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Radical Truth
by Robert Rubinstein
Radical Truth is a podcast produced by TBLI Group and hosted by Robert Rubinstein. TBLI is making the financial system work for all. Our podcast cover the wide range of ESG and Impact Investing topics. What it is? Why is it booming? Is it really helping? Is Impact regenerative in nature? How will climate change impact investments? There will be regular interviews with thought leaders, some known and some not known, but all brilliant and we will have engaging conversations with all of them.Let’s make the financial system work for all. This is Radical Truth. Visit https://tblicircle.com/
Episodes
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The Truth About NHS Funding and Why It’s Not Working
Thrombectomy can have a paralysed stroke patient walking the next day. Two-thirds of the UK can't get it. An estimated 5,000 people die every year as a result. On TBLI Radical Truth, Robert Rubinstein talks with Steve Podmore, founder of Let's Fix the NHS and Sysovation, who sat beside his…
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Most Movies Lose Money. Donors Should Fund Them Instead
Most movies don't make a profit, says filmmaker Rosser Goodman, who began her career on an Amblin series for Steven Spielberg. So films with a cause should be funded by philanthropy, not investors. On TBLI Radical Truth, Robert Rubinstein asks Rosser how philanthropic film finance actually works....
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Why AI Lies to You, and How to Fix It | Mark Turrell
AI lies, forgets and burns through tokens. Mark Turrell, founder of unDavos and a former WEF Technology Pioneer, explains why, and how he built AI that doesn't. On TBLI Radical Truth, Robert Rubinstein pushes Mark on whether AI can be trusted at all. Mark's answer: large language models are...
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Why The Funding Gap For Women Is Actually Getting Worse
Women rarely default on bank loans. Banks still lend them less and charge them higher interest. That is not risk pricing. It is bias, and it costs $1.7 trillion. This is TBLI Radical Truth with Robert Rubinstein. When Anne Ravanona started, the gap was $300 billion. Everyone called it a scandal…
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It's Not Who You Know: Why Networking Doesn't Work
Nobody prices a relationship, and every deal in private capital runs on one. David Homan lost a foundation endowment to Madoff and rebuilt on 2,500 of them. Fourteen years running a cultural foundation, seven albums as a classical composer, and one rule that decides who gets into the room. This…
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What the World's Wealthiest Families Won't Tell You About Climate Change
Eight years ago they said impact investing was a fad and climate change was arguable. Now the same people call Max Studennikoff of CC Forum asking for a $1 trillion opportunity, blue or green. His answer: where have you been all along? This is TBLI Radical Truth with Robert Rubinstein, an impact...
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Thomas Ng: 500 Blind People Trained, Not One Got Hired
A school in Manila trained 500 blind people to use a computer. Five years of teaching, and not one ended up properly employed. Thomas Ng was a trustee, and he spent three more years walking them into every boardroom he knew. Lots of excitement. Zero result. So in 2008 he started a company to hire...
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The Fight to Save the World's Forests: A Conversation with Philipp Kauffmann
Carbon credits never funded a forest left standing. Philipp Kauffmann pays the Indigenous guardians who stop deforestation instead, per hectare, per year, verified by satellite, not by consultants.Nobody has built a business model for a forest that is left standing. This is TBLI Radical Truth…
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Radical Truth Podcast Trailer
Most finance podcasts protect the industry. This one interrogates it. I'm Robert Rubinstein. For 30 years TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Every week on this show, one unfiltered conversation with someone actually moving capital toward a liveable future…
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He Raised $500M in 2 Years — Kumar Garg on Fixing Philanthropy
Venture philanthropy: Kumar Garg moved half a billion dollars into science funding in two years. Renaissance Philanthropy runs like a fund business, with thesis-driven funds and donors as LPs.This is TBLI Radical Truth with Robert Rubinstein. Kumar explains the model pulling capital off the...
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Climate Inaction Costs 7x a Pandemic | Sandra Phlippen
Welcome to the TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, where we feature pioneers redefining the purpose of capital. For 25 years, TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Why Radical Truth is different: most finance podcasts protect the industry. Radical Truth interrogates…
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We May Need an AI to Govern Our AI | Kelly Forbes
Welcome to the TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, where we feature pioneers redefining the purpose of capital. For 25 years, TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Why Radical Truth is different: most finance podcasts protect the industry. Radical Truth interrogates…
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The Overhead Myth Is Killing Nonprofits | Rick Peck
Welcome to the TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, where we feature pioneers redefining the purpose of capital. For 25 years, TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Why Radical Truth is different: most finance podcasts protect the industry. Radical Truth interrogates…
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"ESG Is Mostly Greenwashing" | Prof. Christopher Marquis
Welcome to the TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, where we feature pioneers redefining the purpose of capital. For 25 years, TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Why Radical Truth is different: most finance podcasts protect the industry. Radical Truth interrogates…
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Why 65% of Startups Fail Their Founders | Joshua Haynes
Welcome to the TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, where we feature pioneers redefining the purpose of capital. For 25 years, TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Why Radical Truth is different: most finance podcasts protect the industry. Radical Truth interrogates…
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Banks Paid Millions for a Machine That Barely Works
George Carlin once said the planet doesn't need saving; the planet is fine. It's the people who are fucked. He was talking about a different kind of delusion, but he might as well have been watching a Climeworks investor deck. I've spent thirty years in the impact space. Thirty years of watching...
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The C&A Heir Who Walked Away | Stephen Brenninkmeijer
What does it take to walk away from a global retail dynasty and redirect your wealth toward healing the planet? Stephen Brenninkmeijer did exactly that — and in this episode, he tells us how.In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Stephen Brenninkmeijer…
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Running £30bn of Pension Money on Impact | Denise Le Gal
Can a pension fund managing £30 billion in public money genuinely integrate ESG and impact investing — without sacrificing returns?Denise Le Gal, Chair of Brunel Pension Partnership, says yes. And she has the results to prove it.Brunel is one of eight national Local Government Pension Scheme…
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The $91 Million Forest That Does Not Exist Yet
Why did a consortium of the world's most risk-averse institutions—including the World Bank Treasury, BNP Paribas, and Amazon—just pour $91 million into a forest that does not yet exist? In this episode, Robert exposes the bizarre, inverted logic of modern climate finance. We break down the…
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How a Grassroots Campaign Beat Big Money
How does a true political underdog come from absolute obscurity to win the election for Mayor of New York City, defying every expert who said it was impossible? In this reflective episode, recorded on a brilliant Indian Summer day along the canals of Amsterdam, Robert looks back at his roots as a...
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Arvind Narula: 3 Decades of Impact Investing in Organic Agriculture | TBLI
How do you lift the poorest farmers out of poverty while building a world-class business? 🌾 On the latest TBLI Radical Truth podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Arvind Narula, Chairman & Founder of the Urmatt Group. With 30+ years pioneering organic agriculture across Thailand,...
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Pledges vs. Capital Flows: Exposing the Structure of Extractive Finance
Why, after decades of high-profile "impact" conferences and trillions in capital pledges, have the underlying mechanics of the financial system barely moved? In this episode, recorded in the run-up to the PEI Impact Investor Global Summit in London, Robert delivers a sharp, structural critique of...
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Radical Truth: Shaking Up the Elite "Impact Mafia"
Have the global financial elite invented an entirely new way to feel good about themselves while doing absolutely nothing to fix the system? In this episode, Robert exposes The Impact Mafia—the exclusive club of high-net-worth individuals and fund managers using the beautiful language of "impact...
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Niceness is Killing the Planet: ESG, Greenwashing, and Radical Truth
A high-powered banker walks away from a massive salary and a prestigious title. Why? Because he realized he was optimizing spreadsheets for people strip-mining the planet, and he wanted true, nature-based solutions. In this episode, Robert breaks down why the financial industry’s obsession with...
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Kat Taylor: Can Finance Fix the World?
Welcome to the TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, where we feature pioneers redefining the purpose of capital. For 25 years, TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Why Radical Truth is different: most finance podcasts protect the industry. Radical Truth interrogates…
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The 1% Problem: Why Women Build Companies But Don't Own Them | Michaela Berglund, Feminvest
What if the real gender gap isn't pay — but ownership? Women in management and on boards exit the companies they help build with, on average, just 1% of the equity. In this episode of the Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Michaela Berglund, CEO of Feminvest and…
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Hut on the Moon to Fix Earth?David Goldsmith-Project Moon Hut & the Future of Humanity Radical Truth
What if the fastest way to save Earth was to build a village on the Moon?That's not science fiction. That's the radical, rigorously-thought-through proposition behind Project Moon Hut — and at the centre of it is David Goldsmith, one of the world's most provocative innovation thinkers and the...
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TBLI Radical Truth:The Law That Could Save the Planet: Jojo Mehta & the Global Fight to Criminalise Ecocide
Welcome to the TBLI Radical Truth Podcast — the platform dedicated to the pioneers redefining the purpose of capital. Real experience. Real results. No greenwashing. For over 25 years, TBLI Group has been the world’s leading ESG and impact investing network—educating, advising, and connecting...
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IQ + EQ = CQ: Democratizing Conscious Leadership at Scale | Stefan Beiten (The Argonauts) #2023
Welcome to the TBLi Radical Truth Podcast, where we challenge the fundamental assumptions shaping how we lead, organize, and create value in a rapidly changing world.In an era defined by VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity), traditional leadership models are no longer...
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How does a 350-year-old bank align centuries of wealth with the world's most urgent challenges? w/ Rennie Hoare
In this TBLI Talk, Rennie Hoare — Partner and Head of Philanthropy at C. Hoare & Co., the UK's oldest private bank — shares the 20-year journey to total portfolio impact: 100% of reserves invested to deliver positive social and environmental outcomes alongside financial returns. Since 1985, the...
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The True Story of Davos: How a Swiss Mountaintop Meeting Became the World's Most Powerful Annual Gathering
The True Story of Davos: How a Swiss Mountaintop Meeting Became the World's Most Powerful Annual Gathering What if the world's most influential economic forum started as a small academic conference in the Swiss Alps? Barbara Erskine was there for the transformation—and in this episode of TBLI...
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ESG Frontline Practitioner's Guide: Social Impact & Development Finance in Southeast Asia w/ Anthony Zola
FOR SPOTIFY (UNDER 4000 CHARACTERS): ESG Frontline Practitioner's Guide: Social Impact & Development Finance in Southeast Asia What does ESG implementation actually look like on the ground in development projects? Anthony Zola has spent decades finding out—and in this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast…
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Radical Transparency: Transforming Institutions for Financial Sustainability w/ Henri van Eeghen
How do you transform century-old aid organizations into financially sustainable social enterprises? Henri van Eeghen has done it multiple times—and in this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, he reveals the strategies that work. Henri van Eeghen is Former CEO of New Energy Nexus—the world's leading...
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Shareholder Activism Meets Climate Action: How to Force Big Oil's Energy Transition
Can shareholders force Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil to abandon fossil fuels? Mark van Baal proved they can—and reveals exactly how. Mark van Baal is founder and executive director of Follow This, the Amsterdam-based shareholder activism organization that's rewriting the rules of climate action.…
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Myanmar Crisis 2026: The Hidden Cost of Capital
FOR SPOTIFY (UNDER 4000 CHARACTERS): Myanmar Crisis 2026: The Hidden Cost of Capital By January 2026, Myanmar's humanitarian crisis has reached a staggering breaking point: 3.6 million people internally displaced. While the world looks away, the military regime weaponizes the country's natural...
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Democratizing Impact Capital Through Crowdfunding w/ Ellen Hensbergen
What if everyday investors could fund renewable energy projects and sustainable startups driving climate solutions—without venture capital connections or millions in capital? Ellen Hensbergen is making it happen, and in this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, she reveals how equity crowdfunding is...
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How Pension Funds Can Save the Planet: Stewardship vs. ESG | Catherine Howarth (ShareAction)
How Pension Funds Can Save the Planet: Stewardship vs. ESG | Catherine Howarth (ShareAction) Trillions of dollars in pension funds hold the power to dictate the future of our planet, yet most of that capital remains passive. Why are your retirement savings not being used as a massive lever for...
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Why Global Climate Policy Stalls & The Radical Truth of Market-Led Solutions | Yvo de Boer
Why has global climate diplomacy struggled to keep pace with the crisis? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Yvo de Boer, former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC and lead architect behind the Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen negotiations. Yvo strips away...
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The True Cost of Coffee: Child Labor, Greenwashing & The Living Wage | Fernando Morales-de la Cruz
Is your morning coffee fueled by child labor? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Fernando Morales-de la Cruz, founder of the Lewis Hine Organization and a relentless watchdog for the global coffee industry. Fernando exposes the "radical truth" behind the...
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Solving the Carbon Integrity Crisis: Digital MRV & Equitable Earth | Thibault Sorret
Are carbon credits actually delivering on their promises? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Thibault Sorret, CEO of Equitable Earth (formerly ERS), to discuss the future of the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). Thibault reveals his "radical truth" on how we…
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The Father of Carbon Trading: Richard Sandor on Market-Based Climate Solutions
How did a single financial innovation help end acid rain and create the blueprint for modern climate finance? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with the "Father of Carbon Trading," Dr. Richard L. Sandor. Dr. Sandor, Chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial...
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The Antidote to Doom-Scrolling: Intelligent Optimism & Global Progress | Angus Hervey
Are we paralyzing ourselves with bad news? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein is joined by Angus Hervey, political economist and founder of Fix The News (formerly Future Crunch). Angus reveals the "radical truth" about the media's obsession with "doom and gloom" and why…
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Reimagining Organization: Why We Need to Reform Business Schools | Prof. Martin Parker
Is the traditional business school model obsolete in a world facing climate collapse? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Professor Martin Parker (University of Bristol), a leading internal critic of global management education and author of "Shut Down the...
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Storytelling for Climate Action: Turning 'Inactivists' into Activists | Robert Stern
Can you reduce global carbon emissions without a bank account? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein talks with Robert Stern, founder of the See-Through Network. Robert shares his "Radical Truth" on why traditional climate activism often fails and how he uses "Transparent...
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The Holy Grail of Finance: Valuing Sustainability on the Balance Sheet | Ludo Pieters
Is your company's greatest asset—its people and knowledge—missing from your financial statements? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein talks with Ludo Pieters, founder of the Ariopa Group, who has spent decades solving the "accounting crisis" of the knowledge economy. Ludo...
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Ending the ESG Data Mess: AI, Marketplaces & Frictionless Impact | Frank Tobé (Supernova)
FOR SPOTIFY (UNDER 4000 CHARACTERS): Ending the ESG Data Mess: AI, Marketplaces & Frictionless Impact | Frank Tobé (Supernova) Why has sustainability data become an "esoteric mess," and how do we fix it? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Frank Tobé,...
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Unlocking $2 Billion in Impact: Inclusive Investing & BIPOC Managers | Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson
Is diversity the untapped source of market alpha? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein is joined by Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson, Founding Partner of Include Ventures. Bahiyah shares her "Radical Truth" on building a blended finance flywheel that has catalyzed over $2 billion in...
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Beyond Paternalism: The Radical Truth of the SDGs | Paula Caballero
Are the SDGs just a list of 17 goals, or a revolution in global responsibility? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein is joined by Paula Caballero, the "Mother of the SDGs" and Regional Managing Director at The Nature Conservancy. Paula reveals the "radical truth" behind the...
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Why Social Capital is the Real Currency of the New Economy | Bert-Ola Bergstrand
FOR SPOTIFY (UNDER 4000 CHARACTERS): Why Social Capital is the Real Currency of the New Economy | Bert-Ola Bergstrand Is our focus on financial capital blinding us to the power of human connection? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Bert-Ola Bergstrand, a...
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How to Integrate ESG Data: 3 Real-World Case Studies | Dr. Grégory Schneider-Maunoury
Are you drowning in ESG data but starving for insights? In this TBLI Radical Truth Podcast, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Dr. Grégory Schneider-Maunoury, one of Europe's leading economists and ESG data experts. Grégory reveals his "Radical Truth" on the practical realities of…
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Radical Truth is a podcast produced by TBLI Group and hosted by Robert Rubinstein. TBLI is making the financial system work for all. Our podcast cover the wide range of ESG and Impact Investing topics. What it is? Why is it booming? Is it really helping? Is Impact regenerative in nature? How will climate change impact investments? There will be regular interviews with thought leaders, some known and some not known, but all brilliant and we will have engaging conversations with all of them.Let’s make the financial system work for all. This is Radical Truth. Visit https://tblicircle.com/
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