Doing Good, Badly Podcast

Last episode was about not buying things. This one is the opposite move: spending on purpose. The buycott.

Here is the part nobody puts on the tote bag. The wallet is a lousy ballot. One dollar, one vote is not one person, one vote. The rich vote early and often, the seller sets the options, and the whole thing tallies attention rather than virtue. And yet, a few times, it drew blood.

We get into three of them. GameStop, where a crow...

The most powerful boycott in American history lasted 381 days and started with a murder. Seventy years later, the biggest boycott story of the year is about oat milk and a chatbot. Welcome to consumer power, where the stakes swing from life and death to a very bad website.

Everyone says vote with your dollars. This episode is about the part nobody mentions: the money is the least interesting weapon you have. The real one is memory, ...

In January 2026, Mark Carney stood at Davos and said what most people in power have spent years carefully not saying: the old model isn’t coming back, and nostalgia isn’t a plan.

We had so many thoughts, and we still have more.

The speech didn’t come out of nowhere. It landed at the end of a long arc, from the 1930s debate over who corporations actually owe anything to, through the moment Milton Friedman made shareh...

Every company has values. They’re on the wall, in the handbook, probably in a custom font. Most of them ‘are bland, toothless, or just plain dishonest.’

In Episode 03, Jo and Kristy get into taxonomy of corporate values and why most companies get them wrong. We break down the Lencioni taxonomy, which has been sitting in the Harvard Business Review since 2002 telling companies exactly what they’re doing wrong ...

The brand that trademarked radical transparency just got sold to the least transparent fashion company most people can name.

In this episode we break down the Everlane acquisition by Shein -- what actually happened, why it hit so hard, and what it reveals about the gap between values as a brand identity and values as a legal structure.

We get into the founding story and the early cracks. The economics of the sale and who actually got...

Doing good is complicated.

Doing it badly is apparently very easy. We investigated.We’ve spent years inside sustainability, impact, and strategy work. In boardrooms. In workshops. In decks that promised transformation and delivered incremental change. We’ve seen what moves the needle. We’ve seen what stalls out.

And we’ve seen how often the language of change runs ahead of the systems meant to deliver it.

This...