Journey To Regeneration

Journey to Regeneration explores how forward-looking companies create long-term advantage by repairing the ecological and social systems they rely on. Hosted by Cambridge professor Christopher Marquis, the show features CEOs, sustainability strategists, climate innovators, and scholars who turn big ideas into actionable moves—unpacking what “net positive” really looks like, the policies accelerating the shift, and the practical hurdles leaders face on the ground. It’s a show for decision-makers who want to create resilient growth without greenwashing.

Journey To Regeneration is a business podcast hosted by Chris Marquis, with 50 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Chris Marquis hosts Journey To Regeneration, a business show with 50 episodes published.

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  Steward Ownership: Redesigning Business for Long-Term Purpose

  Aug 13, 202631 min

  In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Esther Welles, co-founder of We Are Stewards, an organization advancing steward ownership as a new approach to business governance and long-term purpose. Steward ownership challenges the assumption that companies must ultimately be controlled by financial owners seeking maximum returns. Instead, it separates voting rights from economic rights so that control remains with people committed to protecting the company’s mission. Esther explains why ownership structures are often overlooked in sustainability discussions, even though they determine whether regenerative commitments can survive changes in leadership, investment, and market pressures. The conversation explores examples including Patagonia, Bosch, Novo Nordisk, and steward-owned companies in Denmark and the Netherlands, as well as different models such as foundation ownership, shareholder foundations, and golden shares. Esther also discusses the challenges entrepreneurs face when transitioning ownership, the importance of mission-aligned investors, and the need to educate lawyers, financial advisors, and other ecosystem actors about alternative ownership models. The discussion highlights a broader question for regenerative business: if companies are meant to create long-term value for society and the planet, how should ownership itself be redesigned to support that purpose? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  True Pricing: Making the Hidden Costs of Business Visible

  Aug 4, 202637 min

  In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Michel Scholte and Claire Hegarty from True Price, an organization working to transform how businesses and societies understand value by accounting for the hidden social and environmental costs embedded in products and supply chains. We discuss the concept of true pricing — a methodology that identifies impacts such as carbon emissions, water use, soil degradation, poverty wages, and labor exploitation, and what products would cost if these impacts were prevented, repaired, or compensated for. Drawing on examples like bananas, coffee, chocolate, textiles, and other products, Michel and Claire explain how true pricing can reveal risks that companies often overlook and help reshape procurement, consumer choices, and public policy. They explore how businesses can move beyond sustainability reporting toward changing the economic systems that create environmental and social harm, while also addressing important questions around responsibility, affordability, and collective action. The conversation offers a deeper look at how pricing mechanisms can support a more regenerative economy by aligning markets with the real costs of production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Giving Nature a Voice: Brontie Ansell on Building a Legal System for Nature

  Jul 30, 202639 min

  In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Brontie Ansell, Managing Director and co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, about how legal systems can be transformed to recognize nature as more than an object of regulation. Brontie explains the foundations of the rights of nature movement, arguing that traditional environmental law has often focused on human interests rather than recognizing ecosystems as having intrinsic value and the need for representation. The conversation explores how this perspective can reshape decision-making in governments and businesses, including Lawyers for Nature’s work introducing nature representatives into corporate governance through initiatives such as Faith in Nature’s appointment of nature as a board director. Brontie also discusses the practical challenges of adapting rights of nature principles across different legal systems, the influence of Indigenous perspectives, and the importance of changing cultural understandings of humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Rather than framing regeneration as a conflict between business and environmental protection, she highlights how bringing nature into decision-making can help organizations consider new possibilities, manage long-term risks, and create more resilient systems. This conversation offers a compelling perspective on how law, governance, and business can evolve to reflect our deeper interdependence with the living world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Rethinking Who Owns the Value a Business Creates with Hans van den Broek of The Shore

  Jul 22, 202633 min

  In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Chris Marquis speaks with Hans van den Broek, founder of The Shore, a surf school and organic café in Scheveningen, and a participant in the Netherlands’ Sleipnir network of steward-owned businesses. Van den Broek traces The Shore’s unlikely development from a tiny seasonal surf operation into a valuable year-round beach business, explaining how public permits, real estate, and investor interest forced him to confront questions about where business value comes from and who should benefit from it. Rather than sell equity and create pressure to recover the purchase price through higher margins, cheaper inputs, or reduced labor costs, he transferred the company’s capital into the Sleipnir Foundation. The structure preserves entrepreneurial autonomy while preventing the business from being sold for private gain. The conversation examines ownership as a frequently overlooked constraint on sustainability, as well as the implications of steward ownership for financing, succession, profit, and governance. Van den Broek describes Sleipnir as a form of “business permaculture,” in which independent companies share capital, advice, and practical resources while returning surplus value to the social and ecological systems that enable their success. His experience suggests that regenerative business may depend not only on changing what companies produce, but also on redesigning who owns them and where the value they generate is allowed to flow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Ocaquatics, Employee Ownership, and the Ripples of Impact

  Jul 16, 202635 min

  In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Miren Oca, founder and CEO of Ocaquatics Swim School, a Miami-based company that has taught more than 3.2 million swim lessons while building a business around safety, employee development, environmental responsibility, and community access. Oca reflects on how a company she began in survival mode as a 19-year-old student evolved into a certified B Corp and, more recently, an employee-owned company through an employee ownership trust. The conversation explores what it means to build regenerative capacity in a service business with a real environmental footprint, from solar panels and pool covers to formalized employee loan programs and impact measurement. It also examines swimming as a public-safety and equity issue in Miami-Dade County, where access to lessons can shape whether children and families are safe around water. At its heart, this episode is about succession, stewardship, and redefining ROI—not only as financial return, but as the ripples of impact a business creates for workers, customers, communities, and the places it calls home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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