#148 From investing to society: Loans of honour with Patrick Somerhausen

In this special episode we bring you a guided meditation to help you to connect with your true self and create your most fully expressed life.Connect with and embody your radical authenticity, enabling you to live as the most genuine version of yourself.   This is a profound journey of alignment. Embracing your authenticity means you can align with the most fulfilled version of yourself, as well as with your highest skills and gifts. Being truly authentic, firstly with yourself, can feel like a brave leap into the unknown or away from a pack. And it is for the brave. But it is a journey that promises freedom, happiness, and connection will fill your life.    I invite you to listen to this meditation every day and notice how your life starts to change.   This meditation is set to music using Alpha waves to help you enter a deeper meditative state, bringing you calm, mind-body integration and learning.   Discover podcast notes, all episodes, book recommendations and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Nikki: Instagram @nikkitrottwww.nikkitrott.com

Patrick is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Funds For Good which has €600 million under management and donates half of its profits and at least 10% of its income to societal impact, helping people in precarious employment to create their own jobs and supporting entrepreneurs whose primary aim is to help solve society's problems. As you’ll hear, I’m a real fan of their innovative and highly impactful model.   In this episode we talk about how to approach wanting to do something more useful, where entrepreneurship and finance meet, funnelling money towards people in precarious situations, loans of honour, why size matters, micro finance as a tool to fight poverty, funding the agriculture transition, radical collaboration and business with love.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Patrick: LinkedIn Patrick Somerhausen   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrottwww.consciousaccelerator.com  

Caterina is an ESG and Sustainability advisor with focus on the luxury and fashion industries. Her clients include Maison Alaïa, Chloé and Aspesi, and she supported Chloé’s journey to become the first luxury brand certified as a B-corp. She also advises several United Nations initiatives and is a social entrepreneur herself as the Founder of SeeMe, a pioneer ethical jewellery brand whose heart shaped jewellery is handcrafted by women survivors of violence. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of World Fair Trade Organisation, a seasoned speaker and a Guest Lecturer at SDA Bocconi on the MA Luxury Business Management course.   In this episode we talk about the moment of collective awareness in Paris that spurred her into social enterprise, why the human aspect of fashion’s responsibility is undermined, how we can bring our infinite growth economy to positive impact, what social procurement is and why it’s the new attitude that can really change lives, and how to understand the waves of every decision you make.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Caterina: Instagram @caterina_occhio LinkedIn Caterina Occhio   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrottwww.consciousaccelerator.com  

Hanae is an entrepreneur who has forged a career in tech startups and nonprofits. As a young Muslim Moroccan, she has had to create her own rules for success. She has worked as a consultant in 32 countries across Africa and spends half her time on the continent, engaging with senior African policy makers and leading companies. Various global companies helped finance her new book Being Other, for all ambitious creative young women.   In this episode we talk about our experiences together at Davos (World Economic Forum), what it means to fully express yourself in this lifetime, how grief led to being of service, the agency technology can provide, shifting to the growing influence of the feminine approach, entrepreneurship and government advisory in Africa, when serendipity takes over, the divine right to express creativity, the calling for women to redefine how they thrive for themselves, society and nature, and her exciting upcoming book tour.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Hanae: LinkedIn Hanae Bezad Instagram @beehane   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrottwww.consciousaccelerator.com  

Simon is the Founder and Managing Director of One Climate - the app redefining how people engage with climate action. He has a background in design thinking and startup building. He likes to consider himself a metamodernist, aiming to cocreate what comes after postmodernism by understanding societal patterns and actively positioning the future we need.    In this episode we talk about why Simon wanted to build something for the climate that puts the power in the hands of every person, how self-work underpins his entrepreneurial approach, how to apply design principles to your own life, and how to understand the models we are involved with that contribute to the problem - processing this into solutions.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Simon: LinkedIn Simon Bail www.oneclimate.com   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrottwww.consciousaccelerator.com  

For more than two decades, Erik has been part of creating some of the most visionary privately-owned businesses and organisations driving impact and transformation. Special advisory clients have included King Charles II, Sir Paul McCartney and the Danish Sovereign Investment Fund. He is also a non-executive director of Savory Foundation. His work is dedicated to transforming the world food-system through the deployment of natural capital.   In this episode we discuss how the world food system can be transformed, how being a global citizen has shaped us both, how Erik is working to change the food we put into our bodies, how to include nature in every decision you make in business, how to contribute to the next generation not just short term financial results, why a system that only values growth is bound to break and how to deploy private equity capital to farms.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Erik: LinkedIn Erik Bruun Bindslev   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrottwww.consciousaccelerator.com  

Jacqueline van den Ende is co-founder of Amsterdam-based climate fintech company Carbon Equity - a VC and PE fund investing platform. Carbon Equity was founded with the mission to unlock retail capital at scale to power breakthrough climate technologies whilst enabling more equitable ownership. She is a founder turned investor turned founder, twice over obsessed with how we can leverage capital most effectively to mitigate climate change.   In this episode we talk about how Jacqueline is building an innovative platform to enable private individuals to invest in breakthrough climate tech, how to build something that outlives you, a new perspective on money greater than money itself, shared ownership structures, creating bigger value by solving bigger world problems, legacy thinking, why entrepreneurs need presence.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Jacqueline: LinkedIn Jacqueline van den Ende www.carbonequity.com   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrottwww.consciousaccelerator.com  

Jasper is an entrepreneur, adventurer, coach and wisdom seeker. He has co-founded 4 ventures that are united by a single purpose: To empower people to live their quests. When he was 1 year old he lost his mother in a car accident. This experience taught him lessons about the preciousness of life and made him want to experience life to the fullest.   In this episode we have a shared, personal conversation and talk about how we both work on integrating the loss of our mothers, how to find focus amongst so many interests and opportunities, experimenting with only telling radical truths, our experiences of removing alcohol from our lives and other life experiments, as well as Jasper’s business SoulKitchen and his “recipes for life”.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Jasper: LinkedIn Jasper Mutsaerts   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrott www.consciousaccelerator.com  

Ariana is a mental health activist and Founder of SPOKE, the UK's leading music-led mental wellness app. She believes that vast improvements can be made to society's mental health if the culture and interpretation of wellbeing tools are connected better with those who need it most - especially men. Through working with their community of notable artists, producers, and creatives, SPOKE makes taking care of the mind as easy and enjoyable as listening to your favourite music.   In this episode we talk about how purpose might not be what we think it is, the serious implications of the music we listen to (especially when our brains are still developing), why artists are the world’s natural healers and how Ariana is overturning the toxic music industry.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Ariana: Download SPOKE on the app store LinkedIn Ariana Alexander-Sefre   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrott www.consciousaccelerator.com  

Dan is the CEO of The Tech Dept and host of the podcast Honey, I Blew Up The Business (top 2.5% of all global podcasts). In the last 5 years he starred in a movie pilot, launched a 24-hour festival in London and completed The Marathon Des Sables - 6 marathons in 7 days in the Sahara, raising £14,000 for charity KidsOut.   In this episode we talk about how he blew up his business after 13 years of success and awards, the painful lesson from the universe which cracked him open, how he let go of his identity, why journaling is core to his success how, how to be a dad your daughters want to go to a festival with and his 5 elements that make up his “groove” across all areas of life.   Discover all episodes and more on www.goingconscious.com.   Connect with Dan: www.thetechdept.com/ LinkedIn Dan Kirby   Connect with Nikki: Instagram & LinkedIn @nikkitrott www.consciousaccelerator.com