Impact Investing for Women: Building Wealth and Shaping the Future With Janine Firpo

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Over the next decade, roughly $30 trillion is expected to move into the hands of women, and the question isn't just what women will inherit. It's what they'll build. This week, Jean Chatzky sits down with Janine Firpo, an impact investor and co-founder of Invest for Better, to talk about Our Sheconomy, a data-backed initiative that models what the world would look like if women had held equal economic and political power since 1925. But this episode isn't just about a hypothetical future. It's about the very real, very practical steps you can take right now — no matter how much (or how little) you have — to invest in alignment with your values without sacrificing returns. In this episode, you'll learn: How to audit your current portfolio for impact using free tools (including one Janine swears by Why ESG isn't a political buzzword — it's a risk management to How to start impact investing for as little as $100 Ready to put Janine's advice into action? Join InvestingFixx, Jean's twice-monthly women-only investing club, where expert stock pickers bring ideas to the table, and a community of women learn and win together. Your first two classes are always free. Resources: As You Sow – Invest Your Values Our Sheconomy Invest for Better Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On June 18, 2013, Ocean Gates' Titan submersible imploded during an expedition dive to the Titanic,
0:08.7	killing all five on board, including Ocean Gate founder and CEO Stockton Rush.
0:14.4	Numerous industry experts and employees from within Ocean Gate itself had warned Rush of
0:19.3	impending doom, citing safety concerns and a lack of testing.
0:23.6	His hubris, ego, and reckless desire for innovation over all else cost him his life, and that of four others.
0:30.6	The catastrophic destruction of the Titan submersible sent shockwaves through the ocean exploration industry that are still being
0:37.8	felt today.
0:39.5	The Ocean Gate Titan submersible, a preventable tragedy, a two-part series available now on
0:45.1	shipwrecks and sea dogs.
0:46.8	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:53.7	You can also, if you are in the stock market, you can use losses to offset gains,
0:59.7	and you can think about moving from an existing investment that you have to something
1:04.8	that is more values aligned that gives you the same return or better.
1:09.9	If you've got money in retirement accounts,
1:12.1	you can move money around in those accounts and not have to deal with the capital gains issues.
1:17.1	So there are many, many ways that you can look at this without having to give up financial return.
1:23.9	Hey, everyone, it's Gene Chatsky. Welcome to her money. And today I want you to imagine something.
1:30.3	I want you to imagine if women had held equal economic and political power starting all the way back in 1925.
1:42.3	In this alternate timeline, this alternate world, the gender pay gap was closed by
1:50.2	1965.
1:53.0	Parents haven't paid for child care in generations.
1:57.2	Cervical cancer was eradicated in the 1980s.
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