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Dan Sherrard-Smith
Episode 008
November 6, 2023
The Biggest Secret Your Banks
Don't Want You to Know About
“The money we have going into our banks
is the biggest leaver we have to
create a healthy vibrant world.”
– Dan Sherrard-Smith
We don’t realize the impact that our banks have.
Most people think their money in a bank is neutral. It’s not.
What is going on with your finances?
What is your bank and retirement fund (pension) doing with your money?
Do they use your money in a way that aligns with your values?
Or are they putting billions of dollars/pounds into fossil fuels, weapons manufacture, Big Tobacco?
Things you would never choose to invest in. And yet, some of your hard-earned money is going into those places.
Are your bank and retirement fund (pension) transparent?
Can you find out where your bank and retirement fund (pension) are really investing and can you figure out their carbon footprint?
You can now. Dan Sherrard-Smith and his company MotherTree have created the first money carbon calculator.
MotherTree calculates your money's carbon footprint and helps you switch to a greener way to save. For free.
You now have the option to make a positive change by banking with green and ethical banks.
MotherTree helps you locate providers who will use your money to support healthcare, clean energy, and ethical companies or any issue you value instead of fossil fuel companies, weapons, and tobacco, etc.
To motivate banks (to wake them up) we have to speak a language they understand which is moving money and customers out of their bank.
If enough of us take our money out of fossil fuel investing banks, we undermine their investment strategy, meaning they can’t invest in powerful and high-polluting industries such as oil and gas.
When you switch to green and ethical banks you’ll have peace of mind knowing that your finances are aligned with your business and personal values AND you’ve taken a giant step towards creating a healthier and more vibrant planet.
You’ll have Clarity, Confidence, and Control over what is going on with your finances.
You now know that your money is NOT neutral. Where you put your money matters. Your financial decisions, make a difference.
Until now only banks chose where and how your money was used. But now the choice is yours. Choosing a greener way to save with a company like MotherTree could be the biggest change you can make to address global inequality and climate change.
You now have the power to fund the future you want.
Now that you know this, where do you choose to put your money?
Who is Dan Sherrard-Smith?
Dan Sherrard-Smith is the founder and CEO of MotherTree.
MotherTree's mission is to make it easy for businesses and their employees to save money and reduce carbon.
Previously, Dan was on the founding team of Look After My Bills (best ever deal on Dragons' Den) switching energy for over 800k households and saving the UK public £127m.
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Dan Sherrard-Smith Links and Resources
Links you can use to follow and connect with Dan Sherrard-Smith and MotherTree
Dan Sherrard-Smith - LinkedIn Profile
MotherTree Website - MyMotherTree.com
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1) Your choice of finances can dramatically reduce your business's carbon footprint.
Your current bank account and pension (retirement fund) could be having double the carbon impact of going vegan, quitting flying and choosing the bike over the car, COMBINED.
2) MotherTree calculates your money's carbon footprint and helps you switch to a greener way to save. For free.
3) The impact that banks have on fossil fuel expansion. The world's 60-biggest banks (JP Morgan, Barclays, etc.) invest 50x more into fossil fuel expansion more than the fossil fuel companies themselves. In other words, for every £1 that BP and Shell invest in fossil fuel expansion, the world’s 60 biggest banks are putting in £50.
4) Individuals and businesses experience something called “The Green FOG."
(Frustration, Overwhelm, Guilt)
Frustration for businesses and politicians NOT playing their part
Frustration of not having time to research these things because of our busy lives
Overwhelm. When there is time, it’s overwhelming. How do you know if someone is greenwashing or not.
Guilt. The sense that I should be Greener.
MotherTree tries to address those things on the financial side.
MotherTree clients get Clarity, Confidence, and Control over what is going on with their finances.
5) To motivate banks (to wake them up) we have to speak a language they understand which is moving money and customers out of their bank.
6) MotherTree helps you locate providers who will use your money to support healthcare, clean energy, and ethical companies or any issue you value instead of fossil fuel companies, weapons, and tobacco, etc.
7) If enough of us take our money out of fossil fuel investing banks, we undermine their investment strategy, meaning they can’t invest in powerful and high-polluting industries such as oil and gas.
8) It’s worked before:
Apartheid South Africa: In the 1980s, the UK’s National Union of Students put particular pressure on Barclays Bank, with their “Don’t Bank on Apartheid” campaign. In 1986, Barclays sold its South African arm. The bank cited commercial reasons but the Chairman of Barclays at the time, Sir Timothy Bevan, told the New York Times: “World opinion counts.”
Your choice of finances can dramatically
reduce your business's carbon footprint.
“Your current bank account and pension (retirement fund)
could be having double the carbon impact of
going vegan, quitting flying, and choosing the bike over the car,
COMBINED.”
– MotherTree
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Show Notes - Transcript
Introduction
How and Why Dan started MotherTree
Comparing MotherTree to the 1980’s movement to Divest from businesses involved in South Africa as a way of protesting Apartheid.
How to motivate banks
Explain the website claim: “Your current bank account and pension could be having double the carbon impact of going vegan, quitting flying and choosing the bike over the car, COMBINED.”
How Dan and his team turned their original idea into a working business
Response from B2B and B2C clients
The Green FOG. (Frustration, Overwhelm, Guilt)
The impact that banks have on fossil fuel expansion.
Challenges Dan and his team had to overcome to create MotherTree
Dan’s Approach to Business and Money
The Importance of Being Transparent
In addition to carbon, what other major issues does MotherTree report on?
Why is MotherTree called MotherTree?
What Trends Do You See in the near future?
What is Your Biggest Hope?
What motivates you?
What advice do you have for an entrepreneur?
What book and podcast do you recommend?
Where can people go to find more about Dan and MotherTree
In our fast-paced culture it’s difficult
to find the time to research the impact of our decisions.
That's why Dan created MotherTree.
MotherTree’s free money carbon calculator
makes it quick and easy to become aware of
the impact of your savings & investments and
switch to greener providers.
Books Mentioned in This Interview
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (By Sean Covey)
Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lined Up to Do Business with You (By Daniel Priestley)
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (By Suzanne Simard)
Podcast Mentioned in This Interview
Foundr by Nathan Chan – Business Tips on Growing Businesses
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