#54 Investing in Change w/ Erik Weir, Principal at WCM Global Wealth

01/11/21 • 104 min

Erik Weir (@WCMGlobalWealth) is the Founder and Principal of WCM Global Wealth, which seeks to deliver optimum quality investment advice and money management for high net-worth investors. Erik joined Merrill Lynch in 1989 and subsequently worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as a Senior Vice President providing money management services to various founders of technology companies. He opened Weir Capital Management, LLC in 1999, developing a global client base for financial solutions, and was twice named one of the fastest-growing companies in South Carolina by the state's Chamber of Commerce. He launched WCM Global Wealth in 2011.

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02:15 Getting to know Erik Weir

06:15 Erik’s film ventures

17:15 Erik’s upbringing

22:15 Starting out in business early

28:00 Erik’s college life

32:00 Erik during the tech bubble

36:00 The 2000s in Erik’s eyes

40:30 Getting into film

48:30 Erik’s other ventures

54:45 What excites Erik Weir?

58:00 What’s next for Erik

1:05:45 How companies are changing

1:07:15 Erik’s mentors

1:12:15 Building relationships and setting goals

1:18:45 Making lemonades out of lemon

1:25:30 What do you want your epitaph to say?

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02:15 Getting to know Erik Weir

06:15 Erik’s film ventures

17:15 Erik’s upbringing

22:15 Starting out in business early

28:00 Erik’s college life

32:00 Erik during the tech bubble

36:00 The 2000s in Erik’s eyes

40:30 Getting into film

48:30 Erik’s other ventures

54:45 What excites Erik Weir?

58:00 What’s next for Erik

1:05:45 How companies are changing

1:07:15 Erik’s mentors

1:12:15 Building relationships and setting goals

1:18:45 Making lemonades out of lemon

1:25:30 What do you want your epitaph to say?

Connect with Gary Rabine and DDCEO:

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#53 Conscious Leadership w/ Eva Helene Yazhari - Co-Founder and CEO, Beyond Capital

Eva Yazhari (@beyondcapital) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Beyond Capital, an impact investment fund founded on the belief that investing is a powerful mindset that can inspire good and improve lives. Throughout her 16-year career, Eva has worked in the impact investment, finance, and asset management industries.

Eva built Beyond Capital to be a recognized global brand. Its portfolio improves the lives of a growing 7 million low-income individuals, including investments in Kasha, a technology-driven e-commerce women's health company in East Africa; and Frontier Markets, a fast-growing distribution business providing goods and services for consumers living throughout rural India. Both companies are targeting addressable markets numbering billions of consumers and are uniquely poised for commercial financial returns as well as social returns. When it comes to impact measurement, Beyond Capital partners with pioneering firm Proof of Impact to independently verify and track the growth of outcome-linked metrics.

Eva has interviewed more than 40 purpose-driven leaders to shed light on their professional and personal stories for The Beyond Capital Podcast. She has also explored the various angles of conscious money and living on The Conscious Investor, a weekly online magazine. Eva is also an impact investor. She lives in Dallas, TX, with her family.

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01:30 Changes in business due to COVID

03:45 The globalization of solutions

05:30 Identifying a conscious leader

11:30 How Eva learned from the leaders in her portfolio

14:15 An insight into the capital raise

17:45 Do we need to lower expectations on profit for conscious leaders?

22:30 Balancing ESG factors in a company

25:30 Finding recession-proof companies

28:00 Leveraging on your network of leaders

29:30 Eva’s 10-year vision

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#55 Boot Strapping Champion of Fashion w/ Brian Spaly - Founder of Trunk Club

Brian Spaly (@BrianSpaly) is currently the General Partner at Brand Foundry Ventures and Executive Chairman at Tecovas, a direct-to-consumer Western Bootmaker based in Austin, TX. Up until January 2017, Brian was Founder and CEO of Trunk Club, where he focused on making it easy for men and women to discover and acquire awesome clothing without the hassles of the traditional shopping experience.

Prior to leading Trunk Club, Brian founded Bonobos, a men’s clothing company that is famous for the best-fitting pants on earth, by selling trousers out of the trunk of his car during business school in Palo Alto.

Brian holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB degree from Princeton. He is an avid hockey player, cyclist, squash player, and enjoys watersports. He’s completed three Ironman distance triathlons and three adventures to Burning Man. His favorite authors are Roald Dahl, Neal Stephenson, Mark Helprin, and Nicholas Taleb. He is married to Carly Spaly and they have two daughters, Ruthie and Sylvie.

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02:30 Getting to know Brian Spaly

05:15 Discovering his entrepreneurial side

09:15 The private equity guy who made his own clothes

11:00 Finding your passion beyond conventional jobs

15:30 Bonobos’ history and differentiation

21:30 Success, responsibility, and life lessons from business

30:45 Letting go of Bonobos

40:00 Brian’s career with Trunk Club

49:30 What companies excite Brian Spaly to invest

1:04:45 Mentors that inspired Brian

1:11:30 How Brian inspires his team

1:18:15 Balancing your company’s priorities