304. Lily Starling Louis: creating sandboxes for redefining value, moving capital relationally and taking material steps

In this conversation with Lily Louis Starling, we explore what it would mean to move capital relationally, in alignment with what we find most beautiful and worth protecting. Lily’s work with wealth holders, DAF sponsors and wealth advisors begins with values, but quickly opens into a conversation about the whole portfolio: every investment has a material impact, whether we attend to it or not. With an estimated $124 trillion moving to the next generation, the question is not simply where capital goes, but how, through whom and on whose terms. We look at donor-advised funds as flexible sandboxes for rediscovering value, moving resources closer to communities and imagining new forms of risk and return beyond modern portfolio theory and scarcity. From Salmon Returns to the Collective Climate Justice Fund, this is a conversation about overcoming our alienation from the consequences of capital, rebuilding community around money and taking practical steps toward investing in what we genuinely care about.