31.5°C indoors. No A/C in sight. That's the moment that changed how host Lauren Scott thinks about her own industry.

Thirteen years into building automation, Lauren always led with the environmental case — less energy, less grid strain, fewer emissions. Comfort was always the quieter argument. Then a near-record heatwave in Ireland, a country where fewer than 1 in 10 homes have air conditioning, made the case for her: as extreme heat reaches places never built for it, comfort stops being a want and becomes a need — and smart, energy-efficient HVAC controls, sensors and software are exactly how buildings meet it.

In this solo episode, Lauren breaks down the realization, the numbers behind it, and why the environmental and human-comfort cases just became one.

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This episode's is someone I've wanted to sit down with since the very early days of this podcast — and trust me, the wait was worth it.

Jef Combdon is a 30-plus year marketing communications and media strategist who has built campaigns for some of Canada's most recognized names: Molson Coors, Kraft, Colgate, Maple Leaf Foods, and Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, among others. He has operated at the highest levels of both holding companies and independent agencies, across Toronto and St. John's.

And then he walked away from all of that to build something entirely his own.

MarkerTree is Canada's first and only social enterprise in the marketing communications space — a company with two mandates built right into its DNA: deliver exceptional outcomes for clients, and use the profits to fund Mi'kmaw language reclamation. Jef is a proud Mi'kmaw and active member of the Ktaqmkukewaq Mi'kmaq community, and he co-founded the Ktaqmkuk Mi'kmaw Fluency Project — an online and immersion school working to bring fluency back to Newfoundland, where it had all but disappeared.

What does that mean for you, listening right now? Whether you're an entrepreneur questioning whether your work is aligned with your values, a leader navigating what reconciliation actually looks like inside a business, or someone who has ever had to choose between getting ahead and being fully yourself — this conversation will stay with you.

Learn more about MarkerTree: https://markertree.ca/

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Most of us are doing the work. Recycling. Driving electric. Making more conscious choices about what we buy and who we buy from. But there's one place almost none of us think to look — and it might be undoing all of it.

Your bank.

In this episode of The Resilience Report, we sit down with George Mazzella, Head of Marketing at GreenFi, to talk about what actually happens to your money when you deposit it, why the traditional banking system isn't designed for you to ask that question, and what a new generation of financial products is doing to change that.

George has spent the better part of seven years at the intersection of sustainability and finance — across project financing, carbon credit development, and regenerative agriculture — before landing at GreenFi, where the mission is simple: make sustainable banking the new standard of banking, full stop.

We get into:

• Why your deposits are likely financing fossil fuel activities without your knowledge
• The difference between greenwashing and genuine transparency in banking
• How microtransactions at scale funded 3.5 million tree plantings last year — just from people swiping their cards
• Whether ESG and climate-forward investing actually delivers competitive returns (the data might surprise you)
• The psychology of behaviour change — and why sacrifice-based products always fail
• What "green hushing" is and why it matters more than greenwashing right now
• What George believes banking should look like in 10 to 15 years

This is one of our most requested topic areas, and this conversation is the deepest we've gone into it yet. If you've ever wondered whether your financial decisions actually reflect what you stand for — this episode is your starting point.

🌱 Check out GreenFi here: www.greenfi.com

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