Podcasts and Interviews
Humanising & Organising Wealthy People
Following up on last year’s panel on the psychology of wealth, we will explore how to organise wealth-holders successfully for social change. Typically seen as the enemies of social justice movements, why should we organise wealthy people into social justice movements, and how can we do this more successfully? When we relate to donors and wealth holders transactionally, we can perpetuate needless wealth accumulation and miss opportunities to organise people with power to support social justice movements to succeed. When we connect the humanity of wealth-orders, we can be more effective. In this panel, we’ll explore hard-won strategies on how to organise those with power to join forces with social justice movements, and offer compelling frameworks on how to relate to those with wealth in a way that will help everyone to feel inspired to fight systemic oppression.
CHAIR
Iris Brilliant, Money Coach for Wealth-holders
SPEAKERS
Rye Young, Director, Sprocket Foundation
Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director, Solidaire Network & Solidaire Action
Iris Brilliant: The Psychology of Wealth Panel
Iris Brilliant: Rethinking Wealth and Community
Our society has an unhealthy addiction to needless wealth accumulation. This is a big contributing factor to the broken state of our world; economically, socially and environmentally. However, there are reasons to be hopeful, and in today’s episode, anticapitalist money coach, Iris Brilliant, shares why.
Having grown up very privileged, and with a strong conscience, Iris couldn’t bear the thought of investing her money in corporations that act in a manner she wholeheartedly disagrees with. The realization that this was what was expected of her caused her to think deeply about how we can transform our financial systems. Iris’s work is based on the premise that the high levels of isolation and segregation that our societal structures maintain is the reason for our desire to accumulate unnecessary amounts of money; money gives us a false sense of security, which we should be getting from our community.
In today’s episode, Iris shares information about some of the organizations that operate in alignment with her values, steps that she has taken to enhance her sense of security without accumulating wealth, and how you can make a valuable contribution to changing the world for the better, whether you are a high net worth individual or not!
When You Come from Wealth: Bari Tessler Interview
In this conversation, Iris shares her own story of navigating unexpected wealth and loss and how we can deconstruct the ideals of capitalism to stand in the integrity of our own personal values to create a more equitable world.
Aligning Wealth with Social Justice with Iris Brilliant: On Being Podcast
Mirabai Bush welcomes Iris Brilliant for a conversation about her work as a money coach and how she helps people align their wealth with social justice. Listen to the podcast here.
Marketplace 2019
Go here hear me share more about my personal money story and coaching business on Marketplace radio.
Dreamforce 2018
Check out my presentation at Dreamforce 2018 to hear about my perspective on institutional philanthropy, social justice, and how philanthropy can improve to better align with social justice movements and long-term change.
