Conscious Investing: What it Means and Why it is Matters with Eva Yazhari

Eva Yazhari is a seasoned investor, a conscious entrepreneur, an author, and the general partner of Beyond Capital Ventures, an early-stage impact venture capital fund offering a diversified portfolio of early-stage purpose-driven companies in need-to-have sectors in emerging markets. Previously, Yazhari was vice president at EnTrust Capital Inc. Her team invested over $5 billion in top hedge funds. She specialized in due diligence, underlying fund portfolio analysis, and shareholder activism.In this episode, Eva walks us through the definition of ESGs, impact investing, and conscious investing. She dives into the importance of defining your personal values in order to align them with conscious investments that truly matter to you, and she also shares with us several resources to jumpstart your conscious investments. Listen in![00:01 – 04:14] Opening SegmentWelcoming Eva to the showEva shares about her experience[04:15 – 22:17] Becoming a Conscious Investor Defining what ESG isEnvironment, social, and government investingMore passive than impact investing Defining what Conscious Investing isOpening the discussion that ESG is not enough The importance of liquidity in a portfolio Different ways to become a conscious investorImportance of defining your values before investing Very personal What are you passionate about?Best practices to deep dive in existing investmentsAreas that require philanthropy supportWhat conscious investing can give that philanthropy cant[22:18 – 31:43] The Language of Money Seeing money as one element of wealthPutting impact and financial return on the same plane Importance of transparency and building relationshipsPracticing wealth consciousnessWealth is more than money [31:43 – 45:36] Closing SegmentThe journey of finding opportunitiesConscious investing resources and recommendationsHow you can connect with Eva Closing wordsResources Mentioned: Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through BusinessCoached with Keren EldadThe FlipAfrica DailyHow I Built This by Guy RazTweetable Quotes“The first step is really defining your values. What are you passionate about? I mean, I think the trickiest part about impact is that it is so personal. And we are used to investing in a way that is relatively commoditized, templated, process driven..” - Eva Yazhari“Sit there and ask yourself, do you want to own those companies? Do you believe that the leaders of those companies are conscious? Are they thinking about all stakeholders?” - Eva Yazhari------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with Eva :Website: www.thegoodyourmoneycando.comIG: @consciousinvestorLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-yazhari/Connect with me:LinkedInLIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND LEAVE US  A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on. Thank you for tuning in and Stay Tuned for the Next Episode COMING SOON! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.