#305 - Evan Baehr - Managing Partner @ Learn Capital - On A Mission to Advance Human Flourishing

Evan Baehr is the managing partner of Learn Capital, a venture capital fund that backs and builds companies that drive human flourishing. He’s Founder of Teneo, a national leadership organization, author of the best-selling book Get Backed from Harvard Business Press, and host of the Arena, a TV show celebrating bold founders. On this episode, Evan and Chris discuss: How Evan is advancing human flourishing The roles of government vs. community in human flourishing How to build and grow communities We'd appreciate you filling out our audience survey, so we can continuously work on providing relevant content to our listeners.  https://www.thefortpod.com/survey Links Learn Capital Teneo Evan on Twitter Topics (00:01:36) Human Flourishing (00:14:38) The rise in deaths of despair (00:23:03) The role of government in human flourishing (00:28:52) Teneo (00:34:17) How to build a community (00:41:43) How communities change as they grow (00:54:57) Writing a bill to protect international mail-order brides (00:58:06) Evan’s perspective on ESG Support our Sponsors Fort Capital: https://bit.ly/FortCapital Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/ Chris on Social Media: Twitter: https://bit.ly/3BYIjcH LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/45gIkFd   Watch The Fort on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3oynxNX Visit our website: https://bit.ly/43SOvys Leave a review on Apple: https://bit.ly/45crFD0 Leave a review on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Krl9jO  The FORT is produced by Johnny Podcasts

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