Moral Footprint

Jeni Miles explores how we can realign life and work within ethical & ecological boundaries. MORAL FOOTPRINT covers climate action, post-growth economics, modern motherhood & systems change, mapping our our relationship with power, privilege and Earth's limits. Blending behavioural science & business, Jeni tackles key questions: How do we move beyond growth? How can we unlearn overconsumption and transform extractive systems? Learn more at JeniMiles.com

Moral Footprint is a society podcast hosted by Jeni Miles, with 11 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.

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  Moral Footprint

  Why the Global Economy (and Your Pension) Is Flying Blind | Anastasia Linn

  Aug 19, 202651 min

  Host Jeni Miles talks to Anastasia Linn, co-founder of the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance, about why sustainable finance is built on flawed economic foundations. They explore ecological economics, the risks facing pension funds, moral purity in climate action, and why staying inside extractive industries — not leaving them — may offer the greatest leverage for change. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Discover why neoclassical economics, the foundation of all mainstream finance, leaves nature and energy out of its models entirely. Understand the shift from an "empty world" to a "full world" economy, and why growth-based finance no longer fits planetary limits. Learn why walking away from extractive industries may be less effective than staying and using your position for change. Explore how "multi-capital" thinking (natural, social, human and manufactured capital) reframes what a secure retirement actually looks like. Hear why UK actuaries are warning that ecological collapse threatens the entire financial system, even as other institutions downplay the risk. Move beyond the trap of moral purity, and understand why shame-based climate narratives can hold back real systemic change. Find out why hope, in Anastasia's view, isn't something you wait for. It's something you build through action. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 02:31 Anastasia's journey: from design and organisational psychology into finance 07:40 What's wrong with neoclassical economics 10:40 "Empty world" vs "full world" economics 12:12 Founding the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance 15:27 Why staying inside the system can be more powerful than leaving 23:22 Moving beyond moral purity in climate action 29:58 The UK Actuaries' Planetary Solvency report & the "ground shifting" in finance 35:53 Post-growth pensions and multi-capital thinking 39:21 Why pension funds are unprepared for multiple "bubbles" 46:40 Emotional resilience, climate grief and active hope 50:12 Where to find Anastasia and the Arketa Institute ABOUT THE GUEST Anastasia Linn is co-founder of the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance. Her background spans the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, the World Climate Foundation, and the House of Beautiful Business. Follow her on Linkedin: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/avlinn LINKS & RESOURCES Arketa Institute — https://www.arketa-institute.org/ Institute and Faculty of Actuaries — Planetary Solvency report — https://actuaries.org.uk/planetary-solvency-tipping-into-the-wild-unknown/ A Tale of Two Actuaries (Matt Orsagh) — https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-actuaries Financial activism playbook & zine (Jasmine Rashid) — https://www.jasminerashid.com/ Rethinking Economics – https://rethinkeconomics.org/ Triodos Bank — https://www.triodos.co.uk/ Alexis Shotwell — https://www.alexisshotwell.com/ Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (Alexis Shotwell) — https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816698646/against-purity/ Joanna Macy — https://www.joannamacy.net/ Active Hope (Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone) — https://newworldlibrary.com/product/active-hope-revised Good Grief Network — https://goodgriefnetwork.org/ ⭐ Leave a review — it helps more people find the show Follow Jeni Miles on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/) or subscribe to the Moral Footprint Substack (https://moralfootprint.substack.com/)

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  Episode #13

  Building an Anti-Fragile Career for Climate Resilience | Lilli Graf

  Jul 28, 202642 min

  Jeni Miles speaks with Lilli Graf, founder of IMMA Collective, about why climate resilience begins with how you make a living. Drawing on regenerative business principles and antifragility, Lilli explains how solopreneurship, community and redefining "enough" can help purpose-driven professionals build careers that don't just survive uncertainty, but grow stronger because of it. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Identify the single biggest lever for personal resilience: Lilli found that, of work, finances, location, family and community, how you make a living has the greatest impact. Distinguish resilience from antifragility — bouncing back versus growing stronger through stress, drawing on Nassim Taleb's Antifragile. Apply the barbell strategy to career risk: keep 80% secure and channel 20% into high-conviction experimentation. Reframe scarcity as a learnt capitalist mindset, and define your own version of "enough" rather than chasing endless growth. Build community as infrastructure — solopreneurs who connect and collaborate become "antifragile forests" rather than isolated trees. Recognise that failure only happens if you stop trying; fast, cheap failures are how regenerative businesses redesign themselves. Prioritise the quality of relationships over scale, especially as AI reshapes how solo businesses are built and differentiated. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Introduction: realigning careers towards a resilient, regenerative future 01:18 — Leaving a stable corporate job to follow climate resilience 04:27 — From freelancing to founding IMMA Collective 07:41 — Realising climate resilience is personal, not just organisational 10:00 — How you make a living is the biggest lever for resilience 10:27 — Resilience vs antifragility: lessons from Nassim Taleb 13:21 — AI, English as a third language, and levelling the playing field 14:03 — What working in climate resilience looks like in practice 16:48 — The barbell strategy: 80% safe, 20% high-conviction risk 19:52 — The "Robin Hood strategy" for funding purpose-led work 20:58 — Redefining "enough" and challenging scarcity mindsets 23:35 — Why Lilli turned down outside investment 26:53 — IMMA as a food forest, not a monoculture startup 30:34 — Can existing businesses shift towards regenerative models? 33:26 — Coping with the emotional weight of systemic change 39:27 — Advice for anyone considering the leap into solopreneurship 41:25 — Closing thoughts and thanks ABOUT THE GUEST: Lilli Graf is the founder of IMMA Collective, a global community helping purpose-driven solopreneurs build sustainable client pipelines. Her background is in service design, working previously with major London design agencies on venture building. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Moral Footprint on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube so you never miss a conversation. ⭐ If this episode gave you something to think about, leave a review! Want more? Follow Jeni on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/ Subscribe to the Moral Footprint Substack: https://moralfootprint.substack.com/ RESOURCES: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book) — the book behind Lilli's barbell strategy and antifragility thinking Love & Order (Eliza Yvette Esquivel): https://www.love-and-order.com/ — foresight and Protopian leadership practice for visionary organisations SporeSight: https://www.sporesight.co/ — Jess's work applying fungi-inspired thinking to regenerative futures Elise Ford: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elise-ford-59a75157/ — specialist in polarisation and collaborative leadership capacity Caroline Harris: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/caroline-harris-7a791117 — IMMA member helping people clarify their next career step Radhika Bhatt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radhika-bhatt/ — IMMA member specialising in freelance and solopreneurship clarity Work With Source by Tom Nixon: https://tomnixon.co.uk/ Inner Development Goals: https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/

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  Episode #12

  Post-Growth Business, Patagonia's Ownership Revolution & The Wealth Siphon | Dr Jennifer Hinton

  May 20, 202654 min

  What if business was designed for people, not profit? That's the question at the heart of this conversation between Jeni Miles and ecological economist Dr Jennifer Hinton — and the answer might be more radical, and more hopeful, than you expect.Dr Hinton argues that inequality and ecological breakdown aren't the result of bad actors or poor leadership. They're the inevitable output of a business system structurally designed to extract and accumulate private wealth. Swap the CEO, tighten the regulations, launch another ESG initiative — and the system keeps doing exactly what it was built to do.The alternative? Not-for-profit business structures that stop the wealth siphon before it even begins — making economies distributive by design rather than trying to redistribute wealth after the fact. Drawing on her five-dimension post-growth business framework, Dr Hinton walks through what genuinely transformative business looks like — from steward ownership models to Patagonia's ownership revolution, to what democratic governance and relocalisation could look like next.They also get into the circular economy's blind spot (you can't keep growing the circle on a finite planet), why 86% of corporate workers privately support post-growth practices but underestimate their peers' support, and what Big Tech might look like if it was structured as public infrastructure rather than private empire. KEY TAKEAWAYS The relationship to profit is the most fundamental layer of any business — everything else flows from it Even good people behave poorly in bad systems — structural change matters more than individual ethics Not-for-profit business structures stop the wealth siphon before it begins — distributive by design Swapping the CEO cannot fix a structurally broken system Patagonia's ownership transformation is a real-world blueprint — and democratic governance could take it further 86% of UK for-profit professionals support post-growth practices but underestimate their peers' support A post-growth working week could mean shorter hours, stronger communities, and a genuinely circular local economy ABOUT DR JENNIFER HINTON Dr Jennifer Hinton is an ecological economist, systems researcher, and co-author of How on Earth. Her post-growth business framework bridges micro and macro economics to diagnose — and redesign — the structures driving our global crises.jenniferhinton.org LINKS & RESOURCES How on Earth — howonearth.usKate Raworth — kateraworth.com Doughnut Economics Action Lab — doughnuteconomics.org Steward Ownership — steward-ownership.com/en Purpose Economy — purpose-economy.org/en Upstream Podcast, Part 1 episode on worker co-ops — https://www.upstreampodcast.org/workercoops1 Della Duncan — dellazduncan.com Luke Kemp, Cambridge — cser.ac.uk/team/luke-kemp Digital Degrowth, Michael Kwet — plutobooks.com/product/digital-degrowth House of Hackney: houseofhackney.com/pages/nature-our-director FOLLOW JENI MILES LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/jenifisher Substack — moralfootprint.substack.com

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  Episode #11

  Stakeholder Solidarity & the Silence Within: Reflections from World Beautiful Business Forum

  May 14, 202616 min

  Behavioural scientist and business consultant Jeni Miles reflects on the World Beautiful Business Forum in Athens and shares the talk she gave as part of its Ministry of Regeneration track. Drawing on a (preprint) study with over 400 UK for-profit managers, she reveals a striking paradox: the majority privately support post-growth business practices and believe business must operate within planetary and social limits. Yet most assume their peers don't support these views, silencing a consensus that already exists. She also examines why the governance structures most businesses take for granted are profoundly undemocratic, and what it would actually mean to design stakeholder solidarity into the legal architecture of a company. Full show notes, links and resources: https://moralfootprint.substack.com KEY TAKEAWAYS Discover how 92-93% of UK business managers support doughnut economy principles Understand how pluralistic ignorance silences the corporate majority and preserves the status quo Learn how two billionaire founders can legally override the preferences of 160,000 employees Explore real precedents for democratic business governance, from German co-determination law to multi-stakeholder cooperatives Challenge the assumption that mission-led for-profit companies can reliably put purpose before profit Recognise how big tech's retreat from climate commitments in favour of AI infrastructure locks in irreversible emissions LINKS & RESOURCES Bayo Akomolafe https://www.bayoakomolafe.net World Beautiful Business Forum https://houseofbeautifulbusiness.com/world-beautiful-business-forum Dr Dario Krpan (LSE) https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/dario-krpan Dr Frédéric Basso (LSE) https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/frederic-basso Kate Raworth- author of Doughnut Economics https://www.kateraworth.com DrJennifer Hinto (ecological economist) https://jenniferhinton.org Dr Luke Kemp (societal collapse researcher) https://www.cser.ac.uk/team/luke-kemp House of Hackney, who legally appointed a Mother Nature and Future Generations Director to their board https://www.houseofhackney.com Extinction Rebellion https://extinctionrebellion.uk Doughnut Economics Action Lab https://doughnuteconomics.org The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens https://www.thegreatsimplification.com Google and natural gas — Distilled Earth https://www.distilled.earth/p/google-is-weighing-natural-gas-without Meta funds ten natural gas plants for AI — Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/03/31/meta-funds-ten-natural-gas-plants-to-power-its-largest-ai-campus/ FOLLOW JENI MILES LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/ Substack: https://moralfootprint.substack.com Subscribe, leave a review and share with someone who needs to hear this, thank you!

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  Episode #10

  Polycollapse and the Future of Business Strategy | Alice Kalro

  Sep 16, 202546 minS0

  <p>Alice Kalro joins host Jeni Miles to explore why traditional businesses fail to transform amidst systemic breakdown. As founder of arkH3 and lead author of "Leading Through the Polycollapse," Alice believes that conventional corporate sustainability approaches amount to "fairy tales" disconnected from planetary realities.</p><p>Key Takeaways:</p><p>Understand that polycollapse describes multiple interrelated breakdown processes across environmental, economic, and social systems</p><p>Recognise that conventional sustainability approaches focused on "doing less harm" remain fundamentally inadequate</p><p>Accept that financial system collapse may occur in the 2030s, preceding full ecological breakdown</p><p>Prepare for...

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