Turning Money Into Impact

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Scott Ryan, Founder and CEO of Investature, to talk about the surprising connection between climate solutions, personal finance, and everyday banking decisions. Scott explains how something as simple as switching banks or rethinking investments can create real impact while also improving financial outcomes. We discuss why entrepreneurs and innovators are essential to solving large-scale problems, the challenge of getting people out of autopilot with their money, and how intentional action creates momentum in both business and life. Scott also shares why sustainability is a present-day issue, not just something to leave for future generations, and how individuals have more influence than they realize.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer. We're live here at the Masters and we're talking about
0:04.6	what I love to do, which is make a lot of money to help a lot of people and have a lot of fun.
0:11.0	We have our friend Scott Ryan here, founder and CEO of Investiture and they are doing good and doing
0:17.7	well by giving opportunities in investment to help with mostly sustainability
0:23.4	in our climate, which is necessary for human life. I always say the earth doesn't need our help.
0:29.3	It's the humans that actually need our help. And it takes great leaders like Scott Ryan
0:33.6	to help make sure that we're funding the appropriate projects that will help save humanity
0:39.7	so that we have an earth to stay human on.
0:43.4	Scott Ryan, welcome to the playbook.
0:44.8	Thank you, David.
0:45.8	Great to be here.
0:46.8	Appreciate you.
0:47.8	Yeah.
0:48.8	Well, you've been able to integrate fintech, sustainability, environmental background and
0:54.0	situational knowledge and relationship capital,
0:56.1	all into one. What first helped you to understand the importance of making a lot of money
1:03.7	to help a lot of people? And why did you choose climate or sustainable as your backdrop to making money or investing it.
1:12.5	Yeah. So I think one of the things, everyone has a good foundation system.
1:17.2	My family taught me the number one thing in life is happiness, right? And then everyone
1:20.9	is a different thing about what makes you happy. And my upbringing, what made us happy
1:25.7	was one, having financial choice, right?
1:28.3	So actually having good work ethic and always having money because money gives you choice.
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