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Andrea Hiott in conversation with investor Jenna Nicholas.

Jenna discusses her book The Enlightened Bottom Line and how spirituality, love, and purpose can inform investing and business rather than oppose them. She traces formative experiences from ages 11–14 in a Swiss “Transformation for Peace” program and speaking at Commonwealth Day in Westminster Abbey, including meeting Desmond Tutu, to the confidence instilled by her mother and grandmother, faith, and a lifelong practice of hosting “Saturdays at Jen’s” discussion groups.

After moving from London to Stanford, she was inspired by social entrepreneurs, worked on socially responsible investing in China with mentor Wayne Silby (Calvert Funds), and later organized experiences and interviews exploring profit–purpose paradoxes. She describes practices like symbolic objects to bridge divides, dreams-based decision-making in the Amazon, and a HEAL framework (Hope, Empathy, Abundance, Legacy), emphasizing pauses, stewardship, seven-generation thinking, and money as “currency” valuable when in motion.

Find Jenna’s book The Enlightened Bottom Line here.

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00:00 Welcome and Book Setup

00:25 Teen Years and Abbey Speech

02:25 Tutu High Five and Lasting Joy

04:01 the Women Who Raised Her

06:48 Holding Paradox in Community

08:56 From Stanford to Impact Investing

11:40 Choosing Stanford by Fate

14:43 Wayne Silby and Legacy Shift

17:18 Bhutan and Business of Happiness

19:24 Enoughness and Inner Compass

22:52 Saturdays at Jens Conversations

25:14 Fierce Love in Organizations

27:25 Creating Listening Spaces

28:03 Building Impact Experience

28:40 Coal Meets Solar Values

30:13 Redefining Money Capital

34:00 Heal Framework Questions

35:37 Hope Empathy Abundance

37:16 Playful Abundance Wand

40:04 Amazon Dream Circles

43:03 Death Joy Legacy

46:31 Stewardship Seven Generations

49:02 Reflection Questions Pauses

52:40 Grandmother Loving Kindness

55:37 Honoring Stories Love

57:15 Podcast Farewell

The Enlightened Bottom Line by Jenna Nicholas

Jenna’s Substack is here.

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Books discussed in addition to the Enlightened Bottom Line:

InnSaei: the Icelandic Art of Intuition by Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir

The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

📍 Hey, everyone. You're listening to Love and Philosophy. This is Andrea Hiott. I'm a philosopher. I'm a professor. a student. I'm a walker. Every now and then, I'm even still a poet. I'm trained in neuroscience, and I love the hippocampus, which is a little seahorse-shaped area of your brain known for memory and movement. For over a decade, I've been working on a philosophy of mind that's navigational, in a nutshell, that means minds are...

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#87 the Money Koan: towards a new philosophy of curren(t)cy and care with investor Jenna Nicholas

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#87 the Money Koan: towards a new philosophy of curren(t)cy and care with investor Jenna Nicholas