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• Watch the 90-second trailer of Taste the Impact
• Watch the full-length "Taste the Impact" mini-doc now
• Register for the Shifting Wealth, Shaping Futures info session on March 26th
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This week’s episode is about something personal, political, and, up until recently, way too overlooked: food.

We spend a lot of time talking about food, but not nearly enough time talking about how it shows up in our kitchens, grocery carts, or dinner tables. So today, we’re changing that.

We’re introducing our latest creative project, Taste the Impact, which a short film (or op-doc, if you’re feeling fancy) that explores the relationship between investing and the food system. Not just what we choose to buy, but what we’re being sold. Because behind every recall, rising price tag, and empty produce shelf, there’s a money trail worth following.

This is an episode that sits squarely at the intersection of life and money. It’s about challenging the status quo, asking uncomfortable questions, and recognizing that our financial choices have real-world consequences.

In this episode, we get into:

• Why we made Taste the Impact now and and why storytelling is a financial tool just as much as spreadsheets are
• What visual media can do that numbers alone can’t (and how historical social movements have always known this)
• Why “values-aligned investing” only gets real when you zoom into something specific, like food
• How systemic failures are driving the wave of food recalls
• What’s behind the rising cost of food, and why it's not just inflation

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