High Net Purpose
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<p>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’. </p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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July 30, 2026
The "Prime" Mind - Greg Greeley
<p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Greg shares:</strong></p><p> </p><p> Why his definition of purpose is simple: give back more than you take</p><p> What he learned building Amazon Prime alongside Jeff Bezos and the team</p><p> How childhood adversity and family bankruptcy shaped his appetite for risk</p><p> Why the best leaders stay obsessed with customers, not competitors</p><p> Why transformation requires builders, not just operators</p><p> How AI is changing leadership, decision-making and long-term value creation</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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?</p><p> </p><p><strong>Greg Greeley | Bio</strong></p><p>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.</p><br><p>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”.</p><br><p>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.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 25, 2026
The "Pocket Money Pioneer" - Louise Hill
<p>What if teaching kids about money was the smartest economic policy we have?</p><br><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><br><p>Key talking points</p><p>• Founding GoHenry in her forties as a working mum, inspired by her own children.</p><p>• Breaking the Crowdcube world record for equity crowdfunding.</p><p>• Raising over $100m, and the reality of fundraising as a female founder.</p><p>• Scaling across the UK, the US and Europe, and selling the business twice.</p><p>• The campaign to put financial education on the primary curriculum.</p><p>• Why money habits form young, and what the gap before 2028 means for kids.</p><p>• Staying steady through the hardest moments of building a company.</p><br><p>Connect with Louise on LinkedIn</p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-hill-5197614/</p><br><p>GoHenry / Acorns Early - kids financial education app</p><p>https://www.acorns.com/early/</p><br><p>Edison Partners - led GoHenry's Series A round</p><p>https://www.edisonpartners.com</p><br><p>University of St Andrews - financial behavioural insights research</p><p>https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk</p><br><p>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.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
May 28, 2026
The "Impact Pioneer" - Sir Ronald Cohen
<p>Welcome to the hotseat where Joe McCarthy sits with Sir Ronald Cohen, co-founder of Apax Partners, Chair of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, and author of IMPACT.</p><br><p>Sir Ronald is widely regarded as the father of both European venture capital and impact investing. He arrived in London as an 11-year-old refugee from Egypt speaking almost no English, made his way to Oxford and Harvard, and went on to build one of the defining venture and private equity firms of its generation before stepping away to devote himself to what he calls the impact revolution.</p><br><p>His argument is simple and radical: governments are stretched, inequality is widening, and relying on taxation and philanthropy alone has failed. The answer is to redirect the trillions already moving through capital markets by measuring impact the way we measure profit. In this conversation he explains why 2026 is a watershed year for that idea, and how AI is changing what is possible.</p><br><p>In this conversation, Sir Ronald and Joe discuss the following topics:</p><ul><li>Why optimising for impact is a route to superior returns, not a trade-off</li><li>The hidden risks of impact-blind investing: carbon taxes, consumer flight, and talent</li><li>Why carbon tax is the single lever that moves the dial on emissions</li><li>How impact-weighted accounting turns tons of carbon and water into monetary value</li><li>The 1929-to-GAAP parallel and why transparency built modern markets</li><li>What Harry Markowitz and the measurement of risk teach us about measuring impact</li><li>Whether public market sustainable investing has any real additionality</li><li>Measuring social impact: pay, representation, and the cost of unemployment to a community</li><li>Where AI meets impact, from education at scale to the first AI-derived drug</li><li>How families and family offices should build impact at the portfolio level</li><li>Governments shifting from funding inputs to paying for outcomes</li><li>His advice to a younger self: start young, think big, stick with it, and bring impact to it</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Follow us on:</p><p>YouTube: @HighNetPurpose</p><p>Instagram: @highnetpurpose</p><p>Twitter: @HighNetPurpose</p><p>LinkedIn: high-net-purpose</p><br><p>Connect with Sir Ronald Cohen:</p><p>LinkedIn: Sir Ronald Cohen</p><p>Website: sirronaldcohen.org</p><br><p>Books: IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change (2nd expanded edition, 2025), The Second Bounce of the Ball, ON IMPACT</p><br><p>00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview</p><p> 02:33 Sir Ronald's Sense of Purpose</p><p> 05:18 Refugee Roots and Early Life</p><p> 06:44 Oxford Union and Learning to Speak Without Notes</p><p> 09:14 From McKinsey to Founding Apax Partners</p><p> 10:38 Building European Venture Capital from Scratch</p><p> 11:48 Deciding to Leave Apax at 60</p><p> 13:02 The Government Call That Started the Impact Mission</p><p> 15:36 The Social Impact Bond - From Idea to Peterborough</p><p> 17:57 Challenges and Surprises in the Impact Journey</p><p> 20:03 Why Impact Is Not a Trade-Off for Returns</p><p> 22:54 Carbon Tax as an Investor Risk</p><p> 24:52 Consumer Preferences - Cycle vs Long-Term Trend</p><p> 28:12 Impact Weighted Accounting - Origins and How It Works</p><p> 33:24 From ESG 1.0 to Rigorous Impact Measurement</p><p> 35:27 Additionality in Public Markets</p><p> 38:10 Leaders and Laggards - Sector-Level Impact Transparency</p><p> 41:36 How AI Is Unlocking Impact Data at Scale</p><p> 44:00 Monetising Social Impact - Diversity Deficits and Employment</p><p> 46:58 Impact Lenses Across the Whole Portfolio</p><p> 51:06 Advice for Families and Entrepreneurs Deploying Capital</p><p> 55:53 Where to Go for Reliable Impact Information</p><p> 58:23 Governments, Outcomes Funds and the Systemic Shift</p><p> 01:03:13 Advice to a Younger Self - and the Second Bounce of the Ball</p><p> 01:04:07 How Sir Ronald Stays Energised</p><p> 01:05:29 Closing Reflections</p><br><p>This podcast is prepared by Islandbridge Capital Limited who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.</p><br><p>All content on High Net Purpose is provided as general information only. It does not constitute any advice or recommendation or representations, and is not intended to influence listeners or users into making any specific investments or any other decisions.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is High Net Purpose?
<p>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’. </p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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