High Net Purpose

About High Net Purpose

Most of us are in pursuit of purpose, but it can be especially hard to bring purpose into your business. On this show, we invite growing businesses and industry leaders to share their purpose and give us ‘the pitch’. We want to find out how entrepreneurs and global leaders in our network are allocating capital in a more responsible and purposeful way. But more importantly, we want to know what isn’t in the pitch deck. Joe McCarthy hits his guests with the hard questions in order to find the paradoxes and nuances in their pitches. High Net Purpose is hosted by Joe McCarthy, founder of Islandbridge, a company focused on helping highly successful people allocate their capital in a meaningful way. Whilst traditional investing is often solely focused on the accruement of more wealth, Joe has been working hard to shift the focus to purpose-led investing and show that’s it’s not black and white, but it is worth it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Islandbridge

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Aug 2023

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   The "Life Weaver" - Lynda Gratton

   What if the career ladder is the wrong model for a life that may last 100 years? Professor Lynda Gratton joins Joe McCarthy on High Net Purpose to discuss the problem hiding inside one of humanity’s greatest gifts: many of us will live and work far longer than the lives and careers we inherited were designed for. The old model was simple. Education, work, retirement. A ladder to climb. Lynda’s alternative is more demanding and more hopeful: stop climbing and start weaving. That means building a life across mastery, judgement, cooperation, relationships, calm and adventure. Some threads keep us productive. Others stop a productive life becoming a rather efficient form of burnout. Lynda and Joe explore why curiosity and judgement become more valuable as AI makes knowledge cheaper; why expertise still requires practice and difficult feedback; what companies misunderstand about age and development; why friendship cannot be bought late in life; and what our future selves may wish we had protected now. Along the way, Lynda reflects on the father who taught her not to conform, the personal stories that changed how she writes, 40 years at London Business School, and the questions that have driven her career. This is a conversation about using more years well, rather than merely filling them. HNP website: https://www.highnetpurpose.com/ (https://www.highnetpurpose.com/) All social platforms: https://linktr.ee/highnetpurpose (https://linktr.ee/highnetpurpose) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   30 Jul 2026

   The "Prime" Mind - Greg Greeley

   In this episode of High Net Purpose, Joe McCarthy sits down with Greg Greeley, CEO of Simon & Schuster and former Amazon and Airbnb leader, for a conversation about purpose, customer obsession, Amazon Prime, transformation, AI and legacy. Greg describes purpose as giving back to society more than you take by building companies that serve customers, suppliers, employees and stakeholders. The conversation moves from his childhood in a farming community and the bankruptcy that shaped his appetite for risk, through Amazon’s dot-com-era pressure and the creation of Prime, to his current role leading Simon & Schuster through a period of change. Greg shares: Why his definition of purpose is simple: give back more than you take What he learned building Amazon Prime alongside Jeff Bezos and the team How childhood adversity and family bankruptcy shaped his appetite for risk Why the best leaders stay obsessed with customers, not competitors Why transformation requires builders, not just operators How AI is changing leadership, decision-making and long-term value creation If you're a senior operator, founder, family office principal, or leader navigating uncertainty, this episode will challenge how you think about purpose, growth and long-term impact. The practical test at the centre of the episode is simple: are you building something that will outlast you, and are you building the team that can carry it forward? Greg Greeley | Bio Greg Greeley is Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, the 102-year-old publisher now operating as an independent company. He grew up in a small farming community, where his father moved from selling insurance to farmers into running restaurants - an entrepreneurial household whose later bankruptcy, just as Greg left for college, taught him self-reliance and shaped his appetite for doing hard things. Trained as an engineer with a computer systems degree and an MBA in finance, Greg began his career in aerospace before moving to Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s. In 1999 he left Sun - then at the top of its game - to join Amazon, initially in finance for worldwide operations. Over nearly two decades at Amazon he led the worldwide media business through the digital transition, created Super Saver Shipping, and was central to the creation and global expansion of Amazon Prime. He went on to join Airbnb in a senior leadership role during its period of hyper-growth, and today applies that builder's playbook to publishing, where he is focused on making a century-old company “work like a 102-year-old startup”. He describes his purpose simply: to give back to society more than you take by building great companies - and to be remembered as a builder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   25 Jun 2026

   The "Pocket Money Pioneer" - Louise Hill

   What if teaching kids about money was the smartest economic policy we have? Louise Hill did not set out to build a fintech. She set out to solve a problem in her own home. Watching her young children spend money they could not really see, she realised there was nothing to teach the next generation how to handle money in a digital world. That gap became GoHenry, the app that has helped millions of families teach their kids to earn, save, spend and invest. In this episode of High Net Purpose, Louise tells Joe McCarthy the whole story. Founding a company in her forties as a working mum. Breaking the world record for equity crowdfunding. Building across the UK, the US and Europe. And the campaign that put financial education on the primary school curriculum in England. She is honest about the hard parts too, the fundraising rooms, the weight of being the person everything rested on, and what kept her going. It is a conversation about purpose, about impact, and about building something that lasts. Key talking points • Founding GoHenry in her forties as a working mum, inspired by her own children. • Breaking the Crowdcube world record for equity crowdfunding. • Raising over $100m, and the reality of fundraising as a female founder. • Scaling across the UK, the US and Europe, and selling the business twice. • The campaign to put financial education on the primary curriculum. • Why money habits form young, and what the gap before 2028 means for kids. • Staying steady through the hardest moments of building a company. Connect with Louise on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-hill-5197614/ GoHenry / Acorns Early - kids financial education app https://www.acorns.com/early/ Edison Partners - led GoHenry's Series A round https://www.edisonpartners.com University of St Andrews - financial behavioural insights research https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk Louise Hill is Founder and Executive Chair of GoHenry, the money app helping kids learn to earn, save, spend and invest. She co-founded the business in 2012 and built it from the ground up, expanding to the US in 2018, acquiring French fintech Pixpay in 2022, and merging with US fintech Acorns in 2023. A passionate advocate for financial education, she campaigned for years to make it compulsory in primary schools in England, with success. It joins the curriculum from September 2028. She appeared as an expert judge on The Apprentice (Series 19), sits on Innovate Finance’s Unicorn Council for UK FinTech, is a Board Advisor to The Payments Association, and is a dedicated mentor of female founders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

27 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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