate. This fascinating...
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Taking the train to Digital Financial Inclusion
Join this week’s episode where we welcome our newest host, Chris Lawrence, Chief Program Officer of the Interledger Foundation. Chris converses with Dr. Andrew Mangle, an Associate Professor from Bowie State University. They discuss the partnership between the Interledger Foundation and Bowie...
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Liminal Matter
In this episode, we are in conversation with Lena Ghaninejad. She will be sharing more about her artwork, Liminal Matter. The installation aims to illustrate the evolution of money from tangible matter that originates directly from the Earth (grains, food & stones) into an increasingly immaterial...
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Sikhula Sonke: Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking
In this episode, we are in conversation with Esther Mwema. She will be sharing about her project, Sikhula Sonke: Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking, which she created together with Jon Adam Chen and three different communities in Zambia and South Africa. Sikhula Sonke is an isiXhosa...
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Bringing Down A Mountain
In this episode we talk with Subhashish Panigrahi, he is a civil society leader and documentary filmmaker with an interest in tech, media, and society. His films focus on conservation and assertion and broader issues of access, digital rights, and openness. He advocates for community-led media,...
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Parallel Society
In this episode, we converse with XiaoXiao, also known as Xiaoji Song. She is an artist, writer, and researcher currently based in Berlin, Germany. Her work centers around community-specific experiences, influenced by texts, games, and performances. These experiences often touch on topics such as...
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Loose (Chains) Change
In this weeks episode, We will talk with Mia Wright Ross who is an Artist, leather artisan, designer, educator, and entrepreneur. She specialised in the leather Cording technique and was one of the eight artists selected to participate in the Future|Money Arts and Culture grant by Interledger...
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an Inti/vation
The first episode is a conversation with Kokayi Walker, a Grammy-nominated musician and composer who co-designed the Future Money grant. We discussed how he uses technology in his art practice, And how he’s experienced the tension of financial exclusion, and his collaborations with international...
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Trailer Future|Money Podcast
The Future Money podcast is presented by the Interledger Foundation. We invite people of all backgrounds and disciplines to imagine what a financially inclusive future might be. In the first episodes, we’re focusing on the creative arts and interviewing artists whose work provokes new ways of...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Interledger Foundation presents The FUTURE|MONEY (F|M) Podcast. Future Money is a podcast exploring the evolving intersections of technology, finance, and culture, because finance touches every industry and every life.
At its core Future Money is about self-sovereignty and empowerment: reimagining how people, especially those in underserved communities and those who are underbanked or unbanked, access, manage, and grow their financial lives. Each episode engages founders, creatives, innovators, and thought leaders in conversations that bridge their past experiences, their present work, and their visions for the future of their industries and the world at large.
Follow us on Castopod for notifications on the latest episode. You can also subscribe to Future Money on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or the podcast app of your choice.
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