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 (https://www.jenimiles.com)
Why the Global Economy (and Your Pension) Is Flying Blind | Anastasia Linn
Host Jeni Miles interviews Anastasia Linn, co-founder of the Arketa Institute, about flawed economic foundations and how staying within extractive industries offers greater leverage for change.
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Building an Anti-Fragile Career for Climate Resilience | Lilli Graf
Jeni Miles interviews Lilli Graf, founder of IMMA Collective, about building antifragile careers that thrive through climate uncertainty by embracing solopreneurship and redefining "enough."
20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Post-Growth Business, Patagonia's Ownership Revolution & The Wealth Siphon | Dr Jennifer Hinton
Jeni Miles interviews ecological economist Dr Jennifer Hinton about post-growth business models and Patagonia's ownership revolution, revealing how to design economies for people, not just profit.
14 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Stakeholder Solidarity & the Silence Within: Reflections from World Beautiful Business Forum
Behavioral scientist and business consultant Jeni Miles discusses how widespread support for post-growth business practices remains silent due to perceived peer disapproval, offering insights into democratic governance and stakeholder solidarity.
16 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
Polycollapse and the Future of Business Strategy | Alice Kalro
Alice Kalro, founder of arkH3, discusses with host Jeni Miles how businesses must abandon conventional sustainability approaches and transform core models to address interconnected environmental, economic, and social breakdowns, in this interview.
30 Jul 2025
From Systems Thinking to Systems Feeling: Transforming Business with Donnie Maclurcan
Post-growth economist Donnie Maclurcan discusses with host Jeni Miles how shifting from systems thinking to systems feeling transforms business and counters extractive capitalism through embodied wisdom, in this interview.
11 Jul 2025
Rethinking NGOs and Silicon Valley VC in Africa with Joy Njeri
Joy Njeri discusses with Jeni Miles how current development models create dependency in Africa, exposing how Western funding perpetuates colonial patterns in humanitarian and venture capital sectors in this interview.
18 Jun 2025
Democracy's Illusion: Building Real Power with Siobhan Strode
Advocacy consultant Siobhan Strode discusses with host Jeni Miles how corporate interests capture the electoral system, offering resistance strategies and ways to build community power in this interview.
11 Jun 2025
Beyond Growth: Transforming Capitalism to Planetary Stability with Physicist-Economist Erald Kolasi
Host Jeni Miles interviews physicist and economist Erald Kolasi, who challenges listeners to view the ecological crisis through thermodynamics, asserting that our economic system fundamentally clashes with Earth's physical laws.
15 May 2025
Coloniality vs Connection: Transforming Business Through Relational Intelligence with Ryan (Ra) James
Transformative leader and educator Ryan (Ra) James (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanrajames8) joins host Jeni Miles (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/) to discuss how we can move from a transactional world to one based on relationship and genuine connection.
Ryan explains why most sustainability efforts are merely iterations rather than true innovations, challenges our war-based business language, and offers a powerful alternative: relational intelligence. Discover why he believes gratitude must go beyond concept to action and why our external climate crisis mirrors our internal disconnection.
From his transition from finance graduate to global wisdom seeker, Ryan provides practical ways to reconnect with what sustains us.
Whether you're a business leader, sustainability professional, or simply seeking a more meaningful relationship with our planet, this conversation will transform how you think about innovation, progress, and your place in the web of life.
People and Resources Mentioned
Vandana Shiva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva)
Kumu Ramsey (https://www.ramsaytaum.com/)
Abraham Maslow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow)
The Siksika people/Blackfoot Nation (https://siksikanation.com/)
Carl Jung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung)
Martin Prechtel (https://floweringmountain.com/)
The Dalai Lama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama)
Rights of Nature movement (https://www.garn.org/)
Learn more about Ryan via his website (https://rajames.co/), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/_ryanrajames/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanrajames8) or his business-as-usual un/school (Re)Biz (https://www.rebiz.io/).
Follow host Jeni Miles on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/) or subscribe to the Moral Footprint Substack (https://moralfootprint.substack.com/).
15 Apr 2025
Beyond Individualism to Collective Liberation with Keri Jarvis
Developmental coach Keri Jarvis (https://www.kerijarvis.com/) (also co-founder of Southend Care Bank (https://southendcarebank.org/) and Parents for Future (https://parentsforfuture.org.uk/) co-ordinator) joins host Jeni Miles (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/) to discuss how motherhood radicalised her thinking and how community sustains her work.Together, they explore feminist business practices, the false promises of "girl boss" culture & practical ways to foster genuine connection in a system designed to keep us isolated.LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Nora Bateson – Combining (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9781913743857)
Lola Olufemi – Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9781914221057)
Barbara Ehrenreich – Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9781783787531)
Jason Hickel – Less is More (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9781786091215)
Sylvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9780241532539)
The Book on Fire podcast (https://pod.link/1451873662\)
Robin Wall Kimmerer – The Service Berry (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9780241721308)
Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez – Your Money or Your Life (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9780143115762)
Do It Like A Mother Studio (https://doitlikeamother.co.uk/about-do-it-like-a-mother/)
Southend Care Bank (https://southendcarebank.org/)
Bear Hebert (https://www.bearcoaches.com/)’s Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching
Keri’s Composting Program (https://collective.jointheportal.com/course/composting-membership ) – The Portal Collective (https://collective.jointheportal.com/)
8 Apr 2025
From Individual Climate Guilt to Collective Ethical Action with Dr Alexis Shotwell
Philosopher and professor Dr Alexis Shotwell joins Moral Footprint host Jeni Miles to explore ethical living in an imperfect world.
Discover why the concept of "carbon footprint" was created by corporations to shift climate responsibility to individuals and how to move beyond eco-guilt toward meaningful collective action.
We discuss ethical consumption challenges, the myth of purity in sustainable living, and practical approaches to environmental ethics without perfectionism.
Alexis shares insights on transforming climate anxiety into solidarity, the importance of care work in creating sustainable communities, and how fiction helps us imagine alternative futures. Learn strategies for navigating ethical dilemmas and embracing imperfection as a pathway to more effective collective change and climate justice.
Resources and people mentioned
Against Purity (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9780816698646) by Alexis Shotwell (https://www.alexisshotwell.com/)
Alexis is currently writing a book with Killian Yorg (https://www.kilianj.org/) called 'An Ecology of Morals’. Read a recent joint article about Moralizing (https://theconversation.com/how-rebellion-against-moralizing-has-become-a-surprising-rallying-point-for-the-political-right-250549) on The Conversation
Jo Walton (https://www.patreon.com/bluejo), friend and science-fiction writer who says that science fiction is not helping us practice for the future that will come. It's helping us practice to be surprised by the future, to generate a future that was not predicted by the current situation.
Alan Sears (https://bookshop.org/contributors/alan-sears-7ce535ae-336d-4408-ae98-6ab9266ac8e3?aid=15447), a sociologist who talks about the neoliberal deskilling of collectivity (The Next New Left (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9781552666647))
Thinking in Systems (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9781603580557) by Donella Meadows (https://donellameadows.org/)
Braiding sweetgrass (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9780141991955) by Robin Wall Kimmerer (https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/)
Wages for Housework (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9780241502907) by Emily Kallaci
Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-half-built-garden-ruthanna-emrys/7073417)
The Dispossessed (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15447/9781473228412) by Ursula K Le Guin (https://www.ursulakleguin.com/)
Claudia Card (https://uk.bookshop.org/search?keywords=Claudia+Card&aid=15447) - philosopher whose work suggests we’re implicated in evil when the actions that are taking place are going to definitely cause unbearable harm.
Memoir of a Race Traitor (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0896084752/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_ZKF9D3N5NGGR4F521CYX?linkCode=ml1&tag=jeniwren-21) by Mab Segrist (https://mabsegrest.com/)
24 Mar 2025
Why Corporate Sustainability Reporting Is Failing Our Planet with B Lorraine Smith
In this episode of Moral Footprint, host Jeni Miles speaks with B. Lorraine Smith, a bold and visionary voice in sustainable business, about the deep disconnect between corporate sustainability claims and reality. Lorraine shares her decades of experience in ESG and why she ultimately stepped away, disillusioned by the industry's focus on reporting over real change.
They explore:
✅ Why traditional ESG frameworks fail to address systemic issues
✅ The dangers of corporate greenwashing and branding over substance
✅ Lorraine’s matereality framework—a radical shift to centering life instead of profit
✅ The tough questions businesses avoid about their own impact
✅ How individuals can reclaim their agency and challenge the status quo
If you’ve ever wondered why corporate sustainability feels like a façade—or how to move beyond it—this conversation is essential listening.
Follow Lorraine on Linkedin: https://tinyurl.com/4wvdmh7y (https://tinyurl.com/4wvdmh7y)
Follow Jeni on Linkedin https://tinyurl.com/4mxz52bm (https://tinyurl.com/4mxz52bm)
Read the Moral Footprint substack https://tinyurl.com/bdepjvdw (https://tinyurl.com/bdepjvdw)
Resources mentioned:
Marjorie Kelly - Owning our Future https://bit.ly/4j1VD3z (https://amzn.to/4iWqu1j)
Dr Bronner on Dropping B Corp Certification https://bit.ly/4iuaWC5 (https://tinyurl.com/448pbbxj )
Jennifer Hinton’s Post-Growth Business Dimensions paper https://tinyurl.com/yckhxzsr (https://tinyurl.com/yckhxzsr)
Seeking Alpha: seekingalpha.com (http://seekingalpha.com)
Book a call with Lorraine: https://www.blorrainesmith.com/book-a-call (https://www.blorrainesmith.com/book-a-call)
Google Matereality Assessment link: https://tinyurl.com/3ckecv2b (https://tinyurl.com/3ckecv2b )
20 Mar 2025
How Decolonizing Design Can Transform Business & Sustainability with Cecilia Scolaro
How can we rethink design beyond aesthetics and challenge extractive business models?
In this conversation, Cecilia Scolaro and Jeni Miles explore the power of responsible design, decolonization and indigenous knowledge in reshaping business and sustainability.
📌 In this episode, we cover:
✔️ What decolonizing design really means (and why it matters)
✔️ The harm of extractive business models & how to rethink impact
✔️ How indigenous knowledge and regenerative design can reshape the future
✔️ Why small design choices create powerful ripple effects
✔️ How to align your work with ethics, sustainability, and systemic change
📲 Join the conversation on the Moral Footprint substack (https://moralfootprint.substack.com/about)
🌿 Cecilia Scolaro on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliascolaro) | website (https://www.ceciliascolaro.com/)
🌿 Jeni Miles on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher) | website (http://www.jenimiles.com)
17 Mar 2025
TRAILER - Moral Footprint launching soon
What if personal burnout and planetary overshoot share the same root cause: our pursuit of infinite growth?
I’m Jeni Miles, business strategist, behavioural scientist and former big tech consultant. In the Moral Footprint podcast, I'll be unpacking the unsustainable systems of care, climate and capitalism we’ve inherited—helping you navigate a more intentional and impactful path forward.
Every choice we make sends ripples through the world, impacting both humans, sentient beings around the world as well as future generations, particularly in this pivotal moment when we’re the last generation with the power to avert planetary collapse.
Moral Footprint explores how to align our work, values and daily actions with a future that truly sustains us. Here’s a taste of what’s coming:
🔸How Embracing Complicity Leads to Meaningful Change with Alexis Shotwell
🔸How Indigenous Wisdom Exposes Our Sustainability Illusion with Cecilia Scolaro
🔸Reclaiming Community, Care, and Connection in a Capitalist World with Keri Jarvis
🔸Corporate Sustainability's Failings and the Path to an Economy that Serves Life with B Lorraine Smith
🎧Hit Follow to stay updated—new episodes launching soon!
🎙 Expect new episodes roughly every 2-3 weeks
📲 Join the conversation on Substack (https://moralfootprint.substack.com/)
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Why the Global Economy (and Your Pension) Is Flying Blind | Anastasia Linn
Published 19 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That idea has been around for a while, but because we're still largely in this neoclassical economic mindset, the reality of quite how much systemic risk is currently within the current system and not being accounted for is like It's huge. Steve says sometimes it's like we're flying a plane, but all of our little dials are off. So we think, oh, we're totally fine. And the mountain is like literally right there, but we can't see it because we don't have the mechanisms to see it because we think nature is still fundamentally separate from the economy. The pension paper talks about how that poses a very serious problem for pension funds because There isn't just a carbon bubble, right? […]
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